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Software Engineering news — Wednesday 14 October 2026

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  1. LFM2.5-24B-A2B: Built for fast on-device agents
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    Article URL: https://www.liquid.ai/blog/lfm2-5-24b-a2b Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50097369 Points: 266 # Comments: 70

  2. ito - build terminal ui in lua
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  3. Tiny Little Office
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    Article URL: https://tinylittleoffice.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50096142 Points: 635 # Comments: 177

  4. SIGSALY: Churchill's top secret hotline to the president
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    Article URL: https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/iwm/cwr/telephone Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50096110 Points: 121 # Comments: 43

  5. We’re releasing Jev 1.14.0 along with experimental features for dreamers
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    Article URL: https://typesafe.ai/blog/jev-1-14 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50095353 Points: 248 # Comments: 84

  6. Fixing C Strings With String Views
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  7. Anthropic's Scion is heavily inspired by Mononoke · sunshowers
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  8. OpenCode 2.0
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    Article URL: https://anoma.ly/notes/opencode-2-0/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50094994 Points: 813 # Comments: 350

  9. Anthropic's Scion is heavily inspired by Mononoke
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    Article URL: https://sunshowers.io/posts/anthropic-mononoke/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50094694 Points: 333 # Comments: 123

  10. Yandex outage: data shows that instead of going dark, malicious bots moved
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    Article URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/yandex-outage/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50094673 Points: 235 # Comments: 76

  11. We found a Chinese fleet
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  12. Fancy Curl Sites
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    Article URL: https://nytpu.com/gemlog/2026-03-18 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50093612 Points: 109 # Comments: 20

  13. Things to know if you get cancer in 2026
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    Article URL: https://jjmaxwell4.com/writing/things-to-know-when-you-get-cancer/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50093568 Points: 1784 # Comments: 424

  14. Suicide rates highest ever among middle-aged men
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    Article URL: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/10/13/suicide-rates-highest-ever-among-middle-aged-men/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50093180 Points: 329 # Comments: 420

  15. I electrified my push scooter with a power drill
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    Article URL: https://eddieabbondanz.io/post/shop/drill-powered-scooter/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50093020 Points: 159 # Comments: 55

  16. The DelightQL Query Language
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    Hey all, I would like to present a programming language I have been developing for many years called delightql. This is an alpha release so there will be rough edges, but I have used it at home and work and have liked it enough to now…

  17. Fire at Starlink site in Bulgaria after suspected sabotage in Poland
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    Article URL: https://dpa-international.com/politics/urn:newsml:dpa.com:20090101:261014-930-839530/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50092730 Points: 330 # Comments: 214

  18. Banks are now trying to offload the AI data center debt they just underwrote
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    Article URL: https://startupfortune.com/banks-are-now-trying-to-offload-the-ai-data-center-debt-they-just-underwrote/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50092664 Points: 329 # Comments: 234

  19. Show HN: Petal, open-source CoScreen/ScreenHero finally free
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    Hi HN! I’m Jason Thomas, one of the founders of CoScreen. As some of you may know, Datadog sunset the CoScreen service on July 31st. Four of us from the original CoScreen team have spent the last couple months building a free and open…

  20. Virtual Oxide Labs: Emulating a Full Oxide Rack
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    Article URL: https://oxide.computer/blog/voxel-labs Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50092423 Points: 104 # Comments: 9

  21. America didn't lose its rare earth industry, it sold it
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    Article URL: https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/america-didn-t-lose-its-rare-earth-industry.-it-sold-it Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50091875 Points: 150 # Comments: 73

  22. AI agents aren't 'going rogue.' Frontier labs are skipping security basics
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    Article URL: https://www.csoonline.com/article/4234854/ai-agents-arent-going-rogue-frontier-labs-are-skipping-security-basics.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50091788 Points: 860 # Comments: 498

  23. Better HTTP/1 connection reuse
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  24. Root DNSSEC trust anchors
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  25. Your next job doesn’t have a title yet: Emerging role skills Q＆A with Corey Hymel of Andela
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    While the whispers say that everyone is becoming a generalist, that's not where headcount is going.

  26. Tesla's Robotaxis Blow Through School Zones, NHTSA Petition Alleges
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    Article URL: https://www.extremetech.com/cars/teslas-robotaxis-blow-through-school-zones-nhtsa-petition-alleges Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50090662 Points: 105 # Comments: 71

  27. How the L0pht (probably) optimized attack against the LanMan hash
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  28. Why do LLM pelicans look like this?
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    Article URL: https://arcfu.com/post/the-emperor-pelican-has-no-clothes/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50090443 Points: 113 # Comments: 90

  29. Better HTTP/1 connection reuse in Go 1.27
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    Article URL: https://go.dev/blog/http-connection-reuse Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50090369 Points: 278 # Comments: 45

  30. Google is silently linking your phone number across all signed-in accounts
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    Article URL: https://www.androidauthority.com/google-auto-phone-number-verification-android-3723117/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50090349 Points: 424 # Comments: 109

  31. ICE Planning $100M 'Nightmare' Domestic Spy Program
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    Article URL: https://prospect.org/2026/10/14/ice-planning-nightmare-domestic-spy-program-ero-one/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50090246 Points: 423 # Comments: 219

  32. Amsterdam police confiscates server left-wing ISP A/I at American request
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    Article URL: https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/10/14/politie-amsterdam-neemt-op-amerikaans-verzoek-server-in-beslag-van-italiaanse-internetdienstverlener-a-i-a4938960 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50090084 Points: 125 #…

  33. Package managers have an integrity problem
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  34. Americans' social activity has steeply declined in the past 30 years
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    Article URL: https://www.dataforprogress.org/blog/2026/9/29/americans-social-activity-has-steeply-declined-in-the-past-30-years Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50089921 Points: 543 # Comments: 519

  35. GitLab warns of max severity code execution vulnerability
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  36. What I Self-Host | Aspirational Self Hosting Guide
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  37. Submarine cable resilience
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    Article URL: https://blog.apnic.net/2026/10/14/submarine-cable-resilience/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50089229 Points: 143 # Comments: 54

  38. Passkeys Are Not a Trap
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    Article URL: https://scotthelme.co.uk/passkeys-are-not-a-trap/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50088935 Points: 550 # Comments: 715

  39. Awesome Gaming on Linux Without Cheating
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  40. BotStopper from Techaro
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  41. ASML's strong orders ease fears AI spending boom is running out of steam
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    Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/business/asml-forecasts-q4-sales-above-expectations-ai-chip-demand-2026-10-14/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50088430 Points: 137 # Comments: 126

  42. ZXC: Lossless compression built for ultra-fast decode
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  43. Building a Linearizable Log on READ COMMITTED Isolation
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  44. Factor 0.102 now available
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  45. Switzerland proposes banning profiling-based ads to minors
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    Article URL: https://www.admin.ch/en/newnsb/NMn5s24l8NjQ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50087328 Points: 187 # Comments: 115

  46. Pg_vectorsearch: An index that is faster than pgvector's IVFFlat and HNSW
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    Article URL: https://github.com/timescale/pg_vectorsearch Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50086165 Points: 188 # Comments: 48

  47. Lockstep to pipeline in almost one line
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  48. Plasma 6.8 released (KDE's 30th birthday)
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  49. OpenFatigue™ — Open is the new closed
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  50. yet another place where a linux man page is inaccurate
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  51. Introducing Firefox Enterprise
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  52. AI-assisted PCB design for KiCad 10
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    Article URL: https://github.com/mixelpixx/Konnect Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50085553 Points: 110 # Comments: 40

  53. My Game's Procedural Dialogue System
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  54. TV4 postpones show after AI agent erases edited material
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    Article URL: https://swedenherald.com/article/tv4-postpones-the-challenge-until-2027-after-technical-failure-erases-edited-footage Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50085323 Points: 132 # Comments: 74

  55. Pulsar at ESUG 2026 (new Smalltalk IDE)
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  56. A UAF turned RCE
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  57. The Economic Complexity of the Western Roman Empire
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    Article URL: https://www.michelecoscia.com/?p=2613 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50084790 Points: 131 # Comments: 27

  58. Amazon pushes up prices across the Internet
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    Article URL: https://www.not-ship.com/how-amazon-pushes-up-prices-all-across-the-internet/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50084757 Points: 897 # Comments: 684

  59. Why I Wrote PGP (1991, revised 1999)
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    Article URL: https://philzimmermann.com/EN/essays/WhyIWrotePGP.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50084674 Points: 167 # Comments: 60

  60. Linux Lockdown and Hibernation (again)
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  61. AIR-LLM: Broadcasting AI Weights over Radio for Memory-Free Edge LLM Inference via RF Computing
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  62. Iosevka is an open-source, sans-serif and slab-serif, monospace font
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    Article URL: https://typeof.net/Iosevka/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50084240 Points: 691 # Comments: 286

  63. Ledger confirms spy chip implant behind wallet crypto thefts
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    Video showing an implanted device: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nf4FEFlgv3Q Comments

  64. Fancy Curl Sites
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  65. AOSP Source Releases Are So Late Developers Disassemble Libraries to Report Bugs
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    Article URL: https://github.com/android/ndk/issues/2260 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50083130 Points: 423 # Comments: 204

  66. Why is every rationalist blog post way too long?
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    Article URL: https://alexwennerberg.com/blog/2026-10-13-long.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50083028 Points: 288 # Comments: 205

  67. Compiler bootstrapping depends on more than you might think
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  68. Conquering Recursion
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  69. Felix Rieseberg Homepage
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    Article URL: https://felixrieseberg.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50082470 Points: 252 # Comments: 95

  70. Apple: Switch to Safari (from Chrome)
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  71. Bru: Send and read SMS from the browser
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