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Software Engineering news — Thursday 05 November 2026

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  1. A primer on GPUs and kernel optimization
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    Article URL: https://www.nabo.dev/blogs/kernel-primer Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50386246 Points: 132 # Comments: 12

  2. I Go to Olympics of 4KB Coding
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  3. Cuban: Facebook knowingly runs AI deepfake scam ads; docs say $16B fraud revenue
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    Article URL: https://finance.yahoo.com/technology/ai/articles/mark-cuban-says-facebook-knowingly-213000020.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50385870 Points: 437 # Comments: 201

  4. Claude Code sends your email address to websites
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    Article URL: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/107757 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50385272 Points: 1472 # Comments: 455

  5. A Quick Guide to Go's Assembler
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  6. MS Paint Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
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    Article URL: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-83844 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50384233 Points: 669 # Comments: 250

  7. Kagi Search for Everyone
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    Article URL: https://kagi.com/changelog#11820 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50383740 Points: 602 # Comments: 312

  8. Goodbye from Salon
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    Article URL: https://www.salon.com/2026/11/05/goodbye-from-salon/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50383739 Points: 576 # Comments: 222

  9. Pangram Image 1.0
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    Article URL: https://www.pangram.com/blog/introducing-pangram-image-1-0 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50383294 Points: 116 # Comments: 55

  10. Hungary: Communist-era files released, up to 60k former agents revealed
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    Article URL: https://www.euronews.com/2026/11/04/hungary-communist-era-files-opened-up-to-60000-former-agents-revealed Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50383163 Points: 179 # Comments: 41

  11. The Hackintosh Reborn
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    Article URL: https://www.naut.ca/blog/2026/11/05/the-hackintosh-reborn-with-ai/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50383057 Points: 380 # Comments: 220

  12. SourceHut disabled registration bypass | CVE-2026-121728
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  13. Can 23,000 quantum qubits break RSA-2048?
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  14. Launch HN: Rivet (YC W23) – Scale and Orchestrate Agents on S3
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    Hey HN, this is Nathan and Nicholas from Rivet ( https://rivet.dev ) – a fast, high-density, and scalable orchestrator for agentic workloads using the actor model. Rather than running a heavyweight sandbox per agent, each agent gets a…

  15. Nasdaq plummets 4% into correction territory
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    Article URL: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/11/04/stock-market-today-live-updates.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50381623 Points: 148 # Comments: 119

  16. Window Sweaters
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    Article URL: https://github.com/saragordic/window-sweaters Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50381383 Points: 411 # Comments: 121

  17. Software Line Specialist
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  18. How Flink's Kafka connector commits offsets to Kafka
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  19. My psychophysics as a bilateral cochlear implant user
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    Article URL: https://claude.ai/artifact/L8qsMc3SorytGW3LA81nYf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50381033 Points: 172 # Comments: 76

  20. Don’t Build the Reusable Component Yet
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  21. Motorola Signature 27 with GrapheneOS support
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    Article URL: https://motorolanews.com/motorola-signature-27-2/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50380810 Points: 551 # Comments: 389

  22. Taming Typography: Building a Modern CSS Reset
    USCSS-Tricks

    Stu created tidy-typography.css: a style reset for taming typography with modern CSS features for everything from fluid typography and vertical rhythm, to hyphens and variable fonts. Taming Typography: Building a Modern CSS Reset…

  23. Image of our satellite-choked night skies
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    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/nov/04/viral-image-nz... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50379773 Points: 107 # Comments: 69

  24. Alpine Linux Security Advisory: OpenSSH-server password authentication bypass
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    Article URL: https://alpinelinux.org/posts/2026-11-05-openssh-password-authentication-bypass/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50379704 Points: 606 # Comments: 128

  25. MCP Explained
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    Article URL: https://mcp-explained.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50379249 Points: 309 # Comments: 130

  26. September in Servo: progress, rounded rectangles, and more
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  27. I wish tech companies knew more about me
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    Article URL: https://rakhim.exotext.com/i-wish-tech-companies-knew-more-about-me Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50378942 Points: 494 # Comments: 389

  28. GNU Mes and the 0.28 release
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  29. Show HN: Firenook – Firebase emulators in Rust: 40× faster writes, 10× less RAM
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    Hi HN, we have been developing with Firebase for a long time, and the only way Firebase developers can build apps without directly costing them is using the official Firebase Emulator Suite. However, the issue with this suite is, it's…

  30. Download your favourite YouTube videos
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    Article URL: https://criminallyvulgar.dev/you-should-absolutely-download-your-favourite-youtube-videos/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50378571 Points: 342 # Comments: 157

  31. Making Immersive LLM Chat Experiences More Accessible
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    I have had the privilege of helping to improve the accessibility of multiple immersive LLM chat experiences in the course of my career. Now I want to share this knowledge with you. Accessibility is a core part of a functional digital…

  32. sshhole
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  33. Full-stack verification is the new trend
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  34. OpenSSH 10.6p2 Critical workaround for alpine without PAM
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    Article URL: https://www.openssh.org/releasenotes.html#10.6p2 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50377976 Points: 243 # Comments: 12

  35. Awesome repositories are no longer awesome
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    Article URL: https://erikgahner.github.io/posts/2026/awesome-repositories-are-no-longer-awesome/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50377821 Points: 237 # Comments: 110

  36. A Look at Datastar
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  37. The State of Python Profiling in 2026
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  38. OpenSSH 10.6p2 has been released with a workaround for a critical vulnerability
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    Article URL: https://hachyderm.io/@damienmiller/117563026759098135 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50377221 Points: 134 # Comments: 51

  39. Baidu released ERNIE 5.5 Flash Base
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    Article URL: https://ernie.baidu.com/release/ernie-5-5-flash-base/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50377078 Points: 170 # Comments: 95

  40. Why is there an Anubis gate in front of Search for logged-in users?
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    When one goes to Search on lobste.rs there is an Anubis gate first. I understand why it is there for a public rate limiting case, but why is it there for logged-in users? This is an invite only site and if anyone would hammer the server…

  41. The ULC Audio Codec is a Perfect Fit for the N64
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  42. 86open
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  43. On vsyscalls and the vDSO (2011)
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  44. GPT-6 Astra covertly underperforms on safety research
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    Article URL: https://alignment.openai.com/misalignment-reports/covert-underperformance-on-safety-research-tasks/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50376313 Points: 312 # Comments: 159

  45. 11 nanoseconds per word: Ridiculously Over-Optimizing Anagrams
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  46. How Much Do Modern Embeddings Reveal? Inversion Attacks on Commercial Embedding Models
    USarXiv cs.SE (Software)

    arXiv:2611.05716v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Text embedding inversion reconstructs source text from fixed-dimensional vectors, posing a privacy risk to systems that store embeddings instead of raw text. We adapt the vec2text framework…

  47. SynMOE: A Syntax-Aware MOE-Guided Approach for PEFT-Based Code Intelligence Learning
    USarXiv cs.SE (Software)

    arXiv:2611.06069v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning (PEFT) has emerged as an important approach for adapting Language Models (LMs) in downstream tasks. However, in the domain of code intelligence, the…

  48. Bug2Scenario: Root-Cause-Preserving Test Scenario Amplification for Autonomous Driving Software
    USarXiv cs.SE (Software)

    arXiv:2611.06229v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Simulation-based fuzzing exposes autonomous driving system (ADS) failures by repeatedly mutating and executing scenarios, but converting one failure into reusable regression scenarios remains…

  49. Keeping Fuzzers on Duty: Repairing Fuzzing Build Breakages in Continuous Open-Source Fuzzing
    USarXiv cs.SE (Software)

    arXiv:2611.06358v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Continuous fuzzing platforms such as OSS-Fuzz provide sustained security testing for open-source projects, but long-term build breakages reduce security coverage and waste infrastructure…

  50. Trace2Eval: Contextualized Evaluation of Coding Agents from Real-World Traces
    USarXiv cs.SE (Software)

    arXiv:2611.06506v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Coding agents are increasingly used in real-world workflows across diverse domains, motivating evaluation grounded in real user tasks. Existing benchmarks, however, largely rely on static…

  51. Scythe: Semantic-Aware Rewriting for Fast,Effective Program Reduction
    USarXiv cs.SE (Software)

    arXiv:2611.06515v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Automated program reduction shrinks a program into a smaller one that preserves a property of interest. Language-agnostic grammar-based reducers are easy to retarget across languages, but…

  52. Construction Contracts for Generated Embedded Domain-Specific Language Programs: A Measurement Protocol and a Conditional Effect
    USarXiv cs.SE (Software)

    arXiv:2611.06525v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A generated domain-specific program can be accepted by its host and still miss the reference construction. We measure the two events separately and test a short construction contract. The…

  53. EvoCodeAgent: Project-Level Code Generation via Architecture-Code Co-Evolution and Experience-Guided Repair
    USarXiv cs.SE (Software)

    arXiv:2611.06328v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Project-level code generation aims to automatically synthesize complete software repositories from high-level requirements, producing coherent multi-file systems with well-structured modules…

  54. Verified Implementation of the Next-gen Borrow Checking Algorithm for Rust via Abstract Interpretation
    USarXiv cs.PL (Programming)

    arXiv:2611.06319v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Borrow checking is a central mechanism for Rust to ensure temporal memory safety. Its correctness is based on the intuition that the Aliasing XOR Mutability discipline guarantees that…

  55. Silent Degradation during Auto-Vectorization of bf16/fp16 on RISC-V Under LLVM
    USarXiv cs.PL (Programming)

    arXiv:2611.03917v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Low-precision numeric types such as 8-bit integers, bfloat16, and half-precision floating point (fp16) are often used in AI inference workloads to reduce memory bandwidth, and RISC-V's…

  56. Req-Space: A User Study of Interactive Visualisations for Requirements Review
    USarXiv cs.SE (Software)

    arXiv:2611.05437v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Requirements review involves identifying inconsistencies and assessing change implications across distributed specifications. Motivated by needs raised in industrial project workshops, we…

  57. ProofStudio: Five Proof Assistants in the Browser
    USarXiv cs.SE (Software)

    arXiv:2611.05540v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent advances in AI-assisted proof automation are extending the use of proof assistants in software verification and mathematics. However, greater proof automation does not remove users'…

  58. GH-AWTrace: A Large-Scale Dataset of GitHub Agentic Workflow Execution Logs
    USarXiv cs.SE (Software)

    arXiv:2611.06866v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agentic workflows enable AI agents to perform recurring repository tasks on schedules or in response to repository events. Existing studies examine workflow definitions and outputs, but…

  59. The Impact of AI Coding Assistants on Software Engineering: A Longitudinal Study
    USarXiv cs.SE (Software)

    arXiv:2605.23135v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: AI coding assistants have become prolific in recent years. Through a longitudinal mixed-methods investigation, we examined how professional software engineers perceive the effects of AI…

  60. TTHE: Test-Time Harness Evolution
    USarXiv cs.SE (Software)

    arXiv:2607.08124v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The behavior of an LLM agent is determined not only by the underlying model, but also by its harness: the executable program that constructs context, invokes tools, verifies intermediate…

  61. TraceCAD: Trace-Guided Repair for Agentic CAD Generation
    USarXiv cs.SE (Software)

    arXiv:2608.03062v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: LLM-based CAD agents produce executable parametric programs, but their correction loops may lose evidence about satisfied requirements, faulty operations, and prior repairs. We…

  62. Rethinking Access Control for AI Agents: Recent Advances and Open Challenges
    USarXiv cs.SE (Software)

    arXiv:2611.06764v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language model agents access data, invoke tools, and act on users' behalf. Keeping these actions within authorized bounds is challenging because agents choose their own execution paths…

  63. MCP-Eco: A Linked Dataset of MCP Servers, Consumers, and Development Activity
    USarXiv cs.SE (Software)

    arXiv:2611.06897v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The Model Context Protocol (MCP) enables LLM agents to access external tools and data. Studying its software ecosystem requires connecting server interfaces, the projects that configure these…

  64. RIDGE: State-Conditioned Reward Blending for Behavioral Coverage in Deep RL Game Agents
    USarXiv cs.SE (Software)

    arXiv:2611.05601v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A deep RL agent trained on a fixed persona reward plays one way: an Explorer keeps exploring while starving, a Survivor hoards on an empty map. Since each persona fixes its own reward…

  65. How the Misuse of a Dataset Harmed Semantic Clone Detection
    USarXiv cs.SE (Software)

    arXiv:2505.04311v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: BigCloneBench is widely used to evaluate traditional clone detection and, more recently, machine learning approaches to semantic clone detection and functional similarity. This paper…

  66. The Dangers of Non-Self-Fixed Architecture Technical Debt and Its Impact on Time-to-Fix
    USarXiv cs.SE (Software)

    arXiv:2605.16133v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Technical Debt (TD) refers to the long-term costs incurred when developers prioritize short-term delivery over quality-improving work. Architectural Technical Debt (ATD) arises when…

  67. Auditing Empirical Comparisons in Quantum Software
    USarXiv cs.SE (Software)

    arXiv:2607.00516v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Empirical quantum-software papers often claim that one compiler produces smaller circuits, one optimizer is more reliable, or one ansatz achieves better solution quality. Such comparisons…

  68. Extending the MM-AR Metamodeling Platform with Process Mining Capabilities
    USarXiv cs.SE (Software)

    arXiv:2611.05176v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Process mining derives process models from event data recorded by information systems, but its results are usually presented as two-dimensional visualizations that are separate from the…

  69. A formal specification of the jq language
    USarXiv cs.PL (Programming)

    arXiv:2403.20132v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: jq is a widely used tool that provides a programming language to manipulate JSON data. However, the jq language is currently only specified by its implementation, making it…

  70. Agentic Behavior Engineering: A Design-by-Contract Methodology for Specifying, Verifying, and Governing Enterprise AI Agents
    USarXiv cs.SE (Software)

    arXiv:2611.05454v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Enterprise teams that deploy large language model (LLM) agents inherit a maintenance problem that traditional testing does not address. The model is non-deterministic, but the larger risk is…

  71. Construct Validity of Coding Benchmarks for LLM-based Agentic Coding Tools
    USarXiv cs.SE (Software)

    arXiv:2611.05665v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Software developers increasingly adopt LLM-based agentic coding tools to assist them with development tasks. To provide developers with up-to-date information on these tools' effectiveness…

  72. Can LLM Agents Learn to Test? Maintaining Scoped Experience as Testing Evidence for Mobile GUI Testing
    USarXiv cs.SE (Software)

    arXiv:2611.05873v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Repeated mobile GUI tests can reuse routes, locators, and recovery strategies from earlier executions. However, a route that worked in one workflow or app version may be irrelevant or…

  73. Retrieval Supersedes Scale: Efficient Log Level Prediction via Multiplex Socio-Technical Context
    USarXiv cs.SE (Software)

    arXiv:2611.05901v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Developers insert logging statements in source code to record its execution, and the resulting logs are essential for detecting and troubleshooting system anomalies. A key part of these…

  74. When Does a Cross-Device Run Justify PASS? Obligation-Level Evidence Qualification under Partial Observability
    USarXiv cs.SE (Software)

    arXiv:2611.06013v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A cross-device test can complete every command yet judge a business claim from evidence belonging to another device or attempt. We introduce an executable evidence contract that makes support…

  75. SWEOps-Bench: Evaluating Agents for End-to-End Resolution of Software-Induced Cloud Incidents
    USarXiv cs.SE (Software)

    arXiv:2611.06099v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As autonomous agents advance, the traditional boundary between software development and cloud operations gradually blurs, increasing the need for integrated incident detection, localization…

  76. SBVUL: Statement-Based Vulnerability Detection
    USarXiv cs.SE (Software)

    arXiv:2611.06135v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Many recent approaches for vulnerability detection use large language models (LLMs) to classify functions as vulnerable or benign, leaving developers to locate the exploitable statements…

  77. CLEAR: Structured Specifications for Controllable Long-Horizon ML Research Engineering
    USarXiv cs.SE (Software)

    arXiv:2611.06263v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language model (LLM) agents are increasingly being used to automate machine learning (ML) research workflows, ranging from code development and experiment execution to research…

  78. Reassessing Dataset Quality and Fine-Tuning Practices for Vulnerability Detection on PrimeVul dataset
    USarXiv cs.SE (Software)

    arXiv:2611.06373v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent studies report promising results from supervised fine-tuning of pre-trained code language models for automated vulnerability detection on benchmarks such as PrimeVul. In this paper, we…

  79. HELIX: HEterogeneous LLM Inference with FleXible and Fine-Grained Partitioning
    USarXiv cs.SE (Software)

    arXiv:2611.06513v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM inference is inherently heterogeneous, with performance bottlenecks shifting throughout inference phases down to individual operators. This has motivated heterogeneous serving systems…

  80. EPISTEME: Trustworthy Coding Agents Through Tool Call Intent
    USarXiv cs.SE (Software)

    arXiv:2611.06563v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Coding agents change software through tool calls. Tool calls mutate the local state. For good? For bad? Nobody knows. Agents never say why a tool call is made. We propose the epistemic agent…

  81. PatchCon: Patch-aware Weighted Supervised Contrastive Learning for Vulnerability Detection
    USarXiv cs.SE (Software)

    arXiv:2611.06583v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Automated vulnerability detection is critical for securing modern software systems, yet existing learning-based approaches often treat functions as independent samples and underuse the…

  82. Lemmings CSS Animation
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    Article URL: https://markblah.github.io/lemmings/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50375354 Points: 367 # Comments: 71

  83. A history of backdoors (2015)
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  84. Declarative Dragging
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  85. Starfall – Affordable, routine access to microgravity
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    Article URL: https://www.spacex.com/starfall Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50373308 Points: 239 # Comments: 184