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Software Engineering news — Sunday 25 October 2026

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

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  1. Attention Is Not What You Need (2025)
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    Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.19428 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50237224 Points: 174 # Comments: 61

  2. F-Zero X on Nintendo 3DS
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    Article URL: https://hypnotize.works/gdx-3ds/postmortem/index.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50237078 Points: 142 # Comments: 77

  3. Simple NetBSD webserver
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  4. SIMD-accelerated computer vision on a $2 microcontroller
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    Article URL: https://shraiwi.com/blog/simd-fast-esp32s3/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50236681 Points: 146 # Comments: 47

  5. Two musings on the design of compiler warnings (2020)
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  6. Reverse-Engineering Instruction Encodings (2001)
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  7. Building Java ME Apps with Modern Tooling
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  8. OpenAI and Anthropic cut their LLM prices by up to 80% within a few months. Why?
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    Article URL: https://minimaxir.com/2026/10/cheap-llms/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50236102 Points: 320 # Comments: 313

  9. Serbia's Vucic concedes election defeat in historic win for student movement
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    Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/serbia-votes-students-seek-unseat-vucic-snap-election-2026-10-25/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50236081 Points: 222 # Comments: 120

  10. The State of Context Engineering
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    Article URL: https://www.dbreunig.com/2026/10/24/the-state-of-context-engineering.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50235780 Points: 217 # Comments: 55

  11. What goes into making an animated film?
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    Article URL: https://www.disneyanimation.com/process/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50235738 Points: 146 # Comments: 63

  12. The Goose Programming Language
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  13. Moderna and Merck say their mRNA cancer vaccine cut death, recurrence by 42%
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    Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/10/personalized-mrna-cancer-vaccine-cut-melanoma-death-recurrence-by-42/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50235217 Points: 147 # Comments: 27

  14. Why I Am a Programmer
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    Article URL: https://www.alfie.wtf/programming/why-i-am-a-programmer.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50235017 Points: 295 # Comments: 90

  15. Where the Romans Fought (interactive map)
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    Article URL: https://iosiflazaridis.github.io/battles-of-the-romans/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50234879 Points: 101 # Comments: 38

  16. Dolly Parton's Imagination Library
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    With today's news, I thought I'd share this great program: “When I was growing up in the hills of East Tennessee, I knew my dreams would come true. I know there are children in your community with their own dreams. They dream of becoming a…

  17. Oregon Police Are Charging a Local News Outlet $2.5M for Records About One Cop
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    Article URL: https://theintercept.com/2026/10/01/oregon-police-misconduct-public-records-cost-fee/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50234232 Points: 375 # Comments: 93

  18. I refuse to accept a censored Internet. Join Me at FOSDEM 27
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    Article URL: https://talkweb.eu/openweb/4558/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50233929 Points: 476 # Comments: 231

  19. A 10-year-old CNN outperforms frontier LLMs for skin cancer diagnosis
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    Article URL: https://lynchlab.net/llm-skin-cancer Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50233779 Points: 566 # Comments: 241

  20. Every Clojure Talk Ever
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  21. AI use leads UC Berkeley math professor to see 'no point' in grading homework
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    Article URL: https://www.dailycal.org/news/campus/academics/ai-use-leads-uc-berkeley-math-professor-to-see-no-point-in-grading-homework/article_bdf1eae2-c08b-491f-b9f1-81a7cea177de.html Comments URL…

  22. JetBrains Thinkrail
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    Article URL: https://github.com/JetBrains/thinkrail Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50233294 Points: 179 # Comments: 126

  23. When a glibc update accidentally breaks Chromium's audio (2021)
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  24. POSIX wordexp(3) is dangerous
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  25. Vim Classic
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  26. Show HN: I put employees inside S＆P 500 market-cap bubbles
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    I was playing around with visualising the S&P 500 by market cap and decided to add employees to each company's bubble. What surprised me was how empty some of the biggest companies looked. Nvidia is worth $5.2 trillion but employs only…

  27. A vision for a next-generation timeline
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    Slides: https://cfp.2026.matrix.org/media/matrix-conference-2026/submissions/WRGTRX/resources/sli_ZZVyXQu.pdf Comments

  28. SIMD-accelerated computer vision on a $2 microcontroller
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  29. Partial Order Precedence
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  30. The Slurptop: A home-built luggable that runs on power tool batteries
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  31. Active incident at Dreamhost forcing password reset
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    Article URL: https://www.dreamhoststatus.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50231166 Points: 154 # Comments: 60

  32. Tool book of a Nuremberg knight from 1505
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    Article URL: https://loeffelholz-codex.org/en/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50230917 Points: 134 # Comments: 69

  33. The Tool Book of a Nuremberg Knight from 1505
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  34. fheroes2: A recreation of Heroes of Might and Magic II game engine
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    Article URL: https://github.com/ihhub/fheroes2 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50230384 Points: 184 # Comments: 64

  35. Samsung running a TensorFlow lite model on 960x540 image to track you
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    Article URL: https://twitter.com/mike64_t/status/2114150399406202896 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50230181 Points: 276 # Comments: 179

  36. Nikon photography contest winner loses title after scientists spot signs of AI
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    Article URL: https://www.techspot.com/news/114171-nikon-photography-contest-winner-loses-title-after-scientists.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50229827 Points: 112 # Comments: 45

  37. Meta Ignores Brazilian Court Order to End Bolsonaro Favoritism
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    Article URL: https://www.panamericandispatch.org/p/meta-ignores-brazilian-court-order Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50229587 Points: 170 # Comments: 109

  38. Decompiling Fast Food Tycoon 2
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  39. Michal Wallace on Narrative Programming: Why Learn J when LLMs Code?
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  40. Nim vs Rust: Language is a Matter of 'Coherence', Not 'Performance'
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  41. Five Qwen3.8-27B models match Fable 5 Using GVS5H Harness
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    Article URL: https://github.com/slee-persis/GVS5H Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50228167 Points: 102 # Comments: 30

  42. Show HN: A Truly Modular Keyboard
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    Article URL: https://github.com/notaroomba/keybytes Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50228115 Points: 258 # Comments: 90

  43. Meta employees say Lula’s accounts restricted in Brazil election: Report
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    Article URL: https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2026/10/16/meta-employees-say-lulas-accounts-restricted-in-brazil-election-report Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50227639 Points: 110 # Comments: 36

  44. Cerebras Deploys Trillion-Parameter AI Models
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    Article URL: https://www.cerebras.ai/blog/how-we-deploy-trillion-parameter-frontier-models-on-cerebras Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50227356 Points: 344 # Comments: 127

  45. MacOS Extensions pack for the Apple Network Server v1.0
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