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Software Engineering news — Friday 30 October 2026

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  1. Show HN: To Honor Sir Patrick Stewart, Enjoy the TNG Episode Guessing Game
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    Article URL: https://tng.episodle.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50311686 Points: 224 # Comments: 70

  2. Zinc creep in cable spelter sockets brought down the Arecibo telescope in 2020
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    Article URL: https://maketecheasier.com/arecibo-zinc-creep-collapse/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50311045 Points: 152 # Comments: 45

  3. The top ten reasons embedded projects get into trouble (2002)
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  4. How hard is it to check for whitespace?
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  5. Linode Security Incident
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    Article URL: https://status.linode.com/incidents/nt58zhx3pmgm Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50310687 Points: 170 # Comments: 92

  6. sanstun: A sans-IO, parallel-friendly WireGuard implementation in Rust
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    Article URL: https://www.firezone.dev/blog/introducing-sanstun Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50310398 Points: 138 # Comments: 29

  7. AO3 Down for Maintenance
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    Article URL: https://www.otwstatus.org Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50310258 Points: 108 # Comments: 30

  8. Defending the patch gap against automated attackers
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  9. Understanding Email Encryption
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    Article URL: https://www.fastmail.com/blog/email-encryption/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50310038 Points: 117 # Comments: 23

  10. Through Captain Jean-Luc Picard, Patrick Stewart taught us the measure of a man
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    Article URL: https://www.bostonglobe.com/2026/10/29/metro/patrick-stewart-picard-star-trek-the-next-generation/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50309647 Points: 288 # Comments: 159

  11. Switch lowering in GCC
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  12. Jules Verne's Lost Novel
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    Article URL: https://blue-continuum.com/verne-paris Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50309314 Points: 134 # Comments: 32

  13. The oldest ice disappears and the Stone Age emerges from it
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    Article URL: https://www.sciencenorway.no/archaeology-climate-culture/the-oldest-ice-is-disappearing-the-stone-age-is-emerging-from-the-melting-ice/2713921 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50309266 Points: 191 # Comments…

  14. Getting Google Cast on my Soundbar
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  15. Copper – A minimal low-level programming language with OOP and generics
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    Article URL: https://tibleiz.net/copper/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50308754 Points: 191 # Comments: 107

  16. Bunny CDN Security Incident
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    Article URL: https://status.bunny.net/incidents/p6gf1by9kr7m Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50308697 Points: 189 # Comments: 38

  17. The federated code forge
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  18. GitHub Incident with Actions, Pages, and Webhooks
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    Article URL: https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/pwxsjgnvrk6b Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50307723 Points: 135 # Comments: 54

  19. Protecting against CVE-2026-98432
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  20. Anthropic may not secure investment-grade rating after IPO, Blackstone says
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    Article URL: https://www.ft.com/content/59383c7f-8d82-493f-bf01-d2e862a1018f Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50307219 Points: 165 # Comments: 102

  21. Proton's CEO Cancels AI 'Re-Interviews'
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    Article URL: https://www.404media.co/protons-ceo-cancels-ai-re-interviews/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50307183 Points: 180 # Comments: 142

  22. Rationale for filtering LLM usage links as off-topic
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    Hi, I've been following recent moderation changes and the discussion around them. I understand that the vibecoding tag was conflating multiple meanings and uses, and how moving to the building-LLM-tooling makes it more precise for that…

  23. Show HN: A working Nintendo in ~1GB of Qwen weights
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    Article URL: https://github.com/dbreunig/nesformer Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50306442 Points: 274 # Comments: 135

  24. US tech stocks see sharp falls over AI cost fears
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    Article URL: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvwy72e0n72yo Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50306008 Points: 123 # Comments: 73

  25. Infinite Mac: BeOS
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  26. AI isn't replacing SREs, it's deskilling them
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    Article URL: https://newsletter.signoz.io/p/ai-isnt-replacing-sres-its-deskilling Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50305693 Points: 569 # Comments: 419

  27. Florilegium: Procedural Flowers in LaTeX
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    Article URL: https://github.com/kevinraymond/florilegium Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50305637 Points: 361 # Comments: 52

  28. Go 1.28's HTTP/2 Parking: Measuring Memory Savings
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  29. Blockchain intelligence firms link North Korea to $6.3B hack on Binance
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    Article URL: https://www.npr.org/2026/10/30/g-s1-150902/blockchain-intelligence-firms-link-north-korea-to-6-3b-hack-on-binance Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50305480 Points: 151 # Comments: 90

  30. Reviewing vs Doing
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  31. Northflank Breached
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    Article URL: https://status.northflank.com Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50305025 Points: 464 # Comments: 343

  32. Shrinking NixOS Ram footprint and resource requirements to the bare minimum
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  33. No, npm, “estee” is not a typo of “testem”
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  34. Medicare Will Pay $50k for Your Heart Attack. It Should Pay $100 to Prevent It
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    Article URL: https://www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/second-opinions/123553?trw=no Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50304419 Points: 226 # Comments: 218

  35. Cisco gives engineer unlimited AI tokens to rewrite legacy code
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    Article URL: https://fortune.com/2026/10/30/cisco-president-jeetu-patel-gen-z-27-year-old-unlimited-ai-tokens-rewrite-legacy-code-entry-level-jobs/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50304122 Points: 281 # Comments: 323

  36. Running a bootstrapped SaaS for 20 years with my brother
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    Article URL: https://blog.zamzar.com/2026/10/30/20-years-766-million-files-two-chameleons/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50303984 Points: 224 # Comments: 52

  37. Update on AO3 Downtime, October 30, 2026 | Organization for Transformative Works
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    The Archive of our Own aka AO3, a huge, non-profit, volunteer-run fanfic archive with over 11 million registered users, discovered a security incident yesterday and took the site down. They expect the site to be down at least two weeks…

  38. Smart audio for the smart home (2021)
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  39. The $6.3B Binance Hack Was Pulled Off in Just 20 Minutes
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    Article URL: https://www.wired.com/story/the-dollar63-billion-binance-hack-was-pulled-off-in-just-20-minutes/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50303172 Points: 559 # Comments: 396

  40. US Reps Lead Democratic Resolution Opposing A.I. Bubble Bailout for Big Tech
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    Article URL: https://progressives.house.gov/2026/10/reps-casar-waters-lead-democratic-resolution-opposing-a-i-bubble-bailout-for-big-tech-commit-to-protecting-american-people-instead Comments URL…

  41. Do At-Proto Users Know This Is Public?
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  42. Backdoors in Claude Code for VS, Cursor official extensions
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  43. Anthropic hacked to deliver remote access trojan
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    Article URL: https://doublepulsar.com/anthropic-hacked-to-deliver-remote-access-trojan-to-claude-developer-laptops-worldwide-1148a92baae2 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50301983 Points: 329 # Comments: 61

  44. What are you doing this weekend?
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    Feel free to tell what you plan on doing this weekend and even ask for help or feedback. Please keep in mind it’s more than OK to do nothing at all too!

  45. elect.horse
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    Article URL: https://elect.horse/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50301462 Points: 411 # Comments: 108

  46. VictoriaLogs vs Loki, Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, SigNoz and ClickStack on structured log ingestion
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  47. arm64e pointer authentication: PAC keys, PACIASP, A12
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  48. How curl was accidentally Turing-complete for nine months
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  49. Backdoor in Claude Code for VS Code extension on the Cursor Marketplace
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    https://cursor.com/blog/claude-code-extension-security-notic... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50300683 Points: 942 # Comments: 538

  50. It’s ok that computers are (sometimes) better than us
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    Ryan is joined by Charity Majors, co-founder and CTO at Honeycomb, for a conversation about applying the concept of immutable infrastructure to software development to treat code like cattle instead of pets, shifting the paradigm of system…

  51. Nibnib: Image compression with extreme decompression speed
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    Article URL: https://github.com/raphlinus/nibnib Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50299811 Points: 173 # Comments: 31

  52. Pidgin 3.0 Alpha 4 2.98.0 has been released
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  53. gh-inbox: clean up GitHub notifications in bulk from the command line
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  54. Pico CSS is no longer maintained
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    Article URL: https://github.com/picocss/pico/discussions/754 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50298964 Points: 166 # Comments: 79

  55. If you love a website, back it up
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  56. Design the interface for functionality not familiarity
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  57. Herdr has released native app
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    Article URL: https://github.com/herdrdev/herdr-app Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50298436 Points: 323 # Comments: 216