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Software Engineering news — Tuesday 29 September 2026

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  1. Show HN: Ledge.sh – Runnable Markdown Notes
    USHacker News Front Page

    Hi HN, Ledge is a Markdown notebook that runs shell commands, code, SQL, etc from inside your own notes. I built Ledge because I spend much of my day copy/pasting commands from my notes into the terminal. I was inspired by how much cmux…

  2. NRC issues first U.S. construction permit for a BWRX-300 small modular reactor
    USHacker News Front Page

    Article URL: https://www.gevernova.com/news/press-releases/nrc-issues-first-us-construction-permit-bwrx-300-small-modular-reactor-tva-clinch-river Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49902019 Points: 104 # Comments: 69

  3. Livenerf: Has Opus 5.5 been nerfed yet?
    USHacker News Front Page

    Article URL: https://github.com/ninjahawk/livenerf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49901736 Points: 836 # Comments: 349

  4. How to work in a software engineering team (2022)
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  5. ESPARGOS - ESP-SDR: Raw IQ Capture with Espressif's ESP32 Chips
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  6. Deser: Rethinking Rust Serialization
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  7. The best explanation I've found about the state of AI hype and hysteria
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  8. Change Tours | Because understanding a code change is hard
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    Project available at https://github.com/hannahpotter/changetours-vscode-pull-request-github Comments

  9. Two Kinds of SQL Query Builders
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  10. The Shell ＆ Email
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  11. U.S. postal inspectors shut down website selling counterfeit postage labels
    USHacker News Front Page

    Article URL: https://postalemployeenetwork.com/news/2026/09/26/u-s-postal-inspectors-shut-down-website-selling-millions-of-counterfeit-postage-labels/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49899090 Points: 269 # Comments: 160

  12. AI needs $6T in annual revenue to justify data centre boom
    USHacker News Front Page

    Article URL: https://www.thenationalnews.com/future/technology/2026/09/29/ai-industry-needs-to-earn-6-trillion-by-2031-to-justify-data-centres/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49898952 Points: 100 # Comments: 65

  13. Nura (postmarketOS): The road to daily-drivable mainline phones
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  14. Nicholas Polson has authored 258 academic papers in 2026 (so far)
    USHacker News Front Page

    Article URL: https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/08/27/258/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49898877 Points: 123 # Comments: 85

  15. Show HN: Real-time Solar System with 526k asteroids and all tracked satellites
    USHacker News Front Page

    Article URL: https://space.bl2.net/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49898778 Points: 358 # Comments: 94

  16. How I Built an iPhone App in Four Days with Opus 5.5
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  17. We’re forgetting what darkness feels like
    USHacker News Front Page

    Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/sep/29/night-sky-darkness-city-regulation Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49898050 Points: 152 # Comments: 80

  18. Unix File and Directory Permissions and Modes (2018)
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  19. Vermont replacing power plants with home batteries
    USHacker News Front Page

    See also https://electrek.co/2026/07/28/vermonts-largest-energy-sourc... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49897993 Points: 362 # Comments: 267

  20. GLM-5.3 and the spread of advanced cyber capabilities
    USHacker News Front Page

    Article URL: https://www.anthropic.com/research/glm-5-3-and-the-spread-of-advanced-cyber-capabilities Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49897075 Points: 164 # Comments: 143

  21. ChatGPT Pro 500
    USHacker News Front Page

    Article URL: https://help.openai.com/en/articles/9793128-about-chatgpt-pro-tiers Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49896975 Points: 177 # Comments: 186

  22. Getting root on OnePlus 15 from an untrusted app
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  23. Tcl/Tk 9.1 Released
    USHacker News Front Page

    Article URL: https://www.tcl-lang.org/software/tcltk/9.1.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49896712 Points: 277 # Comments: 119

  24. Dots: Always-on agents
    USHacker News Front Page

    Article URL: https://openai.com/index/introducing-dots/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49896604 Points: 724 # Comments: 610

  25. GPT 6.1 Sol
    USHacker News Front Page

    Article URL: https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-6-1-sol/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49896586 Points: 1030 # Comments: 904

  26. Text-to-meowdio models
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  27. DraftKings Is Using AI to Behaviorally Target Chronic Gamblers
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    Article URL: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/09/draftkings-using-ai-supercharge-harms-online-behavioral-advertising Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49896050 Points: 485 # Comments: 336

  28. Needed 1+1, built a functional programming language
    USHacker News Front Page

    Article URL: https://hereticpleb.vercel.app/blog/needed-one-plus-one/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49895864 Points: 128 # Comments: 50

  29. PS5 Relapse Exploit
    USHacker News Front Page

    Article URL: https://github.com/ntfargo/Relapse-Exploit Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49895304 Points: 319 # Comments: 193

  30. Pining for Arc Downcasting in Rust
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  31. Book of Shapes – Collection of minimal, generative and customizable SVG-patterns
    USHacker News Front Page

    Article URL: https://bookofshapes.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49894430 Points: 237 # Comments: 22

  32. Show HN: NSL – WSL for Linux
    USHacker News Front Page

    One of the things that Windows really got right is WSL2. I drive an atomic Linux distro for daily use, but wanted a way to develop with multiple different distros with that same WSL UX. NSL is my answer. It is a faithful reproduction of…

  33. Aho-Corasick Algorithm
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  34. macOS Golden Gate Is a Buggy Mess
    USHacker News Front Page

    Article URL: https://www.squareorbits.com/blog/2026/09/macos-golden-gate-is-a-buggy-mess/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49894005 Points: 352 # Comments: 257

  35. Claude partial outage
    USHacker News Front Page

    Article URL: https://status.claude.com/incidents/4xvtc2gnq73l Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49893876 Points: 159 # Comments: 128

  36. Google ending ChromeOS support two years early
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    Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/os-platforms/2026/09/29/google-ending-chromeos-support-two-years-early/5299674 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49893653 Points: 122 # Comments: 104

  37. America.gov
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    Article URL: https://america.gov/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49893509 Points: 712 # Comments: 626

  38. Ask HN: What are you reading?
    USHacker News Front Page

    I'm plowing through the Dungeon Crawler Carl series, which is not particularly challenging as sci-fi/LitRPG goes, but entertaining enough. I'm also wrapping up Doctorow's _Enshittification_, and I'm looking for something a little meaty to…

  39. Backblaze drive stats for Q2 2026
    USHacker News Front Page

    Article URL: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-drive-stats-for-q2-2026/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49893002 Points: 273 # Comments: 87

  40. Delhi Cut Electricity Loss from 50 to 5 Percent
    USHacker News Front Page

    Article URL: https://spectrum.ieee.org/delhi-electricity-loss Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49892245 Points: 557 # Comments: 307

  41. Without the Hot Air
    USHacker News Front Page

    Article URL: https://www.withouthotair.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49892175 Points: 136 # Comments: 80

  42. 1 in 8 cancer cases worldwide are caused by infections, study finds
    USHacker News Front Page

    Article URL: https://www.cbc.ca/lite/story/9.7361622 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49892120 Points: 216 # Comments: 121

  43. US sanctions force The Netherlands off Microsoft and toward alternative NixOS
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  44. Prototyping a Small Genetic Algorithms Library inHaskell (2019)
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  45. 500k facial scans at UK stations yield no arrests, 1 false positive
    USHacker News Front Page

    Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/sep/29/trial-live-facial-recognition-cameras-london-stations-false-positive Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49891480 Points: 409 # Comments: 249

  46. You Are No Longer Invited to Dinner
    USHacker News Front Page

    Article URL: https://www.derekthompson.org/p/the-death-of-the-american-host Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49891295 Points: 738 # Comments: 671

  47. Jeeves. Reasoning improves Jev-like decision models
    USHacker News Front Page

    Article URL: https://github.com/PostHog/jeeves Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49891290 Points: 228 # Comments: 88

  48. Language models for text classification: From bag-of-words to Jev
    USHacker News Front Page

    Article URL: https://magazine.sebastianraschka.com/p/classifier-history-and-jev Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49891203 Points: 179 # Comments: 9

  49. NASA asked several former SR-71A staffers to help secret restart
    USHacker News Front Page

    Article URL: https://aviationweek.com/defense/aircraft-propulsion/nasa-asked-several-former-sr-71a-staffers-help-secret-restart Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49890733 Points: 285 # Comments: 328

  50. Why the Bronze Age Collapsed
    USHacker News Front Page

    Article URL: https://www.worksinprogress.news/p/why-really-caused-the-bronze-age Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49890732 Points: 368 # Comments: 245

  51. Show HN: JBR-001 – An open-source 3D printable desktop robot
    USHacker News Front Page

    We built a desktop companion robot that is powered by Arduino UNO Q. Project is open source: source code, 3D printable files and assembly instructions are available at Arduino Project Hub. Robot is equipped with camera, distance sensor…

  52. Deterministic Concurrency
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  53. AI Didn’t Make Programming Easier. It Just Made It Differently Difficult
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  54. CoW — a stacking window manager for Wayland
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  55. AI companies leak data to advertisers [pdf]
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    Article URL: https://jorgegarciaherrero.com/wp-content/interactivos/20260916-Prompt-like-a-butterfly-sting-like-a-tracker-(clean).pdf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49890226 Points: 407 # Comments: 129

  56. MicroLLM lab - tiny LLMs, Q4, in your browser
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  57. MotifCentral - All Things Motif/Xt/Xlib
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  58. Using any C++ library in Godot
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    Article URL: https://blog.conan.io/cpp/conan/gamedev/godot/cmake/2026/09/29/Using-Any-Cpp-Library-In-Godot.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49890051 Points: 157 # Comments: 56

  59. What makes software development engineering
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  60. Your phone is AI’s newest hardware
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    Ryan sits down with Div Garg, CEO at AGI Inc., to talk about running AI agents entirely on mobile devices, optimizing models for edge computing chips, and building safety mechanisms into autonomous app interactions.

  61. First steps of the PLC organization
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  62. Mathematical Origami
    USHacker News Front Page

    Article URL: https://mathigon.org/origami Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49889140 Points: 108 # Comments: 22

  63. My experience writing automated tests for a SPA
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  64. Optimising for fast builds with GHC
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  65. When oil prices spike, where does the money go?
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    Article URL: https://theconversation.com/when-oil-prices-spike-where-does-the-money-go-280763 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49888182 Points: 118 # Comments: 112

  66. Switching To Emacs as a Neovim User
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  67. Adding Floating-Point Decimals for Fun and Profit
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  68. Solving Factorio Quality
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    Article URL: https://exyr.org/2026/solving-factorio-quality/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49887343 Points: 243 # Comments: 91

  69. U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve Falls to Lowest Level Since 1982
    USHacker News Front Page

    Article URL: https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/US-Strategic-Petroleum-Reserve-Falls-to-Lowest-Level-Since-1982.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49887337 Points: 101 # Comments: 107

  70. Tank Body Problem
    USHacker News Front Page

    Article URL: http://www.jimsitu.com Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49886482 Points: 171 # Comments: 39

  71. 1996 chat room simulator connected to Win95 and System 7 web desktops
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    Article URL: https://lolchat.rip/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49886195 Points: 110 # Comments: 45