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Software Engineering news — Sunday 27 September 2026

47 stories from 2 sources, every one in English. Each links to its publisher.

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  1. Thorsten Ball - What I believe about the future of software development
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  2. EX-ARRR: Sailing the 0-click Seas
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  3. Dropping Swift entirely from our Bevy iOS crates
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  4. NAND-16: a computer built from 277,248 NAND gates
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    Article URL: https://somethingbig.ai/computer Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49871018 Points: 141 # Comments: 80

  5. Don't couple your Go code to GitHub
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  6. Booted up in 1993, this server still runs – but not for much longer (2017)
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    Article URL: https://www.computerworld.com/article/1673071/booted-up-in-1993-this-server-still-runs-but-not-for-much-longer-2.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49870376 Points: 162 # Comments: 85

  7. When did Google get so weird?
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    Article URL: https://sancho.bearblog.dev/google-weird/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49870367 Points: 1882 # Comments: 1057

  8. Self-Hosting on the Dark Web
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    Article URL: https://david.alvarezrosa.com/posts/self-hosting-on-the-dark-web/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49870295 Points: 313 # Comments: 104

  9. Reverse Engineering the iPod Classic's Undocumented Mikey Chip
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  10. Alan Kay's answer to “Did the ENIAC have a BIOS”?
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    Article URL: https://www.quora.com/Did-the-ENIAC-have-a-BIOS/answer/Alan-Kay-11 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49870070 Points: 172 # Comments: 59

  11. What I did at Recurse Center
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    Article URL: https://thill.me/2026/09/11/what-i-did-at-rc.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49869773 Points: 119 # Comments: 38

  12. Malleable software: Restoring user agency in a world of locked-down apps (2025)
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    Article URL: https://www.inkandswitch.com/essay/malleable-software/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49869755 Points: 139 # Comments: 68

  13. Show HN: Lofi Cities – Pixel-art city nights with browser-generated lofi
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    Article URL: https://loficities.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49869574 Points: 276 # Comments: 115

  14. Writing Efficient C++ Code
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  15. postmarketOS rebrands as Nura
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  16. SNL Weekend Update: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on A.I.'S Threat to Humanity [video]
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    Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Nvne3LzBls Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49868831 Points: 139 # Comments: 39

  17. Ember-1
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    Article URL: https://fireworks.ai/blog/ember-1 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49868830 Points: 569 # Comments: 243

  18. Don't couple your Go code to GitHub
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    Article URL: https://iain.rocks/blog/dont-couple-your-go-code-to-github Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49868404 Points: 296 # Comments: 155

  19. There are no "rogue" AI agents
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    Article URL: https://eoinhiggins.substack.com/p/there-are-no-rogue-ai-agents Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49868083 Points: 279 # Comments: 203

  20. PostmarketOS is rebranding as Nura
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    Article URL: https://nura.eco/blog/2026/09/27/nura-rename/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49867553 Points: 138 # Comments: 29

  21. The Normalization of Inexplicable Failures
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    Article URL: https://www.ihatethefuture.com/2026/09/the-normalization-of-inexplicable.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49867486 Points: 217 # Comments: 85

  22. Deshittification Part 2: Bypassing the App Store Gatekeeper
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  23. "They had no concept of a duty of care to their users."
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    Article URL: https://unsung.aresluna.org/they-had-no-concept-of-a-duty-of-care-to-their-users/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49867067 Points: 322 # Comments: 283

  24. “They had no concept of a duty of care to their users.”
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  25. 10 Tells of a Slop UI
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    Article URL: https://hereticpleb.vercel.app/blog/10-tells-of-slop Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49867038 Points: 178 # Comments: 136

  26. In an $80 motel room, a discovery to shed light on the origins of life
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    Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/science/motel-science-discovery.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49866951 Points: 279 # Comments: 105

  27. LuaRocks Security Incident September 2026
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  28. Ten lines of code that changed my world
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    Article URL: https://pixelambacht.nl/2026/ten-lines-of-code/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49866534 Points: 104 # Comments: 33

  29. Replacing the old battery on rechargeable bike lights
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    Article URL: https://jvns.ca/blog/2026/09/27/replacing-the-old-battery-on-rechargeable-bike-lights/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49866515 Points: 200 # Comments: 112

  30. Ten Lines Of Code That Changed My World
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  31. What Improves Developer Productivity at Google? Code Quality
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    Abstract: Understanding what affects software developer productivity can help organizations choose wise investments in their technical and social environment. But the research literature either focuses on what correlates with developer…

  32. FoxDev Studio
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  33. Footguns with Postgres "at time zone 'UTC'"
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    Article URL: https://bookofrevenue.com/blog/6ab81e9a97a13f0001f7e4e1/postgres-at-time-zone-u-does-not-do-what-you-think-it-does Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49865312 Points: 151 # Comments: 90

  34. Meta Blocks President Lula's Facebook Page, Campaign Ads 2 Weeks from Election
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    Article URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/1wr3id3/meta_blocks_president_lulas_facebook_page_and/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49864642 Points: 188 # Comments: 102

  35. Improving site performance by shipping more CSS
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  36. Robot-use agents
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  37. One month without AI
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  38. OpenAI Feared "Optics" of what might appear on Hacker News
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    Article URL: https://authorsguild.org/news/ag-v-openai-top-execs-knew-mass-book-piracy-was-illegal/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49863864 Points: 543 # Comments: 484

  39. Valve Introduces Pyrowave Video Codec In Beta For Low Latency Streaming
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  40. If we do not stop to help each other, what do we become?
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    Article URL: https://blog.codinghorror.com/if-we-do-not-stop-to-help-each-other-what-do-we-become/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49863062 Points: 138 # Comments: 51

  41. What is the size of Yemen? (2024)
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    Article URL: https://theborys.substack.com/p/what-is-the-size-of-yemen Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49862809 Points: 178 # Comments: 60

  42. Turn GLM-5.3-Flash into a Jev-like System One model
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  43. mantle.nes breakdown blog part 1
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  44. Teaching GPU programming in p5.js: now with compute shaders
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  45. Honeypot on the boykisser forum
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  46. Deploying Guix images on Linode
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  47. This is a modern motherfucking website
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