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Software Engineering news — Tuesday 03 November 2026

53 stories from 5 sources, every one in English. Each links to its publisher.

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  1. Observations from Running stealmybitcoin.com
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  2. Gist of Go: Concurrency
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    This seems like a well executed mini-course on concurrency in Go. I'd love to hear where it might be out of date or otherwise steering me wrong, as well as pointers to other good resources. Comments

  3. Postgres 19 REPACK: Built-In Online Table Bloat Cleanup
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  4. Announcing NetBSD 11.1
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  5. The Internals of PostgreSQL
    USHacker News Front Page

    Article URL: https://www.interdb.jp/pg/index.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50358702 Points: 350 # Comments: 28

  6. The Little Book of Generative AI Foundations: An Intuitive Mathematical Primer
    USHacker News Front Page

    Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.29713 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50358582 Points: 345 # Comments: 55

  7. Safari introduces Adaptive Dark Mode in 27.3
    USHacker News Front Page

    Article URL: https://webkit.org/blog/18541/introducing-adaptive-dark-mode/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50358562 Points: 459 # Comments: 238

  8. macOS 27 Golden Gate does not actually support CoreStorage volumes
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  9. Show HN: Uncracked City, detective game where you question LLM suspects that lie
    USHacker News Front Page

    To give you some context on the project. I'm a solo founder and I use AI heavily in my work. The idea came from wanting players to discover cities. Each city has its own history, so every case is set in a real city with real public places…

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  11. Would you believe it's jank?
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  12. Common Beliefs About DNSSEC Put to the Test: An Invitation to Fact-Check Your Assumptions
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  13. Preparing for the Flipper One Kickstarter and opening pre-orders
    USHacker News Front Page

    https://docs.flipper.net/one Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50356994 Points: 170 # Comments: 79

  14. Your terminal manipulation/navigation setups
    USlobste.rs

    Dear Lobste.rs, over a year after my previous post on mouse free setups , your advice was instrumental to building the tech stack I use today as a disabled person, composed of the Svalboard, Talon Voice, and a fair few extensions for Talon…

  15. How I use AI (Oct 2026)
    USHacker News Front Page

    Article URL: https://ben.stolovitz.com/posts/how-use-ai-oct-2026/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50355767 Points: 199 # Comments: 237

  16. kitty 0.50.0
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  17. Qwen 3.8 27B on my laptop can interpret model weights, too
    USHacker News Front Page

    Article URL: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Nov/3/qwen-can-interpret-model-weights/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50355251 Points: 661 # Comments: 193

  18. Postman silently auto-installs AI plugins and attempts to share all API data
    USHacker News Front Page

    Article URL: https://github.com/postmanlabs/postman-app-support/issues/14370 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50354960 Points: 1359 # Comments: 456

  19. Stringman, an $800 open-source room scale gripper robot
    USHacker News Front Page

    Article URL: https://neufangled.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50354358 Points: 748 # Comments: 228

  20. Gitbook Breached
    USHacker News Front Page

    We opened a ticket with support about Gitbook availability issues and got this in reply. We have yet to see any official customer communication or breach notification. Apologies for the formatting, did the best I could as it's a mobile…

  21. Planning with open variable lists in Gecode
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  22. A Second Futamura Projection
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  23. AI is destroying my CS degree
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  24. Study estimates 75% of NFL players who died over 15-year span had CTE
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    Article URL: https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/study-estimates-75-nfl-players-died-15-year-span-may-cte-rcna605975 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50353335 Points: 140 # Comments: 84

  25. Kalshi and its co-founders face felony charges for violating Utah gambling laws
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    Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/10/trump-admin-sues-utah-to-save-kalshi-from-the-states-total-ban-on-gambling/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50353229 Points: 406 # Comments: 332

  26. Schools that block Google’s A.I. will lose student access to its search engine
    USHacker News Front Page

    https://archive.ph/RuwsB https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/products/educatio... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50353192 Points: 486 # Comments: 357

  27. The Ubuntu 26.04 Rust sudo is not compatible with standard sudo
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  28. Death comes for XSLT
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  29. Mac at Any Scale
    USHacker News Front Page

    Article URL: https://namespace.so/blog/mac-at-any-scale Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50352758 Points: 362 # Comments: 202

  30. OpenAI seems to be silently re-enabling model training on Codex chats
    USHacker News Front Page

    My company is pretty paranoid about leaking IP to the frontier labs through prompts, so we've all been diligent about disabling data sharing in Codex/Claude Code/etc. But yesterday my coworkers and I noticed that the setting had been…

  31. Re-Implementing :nth-child() With Modern CSS
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    Combining :nth-child with style queries and sibling-index() to conditionally select child elements. Re-Implementing :nth-child() With Modern CSS originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks . You should really get the…

  32. Ideas for social networks
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  33. Just a little AI resistance, as a treat
    USHacker News Front Page

    Article URL: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/11/just-a-little-ai-resistance-as-a-treat/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50352257 Points: 142 # Comments: 83

  34. Canonical's CVE Response Times
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  35. openSUSE Leap 16.1
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    This is the first minor release in the Leap 16 series and with this release, openSUSE’s immutable server distribution, Leap Micro, becomes part of Leap itself through a new Immutable Mode. Comments

  36. The 'Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen' post is misleading
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    Article URL: https://honnibal.dev/blog/astra-read-write-misleading Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50351111 Points: 988 # Comments: 203

  37. git-loom 1.0
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  38. Modern CSS Might Make Your Front-End More Complex
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    Have you ever replaced fifty lines of JavaScript with a few lines of CSS, merged the PR, and felt like you just did the codebase a favor? You replace ResizeObserver with a container query, the diff is mostly red, and everyone approves it…

  39. Revolut moves to self-hosted GLM
    USHacker News Front Page

    Article URL: https://twitter.com/guilleflorvs/status/2117379073785696395 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50350004 Points: 125 # Comments: 88

  40. The Lisp curse, now coming to your ecosystem
    USHacker News Front Page

    Article URL: https://javahippie.net/programming/llm/2026/03/05/the-lisp-curse-coming-to-your-ecosystem.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50349667 Points: 185 # Comments: 135

  41. Designing a planned switchover for minimum disruption
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  42. Firefox Security ＆ Privacy Newsletter 2026 Q3
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  43. Could a modern chess engine on a Pentium have defeated Kasparov in 1996?
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    Article URL: https://nicholas.carlini.com/writing/2026/algorithmic-improvements-chess.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50349276 Points: 450 # Comments: 214

  44. The software industry: annealing, but wrong
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  45. Nvidia – open-source auto-ontology
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    Article URL: https://github.com/NVIDIA/auto-ontology Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50348962 Points: 241 # Comments: 99

  46. Oh, your agents need OAuth2, too
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    Recorded at LDX3 by LeadDev, Ryan chats with Dan Moore, Senior Director of CIAM Strategy and Identity Standards at FusionAuth, about adapting established OAuth2 protocols for the agentic era, the security necessity of giving autonomous AI…

  47. Why did you choose the nix you nix?
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    I don't which nix is good and at this point I'm afraid I need to ask. (Cpp) Nix Determinate Nix Lix Or, you know, Guix ? (I suspect that Snix , Tvix , and others aren't intended for general use… but I might be wrong?)

  48. Scaling Git at OpenAI
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  49. Show HN: Hacker Times, a New York Times-inspired version of Hacker News
    USHacker News Front Page

    I thought it would be fun to browse HN as if it were a newspaper. The site updates once an hour. Enjoy! Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50346981 Points: 434 # Comments: 135

  50. DiscImageStudio: burn visible artwork onto CDs, DVDs and Blu-ray discs
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    Article URL: https://github.com/JiaFeiMiao-K-Cat/DiscImageStudio Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50346849 Points: 320 # Comments: 71

  51. Show HN: HackerTV – HN's most-recommended Youtube videos as 24/7 TV channels
    USHacker News Front Page

    I saw HackerTube ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50319510 ) a few days ago, the YouTube videos HN keeps recommending, pulled from 19 years of comments. It made me want to flip through them instead of picking, so I built a TV for it…

  52. Ask HN: Does anyone have a contact with Cleveland-area Ham club?
    USHacker News Front Page

    I filled out the web form for the Cuyahoga Amateur Radio Club but it's probably been circular-filed... I gave some info about a large collection of radio gear that needs to be removed from a home or it will be put into a dumpster. A lot of…

  53. Intel stock collapse worsens as $3.5T chip rout spreads
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    Article URL: https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/article/the-intel-stock-collapse-is-getting-worse--and-the-37-trillion-chip-rout-is-spreading-212154947.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50346153 Points: 152 # Comments…