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Software Engineering news — Saturday 17 October 2026

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

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  1. There's never been a better time to go into math (by: 3blue1brown) [video]
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    Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKrwhjOI8Nc Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50136150 Points: 518 # Comments: 725

  2. RuneScape Bench: MMOs for Agents [video]
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    Related: https://github.com/LostCityRS/Server Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50136126 Points: 218 # Comments: 72

  3. I built a programming language that LLMs can't use
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    Article URL: https://blog.picheta.me/post/killswitch-lang/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50135762 Points: 221 # Comments: 171

  4. Chrome and Edge are removing XSLT: what breaks and what does not
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    Article URL: https://doctor-seo.net/en/blog/news/chrome-edge-removing-xslt/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50134617 Points: 101 # Comments: 110

  5. It's still OK to enjoy programming
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    Article URL: https://chriskiehl.com/article/it-is-still-ok-to-enjoy-programming Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50134472 Points: 661 # Comments: 575

  6. The fire retardant in the seafood chain
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    Article URL: https://insideclimatenews.org/news/14102026/ethoxyquin-fire-retardant-in-seafood-chain/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50134359 Points: 127 # Comments: 41

  7. AI-First, Git-Compatible Source Control
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  8. Abolish AI! Manifesto
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  9. PwnEscape: Guest-to-Host KVM Escape (CVE-2026-99999)
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  10. OpenCode Hacked: User credentials leaked
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    Article URL: https://twitter.com/opencode/status/2111516673953935833 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50133401 Points: 778 # Comments: 140

  11. Codex Desktop continuously generates Crashpad pending dumps
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    Article URL: https://github.com/openai/codex/issues/25921 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50133231 Points: 129 # Comments: 47

  12. I Became a Citizen of Japan
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    Article URL: https://www.derekwessman.com/blog-1/natural Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50133150 Points: 180 # Comments: 80

  13. Principles of Anchor Engineering
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  14. Gold is now the top U.S. export
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    Article URL: https://www.numismaticnews.net/gold-now-top-u-s-export Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50132870 Points: 327 # Comments: 179

  15. It took me nine years to hack my Xbox 360
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  16. GLP-1 may slow biological aging
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    Article URL: https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/new-study-shows-popular-glp-1-weight-loss-drug-may-slow-biological-aging Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50132328 Points: 106 # Comments: 82

  17. Making a 88x31 button book using ImageMagick
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    Article URL: https://k.sosnierz.me/08-11-24/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50132198 Points: 139 # Comments: 24

  18. Pele – Mermaid diagrams as themeable SVG
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    Article URL: https://pele.run/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50132193 Points: 536 # Comments: 50

  19. Future of Programming
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  20. Ship Your Interpreter
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  21. Rabbits were a medieval royal luxury in England until the Black Death
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    Article URL: https://phys.org/news/2026-10-rabbits-medieval-royal-luxury-england.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50131315 Points: 122 # Comments: 117

  22. Solar surpasses nuclear power globally for first time – pv magazine Global
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    Article URL: https://www.pv-magazine.com/2026/09/29/solar-surpasses-nuclear-power-globally-for-first-time/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50131256 Points: 600 # Comments: 375

  23. Making Chicken Transparent Using Dorito Dust
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    Article URL: https://chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com/p/making-chicken-transparent-using Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50131213 Points: 334 # Comments: 84

  24. Show HN: Esp32sim – Run ESP32 firmware in the browser
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    Hi HN, I’ve been working on esp32sim, an open-source ESP32 emulator that runs in the browser. The fun part of the demo is that there is no ESP32 involved — the firmware is executing in the emulator. The goal is to make ESP32 software…

  25. Show HN: High-quality duck audio synthesizer
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    Article URL: https://celphase.github.io/duck-pond/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50131006 Points: 132 # Comments: 29

  26. Intuitive concurrent programming in any language | Lingua Franca
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  27. MapQuest will now show you where Flock cameras are in your neighborhood
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    Article URL: https://www.engadget.com/2288729/mapquest-will-now-show-you-where-flock-cameras-are-in-your-neighborhood/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50129947 Points: 168 # Comments: 23

  28. DeepSeek: DeepSeek v4.1 Flash 1017
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    Article URL: https://openrouter.ai/deepseek/deepseek-v4.1-flash-1017 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50129121 Points: 489 # Comments: 250

  29. DeepSeek-v4.1-Flash-1017
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    https://api-docs.deepseek.com/news/news261017/ https://openrouter.ai/deepseek/deepseek-v4.1-flash-1017 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50129045 Points: 913 # Comments: 680

  30. Developing for Debugging (2025)
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  31. Claude reveals ECDSA curve origins
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  32. Some quick thoughts on Unit Testing ActivityPub
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  33. STAC-M3 Benchmark: L tick database 1.0 on Oxide OxVM w/ 128 vCPUs ＆ 1.25 TiB of RAM
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  34. Show HN: Llmspeed – feel how fast a local LLM runs before you buy the hardware
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    Article URL: https://llmspeed.dev/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50127979 Points: 289 # Comments: 81

  35. orib: Bringing back the old Reddit interface, with a few new enhancements
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  36. Source code of the Estonian online voting system
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    Article URL: https://github.com/valimised/ivxv Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50127586 Points: 181 # Comments: 150

  37. A skeptic's first contact with Kubernetes (2024)
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    Article URL: https://blog.davidv.dev/posts/first-contact-with-k8s/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50127572 Points: 100 # Comments: 55

  38. Butlerian Jihad
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    Article URL: https://dune.fandom.com/wiki/Butlerian_Jihad Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50127274 Points: 237 # Comments: 129

  39. Interactive refactoring in gopls
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