Software Engineering
Software Engineering news — Monday 12 October 2026
101 stories from 5 sources, every one in English. Each links to its publisher.
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The Origin Story of Kid Pix
Article URL: http://red-green-blue.com/kid-pix-the-early-years Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50064673 Points: 180 # Comments: 42
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Blood cells from 80-year-old donor become stem cells with molecular age under 20
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC13634082/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50064536 Points: 143 # Comments: 94
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I turned my unused Kindle into a photo frame with GPT-6 Astra
Article URL: https://nirajrajgor.com/blog/kindle-photo-frame-with-ai Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50064318 Points: 123 # Comments: 79
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RJ Mitte has died
Article URL: https://news.sky.com/story/breaking-bad-star-rj-mitte-dies-aged-34-13598332 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50063831 Points: 186 # Comments: 56
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Janas: Run LLMs larger than RAM by streaming experts from SSD
Article URL: https://github.com/prabanta-dev/janas Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50063717 Points: 203 # Comments: 74
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AI is a tool and using it well takes skill
Article URL: https://yyhh.org/blog/2026/10/ai-is-a-tool/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50063427 Points: 741 # Comments: 573
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Phreak.ing – Internet Phone Switch
Article URL: https://phreak.ing/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50063417 Points: 120 # Comments: 33
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Intel D270 GPU AI Accelerator–Up to 480 GB LPDDR5X
Article URL: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/details/discrete-gpus/data-center-gpu/d-series.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50063365 Points: 291 # Comments: 166
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Who Is Vfmaddrnd231pd?
Article URL: https://purplesyringa.moe/blog/who-is-vfmaddrnd231pd/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50063138 Points: 240 # Comments: 21
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Making big downloads resumable in Firefox
Article URL: https://lunarwatcher.codeberg.page/til/firefox/resumable-big-downloads.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50061791 Points: 264 # Comments: 124
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MIT class project turns into an FDA-cleared treatment for tremors
Article URL: https://news.mit.edu/2026/mit-class-project-turns-into-fda-cleared-treatment-for-tremors-1002 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50061659 Points: 256 # Comments: 53
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Introducing OpenFatigue
Article URL: https://openfatigue.ai/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50061278 Points: 157 # Comments: 31
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Speeding up the Unreal editor by… not using unnecessarily secure hash methods
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Codex CLI installs a persistent, self-updating background daemon by default
Article URL: https://github.com/openai/codex/issues/48195 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50060694 Points: 542 # Comments: 272
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Just say no to OpenAI and Anthropic
Article URL: https://micahflee.com/just-say-no-to-openai-and-anthropic/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50060500 Points: 130 # Comments: 80
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512 bytes at a time: reconstructing IBM i save-file checksums
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ESP32 As Your Raspberry Pi’s Linux Wireless Co-processor
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your c is not standard c
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AI coding agents generate more code, but not more software
Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/10/ai-coding-agents-generate-more-code-but-not-more-software/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50059523 Points: 292 # Comments: 252
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What I've been seeing lately (in software)
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What are you doing this week?
What are you doing this week? Feel free to share! Keep in mind it’s OK to do nothing at all, too.
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Muse Wonder
Article URL: https://research.meta.ai/blog/muse-wonder Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50059115 Points: 614 # Comments: 328
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Launch HN: Agent37 (YC F26) – Low-cost agent sandboxes for running agents
Hey HN, I’m Vishnu from Agent37 ( https://agent37.com ). We build sandboxes for running AI agents at under 10% of the cost of most sandbox providers. Our customers spend an average of $0.37/month per sandbox. You can view a video…
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A Modern Web App in C
Article URL: https://prophitt.me/writing/a-modern-web-app-in-c Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50058528 Points: 675 # Comments: 297
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nobloat/poll - designing a minimal poll tool
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GLM-Legal: Advancing Agentic Legal Intelligence
Article URL: https://z.ai/blog/glm-legal Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50058507 Points: 651 # Comments: 353
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French supermarkets suffer fridge shutdown after 'unprecedented' cyberattack
Article URL: https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/french-supermarket-chains-cyberattack-forced-115141288.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50057956 Points: 121 # Comments: 82
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Parsing JSON at tens of gigabytes per second… in Python
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Kevin Kelly's 2016 AI Predictions, 10 Years Later
Article URL: https://taylor.town/kk-ai-2026 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50057668 Points: 179 # Comments: 66
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Fridges in French supermarkets hit by cyber attack
Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crq5nzxv9q4yo Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50057551 Points: 117 # Comments: 71
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Why aren't AI companies being charged for hacking?
Article URL: https://mortoray.com/why-arent-ai-companies-being-charged-for-hacking/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50057278 Points: 249 # Comments: 226
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Finding a $90,000 Remote Code Execution Vulnerability in Google
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Solar panels that plug into your wall
https://archive.ph/NEPz3 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50056822 Points: 223 # Comments: 239
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Beyond the AI noise: How Stack Overflow is rethinking tech hiring
It’s gotten exponentially harder to identify talent that we feel is a good fit for our teams at the top of the application funnel.
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(Post-Quantum) Cryptographic Right Answers
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Turn a WiFi 7 Router into a 320Msps Software Defined Radio Receiver
Article URL: https://github.com/h0m3us3r/w1700k-sdr Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50055593 Points: 383 # Comments: 104
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French supermarket chains say cyberattack forced refrigerator shutdown
This popped up and reminded me strangely of a story post a month ago here: https://lobste.rs/s/ygjo0g/i_think_military_commissary_freezers And, lo and behold, the very same controller supplier is mentioned in both the earlier US article…
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Incident with Actions, Pull Requests and Issues
Article URL: https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/93njd414rpbx Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50055375 Points: 141 # Comments: 128
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Citroen revives the 2CV for an electric age
Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c620r33plgppo Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50055220 Points: 375 # Comments: 422
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How to effectively debug when you no longer understand the code
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QGIS bans AI assisted contributions
https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/qgis-developer/2026-Septem... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50054751 Points: 358 # Comments: 391
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Living in the Weimar era of Ruby
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Phloem: Git history grown like a slime mold
Article URL: https://phloem.stemdeck.app/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50054465 Points: 100 # Comments: 20
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Deloitte falsified documents to evade tax on Abramovich's wealth
Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c64g1l5389kvo Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50054207 Points: 526 # Comments: 178
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Linus Torvalds Working On A Hefty Linux Kernel Improvement With Claude Code
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900-Page Pre-Pantone Guide to Color from 1692 (With Complete High-Res Scan)
Article URL: https://www.openculture.com/2026/10/a-900-page-pre-pantone-guide-to-color-from-1692.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50053487 Points: 254 # Comments: 44
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Linux boots on iPhone 11
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PK-88 TNC Hardware Modifications
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Catch a Bird – I made it for my own sanity
Article URL: https://catchabird.com Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50053384 Points: 355 # Comments: 103
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Writing a Demoscene Intro for the ZX Spectrum
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Implementing kubernetes node bin packing
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Fable Took My Job
Article URL: https://cendyne.dev/posts/2026-10-11-fable-took-my-jorb.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50053216 Points: 116 # Comments: 106
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We Put Fighting Game Netcode in Brood War
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Zod 4.6.6 compromised by malware?
Article URL: https://github.com/colinhacks/zod/commit/d821685ea6732436fcdf786a81d076958471e467 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50052814 Points: 156 # Comments: 45
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Show HN: PS2 games statically recompiled to WebAssembly
Article URL: https://github.com/snuri00/ps2-web-recomp Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50052251 Points: 275 # Comments: 145
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Postgres isn't slow, your storage is
Article URL: https://clickhouse.com/blog/posette-talk-recap-postgres-isnt-slow-your-storage-is Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50052163 Points: 132 # Comments: 135
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Attack of the Vibe Coded Photoshop Clones
Article URL: https://www.shokunin.studio/blog/2026/10/9/attack-of-the-vibe-coded-photoshop-clones Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50052156 Points: 105 # Comments: 120
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Research Firm Calls Anthropic's IPO 'Unprecedented Test of Investor Gullibity'
Article URL: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/10/07/anthropic-will-be-most-ridiculous-ipo-of-year-analyst-says.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50051583 Points: 164 # Comments: 103
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Type-safe HTML templating in Zig
Article URL: https://lalinsky.com/2026/10/11/type-safe-html-templating-in-zig.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50051573 Points: 236 # Comments: 83
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Will Linux phones become a viable alternative to the Android/iOS duopoly?
Article URL: https://amosbbatto.wordpress.com/2026/10/05/linux-phones-alternative/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50051530 Points: 202 # Comments: 219
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3-2-1 Backup Strategy with restic and Backblaze B2
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VortexSynth: Profile-guided benchmark reconstruction for GPU architecture research
arXiv:2610.12661v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: GPU architecture research requires representative benchmarks that can execute on new designs. However, many vendor-tailored workloads and library kernels cannot run directly on research…
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A Simplified Layout Algebra for GPU Kernels
arXiv:2610.13679v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The layout algebra behind NVIDIA's CuTe library describes how tensor tiles map onto threads and memory. A layout is a shape with a stride for each entry, so a coordinate's address is the sum…
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A-SAW: The Agentic Software Architecture Workflow
arXiv:2610.13647v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI assistance in software engineering focuses on implementation and verification, leaving the design phase, and in particular the maintenance of architecture documentation, comparatively…
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(When) Should a Software Factory be Lights-off? Benchmarking Code Review Agents on Bug Detection
arXiv:2610.13668v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: With the advances of coding agents, software developers are spending more time reviewing code than writing code. As human review velocity falls behind agentic code generation, it is tempting…
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SWE-Duel: Towards a Self-Scaling Arena for Coding Agents
arXiv:2610.12569v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Static coding benchmarks are fixed at release. Over time their tasks leak into training data, and stronger agents eventually saturate them. We argue that a benchmark should instead aim to…
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Vulnerable Models in the AI Supply Chain: An Empirical Study of Adoption, Propagation, and Usage Patterns
arXiv:2610.12893v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The rapid integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) models has established a complex supply chain, but many of these shared artifacts harbor severe vulnerabilities such as insecure…
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Co-Modifying Application Code and Deployment Infrastructure: A Causal Study of AI Agent Pull Requests
arXiv:2610.12849v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Current software engineering agents are evaluated predominantly inside isolated sandboxes against synchronous local tests. However, deploying features in collaborative repositories requires…
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Understanding Verification Vulnerabilities in Cross-chain Bridges: An Empirical Study
arXiv:2610.13170v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: With the rapid development of blockchain technology, numerous heterogeneous blockchains have emerged, each featuring distinct architectures, consensus mechanisms, and application…
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Evaluation of Software Quality Through Refactoring Commit-Impact Analysis
arXiv:2610.12890v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The aim of this study is to conduct an empirical analysis of the correlation between code modifications and software quality. This will be achieved by examining the effects of changes made…
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HAFixAgent: History-Aware Agentic Program Repair
arXiv:2511.01047v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Automated program repair (APR) has recently shifted toward large language models and agent-based systems, while prior work shows that repository history can help repair single-line bugs…
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SCCGBench: Executability-Oriented Evaluation for Real-World Web Service-Call Code Generation
arXiv:2610.12920v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM-generated service-call code is increasingly important for service computing, where developers rely on large language models (LLMs) to compose services and invoke third-party services…
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REINS: Agent-guided Thread Scheduling for Concurrency Bug Detection and Reproduction
arXiv:2610.13421v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Concurrency bugs manifest only under specific thread interleavings, making them hard to detect and reproduce. Existing controlled concurrency testing techniques take over thread scheduling to…
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Fix What's Wrong, Keep What's Right: Hallucination Repair for LLM-Based Optimization Modeling
arXiv:2610.12529v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly being explored to automate operations research modeling, reduce modeling time and lower the expertise barrier to optimization based decision…
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A Baseline Assessment for the Agentic Web Technology Stack
arXiv:2610.13703v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The fast pace in which protocols, frameworks, and technologies are being proposed for LLM-based agents results in a complex scenario for anyone aiming to create state-of-the-art AI…
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Agent4Spec: An LLM-based Agentic System to Optimize API Specifications through Automated Validation and Market Analysis
arXiv:2610.13273v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: API specifications serve as critical documentation for modern software development, directly impacting integration efficiency and client code generation. While recent advancements have…
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CTML: A Comprehensive Framework for Continuous Testing in Machine Learning Operations
arXiv:2610.12515v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The increasing use of machine learning (ML) systems in production has highlighted some important weaknesses in traditional software testing methods. Unlike regular software, ML systems can…
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Not All Correct Fixes Run Alike: An Empirical Study of Patch Performance in Repository-Level Issue Resolution
arXiv:2610.13563v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Repository-level issue-resolution benchmarks such as SWE-bench evaluate submitted patches primarily based on whether they pass the correctness tests, leaving the runtime performance of…
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Don't Guess, Just Ask: Evaluating Interactive Requirement Clarification for Repository-Level Software Development
arXiv:2610.13022v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As LLMs become increasingly capable of implementing software, a critical bottleneck emerges: whether they truly understand what users want. Users often begin with vague intent, leaving…
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Meta-Reflective Evolution Effectively Improves Production AI Systems
arXiv:2610.12794v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Language Model (LLM)-guided evolutionary optimization has successfully improved prompts, programs, and even entire AI systems. Most optimization methods select a candidate from the…
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Leakage-Resistant Evaluation of AI-Generated Database Specifications in Specification-Driven Migration
arXiv:2610.12778v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper presents a leakage-resistant framework and benchmark (LRFB) for measuring evaluators of AI-generated Oracle PL/SQL specifications. The benchmark contains 494 labelled…
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Beyond Binary Verifiable Rewards: Behavioral Self-Rewarding for SWE Agents
arXiv:2610.12598v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) provides reliable supervision for software engineering agents through executable tests, but binary rewards fail to distinguish…
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Two Birds One Stone: Effective Static Detection of Resource and Communication Deadlocks in Rust Programs
arXiv:2401.01114v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Although Rust claims to enable fearless concurrency, concurrency errors remain prevalent in practical applications, with deadlocks particularly prominent and harmful. Current static…
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Proceedings of the Seventh miniKanren and Relational Programming Workshop (miniKanren 2025)
arXiv:2610.12505v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The miniKanren and Relational Programming Workshop brings together researchers, implementors, and users of the miniKanren family of relational programming languages, including miniKanren…
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CAPE - Context-Aware Prioritization Engine for Vulnerability Scoring and Management
arXiv:2610.13071v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vulnerability patching is critical for safeguarding an enterprise's software ecosystem from cyber attacks. However, patching requires adequate preparation for potential system downtime and…
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Returning to Development States: When Full Sandbox Snapshots Help Coding Agents
arXiv:2610.13841v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Coding agents often make useful progress before they fail, but retry-from-scratch discards the machine state created along the way. This makes failure recovery an interesting search…
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SWE-DeceptionBench: Benchmarking Deceptive Behaviors of LLMs Across the Software Development Lifecycle
arXiv:2610.13626v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly used throughout the software development lifecycle. This growing reliance on LLMs raises concerns about their trustworthiness, with deception…
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Understanding and Mitigating Cross-Session Attacks via Persistent Artifacts in Agent Skill Composition
arXiv:2610.13227v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Agent skills extend the capabilities of AI agents by bundling instructions, code, and resources into reusable packages. During skill execution, agents may produce or modify artifacts, such…
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Identity-Based Signing Shifts, Not Solves, Usability: Evidence from Five Identity-Based Signing Ecosystems
arXiv:2603.17133v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Identity-based software signing tools aim to make software artifact provenance verifiable while reducing the burden of long-lived key management. These tools are becoming critical…
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Quantifying SMT Solver Instability for Formal Verification
arXiv:2610.12649v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Program verification has become commonplace in software development projects, and much of its feasibility can be attributed to the potential of SMT solvers to automate model checking and…
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TestSuiteBench: Coding Agents Struggle to Generate Strong Test Suites from Specifications
arXiv:2610.13065v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Coding agents are increasingly used to create large software projects. While code-generation benchmarks have scaled accordingly to full applications, test-generation benchmarks remain limited…
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AgentSWE: Can Coding Agents Build the Agent You Actually Want?
arXiv:2610.13361v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As the production of software passes into the hands of software itself, coding agents are increasingly commissioned to build agents fitted to their users' own workflows. This delegation…
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ProgramGym: Scaling Training Environments for Long-Horizon Program Reproduction Agents
arXiv:2610.13395v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Coding agents are increasingly used to build programs from scratch as software engineers do rather than to resolve issues within a repository or to generate a repository from a given…
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SoftwareGym: Scaling Computer-Use Agent Training with Diverse Synthesized Software Environments
arXiv:2610.12611v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Computer-use agents (CUAs) are rapidly improving, yet synthesizing diverse and reliable software environments at scale remains challenging. Native application environments require…
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COBALT: Contextual Bandit Learning with Offline Trajectories for Multi-Turn Code Generation
arXiv:2602.03806v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Training large language models (LLMs) for multi-turn code generation typically relies on online reinforcement learning (RL), in which models learn from repeatedly generated online…
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Do dentists know what they're doing?
Article URL: https://mapwriting.substack.com/p/dentists Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50050553 Points: 913 # Comments: 646
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Refurb weekend II: Alpha Micro Eagle 300 and friends
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CSS for underlines
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'AI' is Not a Tool
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Doory – Open-Source Canva
Article URL: https://github.com/shaongitbd/doory Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50049872 Points: 184 # Comments: 68
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Local Indexing to reduce tool calling and token usage
Article URL: https://tedhaley.ca/pensieve/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50049508 Points: 109 # Comments: 36