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Software Engineering news — Saturday 10 October 2026

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  1. Making np.searchsorted up to 25× Faster in NumPy 2.5
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  2. Build your own decision model
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    Article URL: https://nishtahir.com/build-your-own-decision-model/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50037949 Points: 439 # Comments: 98

  3. Byte Language Models: Scaling, Emergent Abstractions, and Information Allocation
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    The paper challenges the assumption that language models need explicit tokenizers to be efficient demonstrating that standard flat Transformers can process raw byte sequences and actually outperform traditional subword models as parameter…

  4. Secret of Orange Cats Revealed After 60-Year Search
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    Article URL: https://www.sciencealert.com/secret-of-orange-cats-finally-revealed-after-60-year-search Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50037711 Points: 254 # Comments: 180

  5. Inside a 1980s filter chip that uses switched capacitors
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  6. The 2D physics prototype behind GTA’s vehicles
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  7. A city-building game in which the city would prefer you didn't
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    Article URL: https://housing.over.pizza/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50036864 Points: 506 # Comments: 169

  8. The Making Of Super Mario 64 – full Giles Goddard interview (2001)
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    Article URL: https://pixelatron.com/blog/the-making-of-super-mario-64-full-giles-goddard-interview-ngc/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50036287 Points: 257 # Comments: 100

  9. Nvidia in talks to acquire US 'open' model startup Reflection AI
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    Article URL: https://www.ft.com/content/052610c5-22b4-4dd4-932e-b7f9f0628b6a Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50035886 Points: 159 # Comments: 101

  10. Why DuckDB 2.0 is faster
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    Article URL: https://motherduck.com/blog/why-duckdb-20-is-faster/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50035530 Points: 164 # Comments: 51

  11. Kiesel Devlog #15: Release 0.4.0
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  12. SNTPings, draw on a canvas using ICMPv6
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  13. Why 'externalized' proofs of cyclic trait impls does not work
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  14. Calculus with Julia
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    Article URL: https://jverzani.github.io/CalculusWithJuliaNotes.jl/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50034206 Points: 248 # Comments: 49

  15. Knuth reward check
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    Article URL: https://www.thomas-huehn.com/knuth-reward-check/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50034081 Points: 215 # Comments: 76

  16. PVX-001: open-source Covid-19 vaccine starts Phase 1 trial
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    Article URL: https://chronicles.popvax.com/p/popvax-goes-clinical Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50033721 Points: 104 # Comments: 17

  17. FDA may allow some toxic chemicals to be added to food without safety review
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    Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/10/fda-toxic-chemicals-food-analysis Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50033638 Points: 111 # Comments: 55

  18. Reporting vulnerabilities to Estonian companies
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  19. culpert - rust heap profiling with span awareness and regression tooling
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  20. Bitwarden Dual License Model
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    Article URL: https://community.bitwarden.com/t/published-version-update-in-app-stores/102750 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50033407 Points: 346 # Comments: 248

  21. Unikernels were hard. key word: were
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    Article URL: https://ghuntley.com/unikernels/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50033357 Points: 178 # Comments: 89

  22. dasSDL3: Idiomatic SDL3 bindings for daslang
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  23. I would like the value of my home to rise, while my property taxes fall
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    Article URL: https://conversableeconomist.com/2026/09/28/i-would-like-the-value-of-my-home-to-rise-while-my-property-taxes-fall/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50032758 Points: 245 # Comments: 548

  24. Lobbying Is Corruption
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    Article URL: https://carette.xyz/posts/lobbying_and_corruption/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50032556 Points: 145 # Comments: 54

  25. Iframes that finally fit their content
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  26. Mars Pathfinder Priority Inversion Bug: What Really Happened
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  27. The Lightbulb Computer: Reimagining Spatial ＆ Ambient Computing with Projectors
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  28. Apple/macOS silently removed from official Unix registry
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    Article URL: https://www.opengroup.org//openbrand/register/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50031653 Points: 252 # Comments: 218

  29. Talorys – A self-hosted personal AI agent on Cloudflare's free tier
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    Article URL: https://github.com/rociiu/talorys Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50031614 Points: 311 # Comments: 142

  30. `123456' password used in Danish CPR data breach
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    Article URL: https://cphpost.dk/2026-10-10/news/round-up/123456-password-used-in-massive-danish-cpr-data-breach/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50031269 Points: 370 # Comments: 191

  31. There's little that's "inevitable" about AI
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  32. Voxlocal: a minimal voice agent written in Rust
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  33. 1-click MMI execution in Android
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  34. Computers Cannot Make Decisions
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    Article URL: https://wiki.cateat.fish/art:computers_cannot_make_decisions Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50029982 Points: 167 # Comments: 137

  35. oh, apparently it's not possible to portably check for string-to-float conversion errors in standard c
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  36. Adding Go's defer to the TypeScript Compiler
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  37. Food processing influences metabolism and brain activity
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    Article URL: https://news.vt.edu/articles/2026/10/research_fralinbiomed_upfhutelin.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50029830 Points: 165 # Comments: 127

  38. The Lightbulb Computer
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    Article URL: https://lightbulbcomputer.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50029487 Points: 562 # Comments: 93

  39. Telegram Desktop vulnerability allowed any user's file to be stolen
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    Article URL: https://beaksec.github.io/posts/telegram-desktop-one-click-account-takeover/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50029123 Points: 445 # Comments: 281

  40. Patches Updated To Begin Removing The Linux x32 ABI
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  41. The RAM shortage is bringing back DDR4
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    Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/games/1009140/ram-shortage-intel-amd-ddr4-comeback Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50028647 Points: 260 # Comments: 268

  42. No Man Is an Island
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  43. REA Reverse – Engineer Anything
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    Article URL: https://rea.tools/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50028275 Points: 703 # Comments: 303