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Software Engineering news — Saturday 31 October 2026

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  1. Altoids Project
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    Article URL: https://uvdn7.github.io/altoids-project/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50321048 Points: 149 # Comments: 7

  2. Memdoor: A team of 5 Qwen3.8-27B models beats Fable 5 on LiveCodeBench Hard
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    Article URL: https://github.com/guregodevo/memdoor/tree/main/examples/workflows/team-solve Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50320995 Points: 415 # Comments: 202

  3. An Italian farmer found some unknown seeds in his attic and planted them
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    Article URL: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/italian-farmer-found-unknown-seeds-attic-with-nothing-lose-planted-them-result-biblical-180989644/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50320963 Points: 805 #…

  4. Effective Type: Part 1
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  5. ChatGPT and Codex usage limits merging
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    Article URL: https://help.openai.com/en/articles/20001625-understanding-chatgpt-and-codex-usage-limits Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50320588 Points: 164 # Comments: 101

  6. Novellas with groff
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  7. Bidirectional charging during grid outages
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    Article URL: https://www.jefftk.com/p/bidirectional-charging-during-grid-outages Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50319749 Points: 101 # Comments: 151

  8. Surviving "The Graduate"
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    https://archive.ph/Eqn1F Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50319563 Points: 129 # Comments: 39

  9. HackerTube: YouTube built from videos recommended by HN
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    YouTube-style UI over 6,454 videos sourced from 39,834 HN comments since 2007. https://hackertube.org/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50319510 Points: 2778 # Comments: 614

  10. A game scripting language that runs speech-to-text 5x faster than llama.cpp on CPU
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  11. Mystery of 60-Second Fluctuations in Power Grids Solved
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  12. Anthropic blocks users for anything touching training larger models
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    Article URL: https://twitter.com/jiahaoshao1/status/2116475922190922088 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50319358 Points: 330 # Comments: 189

  13. TCP Use-After-Free: CVE-2026-98432 / CVSS 9.8
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    Article URL: https://atlasum.net/blog/cve-2026-98432-linux-ipv4-tcp-uaf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50319143 Points: 681 # Comments: 321

  14. Electrification Could Cut Global Energy Use in Half
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    Article URL: https://fullycharged.show/podcasts/podcast-361-why-electrification-could-cut-global-energy-use-in-half/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50319110 Points: 129 # Comments: 60

  15. GPT-5.6 Sol can beat Factorio on peaceful mode
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    Article URL: https://ryanmadden.net/gpt-56-beats-factorio/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50318871 Points: 118 # Comments: 125

  16. It's the memory latency, stupid
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    Article URL: https://pivotlake.io/blog/its-the-memory-latency-stupid/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50318720 Points: 210 # Comments: 67

  17. Avoid Public Functions Calling Other Public Functions
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  18. Enlightenment 0.28.0 Release
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    Their alternative to Qt/GTK (EFL) also got a new release: https://www.enlightenment.org/news/2026-10-31-efl-1.29.0 Comments

  19. UK Green party drops longstanding opposition to nuclear power
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    Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/oct/05/green-party-nuclear-power-policy Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50318189 Points: 107 # Comments: 72

  20. Speeding up GPU copies by permuting iteration spaces, or, optimising the identity function
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  21. Tangled, hire a front-end accessibility expert
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    A response to https://lobste.rs/s/ukj8mm/federated_code_forge Comments

  22. An LC-3 Disassembler in Haskell
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  23. Casio Watches of the 1980s
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    Article URL: https://www.casio.com/us/watches/50th/Heritage/1980s/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50317363 Points: 161 # Comments: 79

  24. Let’s Build a Brain
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  25. The Kluever Maneuver
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  26. Malware uses LLMs to rank victims by how much they're worth
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    Article URL: https://blog.talosintelligence.com/appraisal-by-ai-model-driven-victim-prioritization-in-the-volta-infostealer/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50316531 Points: 220 # Comments: 117

  27. Jepsen: ParticleDB 1.1.4
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  28. Prospero: A new coding harness for a more civilized age
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    Article URL: https://nullprogram.com/blog/2026/10/31/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50315226 Points: 154 # Comments: 107

  29. Digital minimalism
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  30. Marelleo, a story box I built for my kids
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  31. We Took over ChatGPT Accounts
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    Article URL: https://www.parameter.ai/labs/we-found-a-gap-at-openai Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50314699 Points: 342 # Comments: 166

  32. Molly(Signal fork) has not been updated since 3 months and is vulnerable
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    Article URL: https://piefed.world/post/1503394 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50314666 Points: 299 # Comments: 175

  33. Serbia just elected the world's brainiest parliament
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    Article URL: https://www.science.org/content/article/serbia-just-elected-world-s-brainiest-parliament Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50314654 Points: 829 # Comments: 472

  34. The Secret of Fast Programming: Stop Thinking »
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  35. One-minute frequency disturbances from synchronization in power systems
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    Article URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41560-026-02144-0 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50314617 Points: 176 # Comments: 57

  36. A Spark Of Color In November’s Gray (2026 Wallpapers Edition)
    DESmashing Magazine

    November can feel rather gray in many parts of the world, so what better way to brighten the month than with some colorful inspiration? Our new collection of desktop wallpapers has you covered. Following our monthly tradition , which has…

  37. Clojure/Conj 2026
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  38. OpenAI raises less than half of $30B target
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    Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/openai-raises-less-than-half-of-30-billion-target-in-latest-round-91aecdc5 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50312922 Points: 127 # Comments: 94

  39. Tell HN: Scribd Breached
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    Not seeing anything posted about this anywhere, received on Monday, 26th of Oct 2026: Subject: Notice of Security Incident This notice is being sent on behalf of Scribd, Inc., the parent company of Scribd, Slideshare, Everand, and Fable…

  40. Tactical-Retreat: a freely available, multi-platform QuakeC-based Counter-Strike v1.5 port
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  41. Postgres 19 is late because so many more bugs are being found now
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    Article URL: http://rhaas.blogspot.com/2026/10/postgres-19-is-late-and-its-ais-fault.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50312408 Points: 788 # Comments: 465

  42. The support case of a customer who said that all they could see was a black screen
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