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Software Engineering news — Sunday 01 November 2026

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

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  1. U.S. workers took home their smallest share of capital since at least 1947
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    Article URL: https://fortune.com/article/why-did-us-workers-just-take-home-smallest-share-of-capital-since-1947-lowest-ever-recorded/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50330939 Points: 157 # Comments: 52

  2. Understanding Org's LaTeX previews
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  3. so i guess everyone uses llms to think now
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  4. An easy way to try local AI with braindead-local-intelligence
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  5. Work on GEFS (the Good Enough File System) for OpenBSD progresses
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  6. Ask HN: Which TV do you recommend for privacy?
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    I haven’t owned a TV in years and would like one that respects my privacy. Are there any TV’s which do this well? I am looking for something in the 60”to 80”range and would like a 4k display with at least 60hz display. I don’t mind paying…

  7. It wasn't AI that flipped Proton's charge
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    Article URL: https://blog.raed.dev/posts/proton-loser-thinking/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50328488 Points: 103 # Comments: 52

  8. Nurses Sound Alarm as 'Uber for Nursing' Apps Push to Deregulate Healthcare
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    Article URL: https://nurse.org/news/uber-for-nursing-gig-apps-report/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50328487 Points: 119 # Comments: 114

  9. London Meetup - Nov 2026
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    Pub Address: The Fellow, 24 York Way, London, N1 9AA. Date: Sunday, 15/11/2026 1pm The idea is to just meet and have a chat really. I have submitted a request to book a table. Hopefully they approve but if not we can just find an un-booked…

  10. Mathematics has changed. Let's act like it
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    Article URL: https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/11/01/mathematics-has-changed-lets-act-like-it/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50328251 Points: 353 # Comments: 449

  11. Spooky C++
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  12. Let's Encrypt Goes to 64-Day Certificates: When Does Your ACME Client Actually Renew?
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  13. Introduction to Programming in ATS
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  14. Pratt parsing is a black box
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  15. Patrick Stewart taught us what good men do with power
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    Article URL: https://www.vox.com/politics/508526/patrick-stewart-jean-luc-picard-star-trek-liberalism Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50327650 Points: 372 # Comments: 263

  16. Zig: From Beginner to Slightly Less Beginner
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  17. Frontier Airlines Likely Breached
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    Article URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/frontierairlines/comments/1xl20e8/psa_email_scam/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50327266 Points: 176 # Comments: 69

  18. Seoul Viosys begins production of rare-earth-free white light emitter
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    Article URL: https://www.semiconductor-today.com/news_items/2026/oct/seoul-291026.shtml Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50327058 Points: 174 # Comments: 55

  19. A Specialised Haskell Processor on FPGA
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  20. Show HN: HackerBooks – HackerTube, but for books recommended on HN
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    Saw Karpathy's HackerTube and wanted the same thing for books. So I had Claude build one (Opus 5.5). It's ~16.5k books that at least two different HN commenters brought up, from 2007 till now. Each book links back to the comments that…

  21. Landline phones will switch off across Britland in 100 days, no extensions
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    Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/networks/2026/11/01/landline-phones-will-switch-off-across-britland-in-100-days-no-extensions-openreach/5306673 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50326609 Points: 126 # Comments: 99

  22. Dead Internet theory
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  23. An outsider's perspective on Scion and Mononoke
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  24. Lenovo's 'encrypted' fingerprint USB is just an unencrypted SD card in a case
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    Article URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1xl2pr3/lenovos_encrypted_fingerprint_usb_drive_is_just/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50326099 Points: 481 # Comments: 158

  25. groff/troff macros: ms, mm, me or mom
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  26. Show HN: OmniDiff – Opensource, super fast, content aware Git difftool, in Rust
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    I have been researching what the ultimate diff tool would look like, based on actual diffs in open source repositories. OmniDiff can diff: code (25 languages), config, images, PDFs, archives, cursors, fonts... It's fast. It can diff C++…

  27. Beating the compiler at signed 32-bit division
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  28. Release 0.6.0 · buzz-language/buzz
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  29. No AI, 52 min. Build all Linux Files utils in C by Hand
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  30. XKCD and Fourier
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  31. Norway makes shithouses great again
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    Article URL: https://www.visitnorway.com/plan-your-trip/travel-tips-a-z/norwegian-scenic-routes/worlds-best-toilets/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50324388 Points: 616 # Comments: 352

  32. Non-Determinism and Overcount on Modern Hardware Performance Counter Implementations
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    Abstract: Ideal hardware performance counters provide exact deterministic results. Real-world performance monitoring unit (PMU) implementations do not always live up to this ideal. Events that should be exact and deterministic (such as…

  33. The AI cost of JavaScript frameworks
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    Article URL: https://nolanlawson.com/2026/10/28/the-ai-cost-of-javascript-frameworks/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50323088 Points: 429 # Comments: 325

  34. A brief history of just-in-time (2003)
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    PDF Software systems have been using "just-in-time" compilation (JIT) techniques since the 1960s. Broadly, JIT compilation includes any translation performed dynamically, after a program has started execution. We examine the motivation…

  35. Introducing Kwi, a new KDE terminal emulator
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  36. Brazilian Court Sanctions Lawyers for Prompt Injection in Court Filing
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    Article URL: https://jetstream.security/insights/brazilian-court-sanctions-prompt-injection-filing/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50322173 Points: 301 # Comments: 181

  37. Leaking Secrets from Air-Gap Computers by Spelling Radio Signals from RAM (2024)
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    Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.02292 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50322022 Points: 171 # Comments: 90

  38. The Duty of a Scholar
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