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Software Engineering news — Tuesday 13 October 2026

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  1. Show HN: Pulse Local, a Mac budgeting app whose AI models run on your machine
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    Hi HN, I'm Niz. Pulse Local is a budgeting app for Mac (Apple Silicon, beta) that answers questions about your spending with models that run on your machine. Local mode needs no account. The ledger and your questions stay on the machine…

  2. Delta’s Biscoff cookies were supposed to be temporary
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    Article URL: https://www.seriouseats.com/biscoff-history-12168161 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50080155 Points: 230 # Comments: 177

  3. Grace Hopper Celebration Cancelled
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    Article URL: https://anitab.org/press-release Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50080007 Points: 195 # Comments: 140

  4. Recreational Programming
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    Article URL: https://www.cphiri.dev/presentations/recreational-programming Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50079865 Points: 272 # Comments: 115

  5. The 2026 Maintainers Summit
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  6. The First Social Network: In rural Argentina residents send messages w AM radio
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    Article URL: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/10/19/the-first-social-network Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50079701 Points: 125 # Comments: 45

  7. Please stop hashing the public key first (or: ML-DSA's µ annoys me)
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  8. Announcing Lix 2.96 “Bingsu”
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  9. Redesigning source control at Anthropic
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  10. Accelerating the Zig Tokenizer (with AVX-512)
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  11. OpenAI engineer arrested in bugging of executive conference room
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    https://x.com/OpenAINewsroom/status/2110095403198849132 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50078141 Points: 592 # Comments: 490

  12. Yet another way to invoke functions without parentheses
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    Article URL: https://blog.ikaes.de/yet-another-way-to-invoke-functions-without-parentheses/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50077225 Points: 229 # Comments: 100

  13. Show HN: Guitoro, a virtual guitar you strum with your keyboard
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    Guitoro is a free browser guitar using recordings of real instruments. You can strum with your keyboard, mouse, or touchscreen, choose acoustic, classical, electric guitar or bass, and see chord fingering and each stroke. Song practice can…

  14. Data-oriented Design for Mortals
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  15. Monte-Carlo Simulations
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    Article URL: https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2026/monte-carlo-simulations/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50076089 Points: 154 # Comments: 35

  16. Show HN: How random are you?
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    Article URL: https://lab.specr.net/rigged-draw/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50074909 Points: 198 # Comments: 99

  17. Gemini 4 Argon for Robotics
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    Main thread: Gemini 4 Argon - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50073879 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50074869 Points: 163 # Comments: 40

  18. Why Your Sandbox Never Quite Matches Production (And Why That's Fine)
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    Sandbox testing works best when you stop chasing production parity. Learn what environment drift actually costs and which parts are worth fixing.

  19. Stolen Renoir paintings found hidden, and damaged, behind cinder block wall
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    Article URL: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/stolen-renoir-paintings-found-behind-wall-france/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50074322 Points: 113 # Comments: 69

  20. Cyberattack halts construction of tunnel between Denmark and Germany
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    Article URL: https://ua.news/en/world/kiberataka-zupinila-budivnitstvo-tuneliu-mizh-daniieiu-ta-nimechchinoiu-rmf24 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50074289 Points: 122 # Comments: 100

  21. Gemini 4 Argon
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    See also: Gemini 4 Argon for Robotics - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50074869 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50073879 Points: 1416 # Comments: 1014

  22. Running RAG with a (small) language model in the browser
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  23. Redesigning source control at Anthropic
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    Article URL: https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/redesigning-source-control Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50073633 Points: 804 # Comments: 854

  24. I posted to HN, and then my website was flooded with AI bot traffic
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    Article URL: https://www.sammystraus.com/#i-posted-to-hn-and-then-my-website-was-flooded-with-ai-bot-traffic Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50073221 Points: 311 # Comments: 170

  25. The United Kingdom generates less electricity per person than in the 1970s
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    Article URL: https://ourworldindata.org/data-insights/electricity-generation-per-person-in-the-united-kingdom-has-fallen-by-a-third-from-its-early-2000s-peak Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50072994 Points: 386 #…

  26. Thunderbird for iOS
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    Article URL: https://blog.thunderbird.net/2026/10/thunderbird-for-ios-a-first-look-at-the-native-iphone-email-app-in-development/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50072913 Points: 440 # Comments: 187

  27. Two-Stack Sliding-Window Aggregation
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    Article URL: https://orlp.net/blog/two-stack-sliding-window-aggregation/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50072485 Points: 110 # Comments: 21

  28. A plea not to use uv-build
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  29. Apple's new 'Switch to Safari' campaign details why you should ditch Chrome
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    https://www.apple.com/safari/switch/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50072286 Points: 258 # Comments: 424

  30. How to engineer an AI harness for game development
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    Article URL: https://kylekukshtel.com/ai-harness-engineering-game-development-claude-code Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50072120 Points: 105 # Comments: 45

  31. '500-hour' Order of the Sinking Star is as complex and exhausting as it sounds
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    Article URL: https://www.polygon.com/order-of-the-sinking-star-impressions/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50072119 Points: 163 # Comments: 113

  32. Can Ease of Creation Lead to Decrease in Quality ＆ Value?
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  33. Did Ente Locker copy my code without attribution?
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  34. Easylang: A Simple, Browser-Based Programming Language in the Spirit of the Old Home Computer BASIC
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  35. Your C is not standard C
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    Article URL: https://sebsite.pw/w/20261012-notstdc.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50071546 Points: 110 # Comments: 77

  36. New Apple TV 4K
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    Article URL: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/10/apple-unveils-the-new-apple-tv-4k/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50071310 Points: 314 # Comments: 579

  37. Apple HomeView
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    Article URL: https://www.apple.com/apple-homeview/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50071017 Points: 732 # Comments: 858

  38. It took me nine years to hack my Xbox 360
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    Article URL: https://kennedn.com/blog/posts/glitching/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50070661 Points: 151 # Comments: 42

  39. Wanted to download an ISO, ended up writing a kernel exploit
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    Author here. Does anyone know what to do with the rest of the drivers? I found at least 13 in-tree drivers with the same bug class. The nasty part is they work fine on x86 and silently corrupt data on arm and other non-coherent archs, and…

  40. A Dynamic and Distributed Virtual GPU Cloud Built on Idle Apple Silicon Devices
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    Article URL: https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/distributed-gpu-cloud Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50070593 Points: 209 # Comments: 90

  41. Mozilla Introduces Firefox Enterprise
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    Article URL: https://www.firefox.com/en-US/enterprise/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50070302 Points: 571 # Comments: 237

  42. The reverts will continue until morale improves
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  43. An hour of audio transcribed in about 13s on MacBook Air
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    Article URL: https://eg2.haku.sh/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50069971 Points: 371 # Comments: 82

  44. Character.ai Files for Bankruptcy
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    Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/1009802/character-ai-files-for-bankruptcy-disney Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50069942 Points: 136 # Comments: 97

  45. Lotus Improv on the NeXT
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  46. Nixpkgs for the frontend impaired
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  47. 11 year old unsoundness bugs found in Rust borrow checker
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    Article URL: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/164250 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50069499 Points: 723 # Comments: 406

  48. Show HN: Use your OpenAI subscription to create audiobooks
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    Article URL: https://pdftomp3.com/connect-ai/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50069337 Points: 143 # Comments: 74

  49. CFTC Staff Were Told to Retract Analysis of Suspicious Oil Trades
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    Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-10-13/cftc-staff-told-to-retract-analysis-of-suspicious-oil-trades-on-iran Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50069329 Points: 384 # Comments: 188

  50. Faster Fourier Transforms
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  51. What Happened to the Desktop Metaphor?
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  52. Chasing a -O2 pessimization in antcc
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  53. Where is all the new, good software?
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  54. Creusot 0.14.0 release - Contracts for Rust, formally proved
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  55. Keep calm and call clone with Rust
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    Ryan sits down with Josh Triplett, member of the Rust Leadership Team at the Rust Project, to chat about how the borrow checker delivers compile-time memory safety without garbage collection overhead, why Rust consistently ranks as…

  56. Character.ai files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy
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    https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/1009802/... https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/13/just-5-years-in-interactiv... https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/characterai-files-b…

  57. Freeze the Controller, Defrost the Food: Uncovering Vulnerabilities in Danfoss Refrigeration Controllers
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  58. 500+ Billion Tokens Later: Letting AI Agents Decompile A First-Person Shooter
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  59. A slightly faster slimmer curl
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  60. Hittite royal archive found in Turkey
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    Article URL: https://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/77107 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50067414 Points: 362 # Comments: 87

  61. DataCube: A Relational Aggregation Operator Generalizing Group-By, Cross-Tab, and Sub-Totals (1997)
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    Abstract: Data analysis applications typically aggregate data across many dimensions looking for anomalies or unusual patterns. The SQL aggregate functions and the GROUP BY operator produce zero-dimensional or one-dimensional aggregates…

  62. Who is vfmaddrnd231pd??
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  63. A look at OpenAI’s math that’s claimed computes faster Fourier transforms
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    Article URL: https://www.argmin.net/p/faster-fourier-transforms Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50065932 Points: 190 # Comments: 123

  64. Leaving Tech
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    Article URL: https://ryanbigg.com/2026/10/leaving-tech Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50065892 Points: 107 # Comments: 80

  65. Woman who rescued injured crow keeps getting 'thank-you gifts' from birds [video]
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    Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjNpfz4UzqU Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50065859 Points: 778 # Comments: 234

  66. China Overtakes U.S. For First Time as Top Spender on R＆D in 2024
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    Article URL: https://japannews.yomiuri.co.jp/science-nature/science/20260908-347742/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50065805 Points: 110 # Comments: 96

  67. AI Models Can Provably Hide Arbitrary Capabilities
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    Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.13928 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50065692 Points: 222 # Comments: 112

  68. Vi Hart's Big Navier-Stokes Post
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  69. Show HN: SolidCraft – Open-Source Parametric CAD in Rust (With MCP Support)
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    Article URL: https://github.com/bherbruck/solidcraft Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50064840 Points: 107 # Comments: 22