Hacker News with Generative AI: Libraries

Show HN: SuperUtilsPlus – A Modern Alternative to Lodash (github.com/dhaxor)
A superior alternative to Lodash with improved performance, TypeScript support, and developer experience.
DumPy: NumPy except it's OK if you're dum (dynomight.net)
I don’t like NumPy
Show HN: Samchika – A Java Library for Fast, Multithreaded File Processing (github.com/MayankPratap)
Samchika (meaning File in Sanskrit) is a re-usable, easy-to-use, and extremely fast file processing library for the Java language.
DumPy: NumPy except it's OK if you're dum (dynomight.net)
They say you can’t truly hate someone unless you loved them first. I don’t know if that’s true as a general principle, but it certainly describes my relationship with NumPy. NumPy, by the way, is...
Now you can watch the Internet Archive preserve documents in real time (theverge.com)
If you’ve ever wondered how the Internet Archive uploads all the physical documents on its site, now you can get a behind-the-scenes look at the process.
DumPy: NumPy except it's OK if you're dum (dynomight.net)
I don’t like NumPy
Free-Threaded Python Library Compatibility Checker (ft-checker.com)
Free-threaded Python Library Compatibility Checker
Ratatoi is a C libary that wraps stdlib's strtol (as atoi does), but it's evil. (github.com/rept0id)
Ask HN: How are you using LLMs for research on a library of journal articles? (ycombinator.com)
Does anyone have a nice setup for using LLMs to perform queries on their personal library of papers?
“ZLinq”, a Zero-Allocation LINQ Library for .NET (medium.com)
I’ve released ZLinq v1 last month! By building on structs and generics, it achieves zero allocations. It includes extensions like LINQ to Span, LINQ to SIMD, LINQ to Tree (FileSystem, JSON, GameObject, etc.), a drop-in replacement Source Generator for arbitrary types, and support for multiple platforms including .NET Standard 2.0, Unity, and Godot. It has now exceeded 2000 GitHub stars.
Hypervisor as a Library (seiya.me)
Before we dive into the topic, let me introduce you my new friend catsay, a simple Go program which eats stdin and speaks like a cat:
Show HN: Fahmatrix – A Lightweight, Pandas-Like DataFrame Library for Java (github.com/moustafa-nasr)
Fahmatrix is a lightweight, modern Java library for working with tabular data, inspired by Python's Pandas and rooted in the idea of making data understanding (fahm) easy on the JVM.
SDL3 examples: Full game and app demos (libsdl.org)
SDL3 examples: Full game and app demos
Show HN: SQL-tString a t-string SQL builder in Python (github.com/pgjones)
SQL-tString allows for t-string based construction of sql queries without allowing for SQL injection.
Cracked – Method chaining/CSS-style selector web audio library (github.com/billorcutt)
I Dropped My Phone The Screen Cracked is a web audio library that uses method chaining and CSS-style selectors to simplify creating, configuring and connecting audio nodes in the browser.
How to write shared libraries [pdf] (cs.dartmouth.edu)
Popcorn: Run Elixir in WASM (swmansion.com)
Popcorn is a library that enables execution of Elixir code within web browsers.
I built a type-safe .NET casting library powered by AI (github.com/Zorokee)
Type-safe transformation powered by inference.
Head of Library of Congress fired via email (usatoday.com)
President Donald Trump fired the Librarian of Congress, Carla Hayden, via email, a move that immediately drew sharp condemnation from her supporters.
Blazeio.SharpEvent: A Python Async Primitive That Scales to 1M Waiters with O(1) (ycombinator.com)
I’ve been working on a Python async library ([Blazeio](https://github.com/anonyxbiz/Blazeio)) and stumbled into a shockingly simple optimization that makes `asyncio.Event` look like a relic.
Std: Mem Is Interesting (veeso.dev)
The std::mem module in Rust is a bit of a mystery. It's 10PM and I'm randomly reading the std library documentation and I decide to take a look to the current main modules of the library (btw they're implementing random) and I see std::mem, which I've used a couple of times, but actually it contains a lot of things I've basically never used before, and I've worked with Rust for over 5 years now.
An Introduction to Solid Queue for Ruby on Rails (appsignal.com)
One of the most exciting additions to Rails 8 is undoubtedly Solid Queue, a new library for processing background jobs.
Show HN: Open-source AI web parser lib & TUI (github.com/SubstrateLabs)
Digitization Complete for World-Renowned Franco Novacco Map Collection (newberry.org)
Newly digitized map collection makes over 750 sixteenth- and seventeenth-century maps available online.
Federal Court Halts Dismantling of Federal Library Agency in ALA Lawsuit (ala.org)
Today, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia granted a temporary restraining order to block the Trump Administration’s dismantling of the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS).
ePub-utils: A Python library and CLI tool for inspecting ePub from the terminal (github.com/ernestofgonzalez)
A Python CLI and utility library for manipulating EPUB files.
Creating beautiful charts with JRuby and JFreeChart (headius.com)
I recently returned from RubyKaigi where I had the opportunity to sit down with members of the Japanese Ruby community and show them a little bit of JRuby. One of the items that came up a few times was the difficulty of utilizing external libraries from Ruby: if it’s a C library, typically you have to either write a C extension or do the extra work of writing up an FFI binding.
Dataframely: A polars-native data frame validation library (quantco.com)
At QuantCo, we are constantly trying to improve the quality of our code bases to ensure that they remain easily maintainable. More recently, this often involved migrating data pipelines from pandas to polars in order to achieve significant performance gains.
A critical bibliography about the pirate site LibGen (eve.gd)
Yesterday, academic social media went into overdrive as many intellectuals discovered LibGen (“Library Genesis”) for the first time, thanks to an article and tool in The Atlantic.
The Missing CSS Stylesheet (missing.style)
missing.css is the CSS library we wished already existed.