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Software Engineering news — Sunday 04 October 2026

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

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  1. Self-hosted HTTP tunnels with SSH and Nginx
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    Article URL: https://vincent.bernat.ch/en/blog/2026-http-over-ssh Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49958569 Points: 144 # Comments: 32

  2. In the wake of Tippett Studios’ closure, a digital archive appears online
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    https://archive.org/details/tippett-archive/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49957812 Points: 237 # Comments: 31

  3. Protocol-aware recovery for consensus-based storage (2018)
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  4. Turn off Apple Intelligence on macOS 27 and get its disk space back
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    Article URL: https://github.com/omlahore/RemoveMacAI Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49957116 Points: 681 # Comments: 455

  5. Improper redaction reveals Google Data Center water and electricity usage
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    Article URL: https://www.1011now.com/2026/09/30/more-questions-than-answers-about-lincolns-google-data-center-water-electricity-usage/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49957068 Points: 470 # Comments: 608

  6. ncdu: NCurses Disk Usage (an updated fork)
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  7. Iroh global content discovery
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  8. Self-hosted HTTP tunnels with SSH and nginx
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  9. Hacking the Go compiler to efficiently map IPv4 to IPv6
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  10. A browser-native classic Visual Basic VB6 IDE
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    Article URL: https://wieslawsoltes.github.io/VB6/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49956681 Points: 381 # Comments: 126

  11. The technology to eradicate mosquito-borne disease exists
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    Article URL: https://worksinprogress.co/issue/mosquitoes-are-a-choice/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49956290 Points: 219 # Comments: 175

  12. An animated, customizable Git cheat sheet drawn by git-sim
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  13. Thoreau BASIC
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  14. Car is a smartphone on wheels. Here's who's listening
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    Article URL: https://automatictransmission.khoury.northeastern.edu/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49954882 Points: 135 # Comments: 66

  15. Flatpak from the CLI sucks
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  16. Obelisk 0.42: Durable Agents, Layered Sandboxes
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  17. Run Qwen 3.8 Flash Next (125B) on consumer hardware (RTX 4090) at 100T/s
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    Article URL: https://github.com/Niko1221/Strata Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49953495 Points: 862 # Comments: 386

  18. Improving and Stabilizing the racoon2 IKE Daemon in NetBSD
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  19. The complement of true is true, except when it's false
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  20. Bill Draper has died
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    https://archive.ph/YRgDY Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49953288 Points: 131 # Comments: 39

  21. A Mere Mortal's Introduction to JIT Vulnerabilities in JavaScript Engines
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  22. grubby: static site generator for git repos written in Ruby
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  23. Show HN: AI search for every photo and every frame of video on macOS
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    Article URL: https://github.com/allenv0/SCM Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49952111 Points: 146 # Comments: 66

  24. Models ranked by normative score across twelve paradigms, once neutral and once human-primed
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  25. Our RISC-V emulator PasRISCV
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  26. In Ukraine, distributed renewables foil Russia's assaults
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    Article URL: https://energytransition.org/2026/09/in-ukraine-distributed-renewables-foil-russias-assaults/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49951881 Points: 113 # Comments: 94

  27. We’re going to need default hard budget caps on pretty much everything
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  28. Kolibri: A Sovereign Open-Weight Model
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  29. Emitting metadata early makes building/checking Rust up to twice as fast
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    Article URL: https://github.com/PowderworksCode/headstart Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49951218 Points: 111 # Comments: 30

  30. The cost of lies: A Mineserver story
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    Article URL: https://www.jeremyreimer.com/rockets-item.lsp?f=true&p=272 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49950865 Points: 167 # Comments: 69

  31. Testing 12 different Zigbee temperature/humidity sensors
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    Article URL: https://smarthomescene.com/reviews/best-selling-zigbee-temperature-sensors-tested/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49950653 Points: 225 # Comments: 116

  32. Why don't more developers “use the platform”?
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    Article URL: https://nolanlawson.com/2026/10/03/why-dont-more-developers-use-the-platform/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49950554 Points: 296 # Comments: 312

  33. Religious scholars met with Anthropic
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    https://archive.is/y8FW0 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49950052 Points: 120 # Comments: 262

  34. Rust's derive often implies inline
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  35. We're working on a new RuneScape MMO
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    Article URL: https://play.runescape.com/4 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49949588 Points: 136 # Comments: 76

  36. Bob Cringely Has Died
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    I heard from a friend of the family that Bob passed away in his sleep early Saturday. Very sad news. Bob, who's real name was Mark Stevens, was an early employee of Apple and was best known for his PBS documentaries, especially "Triumph of…

  37. We're going to need default hard budget caps on pretty much everything
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    Article URL: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Oct/3/default-hard-budget-caps/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49949235 Points: 572 # Comments: 289