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Software Engineering news — Sunday 11 October 2026

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

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  1. Whatever became of holography? (2011)
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    Article URL: https://www.americanscientist.org/article/whatever-became-of-holography Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50049411 Points: 152 # Comments: 76

  2. Highlights from "I spent 6 years developing a game in Rust and it just shipped, AMA" (2024)
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  3. Fingerprints are the new cookies
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    Article URL: https://royfish.dev/fingerprints-are-the-new-cookies Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50048642 Points: 690 # Comments: 331

  4. Google is illegaly cutting forest to build data centers
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    Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/oct/06/google-datacentres-finland-temporary-halt-environmental-impact-assessment Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50048638 Points: 273 # Comments: 71

  5. Recursive self-improvement through collective intelligence
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    Article URL: https://pub.sakana.ai/mass/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50048522 Points: 108 # Comments: 58

  6. Tello's GameSir T1d controller as a Linux Xbox controller
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  7. Passkeys are a trap. Do not use them
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    Article URL: https://nonfunctional.substack.com/p/passkeys-are-a-trap-do-not-use-them Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50048312 Points: 898 # Comments: 466

  8. Reviewing code in the agent era
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  9. A Remote Employee Refused 160 Webcam Photos a Day. Her Employer Fired Her
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    Article URL: https://www.inc.com/chloe-rosenberg/a-remote-employee-refused-160-webcam-photos-a-day-her-employer-fired-her/91415963 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50047825 Points: 169 # Comments: 127

  10. D-Bus Hell
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  11. The gap in shared understanding of LLM capability is widening
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    Article URL: https://twitter.com/karpathy/status/2109361546505966046 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50047422 Points: 647 # Comments: 940

  12. Cartographers of North Korea
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    Article URL: https://cartographers-nk.wonyoung.so/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50047091 Points: 306 # Comments: 62

  13. Do You Have Pre-2012 Onion Issues?
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    Article URL: https://theonion.com/archivehunt/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50047055 Points: 352 # Comments: 55

  14. The next-gen borrow checker, a drop-in replacement for Rust borrow checking
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  15. Making React Context Cheap with React Compiler
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  16. Chapter 1 of "Ways of Seeing" by John Berger (1972)
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    Article URL: https://www.ways-of-seeing.com/ch1 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50046241 Points: 136 # Comments: 39

  17. I'm sorry, but you still have to think
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  18. Total Annihilation, rebuilt for modern computers
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    Article URL: https://nanolathe.gg Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50045984 Points: 643 # Comments: 246

  19. NYC's "Click to Cancel" rule is now in effect
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    Article URL: https://www.nyc.gov/main/click-to-cancel Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50045946 Points: 500 # Comments: 247

  20. The wild west of polyglot docs sites
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  21. Arena Allocators in C
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  22. What we ended up doing about alias propagation
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  23. Sound – Bartosz Ciechanowski (2022)
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    Article URL: https://ciechanow.ski/sound/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50045147 Points: 259 # Comments: 32

  24. How to Build Wealth as a Career Person
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    Article URL: https://asheradeniyi.com/2026/04/10/how-to-build-wealth-as-a-career-person/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50044715 Points: 124 # Comments: 120

  25. How I reverse engineered a commercial spatial audio effect
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    Article URL: http://epestr.com/blog/reverse-engineering-a-commercial-spatial-audio-effect/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50044272 Points: 109 # Comments: 34

  26. I'm still around.. I'm just not writing here
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  27. Internal files add to evidence of an ExxonMobil climate deception campaign
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    Article URL: https://insideclimatenews.org/news/07102026/exxonmobil-climate-deception-new-evidence/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50043682 Points: 343 # Comments: 180

  28. Terence Tao: Math 2.0 [pdf]
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    Article URL: https://teorth.github.io/tao-web/slides/math-2-0-caltech-2026.pdf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50043026 Points: 516 # Comments: 506

  29. Valen's Memory Safety: A New Kind of Borrow Checking
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  30. The tilde in your PATH may not be your HOME
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    Article URL: https://disconnect3d.pl//2026/10/02/dont-put-tilde-in-your-path/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50042425 Points: 226 # Comments: 144

  31. Show HN: BetterWispr – Free, open-source dictation for Mac
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    Article URL: https://betterwispr.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50042333 Points: 179 # Comments: 103

  32. Hacking the Eufy Doorbell and Base Station
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  33. I paid people to try and follow my README
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    Article URL: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/10/i-paid-people-to-try-and-follow-my-readme/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50042219 Points: 356 # Comments: 184

  34. The baffling intelligence of a single cell (2024)
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    Article URL: https://jsomers.net/e-coli-chemotaxis/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50041866 Points: 378 # Comments: 119

  35. Nitter: Update Oct 10th seeking funding and legal help
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    Article URL: https://nitter.net Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50041682 Points: 374 # Comments: 182

  36. Bot traffic from Yandex
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    Article URL: https://radar.cloudflare.com/bots/as13238?dateRange=7d Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50041619 Points: 556 # Comments: 218

  37. IRCv3
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    Article URL: https://ircv3.net/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50041540 Points: 337 # Comments: 288

  38. What's Wrong with GitHub
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  39. How big is a Git commit? - ratfactor
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