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Software Engineering news — Monday 02 November 2026

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  1. Anthropic's growth just flattened
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    Article URL: https://www.regenerator1.com/p/anthropics-growth-just-flattened Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50344958 Points: 116 # Comments: 139

  2. The SEC Should Block Anthropic's IPO to Protect the Public
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    Article URL: https://www.techpolicy.press/the-sec-should-block-anthropics-ipo-to-protect-the-public/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50344919 Points: 264 # Comments: 204

  3. The road to opaque software is paved with good (engineering) intentions
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  4. A Decade of Kill Bugs
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  5. An Introduction to Bε-trees and Write-Optimization
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    This is the underlying tech of the recently posted GEFS: https://lobste.rs/s/zjjvbo/work_on_gefs_good_enough_file_system_for Comments

  6. This background sound leaks your exact location
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  7. Oracle files to sell $20B in new stock, bonds to finance AI buildout
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    Article URL: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/11/02/oracle-files-to-sell-20-billion-in-new-stock-bonds-to-finance-ai-buildout.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50342284 Points: 167 # Comments: 126

  8. Stop Hardcoding Your Timeouts
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  9. Egoless Mathematics in the AI Era
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    Article URL: https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/11/02/egoless-mathematics-in-the-ai-era/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50341736 Points: 134 # Comments: 92

  10. Ubuntu still has not released patch for Linux 0day RCE in almost 3 weeks
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    Article URL: https://freenode.net/article/ubuntu-lts-kernels-still-unfixed-for-critical-cve-2026-98432 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50341462 Points: 393 # Comments: 112

  11. Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen
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    Article URL: https://rikiyat.github.io/blog/weight-space-programming/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50341174 Points: 2220 # Comments: 720

  12. Sneaking into the auditorium for the Windows 2000 launch rehearsal
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    Article URL: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20261102-00/?p=112818/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50341028 Points: 119 # Comments: 43

  13. There’s a microchip in my toothbrush. But WHY?
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  14. Self-Employed? Solopreneur? NIST Has a Cybersecurity Guide Just for You
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    Article URL: https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2026/11/self-employed-solopreneur-nist-has-cybersecurity-guide-just-you Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50340619 Points: 150 # Comments: 45

  15. Let Me Ch...
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    Article URL: https://blog.alxgsv.com/let-me-check/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50340369 Points: 162 # Comments: 58

  16. Polyend releases the Tracker firmware source code
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    Article URL: https://polyend.com/whats-up/tracker-the-biggest-update-yet/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50340159 Points: 101 # Comments: 31

  17. Show HN: Subvocal – Talk to your computer without making noise
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    Hi HN, we're Aarush and Arnav from The Subvocal Company (YC F26) ( https://subvocal.company/ ). We’re building smart glasses that let you talk to your computer without talking out loud. You can mouth words silently and discreetly and the…

  18. Launch HN: Momentic (YC W24) – Agents that catch bugs by using your app
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    Hey HN, we’re Wei-Wei and Jeff. We’re building Momentic, QA agents that autonomously plan, explore, and bug-bash controls and user flows in your web, iOS, Android, and (soon) desktop apps to catch bugs. Here’s a demo…

  19. My Favourite Laptop
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    Article URL: https://blog.jsbarretto.com/post/laptop Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50339815 Points: 147 # Comments: 110

  20. Anthropic's internal AI use, at retail prices, now exceeds its employee pay
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    Article URL: https://www.businessinsider.com/anthropic-claude-internal-ai-use-exceeds-employee-pay-tokens-2026-11 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50339494 Points: 238 # Comments: 189

  21. US boy names that became girl names and vice versa
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    Article URL: https://namedaisy.com/blog/boy-names-that-became-girl-names Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50339397 Points: 333 # Comments: 334

  22. Jailbreaking my car's navigation system just so I can change the time
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  23. New Release: Tor Browser 16.0 | Tor Project
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  24. Show HN: Warsaw in voxels – an interactive 3D map of the city centre
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    Explore central Warsaw in voxels - slightly inspired by Minecraft, and MagicaVoxel. You can change the date, time of day and weather, explore the city, or click on a pedestrian to control them (here a bit of inspiration from Dungeon…

  25. The Gift of It's Your Problem Now (2021)
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  26. Moving our warehouse off DuckDB
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    Article URL: https://posthog.com/blog/moving-off-duckdb Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50338747 Points: 151 # Comments: 106

  27. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2026)
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    Please state the location and include REMOTE for remote work, REMOTE (US) or similar if the country is restricted, and ONSITE when remote work is not an option. Please only post if you personally are part of the hiring company—no…

  28. Virtual Art Museum built with Three js
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    My wife wanted a website for her artworks. While building the website, I suddenly had this urge to try building a virtual art museum to give her motivation. It turned out not bad. Put the rain mode on if you like cats btw. I'm still trying…

  29. eli venn
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  30. Polyend releases the Tracker firmware source code
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  31. Securing Internet-Critical Software: How We Could Have Backdoored Bash
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  32. What’s !important #20: GTA 6 Scroll Effects, Scrollspies, random()
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    This is the final issue of What’s !important on CSS-Tricks.com. The good news is that it’s coming back in an expanded form as the CSS-Tricks newsletter. I had ya there for a second, didn’t I? Sorry, I couldn’t decide whether to trick or…

  33. Why are Soviet math textbooks so hardcore in comparison to US textbooks? (2017)
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    Article URL: https://www.quora.com/Why-are-Soviet-mathematics-physics-textbooks-so-insanely-hardcore-in-comparison-to-US-textbooks/answer/Scott-Miller-307?share=1 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50337725 Points: 117 #…

  34. WTF Ubuntu?
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    Article URL: https://chalmovsky.com/posts/wtf-ubuntu Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50337608 Points: 1396 # Comments: 595

  35. Recognizing Keystrokes Using WiFi Devices
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  36. SuperVote: 15 year retrospective on a social endorsement app
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  37. The advantages of mobile Linux over AOSP
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  38. gohawk | Resource-focused static analysis for Go
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  39. What are you doing this week?
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    What are you doing this week? Feel free to share! Keep in mind it’s OK to do nothing at all, too.

  40. If you love a website, back it up
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    Article URL: https://blog.mistys-internet.website/post/2026/10/29/if-you-love-a-website-back-it-up/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50336518 Points: 452 # Comments: 100

  41. Union Types and Option Types
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  42. Supermarket freezers across Europe hit by second suspected cyber-attack
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    https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cq1kd1nee80eo https://www.irishtimes.com/technology/data-security/2026/11/... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50335615 Points: 348 # Comments: 393

  43. Building a gemini server in python
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  44. Program
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  45. My reflex of assuming our servers need ever-growing amounts of RAM
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  46. Show HN: I've updated my Linux System Call website and API
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    I first released those in back in 2020 and now I finally added more architectures, Kernel selector, syscall descriptions and a few other niceties. It should work a bit better on mobile devices too but I am no CSS expert. The API is at…

  47. the lost malloc()
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  48. Tyrtulia, a headless forum with no passwords, made for the terminal
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  49. JPEG XS - Wikipedia
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  50. China's First Frontier AI Export Controls: Mofcom Announcement No. 48
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    Article URL: https://labs.cloudsecurityalliance.org/research/csa-research-note-china-ai-export-controls-announcement-48-2/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50334038 Points: 125 # Comments: 64

  51. Show HN: HackerHack – HackerBooks but for Posts Posted on HN
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    No AI used for this btw. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50333877 Points: 147 # Comments: 21

  52. Optimizing CPU-side Rendering Code
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  53. Show HN: Wikihack – HackerTube, but for Wikipedia articles mentioned on HN
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    After seeing Karpathy's Hackertube and Hackerbooks, I just had to make Wikihack. I scraped all mentions of wikipedia on hackernews and ranked them, and turn them into a scrollable feed to make it a bit more easy to digest / interact with…

  54. STORY2DIFF: A Dataset Linking Real-World User Stories to Code Changes
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    arXiv:2610.39872v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Research on requirements-to-code tasks needs examples in which a genuine requirement is paired with the change that implemented it. Existing user-story collections, however, largely…

  55. An Empirical Study of Gas Optimization Practices in Solidity Smart Contracts
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    arXiv:2610.40885v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In the Ethereum ecosystem, smart contract execution is governed by a gas model where every computational operation incurs a direct economic cost. Consequently, gas efficiency is a critical…

  56. Measuring Delivery Consistency in Practice: A DORA Extension from a Multi-Platform Release Setting
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    arXiv:2606.00364v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) framework is the most widely adopted measurement system for performance measurement across engineering teams. However, every DORA metric is a…

  57. A Failure Mode Taxonomy and Severity Model for Ethereum Smart Contracts
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    arXiv:2610.41685v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Smart contracts are a core component of blockchain systems, but their immutability makes failures in deployed code catastrophic and irreversible. Existing work classifies vulnerabilities…

  58. What Does a Repair Agent Gain from Remembering Its Failure? An Exploratory Study on Real Python Bugs
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    arXiv:2610.41433v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: When a coding agent fails a repair task, it is often retried with a record of the failure: the transcript, a self-written lesson, or extracted test signals. We ask what such failure memory…

  59. RepGen: Reproducing Deep Learning Bugs through Context-Aware Code Generation and Verification
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    arXiv:2610.41097v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reproducing deep learning (DL) bugs is challenging because failures can involve source code, models, data, dependencies, and execution environments. Incomplete bug reports further complicate…

  60. Iris on Indirection Theory: Lightweight Higher-order Ghost State
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    arXiv:2610.41202v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Today, semantic models of languages with concurrency and higher-order state are constructed using step-indexed predicates over resources and higher-order ghost state. There are two main lines…

  61. PR4Code: A Pull Requests Dataset for AI Code Generation
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    arXiv:2610.39890v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: AI-driven code generation is evolving from handling small, localized code-completion tasks toward supporting the implementation of full software features. To support this transition, this…

  62. Context-Specific Instruction: A Longitudinal Study on Debugging Skill Acquisition and Retention for Novice Programmers
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    arXiv:2509.22420v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Bug localization is a critical skill, yet novices often lack systematic approaches. Prior work tested abstract guidelines and general concrete steps; the impact of context-specific…

  63. Dittany: Contribution-Guided Repair Framework for MAS Applications
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    arXiv:2610.42144v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM-based multi-agent system (MAS) applications can produce useful intermediate results while leaving task requirements unsatisfied. Repairing such executions requires identifying the work…

  64. No More Import Errors: Constrained Decoding for Guaranteed Valid Imports in LLM-Generated Tests
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    arXiv:2610.41878v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: One of the most common failure reasons of LLM-based test generation pipelines is import errors. Grammar constrained decoding can modify the probabilities of the LLM's final layer during token…

  65. Stuck on Red? Understanding GitHub Actions Failing Streaks
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    arXiv:2610.41863v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: GitHub Actions is the de facto CI/CD service for GitHub repositories. Its workflows should not fail when they are not expected to, nor keep on failing too long. We empirically study failing…

  66. Prompt Less, Infer More: Static Analysis-Guided LLM Type Annotation for Python
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    arXiv:2610.41617v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Type annotations improve the maintainability and reliability of Python programs, but many real-world projects remain under-annotated because manual annotation is time-consuming and…

  67. Post-SQLFix: Property-Guided Repair of LLM-Generated SQL with Runtime Verification
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    arXiv:2610.41472v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) for Text-to-SQL frequently generate queries with syntax errors, invalid identifier references, or violations of SQL scoping and typing rules. Repairing these…

  68. Architectural Debt Enforcement under Incomplete Observation: A Controlled Study of Ratchets and Evidence Qualification
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    arXiv:2610.41276v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Architectural debt gates must distinguish an allowed change from an incompletely observed one. We study a decision contract separating observation qualification, prohibited relation identity…

  69. Yesterday's Code, Today's Dependencies: How Dependency Selection Shapes PHP Migration Benchmarks
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    arXiv:2610.41263v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Migration benchmarks need projects whose tests pass before migration begins. Yet an old project can behave differently without any change to its code. Reinstalling it today may introduce…

  70. Cognitive Inclusivity in AI Coding Assistants: Evidence from GitHub Copilot
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    arXiv:2610.41192v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI coding assistants are commonly used for daily software development tasks. While prior research has examined their impact on productivity and code quality, less is understood about how…

  71. AIFaultBench: A Reproducible Benchmark of Real-World Faults in AI Software Systems
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    arXiv:2610.41094v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI-based software systems remain difficult to debug because their failures can involve interactions among code, models, data, dependencies, hardware, and execution environments. Existing…

  72. A400000 Winners
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  73. The Beginning of BSD Unix
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  74. The Problem with C++ Safety: Modern C++ Is a Mindset, Not a Standard
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  75. Bones may release proteins that slow aging and extend life span
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    Article URL: https://www.science.org/content/article/bones-may-release-proteins-slow-aging-and-extend-life-span Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50331957 Points: 296 # Comments: 117

  76. Trigger.dev customer environment variables exposed
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    Article URL: https://trigger.dev/blog/security-incident-nov-2026 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50331784 Points: 156 # Comments: 83

  77. OccupySaaS
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    Article URL: https://occupysaas.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50331402 Points: 423 # Comments: 266