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Software Engineering news — Saturday 24 October 2026

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

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  1. Scrawl: show an agent the problem
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  2. Why Gopher in 2026?
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    Article URL: https://gopher.muffinlabs.com/sdf.org/users/nervtoji/phlog/001.txt Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50226577 Points: 106 # Comments: 57

  3. America Has Lost 200k of Jobs in Media, Film and the Arts. How Much Is AI?
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    Article URL: https://www.apricitas.io/p/ai-and-the-fall-of-the-creative-class Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50226419 Points: 460 # Comments: 480

  4. SIMD and Go
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  5. We should be more ambitious with the software we build
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  6. An animated explainer of the PHP2Shell vulnerability
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    Hi all! 3 days since the Internet almost melted down, I've wanted to know how you can pwn any PHP server with a single request, and the explanations have been mostly "something about out-of-memory." I found the official write-up to be…

  7. We should be more ambitious with the software we build
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    Article URL: https://danluu.com/ambitious/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50225695 Points: 869 # Comments: 755

  8. Small Programs and Languages
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    Article URL: https://ratfactor.com/cards/pl-small Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50225674 Points: 172 # Comments: 27

  9. The Importance of Limitations for Creativity and Learning (2023)
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    Article URL: https://ratfactor.com/cards/limitations Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50225663 Points: 110 # Comments: 34

  10. Steal My Bitcoin
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    Made this because I'm curious if anyone out there has figured out how to actually use this PHP RCE we spent the last few days panicking over. Have fun! Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50224916 Points: 501 # Comments: 307

  11. No Signs of AI Payoff Outside the Tech Sector
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    Article URL: https://www.apollo.com/wealth/insights-news/insights/daily-spark/no-signs-of-ai-payoff-outside-the-tech-sector Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50224463 Points: 482 # Comments: 478

  12. Listen and read USA nuclear forces Emergency Action Messages, heard on 11175 kHz
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    Article URL: https://missileer.watch Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50224422 Points: 153 # Comments: 105

  13. The Goose Programming Language
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    Article URL: https://aardappel.github.io/goose/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50224300 Points: 142 # Comments: 49

  14. SpeedCrunch 1.1
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    Article URL: https://www.speedcrunch.org/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50224210 Points: 215 # Comments: 47

  15. John Carmack on the Goose Language: multiple data stacks and relative references
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    https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/2113704269274636568 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50224100 Points: 554 # Comments: 345

  16. Danish Government silently drops plan to dump MS Office
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    Article URL: https://www.computerworld.dk/art/297226/digitaliseringsministeriet-har-i-al-stilhed-droppet-stort-anlagt-forsoeg-med-open-source-alternativ-til-microsoft Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50223844 Points: 158…

  17. Dream-1
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    Article URL: https://dreamlabs.ai/research/dream-1/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50223785 Points: 122 # Comments: 59

  18. Bbtree: Fastest Ordered Map
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    Article URL: https://bbtree.xiangpeng.systems/post/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50223777 Points: 118 # Comments: 14

  19. Why is AI generated language so hard to understand?
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    Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.29162 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50223647 Points: 120 # Comments: 112

  20. Balloting has completed for C++26. Unfortunately it was Disapproved/
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    tl;dr: it looks like C++ 26 got turned down by the national bodies (afaik unprecedented) Comments

  21. The Polyglot's Dilemma: Conformance Testing a Dozen Specs in as Many Languages
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  22. 2026 Ruby on Rails Community Survey Results
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  23. The St. Helena 5 pence coin shows Jonathan, a roughly 190 year old tortoise
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    Article URL: https://de.numista.com/9866 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50222927 Points: 130 # Comments: 44

  24. enzyme: Local-first compile step for knowledge bases. Save 350x cost, 1000x speed vs. frontier models
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  25. Roku developer repositories moved from GitHub to GitLab
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    Article URL: https://blog.roku.com/developer/gitlab-move Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50222622 Points: 288 # Comments: 202

  26. Neural chip decodes interactions between brain regions
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    Article URL: https://actu.epfl.ch/news/neural-chip-decodes-interactions-between-brain-r-2/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50222525 Points: 130 # Comments: 46

  27. Bringing uv and ty together
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  28. FreeDNS
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    Article URL: https://freedns.afraid.org/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50222133 Points: 337 # Comments: 88

  29. Google illegally cut down 250K trees in Finland for data center
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    Article URL: https://nypost.com/2026/10/24/business/google-illegally-tore-down-250k-trees-for-finland-data-center-infuriating-locals-report/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50221676 Points: 153 # Comments: 67

  30. How to run a city builder on 16 MHz
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  31. Enabling Researchers is a Moral Imperative
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  32. Elon Musk Just Gave Europe a Reason to Replace American Technology
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    Article URL: https://steveblank.com/2026/10/24/europe-gets-a-wake-up-call/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50220913 Points: 219 # Comments: 205

  33. What's wrong with AI?
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  34. This week's "node2shell" Brotli vulnerability (CVE-2026-111497) is exploitable in Python, other consumers of Brotli
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  35. Be Aware of What's in Your Logs
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  36. Wild version 0.11.0 released
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  37. I want my Wednesday back
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  38. Listening to Nina Simone in 2036
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    Last night I thought about this world and quickly wrote a short story. Made me feel quite eerie as I was writing. Maybe it will turn into a nice video game. Comments

  39. GPU-unlock: FP/BF16 instruction issue rate on Nvidia 3000's cards
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    Article URL: https://github.com/Zagitta/gpu-unlock Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50219700 Points: 324 # Comments: 74

  40. I Don't Understand Quantum Physics (2018)
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    Article URL: https://www.southampton.ac.uk/~doug/quantum_physics/index.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50219666 Points: 363 # Comments: 291

  41. Emacs finally folds to my liking
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  42. Node2Shell evolves to HTTP2Shell, blast radius affects many HTTP libs and apps
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    https://www.aikido.dev/blog/python-packages-vulnerable-node2... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50219177 Points: 369 # Comments: 189

  43. Big Runtimes Make Efficient Programs
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  44. Twelve years of distributed SQLite
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  45. Hacker reverses Samsung TV, finds on-board AI listening OpenAI account suspended
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    Merged threads: "Samsung running a TensorFlow lite model on 960x540 image to track you": https://twitter.com/mike64_t/status/2114150399406202896 "Samsung TVs look for microphones in your house via Bluetooth and then spy events"…

  46. OBS Studio 33
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    Article URL: https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/releases/tag/33.0.0 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50218430 Points: 430 # Comments: 153

  47. Indian government sites are serving revoked eMudhra certificates
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  48. How close can pure functional programming get to C?
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    Article URL: https://rtfeldman.com/fp-vs-c Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50218195 Points: 256 # Comments: 88

  49. Apple Security Research Device
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    Article URL: https://security.apple.com/research-device/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50217903 Points: 148 # Comments: 85

  50. An Incremental Approach to JIT Construction
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  51. Twelve years of distributed SQLite
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    Article URL: https://philipotoole.com/twelve-years-of-distributed-sqlite/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50217500 Points: 363 # Comments: 62

  52. Around a dozen banking apps began specifically permitting GrapheneOS
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    Article URL: https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/117492375462459244 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50217495 Points: 575 # Comments: 218