Hacker News

Top stories

Live mirror
30 storiesupdated just nowView source snapshot
  1. Astra for Law(openai.com ↗)
    289comments
  2. Bonsai 2 27B: Near-Lossless Compression in a 9x Smaller Footprint(prismml.com ↗)
    51comments
  3. Bend – A language that blocks AI mistakes via proof, on CPU and GPU(bend-lang.com ↗)
    126comments
  4. Hister: A private search engine for the pages you visit and the files you keep(github.com/asciimoo ↗)
    127comments
  5. Wax motor(wikipedia.org ↗)
    41comments
  6. Fujitsu launches made-in-Japan next-generation CPU FUJITSU-MONAKA(global.fujitsu ↗)
    190comments
  7. More than 100k people in Japan are now aged 100 or older(bbc.com ↗)
    38comments
  8. Flet 1.0 – Build cross-platform apps in Python(flet.dev ↗)
    14comments
  9. Diplodocus, Long Thought Exclusively American, Turns Up in Spain(sci.news ↗)
    13comments
  10. CrowdSec Source Code Leak(crowdsec.net ↗)
    35comments
  11. How Uber Protects Against Retry Storms(uber.com ↗)
    14comments
  12. Rate limits on GitLab.com are changing(about.gitlab.com ↗)
    104comments
  13. Landing the Space Shuttle – A Flying Machine and the Thrill of a Lifetime(eaa.org ↗)
    2comments
  14. Infinite-Parameter LLMs: Generating and Adapting Weights from Live Data(arxiv.org ↗)
    28comments
  15. How GLM built its own inference infrastructure(z.ai ↗)
    260comments
  16. Why I didn’t sign the Fields medallists’ letter(gowers.wordpress.com ↗)
    264comments
  17. The American Religion of Self-Storage Facilities(newyorker.com ↗)
    315comments
  18. TSMC revealing details about next gen A14 node(mapyourshow.com ↗)
    30comments
  19. Sex, AI, and the Apocalypse(iankduncan.com ↗)
    100comments
  20. How do we prevent mathemathics from devolving into the Medieval Era of secrecy?(mathoverflow.net ↗)
    43comments
  21. Zettascale (YC S24) Is Hiring ASIC/FPGA Engineers to Build Chips for ASI(zscc.ai ↗)
    discuss
  22. CCC invites all model citizens to 40C3(ccc.de ↗)
    176comments
  23. The most important product decision is what you don't build(liamnugent.me ↗)
    11comments
  24. Running Ubuntu on the Lenovo IdeaPad Duet(vhaudiquet.fr ↗)
    22comments
  25. Launch HN: Skillsync (YC W26) – AI chat sessions made portable across agents
    46comments
  26. Show HN: Share your AI Setup, Learn from others(mysetup.ai ↗)
    88comments
  27. Show HN: Snapdrop: Instantly share files between devices. No setup, no signup(snapdrop.me ↗)
    10comments
  28. André Weil and the Hodge Conjecture(jiahao116.github.io ↗)
    10comments
  29. Towards Self-Driving Codebases(detail.dev ↗)
    80comments
  30. My temporary PHP fix from 2014 has nearly 20M installs. Today I'm deprecating it(jakeasmith.com ↗)
    96comments

Flet 1.0 – Build cross-platform apps in Python

40 pointsby 3h agoflet.dev
14 comments
3h agoHN ↗

Interesting, looks like this is a framework built on Flutter.

3h agoHN ↗

Yeah, I have been doing a small poc for mobile, then did a web export (why not) and the entire web app is one giant <canvas> element.

I have never written web app with Flutter so this caught me by surprise.

2h agoHN ↗

Looks really interesting, but I notice that Bluetooth isn't in the supported services.

Sort of limits how useful it would be for me - Bluetooth is one of the only reasons I'd do a native app instead of PWA.

1h agoHN ↗

Using a to-do list app as the first example to advertise a new app framework is absolutely wild in Q3 2026.

1h agoHN ↗

Is it more fashionable to build an AI harness?

25m agoHN ↗

That's fine, but a blog doesn't seem technically more demanding or interesting than a to-do list

51m agoHN ↗

Python needs to be in less places not more.

I believe Python has done more harm than good to the industry.

Its by nature very inefficient, it leads you in the direction to some very poor abstractions (inheritance, monkey patching, mixins etc) and as a result code that is very prone to subtle bugs and issues.

It deserves all the love it gets as an approachable language, but it deserves a lot more flack for everything else.

47m agoHN ↗

Please no, python should be deprecated at this age, especially in the era of llm, horrible language from the performance to the dependencies to everything, can’t believe it got popular over perl back in the day

39m agoHN ↗

I used it quite a bit for writing tools for applications like Maya and Blender as it's the only fully supported API surface. I take it it's pretty bad for anything more complex. I notice it's used quite a bit in science and math communities too.

31m agoHN ↗

Performance isn’t important for any of the millions of things I use python for. I learned Perl first and gladly gave it up for syntax readability and easy of use over the years.

Pick the tool that’s right for you and the job, arguing against something based on your specific preferences should be seen as an argument without merit. I gave up Perl around the turn of the millennium, maybe it improved sense, but I really hated it back then-but I don’t go around badmouthing it and telling people to get rid of it.

Python is almost as ubiquitous as html, css, etc. It’s everywhere

30m agoHN ↗

kivy, which does the same thing, has been around for over 10 years. I built my thesis in it a few years ago. not recommended—too many limitations and build issues in practice. given that this one is less mature...I'm not optimistic.