Hacker News with Generative AI: Libraries

How the Index Card Cataloged the World (2017) (theatlantic.com)
Like every graduate student, I once holed up in the library cramming for my doctoral oral exams.
Libraries, History, Information Management
43 points by Tomte 7 hours ago | 12 comments
Vanilla Web: You Don't Need That Library (firtman.github.io)
You Don't Need that Library
Web Development, JavaScript, Libraries
4 points by thunderbong 22 hours ago | 1 comments
Pion Stun: Go Implementation of Stun (github.com/pion)
Package stun implements Session Traversal Utilities for NAT (STUN) (RFC 5389) protocol and client with no external dependencies and zero allocations in hot paths.
Networking, Go, STUN, Open Source, Libraries
7 points by klaussilveira 2 days ago | 0 comments
OmniAI 2.0: An LLM-Agnostic Ruby Library (ksylvest.com)
Today marks the release of OmniAI 2.0. 2.0 represents a significant upgrade to our Ruby library that standardizes interactions with various LLM providers. Whether you're working with Anthropic, DeepSeek, Google, Mistral, or OpenAI, OmniAI offers a consistent interface that simplifies AI integration into your Ruby applications.
Ruby, AI, Libraries
5 points by thunderbong 3 days ago | 0 comments
Show HN: Python micro event loop library (~250 LOC) (github.com)
A micro event loop library implementation from scratch.
Python, Event Loop, Libraries, Software
59 points by tarruda 7 days ago | 12 comments
Show HN: NumPy+Jax Except with Named Axes (github.com/justindomke)
NumPy+Jax with named axes and an uncompromising attitude
Python, Machine Learning, Software, Libraries, Data Science
15 points by justindomke 9 days ago | 1 comments
Winners of the $10k ISBN visualization bounty (annas-archive.org)
A few months ago we announced a $10,000 bounty to make the best possible visualization of our data showing the ISBN space. We emphasized showing which files we have/haven’t archived already, and we later a dataset describing how many libraries hold ISBNs (a measure of rarity).
Data Visualization, Libraries, ISBN, Data Analysis, Competitions
600 points by yamrzou 10 days ago | 66 comments
Standard Schema: A common interface for TypeScript validation libraries (standardschema.dev)
Standard Schema is a common interface designed to be implemented by JavaScript and TypeScript schema libraries.
TypeScript, JavaScript, Validation, Schema, Libraries
9 points by bpierre 10 days ago | 1 comments
Ggwave: Tiny Data-over-Sound Library (github.com/ggerganov)
Tiny data-over-sound library.
Sound, Audio, Libraries, Data Transmission, Programming
284 points by LorenDB 10 days ago | 72 comments
Lox – Oxidized Astrodynamics – A safe, ergonomic astrodynamics library (github.com/lox-space)
Spaceflight, Software, Libraries, Rust
121 points by ElFitz 14 days ago | 42 comments
Blessed Rust Crates (blessed.rs)
The standard library in Rust is not "batteries included", excluding functionality like HTTP(S), JSON, timezones, random numbers, and async IO. The recommended crate directory is a hand-curated guide to the crates.io ecosystem, helping you choose which crates to use.
Rust, Programming Languages, Libraries, Open Source, Development Tools
13 points by jcbhmr 16 days ago | 1 comments
Go-msquic: A new QUIC/HTTP3 library for Go (github.com/noboruma)
go-msquic is a Go wrapper for the Microsoft's QUIC library, providing Go developers with an easy interface to work with QUIC-based protocols such as HTTP/3.
Go, Networking, QUIC, HTTP/3, Libraries
87 points by noboruma 16 days ago | 26 comments
eserde – a serde that just doesn't stop (github.com/mainmatter)
Don't stop at the first deserialization error.
Software, Programming, Rust, Libraries, Error Handling
57 points by weinzierl 16 days ago | 25 comments
Refined: Simple Refinement Types for Rust (jordankaye.dev)
An alpha library for refinement types with rich support for serde
Rust, Programming Languages, Type Systems, Libraries
4 points by fofoz 17 days ago | 0 comments
Augurs demo (augu.rs)
augurs is a time series analysis library for Rust with bindings for JavaScript. It provides a set of tools for analyzing time series data, including clustering, outlier detection, forecasting, and changepoint detection.
Rust, JavaScript, Data Analysis, Libraries
185 points by weinzierl 17 days ago | 13 comments
iText PDF Library turns 25 (itextpdf.com)
On 14th February 2000 the first public version of the iText PDF library was released to the open-source community. A quarter of a century later, Apryse is proudly celebrating with the release of iText Suite 9.1 on iText’s 25th anniversary, which is also Valentine’s Day! This release brings significantly expanded SVG and CSS support, huge performance increases, GraalVM for pdfHTML, and a whole lot of love!
Software, Open Source, Anniversaries, PDF, Libraries
57 points by alemos 17 days ago | 27 comments
Show HN: Kreuzberg – Modern async Python library for document text extraction (github.com/Goldziher)
Kreuzberg is a Python library for text extraction from documents. It provides a unified async interface for extracting text from PDFs, images, office documents, and more.
Python, Text Extraction, Open Source, Libraries, Asynchronous Programming
197 points by nhirschfeld 20 days ago | 75 comments
Show HN: Make Easy Async Rust (Mea), runtime-agnostic primitives (github.com/cratesland)
Mea (Make Easy Async) is a runtime-agnostic library providing essential synchronization primitives for asynchronous Rust programming.
Rust, Programming Languages, Asynchronous Programming, Libraries, Open Source
6 points by tison 22 days ago | 4 comments
PyPI Now Supports iOS and Android Wheels for Mobile Python Development (socket.dev)
In a landmark development for the Python community, the Python Packaging Index (PyPI) has officially begun accepting and distributing pre-compiled binary packages, known as "wheels," for both iOS and Android platforms.
Python, Mobile Development, Software, Open Source, Libraries
8 points by feross 22 days ago | 0 comments
Collection of one-file C/C++ libraries with no dependencies, primarily for games (github.com/RandyGaul)
Various single-file cross-platform C/C++ headers implementing self-contained libraries.
C/C++, Game Development, Libraries, Programming, Open Source
77 points by elpocko 27 days ago | 35 comments
Malicious NPM package targets prettier library (sourcecodered.com)
Our research has identified a package masquerading as the popular NPM package “Prettier” library.  This package was published in the NPM registry in September 2024 and was taken offline in mid January 2025.
Security, Software, Programming, Libraries
15 points by 6mile 28 days ago | 7 comments
News from Scroll 5 (scrollprize.substack.com)
For the past several months, our team and community have been working hard on ink detection and segmentation of P.Herc. 172 from the Bodleian Libraries at Oxford (our Scroll 5). We’re excited to share some incredible progress!
Science, Technology, Research, Libraries, Artificial Intelligence
79 points by diodorus 29 days ago | 3 comments
AI-Generated Slop Is Already in Your Public Library (404media.co)
Librarians say that taxpayers are already paying for low quality AI-generated ebooks in public libraries.
Artificial Intelligence, Libraries, Ebooks
7 points by latexr 30 days ago | 0 comments
Nvidia open-source nanite: continuous level of detail (LOD) mesh library (github.com/nvpro-samples)
nv_cluster_lod_builder is a continuous level of detail (LOD) mesh library.
Nvidia, Open Source, 3D Graphics, Game Development, Libraries
137 points by klaussilveira 31 days ago | 29 comments
The Video Game History Foundation library opens in early access (gamehistory.org)
Today, the Video Game History Foundation launches early access to its digital archive of video game history research materials, available now at library.gamehistory.org.
Video Games, History, Libraries, Archives
362 points by pabs3 31 days ago | 72 comments
Show HN: Multi-/BiKeyMap (Go Module) (github.com/aeimer)
A go lib which handles maps with multiple keys.
Go, Programming, Data Structures, Libraries
14 points by baquero 32 days ago | 0 comments
The Video Game History Foundation Library Opens in Early Access (gamehistory.org)
Today, the Video Game History Foundation launches early access to its digital archive of video game history research materials, available now at library.gamehistory.org.
Video Games, History, Libraries, Archives
16 points by bpierre 32 days ago | 0 comments
Proposal: Sync/v2: New Package (github.com/golang)
The math/rand/v2 package has been successful. Let's consider another v2 package: sync/v2.
Programming, Golang, Libraries, Software Development, Open Source
5 points by mmastrac 32 days ago | 0 comments
Show HN: Modest – musical harmony library for Lua (github.com/esbudylin)
Music, Programming, Libraries, Lua
76 points by esbudylin 33 days ago | 7 comments
Analyzing the codebase of Caffeine, a high performance caching library (adriacabeza.github.io)
The other day, while wasting time reading reddit, I stumbled upon a blogpost mentioning S3 FIFO, a method claiming to outperform LRU (Least Recently Used) in terms of cache miss ratio.
Caching, Software, Performance, Libraries
268 points by synthc 33 days ago | 47 comments