Hacker News with Generative AI: Libraries

Z-Library Helps Students to Overcome Academic Poverty, Study Finds (torrentfreak.com)
A recent study published in the Journal of University Teaching & Learning Practice sheds light on people's motivations to use Z-Library. Expensive books and limited access to academic material play a key role among those surveyed. That includes a group of Chinese postgraduate students who believe that shadow libraries help to overcome (academic) poverty.

Academic Poverty, Education, Piracy, Research, Libraries

236 points by hn_acker 7 hours ago | 50 comments

Show HN: One Prompt – A super framework for prompt engineering (github.com/VaibhavAcharya)
A library that brings structure, validation, and reliability to prompt engineering.

Prompt Engineering, Machine Learning, Libraries, Software, GitHub

5 points by vaibhavacharya_ 13 hours ago | 0 comments

Discarded delights: The joy of ex-library books (2021) (abebooks.com)
Let's start with the definition. An ex-library book is a book that once belonged to a public library or institution and has been 'discarded' after being deemed no longer useful.

Books, Libraries, Secondhand Goods

94 points by MrVandemar 20 hours ago | 64 comments

Raylib 5.5 – a library to program graphic apps in C (github.com/raysan5)
One year after raylib 5.0 release, arribes raylib 5.5, the next big revision of the library. It's been 11 years since raylib 1.0 release and in all this time it has never stopped growing and improving. With an outstanding number of new contributors and improvements, it's, again, the biggest raylib release to date.

New Releases, Programming, C, Game Development, Libraries

7 points by raysan 2 days ago | 0 comments

Show HN: Rust library for numerical integration of real-valued functions (github.com/mtantaoui)
Integrate is a small, lightweight Rust library for performing numerical integration of real-valued functions. It is designed to integrate functions, providing a simple and efficient way to approximate definite integrals using various numerical methods.

Rust, Numerical Integration, Libraries, Software

123 points by mtantaoui 2 days ago | 43 comments

Nokolexbor: Drop-in replacement for Nokogiri. 5.2x faster at parsing HTML (github.com/serpapi)
Nokolexbor is a drop-in replacement for Nokogiri. It's 5.2x faster at parsing HTML and up to 997x faster at CSS selectors.

Programming, Software, Performance, Web Development, Libraries

76 points by ksec 3 days ago | 11 comments

Overrated Python Libraries (and What You Should Use Instead) (medium.com)
Python is like a wonderland of libraries, but with thousands of choices, it’s easy to follow the crowd and rely on popular but sometimes outdated or underperforming tools.

Python, Programming, Libraries, Software Development

4 points by rayrrr 5 days ago | 2 comments

Go-Safeweb (github.com/google)
go-safeweb is a collection of libraries for writing secure-by-default HTTP servers in Go.

Go, Security, HTTP, Libraries, Web Development

188 points by jcbhmr 7 days ago | 74 comments

JSON for Classic C++ (github.com/jart)
json.cpp is an anti-modern JSON parsing / serialization library for C++.

C++, JSON, Software, Libraries

117 points by davikr 7 days ago | 89 comments

Show HN: Chonkie – A Fast, Lightweight Text Chunking Library for RAG (github.com/bhavnicksm)
🦛 CHONK your texts with Chonkie ✨ - The no-nonsense RAG chunking library

Text Processing, Libraries

199 points by bhavnicksm 11 days ago | 36 comments

Tremor: React components to build charts and dashboards (tremor.so)
Introducing Tremor Pro300+ Blocks and Templates to build even faster

React, Data Visualization, Charts, Dashboards, Libraries

3 points by stefankuehnel 11 days ago | 0 comments

A simple to use Java 8 JWT Library (github.com/FusionAuth)
FusionAuth JWT is intended to be fast and easy to use. FusionAuth JWT has a single external dependency on Jackson, no Bouncy Castle, Apache Commons or Guava.

Java, Security, Authentication, Libraries, Open Source

27 points by mooreds 15 days ago | 51 comments

Python Logic Simulation Library (github.com/cjdrake)
SeqiLog (pronounced seh-kwi-log) is a Python library for logic design and verification.

Python, Logic Simulation, Libraries, Design, Verification

93 points by mediisoccuspupa 17 days ago | 6 comments

You might not need jQuery (youmightnotneedjquery.com)
jQuery and its cousins are great, and by all means use them if it makes it easier to develop your application.

JavaScript, Web Development, Libraries, Frameworks

12 points by KolmogorovComp 19 days ago | 6 comments

Cash: A small jQuery alternative for modern browsers (github.com/fabiospampinato)
An absurdly small jQuery alternative for modern browsers.

JavaScript, Web Development, Libraries, Front-end Development

196 points by thunderbong 19 days ago | 172 comments

Malicious code in Lottie-Player CDN files (github.com/LottieFiles)

Security, Software, Libraries, JavaScript

8 points by kmfrk 21 days ago | 0 comments

Why are librarians up in arms over ebooks? (rte.ie)
Ireland's public libraries are hugely popular with millions of visitors each year and academic libraries are an essential part of third level education.

Libraries, Ebooks, Ireland

9 points by austinallegro 22 days ago | 0 comments

10 Years of HexaPDF (gettalong.org)
I have been implementing HexaPDF for the last 10 years now and just released version 1.0.0. It all started due to missing features in an existing library (like with kramdown and so many other things) and an odd desire to implement a largish specification from scratch. Little did I know what that would entail…

Software, Programming, Open Source, Libraries, History

55 points by thunderbong 25 days ago | 31 comments

History Foundation Disappointed DMCA Decision Won't Grant Researchers Exemptions (ign.com)
The US Copyright Office has declined to grant a new exemption to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act that would allow libraries and archives to offer remote, digital access to out-of-market video games for verified researchers.

Copyright Law, Video Games, Libraries, Research

6 points by josephcsible 26 days ago | 0 comments

Fcurl – fopen, fread, fwrite style functions for URL operations using libcurl (github.com/curl)
fcurl - fopen, fread, fwrite style functions for URL operations using libcurl

Libraries, Programming, Networking, HTTP, Curl

6 points by jcbhmr 26 days ago | 0 comments

LibNSFB – Framebuffer (bitmap on screen) abstraction library, written in C (netsurf-browser.org)
LibNSFB is a framebuffer abstraction library, written in C. It is currently in development for use with NetSurf and is intended to be suitable for use in other projects too.

C Programming, Libraries, Graphics, Web Browsers

72 points by peter_d_sherman 27 days ago | 27 comments

Loro 1.0: A High-Performance CRDTs Library with Version Control (loro.dev)

Version Control, Libraries, Distributed Systems

24 points by thunderbong 27 days ago | 1 comments

Show HN: JSON-qs – JSON in query strings, human-readable, compact (github.com/alloc)

Web Development, Libraries, JSON, Query Strings

13 points by aleclarsoniv 27 days ago | 4 comments

Loro 1.0: A High-Performance CRDTs Library with Version Control (loro.dev)

Version Control, CRDTs, Libraries, Software, Performance

10 points by czx111331 28 days ago | 0 comments

Show HN: Floating point arithmetic types in C++ for any size and any base (github.com/clemensmanert)
fas is floating point arithmetic for arbitrary mantissa and exponent types in modern header-only C++. It lets you construct various different float types using template parameters for the mantissa, exponent and base.

C++, Programming Languages, Open Source, Libraries

79 points by seg_fault 34 days ago | 41 comments

RapidUDF: High-Performance JIT-Based C++ Expression/Script Engine (github.com/yinqiwen)
RapidUDF is a high-performance SIMD vectorized expression/script computation execution engine library designed for online systems.

C++, Performance, Scripting Engines, Software, Libraries

11 points by thunderbong 34 days ago | 0 comments

setBigTimeout (evanhahn.com)
In short: JavaScript’s setTimeout breaks after ~25 days. I made setBigTimeout, a silly module to get around this problem. See the package on npm or the source code.

JavaScript, Software, Libraries, Timeouts

211 points by cfj 35 days ago | 124 comments

Local TypeScript Super SDK to Call 200 LLMs (github.com/adaline)
The only fully local production-grade Super SDK that provides a simple, unified, and powerful interface for calling more than 200+ LLMs.

TypeScript, Open Source, Software, Libraries

77 points by ArshDilbagi 37 days ago | 20 comments

What Went Wrong with the Libdispatch (2020) (tclementdev.com)
It is now obvious that the original intent of the libdispatch failed.

Software, Programming, Libraries, Debugging, Technical Analysis

4 points by marvel_boy 39 days ago | 1 comments

Core-MATH: open-source mathematical functions with correct rounding (inria.fr)
CORE-MATH Mission: provide on-the-shelf high performance open-source mathematical functions with correct rounding that can be integrated into current mathematical libraries (GNU libc, Intel Math Library, AMD Libm, Newlib, OpenLibm, Musl, Apple Libm, llvm-libc, Microsoft libm, CUDA libm, ROCm)

Mathematics, Open Source, Software, Libraries

4 points by fanf2 41 days ago | 0 comments