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Software Engineering news — Wednesday 04 November 2026

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  1. Images 2.6
    USHacker News Front Page

    Article URL: https://openai.com/index/introducing-images-2-6/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50372945 Points: 364 # Comments: 218

  2. A thousand fewer paths to root
    USHacker News Front Page

    Article URL: https://openai.com/index/a-thousand-fewer-paths-to-root/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50372929 Points: 445 # Comments: 328

  3. Hacking the Xbox 360 Hypervisor Part 3: Bad Update Improvements
    USHacker News Front Page

    Article URL: https://icode4.coffee/?p=1746 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50372164 Points: 127 # Comments: 12

  4. Residential proxies detected on White House network
    USHacker News Front Page

    https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/11/want-to-rent-an-internet... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50371246 Points: 1212 # Comments: 402

  5. Code Matters: Reflections on Rust in the LLM Age
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  6. Qualcomm Cloud AI 100 Ultra – 150W AI Accelerator Card with 128GB at 548GB/s
    USHacker News Front Page

    Article URL: https://www.qualcomm.com/data-center/products/cloud-ai-100-ultra Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50370654 Points: 143 # Comments: 56

  7. Insects don't swarm at LED lights
    USHacker News Front Page

    Article URL: https://www.birdsoutsidemywindow.org/2026/11/03/insects-dont-swarm-at-led-lights/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50370610 Points: 299 # Comments: 152

  8. Ruffle: Stable Releases, API, Text... and Everything Else
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  9. Ripple-65B Preview: U.S. Open-Weight SOTA on Agentic Coding
    USHacker News Front Page

    Article URL: https://www.ricursive.com/ripple Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50369925 Points: 324 # Comments: 116

  10. Show HN: After a decade of reversing, I got co-op working in DOS Wing Commander
    USHacker News Front Page

    Article URL: https://fireflyk64.github.io/wcmulti/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50369895 Points: 219 # Comments: 31

  11. Conductor is joining Meta
    USHacker News Front Page

    Article URL: https://www.conductor.build/announcement Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50369503 Points: 193 # Comments: 204

  12. Burnt TOAST
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  13. A new Go API for JSON - The Go Programming Language
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  14. Python on my wrist
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  15. Progress on provable inference for large language models
    USHacker News Front Page

    Article URL: https://www.anthropic.com/research/provable-inference Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50368626 Points: 232 # Comments: 118

  16. Show HN: A decent text-to-image model trained for ~$20K (Apache 2.0 Weights)
    USHacker News Front Page

    My brother and I run a 2-person lab that trains our own generative video models from scratch. The ultimate goal is a set of creative tools that make it easier for anyone to make animation. Video models today are too slow/expensive and lack…

  17. Your .NET parallel loop can become serial in a one-CPU container
    USStack Overflow Blog

    CPU-based defaults can leave an I/O-heavy loop processing one record at a time. Raising the limit helps, but each downstream service still needs a concurrency budget it can handle.

  18. 'It's just vape, nail, charity shops': Can anything save UK high street?
    USHacker News Front Page

    Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/nov/04/what-can-save-the-british-high-street-rotherham Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50367653 Points: 120 # Comments: 275

  19. Gleam Programming Language Update October 2026
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  20. Arrows to Arrows, Categories to Queries
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  21. Kimi K3.1 Pro model weights are out
    USHacker News Front Page

    Article URL: https://huggingface.co/moonshotai/Kimi-K3.1-Pro Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50366999 Points: 601 # Comments: 172

  22. Clj.rs – a Clojure dialect implemented in Rust
    USHacker News Front Page

    Article URL: https://clj.rs/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50366902 Points: 148 # Comments: 58

  23. Shlemiel the Painter Is Back: How Zig’s libc Rewrite Made SQLite Slower
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  24. OpenAI to acquire Pierre Computer Company
    USHacker News Front Page

    https://twitter.com/pierrecomputer/status/211799903617518818... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50366863 Points: 235 # Comments: 71

  25. Porting Android 16 to my blind mother's keypad phone
    USHacker News Front Page

    Article URL: https://z1x.us/blog/four-hundred-bucks-of-e-waste Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50366821 Points: 163 # Comments: 50

  26. Smashing AI Conference
    USCSS-Tricks

    The AI 2027 Conference is a live online day for designers and engineers on where AI stands today, what to expect in 2027, and where teams are getting it right. Smashing AI Conference originally handwritten and published with love on…

  27. Guerrilla bike lanes: San Francisco makes illicit infrastructure permanent (2016)
    USHacker News Front Page

    Article URL: https://99percentinvisible.org/article/guerrilla-bike-lanes-san-francisco-makes-illicit-infrastructure-permanent/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50366522 Points: 322 # Comments: 249

  28. Your Cryptography Conspiracy Theory Is Wrong
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  29. Lorem Ipsum Dot Gov Dot UK
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  30. Ask HN: What's your current AI agentic setup?
    USHacker News Front Page

    I'm curious how people on HN are using AI day to day, and came up with a list of questions I thought could be interesting to know. No need to answer every question of course, just wanted to get a gut feel how people are using AI. 1) What…

  31. US voters roundly reject data centers in ballot measures
    USHacker News Front Page

    Article URL: https://www.semafor.com/article/11/04/2026/us-voters-roundly-reject-data-centers-in-ballot-measures Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50365982 Points: 174 # Comments: 257

  32. Tencent Hy4
    USHacker News Front Page

    Article URL: https://hy.tencent.ai/research/hy4 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50365780 Points: 238 # Comments: 88

  33. North Korean fake job interview led to $6.3B Binance heist
    USHacker News Front Page

    Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/11/03/north-korean-fake-job-interview-led-to-63b-binance-heist/5307398 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50365755 Points: 509 # Comments: 305

  34. How to speed up the Rust compiler in November 2026
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  35. Man-in-the-middle arbitrary code execution in Debian’s apt
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  36. So my ISP was hijacking my DNS
    USHacker News Front Page

    Article URL: https://www.karthihegde.dev/posts/dns_tampering Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50364860 Points: 120 # Comments: 94

  37. How //go:embed Works: From Source Files to Binary
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  38. So my ISP was hijacking my DNS
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  39. AI is forcing us to pay off 40 years of technical debt
    USHacker News Front Page

    Article URL: https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-in-cybersecurity-php2shell-vulnerability Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50364336 Points: 1221 # Comments: 710

  40. Synaptics Appears to Use Legal Threats to Block Open-Source DisplayLink Driver
    USHacker News Front Page

    Article URL: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Synaptics-Blocks-Vino-Driver Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50363968 Points: 149 # Comments: 59

  41. Zig 0.17.1 Released
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  42. Geoffrey Hinton: it might turn out we were better off without AI
    USHacker News Front Page

    Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/nov/03/ai-godfather-geoffrey-hinton-better-off-without-ai Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50363554 Points: 244 # Comments: 197

  43. Tell HN: Gemini trains on chat history, even for subscribers (personal accounts)
    USHacker News Front Page

    If you have a personal Google AI subscription, all your saved chat history in Gemini can be used for training and there is no way to opt out unless you turn off chat history or use temporary chat sessions. These chat transcripts may even…

  44. Incident with Pull Requests, Git Operations and Issues
    USHacker News Front Page

    Article URL: https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/smtdswd1h2w4 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50363378 Points: 258 # Comments: 129

  45. Fraction comparison trick revisited
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  46. Verification Is Not Knowledge: Science needs more than answers
    USHacker News Front Page

    Article URL: https://blog.cosmos-institute.org/p/verification-is-not-knowledge Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50363019 Points: 208 # Comments: 123

  47. Kitty 0.50
    USHacker News Front Page

    Article URL: https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/changelog/# Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50362980 Points: 349 # Comments: 214

  48. Show HN: Vegetable Gardening for Engineers
    USHacker News Front Page

    Article URL: https://jrcpl.us/contrib/2020/gardening-for-engineers/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50362963 Points: 180 # Comments: 37

  49. Nvidia RTX Spark encrypted firmware slows inference speed to 35% on Linux
    USHacker News Front Page

    Article URL: https://www.mindstudio.ai/blog/linux-nvidia-rtx-spark-laptop Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50362905 Points: 559 # Comments: 255

  50. Being of use to someone
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  51. OpenVDDK – Independent Virtual Disk Library
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  52. Pulling the right strings for RCE on a Puppet
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  53. The cryptography behind electronic voting (and why paper ballots are still essential)
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  54. Contextful Arrows via Wreath Products
    USarXiv cs.PL (Programming)

    arXiv:2410.21889v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We introduce contextads and the Ctx construction, unifying various structures and constructions in category theory dealing with context and contextful arrows---comonads and their…

  55. Non-Cartesian Guarded Recursion with Daggers
    USarXiv cs.PL (Programming)

    arXiv:2409.14591v5 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Guarded recursion is a framework allowing for a formalisation of streams in classical (as opposed to concurrent, probabilistic, quantum) programming languages. The latter take their…

  56. Jelly Sheet
    USHacker News Front Page

    Article URL: https://mrdoob.github.io/codevember-2026/01/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50361268 Points: 434 # Comments: 109

  57. Distinct cellular and genetic differences in colorectal cancer in young patients
    USHacker News Front Page

    Article URL: https://www.dana-farber.org/newsroom/news-releases/2026/study-reveals-distinct-cellular-and-genetic-differences-in-colorectal-cancer-in-younger-patients Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50361154 Points: 113 #…

  58. Greece has its own Pompeii: Thera buried Akrotiri in ash 17th-16th century BCE
    USHacker News Front Page

    Article URL: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/greece-has-its-own-pompeii-and-the-ruins-tell-a-captivating-story-of-a-sophisticated-seafaring-bronze-age-society-180989747/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50360810…

  59. The valley of webhooks
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  60. Giant canyon on Mars is still tectonically active
    USHacker News Front Page

    Article URL: https://lamont.columbia.edu/news/giant-canyon-mars-still-tectonically-active-today Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50360573 Points: 134 # Comments: 35

  61. C++26 Disapproved
    USHacker News Front Page

    Article URL: https://andreasfertig.com/blog/2026/11/cpp26-dis-failed-how-does-cpp-survive/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50360164 Points: 378 # Comments: 285