Hacker News with Generative AI: Libraries

The Doge Axe Comes for Libraries and Museums (wired.com)
The Trump administration, working in coordination with Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency, has gutted a small federal agency that provides funding to libraries and museums nationwide.
Politics, Libraries, Museums, Funding
23 points by xbryanx 10 hours ago | 1 comments
Show HN: Textcase: A Python Library for Text Case Conversion (github.com/zobweyt)
A feature complete Python text case conversion library.
Python, Text Processing, Libraries, Open Source
60 points by zobweyt 14 hours ago | 35 comments
Neuralatex: A machine learning library written in pure LATEX (neuralatex.com)
Neuralatex is a scalar values-based auto-grad library similar to MicroGrad but written entirely in latex! As part of your latex document you can specify the architecture of a neural network and loss functions, how to generate or load training data, and specify training hyperparameters and experiments. When the document is compiled, the latex compiler will generate or load training data, train the network, run experiments and generate figures.
Machine Learning, LaTeX, Programming, Libraries, Scientific Computing
18 points by Anon84 15 hours ago | 1 comments
Show HN: Zig Topological Sort Library for Parallel Processing (github.com/williamw520)
TopoSort is a highly efficient Zig library for performing topological sort on dependency graph.
Programming, Parallel Processing, Zig, Libraries, Graphs
104 points by ww520 19 hours ago | 41 comments
Anna's Archive Scraping: Court Defers Key Questions to State Supreme Court (torrentfreak.com)
The legal battle between library database giant OCLC and shadow library search engine Anna's Archive has hit a snag.
Legal Cases, Copyright, Libraries, Digital Libraries
7 points by hn_acker 20 hours ago | 0 comments
Entire staff at federal agency that funds libraries and museums put on leave (npr.org)
The Institute of Museum and Library Services has placed its entire staff on administrative leave.
Government, Libraries, Museums, Federal Agencies
96 points by Teever 1 day ago | 33 comments
Bash-ini-parser: Advanced bash INI parser library (github.com/lsferreira42)
A robust shell script library for parsing and manipulating INI configuration files in Bash.
Bash, Shell Scripting, Configuration Files, Libraries
4 points by lsferreira42 2 days ago | 0 comments
Show HN: JavaScript PubSub in 163 Bytes (github.com/hassanshaikley)
The smallest PubSub library possible. Zero Dependencies. 149 bytes.
JavaScript, Libraries, Programming, Open Source, Performance
97 points by hmmokidk 2 days ago | 34 comments
Msgpack23 – A modern, header-only C++ library for MessagePack (de)serialization (github.com/rwindegger)
msgpack23 is a lightweight library that provides a straightforward approach to serializing and deserializing C++ data structures into the MessagePack format.
C++, MessagePack, Serialization, Libraries, Software
29 points by gjvc 4 days ago | 17 comments
Show HN: Hexi – Modern header-only network binary serialisation for C++ (github.com/EmberEmu)
Hexi is a lightweight, header-only C++23 library for safely handling binary data from arbitrary sources (but primarily network data). It sits somewhere between manually memcpying bytes from network buffers and full-blown serialisation libraries.
C++, Networking, Serialization, Libraries
118 points by Chaosvex 5 days ago | 45 comments
AI bots are destroying Open Access (blogspot.com)
There's a war going on on the Internet. AI companies with billions to burn are hard at work destroying the websites of libraries, archives, non-profit organizations, and scholarly publishers, anyone who is working to make quality information universally available on the internet. And the technologists defending against this broad-based attack are doing everything they can to preserve their outlets while trying to remain true to the mission of providing the digital lifeblood of science and culture to the world.
Artificial Intelligence, Open Access, Libraries, Non-profit Organizations, Scholarly Publishing
99 points by dhacks 8 days ago | 49 comments
ISBN Visualization (phiresky.github.io)
Visualization, Data Visualization, Libraries, Software
17 points by iamwil 9 days ago | 2 comments
Internet Archive Europe – Bringing Collections to Life (internetarchive.eu)
Internet Archive, Europe, Libraries, Digital Preservation, Cultural Heritage
141 points by robin_reala 9 days ago | 36 comments
Fast columnar JSON decoding with arrow-rs (arroyo.dev)
JSON is the most common serialization format used in streaming pipelines, so it pays to be able to deserialize it fast. This post covers in detail how the arrow-json library works to perform very efficient columnar JSON decoding, and the additions we've made for streaming use cases.
JSON, Data Processing, Performance Optimization, Streaming, Libraries
56 points by necubi 10 days ago | 7 comments
Writing Programs with Ncurses (invisible-island.net)
This document is an introduction to programming with curses. It is not an exhaustive reference for the curses Application Programming Interface (API); that role is filled by the curses manual pages. Rather, it is intended to help C programmers ease into using the package.
Programming, C Programming, Libraries
127 points by begoon 10 days ago | 52 comments
argp: GNU-style command line argument parser for Go (github.com/tdewolff)
Go, Programming, Tools, Libraries
176 points by networked 10 days ago | 98 comments
Elon Musk's Doge Moves to Gut Local Libraries While No One Is Looking (newrepublic.com)
Department of Government Efficiency operatives have found their new target: your local library.
Politics, Technology, Libraries, Satire
61 points by shscs911 11 days ago | 10 comments
U.S. blocks Canadian access to iconic Stanstead border-straddling library (cbc.ca)
The U.S. government is closing the main Canadian access to the Stanstead, Que., library, an iconic building that straddles both borders, according to town and library officials.
Politics, Canada, Libraries, United States
75 points by colinprince 12 days ago | 64 comments
Baroque/Joanina Library at the University of Coimbra (visit.uc.pt)
The Baroque Library is the best example of Portuguese Baroque and is considered to be one of the richest European libraries.
Libraries, Architecture, Portugal, Baroque
5 points by gnabgib 13 days ago | 0 comments
The Lost Art of Research as Leisure (kasurian.com)
Nestled in a café-bar-museum-event space in Fort Mason — San Francisco’s water-front, weathered military campus with sweeping views of the Golden Gate Bridge —is a floor to ceiling library housing the Long Now Foundation’s Manual for Civilisation. A crowd-curated collection of the 3,500 books “most essential to sustain or rebuild a civilisation,” the Manual for Civilisation began with one question: If you were stranded on an island (or small hostile planetoid), what books would you want to have with you?
Culture, Libraries, History, Research
504 points by altilunium 14 days ago | 273 comments
Choosing the Right CMS for Digital Archives: Omeka vs. Drupal (culturefoundry.com)
As we’ve organized and executed web design and development projects for our client-partners at the LBJ Presidential Library, DiscoverLBJ digital archives, and the Clinton Digital Library, we are often asked about the best content management systems (CMS) to use for large, digital archives.
Digital Archives, Web Development, Libraries
4 points by mooreds 18 days ago | 0 comments
Show HN: Cross platform binary to launch native binary using Cosmopolitan Libc (github.com/Munawwar)
Cross-platform binary launcher with Cosmopolitan libc
Software, Operating Systems, Cross-Platform, Libraries
8 points by munawwar 20 days ago | 2 comments
Fastplotlib: GPU-accelerated, fast, and interactive plotting library (medium.com)
fastplotlib is a new GPU-accelerated fast and interactive scientific plotting library that leverages WGPU
GPU Acceleration, Visualization, Scientific Computing, Python, Libraries
491 points by rossant 22 days ago | 179 comments
A Library for Point and Click Adventures (github.com/pinguin999)
ALPACA (short for "A Library for Point And Click Adventures") is a game engine for adventure games and interactive comics.
Game Development, Programming, Libraries
25 points by pinguin999 23 days ago | 0 comments
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
54 points by Tomte 27 days ago | 17 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 27 days 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 29 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
6 points by thunderbong 29 days ago | 1 comments
TanStack Form V1 – Type-Safe, Agnostic, Headless Form Library (twitter.com)
Something went wrong, but don’t fret — let’s give it another shot.
JavaScript, Form Libraries, Web Development, Open Source, Libraries
10 points by tannerlinsley 30 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 33 days ago | 12 comments