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Software Engineering news — Thursday 29 October 2026

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  1. XSS in yarr RSS reader
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  2. Show HN: I Turned DOOM into a Transformer
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    Instead of trying to run DOOM on things, I have instead decided to use DOOM (many, many, many doom games actually) to create a transformer. For a lot of the math required I essentially had to use DOOM game mechanics and voodoo dolls (DOOM…

  3. A Pig, the State, and War: Porco Rosso (Kurenai No Buta) (2014)
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    Article URL: https://journal.animationstudies.org/article/id/66/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50297089 Points: 131 # Comments: 32

  4. Building an AI-native engineering org
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    Article URL: https://twitter.com/sgondala2/status/2115832070274723875 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50296730 Points: 141 # Comments: 176

  5. We ran AI agent swarms in Minecraft and Mindustry
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    Article URL: https://labs.ycombinator.com/projects/games/index.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50296486 Points: 369 # Comments: 149

  6. Binance-hacker-1029 – $5.6B stolen from Binance
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    Article URL: https://arkm.com/explorer/entity/21a94755-f604-45e5-9501-6542e23005e8 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50296470 Points: 1672 # Comments: 1132

  7. London meetup
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    Hi everyone, I recently saw a post about an NYC lobsters meetup, and am wondering how many people here could make it to a London meetup. If more than a couple of people here are based in London and can make it, I'll organise one in central…

  8. C2PA's eMudhra Moment
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  9. A tiny world model running games on a Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W
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    Article URL: https://github.com/SheepSeb/tinyworldformer Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50295450 Points: 253 # Comments: 17

  10. Patrick Stewart has died
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    https://archive.ph/y4Egm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Stewart Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50294702 Points: 3113 # Comments: 663

  11. The reports of Stack Overflow's death are greatly exaggerated
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    I’ve seen the recent predictions about Stack Overflow’s demise. They make for compelling headlines, but they confuse a change in how people access knowledge with the disappearance of the knowledge—and the company—behind it.

  12. Show HN: Auto Dismiss Mac OS "Allow ＜app＞ to find devices on local networks?"
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    This popup has been a constant gripe of mine for years. I almost NEVER want to allow this permission and there is no system setting to disable it globally and prevent the popup from interrupting your typing, etc. This tiny swift app I…

  13. Cybersecurity Is About to Be the Biggest Problem in Tech
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  14. Alleged Chinese spy had 'close relationship' with Nvidia boss Jensen Huang
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    https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/29/us/politics/nvidia-china-... , https://archive.ph/K7bih Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50293047 Points: 268 # Comments: 181

  15. Tomáš Mikolov awarded the Medal of Merit by the President of the Czech Republic
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    Article URL: https://www.vut.cz/en/but/news-f19528/two-but-graduates-received-state-honors-from-the-president-of-the-republic-d378468 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50292233 Points: 138 # Comments: 14

  16. noalloc: Tooling and libraries to enforce zero heap allocations in Golang
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  17. For the first time ever, Google Search is less than 50% of Alphabet's revenue
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    Article URL: https://www.kadoa.com/companies/insights/google-search-below-half Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50291945 Points: 359 # Comments: 305

  18. My favourite PowerMac is a Nintendo Wii
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  19. An open format for writing agent-native software requirements
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  20. 16colo.rs – ANSI/ASCII art archive
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    Article URL: https://16colo.rs/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50291421 Points: 110 # Comments: 8

  21. Phorge
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  22. Coding Agents, Starter Kits and pgledger
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  23. H.264 Is Magic (2016)
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    Article URL: https://sidbala.com/h-264-is-magic/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50291054 Points: 494 # Comments: 162

  24. Grace Blackwell needs a new scheduler: 27% more usable GPUs from the same racks
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    Article URL: https://skypilot.ai/blog/grace-blackwell-needs-a-new-scheduler Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50290912 Points: 124 # Comments: 21

  25. The Web Can't Afford a JavaScript Runtime Monoculture
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  26. Mexico is a showroom for electric vehicles you can't buy in the U.S.
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    https://archive.ph/sGqBh Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50290668 Points: 260 # Comments: 281

  27. AI, Lean, and the Future of Formal Verification, with Lean Creator Leo de Moura
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    Article URL: https://thedataexchange.media/leo-de-moura-lean-aws/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50290652 Points: 193 # Comments: 45

  28. Show HN: Point your camera at a landscape to learn about its geology
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    I've been working on a fun little app that paints geologic maps over landscapes using augmented reality. You can use it to identify what the mapped rocks are, read descriptions about them, and view the earth as it looked when they formed…

  29. Zombie stats: Where the numbers AI quotes come from
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    Article URL: https://trakkr.ai/trakkr-research/zombie-stats Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50290283 Points: 148 # Comments: 64

  30. Azure’s Weakest Link - Five Full Cross-Tenant Compromises
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  31. Extremely brief history of PDP computers
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  32. Shared password manager for families?
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    Long story short, I need to have a bunch of shared accounts with family for finance and insurance and stuff, mostly for the sake of family members who are getting old and need help keeping things organized. So the requirements are: Shared…

  33. Will Open Firmware Become the Next Big Trend in Electronic Music Gear?
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  34. Mistral Large 4 (Le Chonk) is now Open Weight
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    Article URL: https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-large-4-oss/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50289418 Points: 1638 # Comments: 426

  35. The Frankenstein Table
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    A super scary way to go about tables using other layout techniques, like CSS Grid. The Frankenstein Table originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks . You should really get the newsletter as well.

  36. Building NixOS using Nixtamal
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  37. Read the letter the FBI sent MLK to try to convince him to kill himself (2014)
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    https://archive.ph/Ykfga Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50288867 Points: 365 # Comments: 259

  38. Gemini 4 Carbon is the new #1 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v5
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    Article URL: https://artificialanalysis.ai/articles/gemini-4-carbon-new-number-1 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50288019 Points: 287 # Comments: 220

  39. DoorDash to Acquire Instacart
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    Article URL: https://about.doordash.com/en-us/news/doordash-to-acquire-instacart Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50287919 Points: 448 # Comments: 619

  40. Hackers expose the identities of more than 40k DHS employees
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    Article URL: https://text.npr.org/nx-s1-6021497 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50287898 Points: 210 # Comments: 48

  41. If IPv4 Were Land
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    Article URL: https://iptrust.co/blog/if-ipv4-were-land Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50287775 Points: 300 # Comments: 419

  42. Nim version 2.4.0 released
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  43. NetBSD adds a new beginner-friendly text editor called atto
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  44. Syrinx: A censorship-resistant communications platform
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    You can see a demo here: https://syx.var0.xyz/ You'll need the server's public key to access it: -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- xjMEauMlLxYJKwYBBAHaRw8BAQdAtfhhdbSSUVmzgZgSak2OlJwLDOsdhqlPvQW2…

  45. Google determines the names for bodies of water in Google Earth (2008)
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    Article URL: https://publicpolicy.googleblog.com/2008/04/how-google-determines-names-for-bodies.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50287448 Points: 201 # Comments: 165

  46. Chained PHP2Shell Exploit Roots 25 Servers, Including US Government Servers
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    Article URL: https://dreamgroup.com/blog/chained-php2shell-exploit-roots-25-servers Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50286987 Points: 308 # Comments: 150

  47. Go Empty Interface Explained ＆ The Hidden Heap Allocation
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  48. What we know so far about Spain train crash
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    Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cm8xz7pkd0jjo Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50286197 Points: 223 # Comments: 404

  49. My Terminal Setup in 2026: Ghostty, tmux, and Neovim
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  50. A single malformed WAP Push SMS crashes com.android.phone on Android, dropping active calls (including emergency calls)
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  51. What the fox say?
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  52. We won't "just hang out"
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    Article URL: https://borretti.me/article/we-wont-just-hang-out Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50285154 Points: 120 # Comments: 189

  53. The Future Trait Has A Missing State
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  54. ACLs don’t (2009)
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    The ACL model is unable to make correct access decisions for interactions involving more than two principals, since required information is not retained across message sends. Though this deficiency has long been documented in the published…

  55. Claude Code burns ~15–20% of your tokens on a 3-word status line
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    Article URL: https://gist.github.com/flamerix-ai/c3905705cc4205e5de3011fa2e74efce Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50284255 Points: 489 # Comments: 199

  56. The case of the 9 bit AES key
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  57. Redox Ring Buffers Project Summary
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  58. Introducing the Accessible Components Library
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  59. Qwenputer: A functioning, deterministic RISC-V CPU inside Qwen3.5
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    Article URL: https://divagr.com/blog/qwenputer Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50282838 Points: 666 # Comments: 139