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Software Engineering news — Sunday 18 October 2026

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  1. Superoptimizing an FPU emulator
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  2. William Gibson and the trademarking of cyberspace
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    Article URL: https://colo.to/cyberspace.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50146625 Points: 254 # Comments: 114

  3. How Quickly Can the DoD Rebuild and Recast the Munitions Industrial Base?
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    Article URL: https://www.csis.org/analysis/how-quickly-can-dod-rebuild-and-recast-munitions-industrial-base Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50146624 Points: 119 # Comments: 183

  4. August in Servo: CSS Grid, text selection, and more
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  5. Show HN: WhatsApp MCP running free on Cloudflare
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    I wanted my humble Claude on mobile to access my WhatsApp messages but the only options I could find either required WhatsApp Business or an actual server to run Baileys on. I wanted to run it for free on ClaudeFlare and with my personal…

  6. If you don't run your own LLM proxy, how do you know whats going on?
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    Article URL: https://jrdsgl.com/if-you-dont-run-your-own-llm-proxy-how-the-fuck-do-you-even-know-whats-going-on/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50145507 Points: 261 # Comments: 179

  7. How Discover-Tech turned targeted ads into a pipeline for zero-click spywares
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  8. Hybrid Reasoning Agents: LLM agents that think in latent space, act through text
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    https://x.com/Jiaru_Zou/status/2110400256647340476 https://github.com/togethercomputer/HybridAgent https://huggingface.co/collections/togethercomputer/hybridag... Evaluations: https://arxiv.org/html/2610.18861v1#S5 Comments URL…

  9. Real-time Software On Linux: How Hard Can It Be?
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    Presentation by Jeff Pele at Software You Can Love Vancouver 2026 Comments

  10. QML for C ＆ Zig
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  11. Outside the Scope of Our Support
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  12. Free Pascal compiler now supports dynamic packages
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    Article URL: https://www.getlazarus.org/dynamic/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50144066 Points: 188 # Comments: 44

  13. Florida's HOAs and condo associations are making the housing crisis worse
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    Article URL: https://hoaspy.com/hoa/fl/florida-hoa-housing-crisis.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50144005 Points: 148 # Comments: 245

  14. Men in tech #YesAllMen
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  15. Inside the Intel 8087 chip: floating-point addition and subtraction
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  16. PalmOS Lemmings
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    Article URL: https://github.com/ardiri/palmos-lemmings Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50143536 Points: 137 # Comments: 33

  17. Ghidra + CBMC = Assembly Model Checker
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  18. Namecheap just seized and disabled all my domains
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    Article URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/1x8cycd/namecheap_just_seized_and_disabled_all_my_domains/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50142866 Points: 552 # Comments: 286

  19. My obituary for programming
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  20. Someone behind the software
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    Article URL: https://karrisaarinen.com/posts/someone-behind-the-software/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50142573 Points: 519 # Comments: 186

  21. The Intel 8087 chip: floating-point addition and subtraction
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    Article URL: https://www.righto.com/2026/10/8087-addition-subtraction-microcode.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50142449 Points: 102 # Comments: 33

  22. The Problem with C++ Safety: Why “It Works” Isn’t Good Enough
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  23. macOS 15.8.2 Breaks OpenGL
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    Article URL: https://developer.apple.com/forums/verify-human/verify.html?next=/forums/thread/850550 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50141909 Points: 257 # Comments: 290

  24. Will it be a golden age or a dark age for mathematics (and science)?
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    Article URL: https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/10/18/will-it-be-a-golden-age-or-a-dark-age-for-mathematics-and-science/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50141681 Points: 104 # Comments: 136

  25. Websites are closing their doors to AI agents
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    Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/1013195/ai-agents-blocked-web Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50141657 Points: 105 # Comments: 85

  26. Using timers to perform weekly tasks
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  27. Nordwand Mono – A monospace font for coders and adventurers
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    Article URL: https://github.com/tywr/Nordwand-Mono Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50141581 Points: 481 # Comments: 134

  28. Java sealed classes and exhaustive pattern matching
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    Article URL: https://neilmadden.blog/2026/04/24/java-sealed-classes-and-exhaustive-pattern-matching/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50141579 Points: 180 # Comments: 139

  29. High performance policy routed IPsec mesh SD-WAN
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  30. Anthropic's proposed AI safety bill only kicks in if 50 deaths or $1B in damages
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  31. A New Way to Think About Borrow Checking (In Reverse)
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  32. RepRapMicron
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    Article URL: https://github.com/VikOlliver/RepRapMicron/wiki Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50141076 Points: 433 # Comments: 68

  33. Show HN: The Zelda timeline to catch up before the Ocarina of Time remake
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    I made this ahead of the Ocarina of Time remake which comes out in 17 days. I remember the feeling of playing it as a kid but I hadn’t kept up with the story so I built a timeline to catch up before the Door of Time reopens. Nintendo’s own…

  34. ARP! Tell your network to explain itself
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  35. Weball: Play Katamari on Websites
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    Article URL: https://www.funwithcomputervision.com/weball/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50140584 Points: 276 # Comments: 22

  36. A new way to think about borrow checking (in reverse)
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    Article URL: https://verdagon.dev/blog/reverse-borrow-checking Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50140383 Points: 104 # Comments: 10

  37. Algorithmic Sound Design with L-Systems and Granular Synthesis
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  38. Restoration of Retinal Regenerative Potential (2025)
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    Article URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-58290-8 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50140111 Points: 107 # Comments: 4

  39. Open MicroManipulator – A sub-micrometer 3D motion control plattform
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    Article URL: https://github.com/0x23/MicroManipulatorStepper Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50140001 Points: 197 # Comments: 16

  40. It's enough - vibecoding tag crossed from useless to harmful
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    The vibecoding tag has been getting more and more useless for a while now. It lost the original meaning as the culture of software engineering with LLMs matured a bit. It got silly when posts talking about LLMs in general got tagged. It…

  41. Legal experts warn Meta's new terms still grant broad scraping permissions
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    Article URL: https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/legal-experts-warn-metas-new-terms-still-grant-broad-scraping-permissions-despite-language-changes/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50139692 Points: 206 # Comments: 58

  42. Parser Combinators
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    Article URL: https://t3.at/blog/2026-10-17-parser-combinators/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50139067 Points: 217 # Comments: 77

  43. Un-hanging the HP Envy 17-DA0013dx for OpenBSD
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  44. DeepSeek search and fetch – $0.75 per 1000 successful requests
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    Article URL: https://api-docs.deepseek.com/guides/search/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50138531 Points: 521 # Comments: 251

  45. Show HN: Sphinx – A hook that quizzes you on your AI's code before shipping
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    FOSS, Basically it plugs into your existing coding agent workflow and every time you push to prod it'll throw up a questionnaire that checks if you understand how the code you're pushing works. Comments URL…

  46. How the Elizabeth Holmes documentary “You Can See Everything” is deceiving
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    Article URL: https://www.readtheprofile.com/p/elizabeth-holmes-documentary-you-can-see-everything Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50137620 Points: 349 # Comments: 491

  47. Making Hybrid Images (2014)
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  48. The Brain Sandwich
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  49. It's time to talk about TEEs
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  50. Dogs seem to agree with humans that 'bouba' is round and 'kiki' is spiky
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    Article URL: https://www.sciencealert.com/dogs-seem-to-agree-with-humans-that-bouba-is-round-and-kiki-is-spiky Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50136979 Points: 313 # Comments: 183

  51. Zuckerberg's Meta Takes Down No Kings Instagram During Protest Day
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    Article URL: https://meidasnews.com/news/zuckerbergs-meta-takes-down-no-kings-instagram-during-massive-protest-day Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50136881 Points: 102 # Comments: 28

  52. NY announces game ownership bill requiring ownership rather than licensing
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