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Software Engineering news — Saturday 03 October 2026

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  1. Why I recommend Renovate over any other dependency update tools (2024)
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  2. OpenAI safety leader quits, warning AI company's culture is 'broken'
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    Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/oct/03/openai-safety-leader-quits-warning-ai-companys-culture-is-broken Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49948332 Points: 207 # Comments: 164

  3. We ported the original Doom to SQL
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    Article URL: https://cedardb.com/blog/sqldoom/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49948300 Points: 290 # Comments: 44

  4. Federal judge calls Flock 'indiscriminate mass surveillance'
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    Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/03/federal-judge-calls-flock-indiscriminate-mass-surveillance/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49948254 Points: 342 # Comments: 208

  5. Why don’t more developers "use the platform"?
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  6. Customization: Optimizing Compiler Technology for SELF, a Dynamically-Typed Object-Oriented Programming Language (1989)
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    Dynamically-typed object-oriented languages please programmers, but their lack of static type information penalizes performance. Our new implementation techniques extract static type information from declaration-free programs. Our system…

  7. Reasons I didn't become an EMT, ranked
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    Article URL: https://ben.stolovitz.com/posts/reasons-not-emt-ranked/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49947631 Points: 215 # Comments: 103

  8. System-level ad-blocking in Android
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  9. Rust, In Sickness ＆ In Health
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  10. Surely you have ultra-wideband radios on your bins too?
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    Article URL: https://sjg.io/writing/binrange-have-you-actually-put-the-bins-out/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49947472 Points: 142 # Comments: 77

  11. Deploy Ruby on Rails on a VPS
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  12. We want you to build the next Git platform on Cloudflare
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    Article URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/next-git-platform-on-cloudflare/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49947051 Points: 205 # Comments: 172

  13. The work by Valve's Timur Kristóf on improving old AMD GPUs on Linux
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    Article URL: https://www.phoronix.com/news/XDC-2026-Valve-Timur-AMDGPU Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49946895 Points: 443 # Comments: 86

  14. BSides Orlando 2026 Badge
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  15. Getting the most out of Opus 5.5 in Claude and Claude Code
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    Article URL: https://claude.dev/blog/getting-the-most-out-of-opus-5-5/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49946567 Points: 177 # Comments: 126

  16. What Meta got right with Muse
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    Article URL: https://metedata.substack.com/p/what-meta-got-right-with-muse Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49946526 Points: 120 # Comments: 160

  17. ADHD, autism or complex trauma? [pdf]
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    Article URL: https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/30CC4826561366615BFAEC807CDE28A7/S0007125026108046a.pdf/adhd-autism-or-complex-trauma-the-complicated-nature-of-the-question.pdf Comments URL…

  18. Hole Punch: Sling your spaceship around gravitational fields
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    Article URL: https://notoriousbfg.com/hole-punch/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49946393 Points: 343 # Comments: 85

  19. Treachery in the Rodin Museum 3D scan verdict
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    Article URL: https://cosmowenman.substack.com/p/rodin-museum-3d-scan-verdict Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49946355 Points: 289 # Comments: 158

  20. LeCun has "zero concerns" about AI wiping out humanity, recent "rogue" incidents
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    https://archive.ph/TyDPf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49946228 Points: 362 # Comments: 656

  21. Automating my 35mm film scanning pipeline
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    Article URL: https://shannadige.com/blog/darkroom/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49946148 Points: 101 # Comments: 68

  22. Kolibri – Tech Report [pdf]
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    Article URL: https://aleph-alpha.com/downloads/tech-report.pdf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49946069 Points: 103 # Comments: 4

  23. Agents don't need memory, they need documentation
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    Article URL: https://liao.gg/blog/agents-dont-need-memory Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49945933 Points: 326 # Comments: 202

  24. An Update on Orion for Linux and Windows
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  25. City building games have a Soul Problem pt.2
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    Article URL: https://www.radical-elements.com/minor-epiphanies/city-building-games-have-a-soul-problem-pt2 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49945323 Points: 129 # Comments: 126

  26. FTL: A new operating system for clouds
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    https://github.com/nuta/ftl Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49944912 Points: 186 # Comments: 74

  27. Direct retinal projection display for smart glasses using a meta-optic mirror
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    Article URL: https://www.tdk.com/en/news_center/press/20261002_01.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49944369 Points: 121 # Comments: 60

  28. I quit OpenAI because its culture is broken
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    https://archive.ph/5GQx8 https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/oct/03/openai-sa... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49944227 Points: 428 # Comments: 705

  29. The Era of Software Quality, or the Era of Ostriches?
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  30. Competitive Programmer's Handbook (2018) [pdf]
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    Article URL: https://cses.fi/book/book.pdf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49944049 Points: 279 # Comments: 70

  31. Writing the Cyclone Scheme Compiler (2017)
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  32. Two-Stack Sliding-Window Aggregation
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  33. Infidel goes wild
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    Article URL: https://blog.zarfhome.com/2026/10/infidel-goes-wild Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49943637 Points: 160 # Comments: 33

  34. Go JSON v2 Migration: What Breaks in Go 1.27
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  35. How to Hack Time, With C2PA
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  36. Type Safe Generic Data Structures in C
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    Article URL: https://danielchasehooper.com/posts/typechecked-generic-c-data-structures/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49943479 Points: 124 # Comments: 96

  37. Greg Kroah-Hartman - Security in the LLM Age
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  38. The Escalation of War in Ethiopia
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    Article URL: https://www.africanistperspective.com/p/on-the-escalation-of-war-in-ethiopia Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49943451 Points: 112 # Comments: 98

  39. Announcing Cloudflare OHTTP Gateway
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  40. Show HN: Germany's new sovereign AI model Kolibri
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    https://aleph-alpha.com/en/blog/kolibri-has-landed-a-soverei... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49943034 Points: 403 # Comments: 163

  41. Rust for CPython (Python Language Summit 2026)
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  42. Kolibri Has Landed: A Sovereign Open-Weight Model
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    tech report: https://aleph-alpha.com/downloads/tech-report.pdf additional paper: https://tej.as/blog/aleph-alpha-kolibri Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49942706 Points: 604 # Comments: 314

  43. Grow and control a swarm
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  44. Problems and solutions to the modern desktop (Make tmux the OS)
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  45. The Era of Programming Languages Exploration is upon Us
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  46. An Update on Orion for Linux and Windows
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    Article URL: https://blog.kagi.com/update-orion-linux-windows Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49941447 Points: 167 # Comments: 96

  47. Extra Big Ass Intelligence
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    Article URL: https://www.extrabigassintelligence.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49941114 Points: 442 # Comments: 104

  48. Cloudflare OHTTP gateway
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    Article URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/announcing-cloudflare-ohttp-gateway/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49941091 Points: 178 # Comments: 81

  49. gVisor is being donated to CNCF
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  50. Upstream Rust maintenance report
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  51. Newgrounds.com – A community of games, music, and art
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    Article URL: https://www.newgrounds.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49940394 Points: 421 # Comments: 123

  52. Things that apparently cause cancer
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    Article URL: https://www.breakthroughjournal.org/p/things-that-apparently-cause-cancer Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49940219 Points: 168 # Comments: 61