Software Engineering
Software Engineering news — Monday 28 September 2026
111 stories from 5 sources, every one in English. Each links to its publisher.
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Thoughts on Flash (2010)
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ESP32S3 cluster running 1.58-bit (BitNet) Language model
Article URL: https://github.com/Low-Zi-Hong/ESP32s3-LLM-Cluster Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49884625 Points: 137 # Comments: 30
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Flock Wants the Most Detailed Map of Its Surveillance Cameras Taken Offline
Article URL: https://theintercept.com/2026/09/24/how-many-flock-devices-in-united-states-300000/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49884363 Points: 138 # Comments: 62
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State of the (Tagged) Union Address by Andrew Kelley
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I Could've Accessed 17T Microsoft Records
Article URL: https://blog.faav.net/how-i-couldve-accessed-17-trillion-microsoft-records Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49883970 Points: 267 # Comments: 115
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Jeff – Jev-compatible 0.8B decision models, trained at home, ~30 ms
Article URL: https://github.com/firelex/jeff Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49883844 Points: 536 # Comments: 204
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World Labs Is Joining AMD
Article URL: https://www.worldlabs.ai/blog/amd-announcement Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49883760 Points: 275 # Comments: 110
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California farmers are struggling to sell grapes as demand for wine drops
Article URL: https://www.kqed.org/news/12101534/california-farmers-are-struggling-to-sell-grapes-as-demand-for-wine-drops Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49883539 Points: 352 # Comments: 854
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Scientists solve 1840s space weather mystery
Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/09/scientists-solve-1840s-space-weather-mystery/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49883536 Points: 106 # Comments: 47
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It's Time to Investigate the AI Labs
Article URL: https://calnewport.com/its-time-to-investigate-the-ai-labs/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49883471 Points: 482 # Comments: 199
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MicroLLM Lab – Try 7 tiny LLM's in the browser
Article URL: https://stateofutopia.com/experiments/microllmlab/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49882781 Points: 268 # Comments: 98
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Burning Man death rates – A short lesson in statistics
Article URL: https://ihavenapkinthoughts.substack.com/p/burning-man-death-rates-a-short-lesson Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49882754 Points: 114 # Comments: 149
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Why model versioning is not enough for production AI
An MLOps workflow for evaluating deploying and rolling back AI applications
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So long Google, and thanks for all the nudes
Article URL: https://lecaro.me/20260921-google-less.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49881951 Points: 119 # Comments: 43
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Claude Sonnet 5.5
Article URL: https://www.anthropic.com/claude-sonnet-5-5 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49881850 Points: 825 # Comments: 556
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Definitely not Windows (Win 11 parody)
Article URL: https://definitelynotwindows.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49881747 Points: 383 # Comments: 116
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What Would A Serious AI Product Look Like?
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Show HN: Destroy Any Website with Stickman
Article URL: https://destroy.spritefusion.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49880601 Points: 100 # Comments: 27
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Phyllotaxis: An audio-reactive LED display
Article URL: https://jagi.studio/posts/phyllotaxis/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49880411 Points: 322 # Comments: 48
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Bill Gates tries to install Movie Maker
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HardenedBSD August / September 2026 Status Report
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Intuitive equals familiar
pdf: https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/182987.584629 Comments
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The problem is not the AI code, but nobody knows anything anymore
Article URL: https://www.ssp.sh/brain/the-problem-is-not-the-ai-code-but-nobody-knows-anything-anymore/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49880312 Points: 318 # Comments: 207
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Pirating the Pirates
Article URL: https://mubi.com/en/notebook/posts/pirating-the-pirates Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49880036 Points: 675 # Comments: 344
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Nvidia wants to put a watchdog chip next to every AI agent
Article URL: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/28/nvidia-releases.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49879883 Points: 204 # Comments: 259
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Hijacking the PS5's RTMP stream
Article URL: https://yashgarg.dev/posts/hijacking-ps5-rtmp-stream/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49879702 Points: 271 # Comments: 87
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Kids turned low-traffic NPR Spotify comments into a secret group chat
Article URL: https://www.thisamericanlife.org/897/transcript Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49879697 Points: 432 # Comments: 231
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the normalization of inexplicable failures
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Updated Google Maps shows destruction of the city of Rafah
Article URL: https://twitter.com/AliAbunimah/status/2103890594137309425 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49879645 Points: 779 # Comments: 640
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Cf: The Agentic CLI for the Cloudflare API
Article URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-cf-cli-launch/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49879577 Points: 139 # Comments: 62
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Output-to-seed mappings for CPython's PRNG
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Show HN: HN.watch – Videos of all Hacker News posts
Hi HN, I’m Per, founder of Scrimba (YC S20). We’ve spent the last decade teaching people how to code with an HTML-based video format. We’ve now plugged an LLM into it, so that people can create explainer videos about anything. It’s called…
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How to Solve Hallucination (with RLCD)
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MongoDB CEO resigns to join Meta
Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/technology/mongodb-ceo-desai-steps-down-lead-metas-enterprise-platform-2026-09-28/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49879000 Points: 320 # Comments: 258
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A Staff Engineer's Guide to Inventing Work
Article URL: https://sujithjay.com/inventing-work Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49878857 Points: 346 # Comments: 71
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Announcing blob-stream: a Kafka alternative for no fuss, low cost high volume streaming
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It’s Time to Investigate the AI Labs
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Coding Is Not Solved
Article URL: https://blog.alexewerlof.com/p/coding-is-not-solved Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49877988 Points: 346 # Comments: 352
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Does Reddit have an astroturfing problem? What the data suggests
Article URL: https://www.petervijeh.com/projects/reddit-astroturf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49877678 Points: 246 # Comments: 310
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What are you doing this week?
What are you doing this week? Feel free to share! Keep in mind it’s OK to do nothing at all, too.
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Hijacking the PS5's RTMP Stream
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GPU Glossary
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Parley - Federated, decentralised chat that speaks plain IRC
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The systems that no one will test
Article URL: https://blog.christianperone.com/2026/09/the-systems-that-no-one-will-test/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49876052 Points: 134 # Comments: 63
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Parley: Federated, decentralised chat that speaks plain IRC
Article URL: https://git.mills.io/prologic/parley Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49875913 Points: 299 # Comments: 167
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Show HN: PaperMono, e-ink fridge magnet shopping list with mobile web page
Fridge magnet shopping list on an M5Stack PaperMono (ESP32-S3, e-ink touchscreen), synced with a phone web app over Wi-Fi. Works offline, ~2,400 lines of C++. This is a great wee device! BLE, Wi-Fi and LoRa on one board makes it flexible…
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Yes, no AI is now a feature
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Leaving them behind
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Packing Binary Is Fun, Actually
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When did Google get so weird?
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SpaceX's Starship launching to orbit for first time ever today
Article URL: https://www.space.com/space-exploration/launches-spacecraft/spacexs-starship-megarocket-launching-to-orbit-for-1st-time-ever-on-sept-28-watch-it-live Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49875411 Points: 196 #…
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AI companies in race to demonstrate their model most threatening to humanity
Article URL: https://thecivilian.co.nz/2026/09/27/ai-companies-in-fierce-arms-race-to-demonstrate-their-model-is-the-most-existentially-threatening-to-humanity/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49875148 Points: 283 #…
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37,500 border drawings: a map of the world as people remember it
Article URL: https://www.habibicode.org/thedrawnworld Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49875142 Points: 153 # Comments: 32
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Containers Are No Longer a Security Boundary
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Shobr: Job seach CLI via browser automation, event-sourcing, LLM
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Rickrolling with a Pharmacy cross
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Prompting Claude Opus 5.5
Article URL: https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/build-with-claude/prompt-engineering/prompting-claude-opus-5-5 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49874728 Points: 157 # Comments: 164
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Pragmatic Anthropomorphism, or: How to Talk to an Autocompleting Cricket
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What makes Lisp difficult to read?
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DogWood: Monitoring Policies using First Order Temporal Logic
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SafeNom: Data-Aware Microservice Policies
arXiv:2609.30394v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Many cloud-based applications are organized as loosely coupled microservices, where invoking a service's API triggers a cascade of APIs across many services and leads to inter-service…
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SLMFix: Leveraging Small Language Models for Domain Specific Language Error Fixing with Reinforcement Learning
arXiv:2511.19422v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) have shown impressive capabilities in code generation across many programming languages but even state-of-the-art LLMs generate programs that contain…
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BabelCoder: Agentic Code Translation with Specification Alignment
arXiv:2512.06902v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: As software systems evolve, developers increasingly work across multiple programming languages and often face the need to migrate code from one language to another. While automatic code…
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Semi-Automatic Quantification of Bayesian Networks for Software Decision Support: Comparing WSA and RNM in a Software R&D Organization
arXiv:2609.31275v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Expert-driven Bayesian networks can support recurring software decisions when historical data are limited, but quantifying their conditional probability tables (CPTs) requires many…
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AGATE: Provenance-Based Runtime Defense Against Compositional Attacks on LLM Agents
arXiv:2609.30830v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: LLM agents can produce harmful effects through sequences of ordinary operations. Judging such actions requires establishing both the authority that permits them and the origin of the data…
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VLAA-GUI: Knowing When to Stop, Recover, and Search, A Modular Framework for GUI Automation
arXiv:2604.21375v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Autonomous GUI agents face two fundamental challenges: early stopping, where agents prematurely declare success without verifiable evidence, and repetitive loops, where agents cycle…
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Beyond Approved Actions: Runtime Validation of Persistent Outcomes in Agent Workflows
arXiv:2609.31301v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language model agents increasingly act on software systems, no longer merely generating text but also changing databases and online services. However, an approved database update may…
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EA-Ops: Git-Native Architecture as Code for Continuous Enterprise Architecture Governance
arXiv:2609.30593v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Enterprise architecture (EA) repositories frequently separate architecture models from the engineering workflow used to change software and infrastructure. This article presents EA-Ops, an…
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When the Model Retires: An Empirical Study of LLM Migration in Open-Source Applications
arXiv:2609.31288v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Applications built on commercial large language model (LLM) APIs depend on model versions that providers retire on their own schedule, with notice periods ranging from one year to two weeks…
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Compact Documentation for Coding Agents: A Benchmark, an Optimizer, and Why It Does Not Transfer
arXiv:2609.31587v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We investigate whether natural-language documentation helps coding agents resolve software issues, and we build the tools to construct and evaluate it. We introduce a roundtrip benchmark that…
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AgentDV: Closed-Loop Agentic AI for Hardware Design Verification
arXiv:2608.27148v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Register-transfer level (RTL) verification consumes a major part of modern system-on-chip (SoC) development effort. Yet, recent LLM-based verification-code generation often fails to…
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A Framework for Identifying, Categorizing, and Explaining Bias in AI-Generated Code
arXiv:2609.30642v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As Large Language Models (LLMs) become integrated into software development workflows, concerns regarding unintentional biases in AI-generated code. Although evidence suggests these biases…
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Silent Success: A Release Gate That Passed on Checks It Never Ran, and Eight More
arXiv:2609.30307v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A blocking quality gate in a production release pipeline reported PASS on a run in which one subgate had executed neither of its two checks and another had run six of its eight. Both keys…
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Orchestrating AI-Assisted Code Remediation: Socio-Technical Bottlenecks in a Large Industrial Repository
arXiv:2609.29172v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Background: Code degradation in large, long-lived codebases is costly to remediate through manual refactoring and opportunistic clean-ups. LLM-based coding assistants can perform…
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Context-Aware Functional Modeling for Android Third-Party Library Detection
arXiv:2609.31409v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Third-party libraries (TPLs) are widely used in Android apps, but their reuse can introduce security risks and interfere with downstream program analyses. Existing Android TPL detection…
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From Evidence to Effect: Authority Semantics and Runtime Infrastructure for Stateful Agents
arXiv:2609.08472v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Agentic systems persist model-visible memory while mutating workspaces, while a runtime, registry, or approval service may hold authority state outside both. Identical final files…
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One Capability or Many? Structural and Predictive Tests of Benchmark Validity Disagree About Economic Benchmarks for Frontier AI
arXiv:2608.29420v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Frontier-model leaderboards now rank systems on economic benchmarks, and those rankings inform what organisations buy and what regulators scrutinise. Whether such benchmarks measure…
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Scanning the Harness: Configuration Exposures in AI Coding-Agent Supply Chains
arXiv:2609.07360v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: AI coding agents rely on repository instructions, skills, hooks, tool-server declarations, and subagent definitions. These artifacts distribute both behavior and access to executable…
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Verification of Compiler-to-Accelerator Mappings for Machine Learning Accelerators
arXiv:2609.30651v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: To meet the performance needs of modern machine learning (ML) applications, ML compiler frameworks support compiler-to-accelerator mappings that offload parts of application code to…
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SLMFix: Leveraging Small Language Models for Domain Specific Language Error Fixing with Reinforcement Learning
arXiv:2511.19422v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) have shown impressive capabilities in code generation across many programming languages but even state-of-the-art LLMs generate programs that contain…
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CoCoRerank: Towards Conventional Commit Message Generation by Component and Candidate Consistency Reranking
arXiv:2609.30953v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Commit messages are essential for understanding software changes, yet automatic commit message generation typically treats a message as an unstructured text sequence. This limits its ability…
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From Source Code to Network Profile: Automated and Traceable MUD Profile Generation for IoT Devices
arXiv:2609.31594v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The Manufacturer Usage Description (MUD) standard allows IoT manufacturers to define expected network behaviors in a MUD file. This file can be translated into enforceable access-control…
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Mixed Choice in Asynchronous Multiparty Session Types
arXiv:2602.23927v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We present a multiparty session type (MST) framework with asynchronous mixed choice (MC). We propose a core construct for MC that allows transient inconsistencies in protocol state…
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Empty Intersection: Provenance Coverage Rose to 98% and Neither Verification Decision Moved
arXiv:2609.30308v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Two structural defenses for provenance, a grade on every row, so that a verification routine cannot mistake the system's own output for an observation, and a single write ingress, so that the…
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HyQDB: LLM-Assisted Debugging for Hybrid Quantum Workflows
arXiv:2609.30313v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Hybrid quantum program failures frequently occur silently, yet existing debugging tools provide limited support for detecting and repairing them. These faults dominate the failures reported…
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Proceedings Tenth Symposium on Working Formal Methods
arXiv:2609.30324v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The 10th Working Formal Methods Symposium (FROM 2026) was held in Timi\c{s}oara, Romania on September 15-17, 2026. It was organized jointly by the Faculty of Informatics of West University of…
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Joule-Profiler: Profiling the Energy Consumption of Build Automation Tools Made Easy
arXiv:2609.31228v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Build pipelines are integral to modern software development, yet their energy footprint remains largely invisible to practitioners. Existing CI energy tools either rely on model-based…
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When Is a Multi-Agent Code Judge Actually Grounded? Two Label-Free Measurements, and a Judge That Declines to Guess
arXiv:2609.30328v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: When one language model judges whether another's code is correct, it does not report the absence of evidence. It returns a confident verdict with reasoning attached, indistinguishable from…
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Mixed Choice in Asynchronous Multiparty Session Types
arXiv:2602.23927v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We present a multiparty session type (MST) framework with asynchronous mixed choice (MC). We propose a core construct for MC that allows transient inconsistencies in protocol state…
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Analyzing and Mitigating Cost-Inefficient Behaviors in Coding Agents
arXiv:2609.30725v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Although effective, coding agents often incur substantial monetary costs. Their recurring cost-inefficient behaviors remain underexplored. We conduct the first study of behavioral cost…
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MetaPermit: Scalable and Auditable Access Control for AI Agents via LLM-Inferred Meta-Attributes
arXiv:2609.31039v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The rise of autonomous AI agents equipped with tools has introduced significant security risks, ranging from unintended tool misuse to adversarial manipulation through Indirect Prompt…
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Structural Enforcement of Statistical Rigor in AI-Driven Discovery: A Functional Architecture
arXiv:2511.06701v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: AI-Scientist systems risk manufacturing spurious discoveries through uncontrolled multiple testing. We present a functional architecture that enforces statistical rigor at two levels: a…
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Grid-Orch: An LLM-Powered Orchestrator for Distribution Grid Simulation and Analytics
arXiv:2605.12728v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The power distribution engineering workforce faces a projected shortage of up to 1.5 million engineers by 2030, creating urgent demand for more accessible analysis tools. This paper…
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Developing a Roadmap to an AI-first Organization: A Case Study in Embedded Software Development
arXiv:2609.30863v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The emergence of AI agents is expected to reshape software engineering by moving beyond AI as assistants towards systems capable of planning, executing, and evaluating development tasks with…
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Closing the Loop: Continuous Measurement-Driven Refinement of Offloading Predictions
arXiv:2609.30429v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modern vehicles increasingly offload computation- ally intensive perception and decision functions to backend servers, requiring accurate predictions of absolute performance metrics such as…
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LLM-based Vulnerability Detection at Project Scale: An Empirical Study
arXiv:2601.19239v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: As software complexity grows, automated vulnerability detection becomes increasingly important. Recent LLM-based detectors combine semantic reasoning with static analysis for…
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Untangling the Spaghetti Code in Game Development: A Review of Challenges and Academic Solutions
arXiv:2609.30349v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The code quality in the game domain is perceived as less structured and more convoluted than in other domains, which results in lower maintainability and higher bug frequency. In this work…
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Evaluating Code Recommender Systems: A Review
arXiv:2609.30351v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Context: Code recommender systems (CRSs) are specialized software systems operating on source artifacts to provide automatically generated recommendations to software developers in all phases…
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Rethinking Data Quality for AI-Driven Systems: Evidence from Practitioner Interviews
arXiv:2609.31191v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Data quality research has usually treated data as an input that is stored, processed, and validated. In AI-driven software-intensive systems, data also shapes model behavior, evaluation, and…
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A First Look at the Self-Admitted Technical Debt in Test Code: Taxonomy and Detection
arXiv:2510.22409v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Self-admitted technical debt (SATD) refers to comments in which developers explicitly acknowledge code issues, workarounds, or suboptimal solutions. SATD is known to significantly…
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Too Sure to Be Safe: Model Calibration for Reliable Log Anomaly Detection
arXiv:2608.17965v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Online log anomaly detection is critical for maintaining the reliability of large-scale computing systems. Although recent language model-based log anomaly detectors achieve strong…
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What Will Remain Human in Software Architecture? A Focus Group Report
arXiv:2609.30334v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI development agents are increasingly used to support and partially automate software architecture tasks. To explore how practitioners perceive this shift, specifically what changes, what…
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Fool's Expertise
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Expert asterisks
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Replacing the old battery on rechargeable bike lights
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Thinking fast and slow in AI: The role of metacognition (2021)
Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.01834 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49873241 Points: 157 # Comments: 60
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Nissan's third generation e-POWER powertrain
Article URL: https://www.nissan-global.com/EN/INNOVATION/TECHNOLOGY/ARCHIVE/E_POWER_GEN3/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49872883 Points: 145 # Comments: 336
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Musk, the Movie
Article URL: https://bleeckerstreetmedia.com/musk Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49872766 Points: 111 # Comments: 31
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Owed a billion dollars in Nvidia stock
Article URL: https://colo.to/nvidia-stock-narrative.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49872723 Points: 1016 # Comments: 427
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Syncing Rust GCC backend or how to test Murphy's law
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