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Software Engineering news — Saturday 07 November 2026

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

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  1. Dear Open Source Developers: It's OK not to embargo
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  2. I’m not a fan of Deno’s security model (2024)
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  3. GitHub New pull request overview page in public preview
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    Article URL: https://github.blog/changelog/2026-11-05-new-pull-request-overview-page-in-public-preview/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50408931 Points: 153 # Comments: 103

  4. Making any integer with four 2s (2025)
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    Article URL: https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2025/making-any-integer-with-four-2s/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50408713 Points: 195 # Comments: 52

  5. TideCloak | Tide Whitepaper Series
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  6. *sshole, or when are we finally going to get rid of C?
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  7. CHIMERA simulates organic sound with acoustic tubes
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  8. Claude Code's "Don't Ask Again" exposes passwords in 1,122 public GitHub files
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    Article URL: https://apiiro.com/blog/coding-agents-leaking-secrets-github-dont-ask-again Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50407882 Points: 595 # Comments: 404

  9. Workflow dependency lockfiles
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  10. Catching prompt injections hidden in PDFs
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  11. OpenBSD top(1) adds flag to show chroot, pledge and unveil status
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  12. GhostMap: The Android flaw that crashes your phone before you open the app
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  13. What I run on my $10 USD OpenStick homelab
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    Article URL: https://blog.bosscher.ch/posts/openstick/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50406670 Points: 748 # Comments: 129

  14. The end of Microsoft Research's AI Frontiers group
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    https://archive.is/AaY5O https://businessexaminer.ca/victoria-articles/item/microsoft... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50406563 Points: 476 # Comments: 287

  15. Five memorable books about programming (2008)
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    Article URL: https://prog21.dadgum.com/19.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50406319 Points: 107 # Comments: 66

  16. Show HN: Coldframe, a honeypot that poses as a supermarket fridge controller
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    I built Coldframe, a honeypot that pretends to be a supermarket refrigeration controller. Inspired by the events on industrial fridge installations in the past weeks, I wanted to see what people would try against a convincing fake. To…

  17. MaxxBench – "Nice DeepSWE score. But is it true?"
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    Article URL: https://maxxbench.unlap.ai/research/why-maxxbench/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50406222 Points: 364 # Comments: 99

  18. Apple’s grey list: Words and phrases your iPhone won’t help you spell
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    Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/nov/06/struggling-to-spell-male-chauvinist-pig-apple-grey-list-means-your-iphone-wont-help-you Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50406111 Points: 478 # Comments: 302

  19. How Long Can Life Wait?
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    Article URL: https://mceglowski.substack.com/p/how-long-can-life-wait Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50405789 Points: 118 # Comments: 68

  20. Every processor die anyone has photographed and given away
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    Article URL: https://sheets.works/data-viz/cpu-dies Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50405782 Points: 109 # Comments: 18

  21. They don't make 'em like that any more: Borland Turbo Pascal 7
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    Article URL: https://kevinboone.me/tpwin.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50405678 Points: 136 # Comments: 79

  22. Open-source firmwares for the M-VAVE FM-1, from their makers, in one place
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  23. Just how far can the FOR UPDATE SKIP LOCKED Postgres queue go?
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  24. Alpine Linux : openssh-server password authentication bypass
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  25. The $8 Linux Computer (2022)
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    Article URL: http://thelittleengineerthatcould.blogspot.com/2022/12/the-8-linux-computer.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50404599 Points: 247 # Comments: 94

  26. Every Windows 11 app should kill Electron, and Discord just showed why
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    Article URL: https://www.windowslatest.com/2026/11/06/every-windows-11-app-should-kill-electron-and-discord-just-showed-why-no-starting-screen-and-70-less-ram-even-with-two-accounts-signed-in/ Comments URL…

  27. Amutable Foundations: A Technical Overview
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  28. How are you dealing with all the negative side effects of AI on the web?
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    It seems to me that the AI hype killed the web for good, but not for the reasons we immediately associate with it. Search engines now rank links full of slop at the top, which ironically make LLM summaries acceptable, not because they are…

  29. Every Mac comes with an (undocumented) family member classifier
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    Article URL: https://8rank.ai/game/apple-intelligence-personal-knowledge-graph Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50403097 Points: 826 # Comments: 438

  30. Running a law firm on Free software
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    Article URL: https://decoded.legal/blog/2026/11/running-a-law-firm-on-free-software-2026-edition/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50403066 Points: 261 # Comments: 126

  31. Need for Speed Underground 2 online in the browser
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    Article URL: https://nfsu2.xyz/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50403052 Points: 1041 # Comments: 258

  32. Meridian — an experimental web browser built on Servo and GPUI
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  33. Two Dimensional Version Control
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  34. Scriptable GeoDNS: leaving AWS for Bunny
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  35. The Components of Agent Memory
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    Article URL: https://www.anthropic.com/research/components-of-agent-memory Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50402212 Points: 135 # Comments: 68

  36. Forwarded Without Question: How Web Frameworks Overtrust the Forwarded Header
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  37. Progress Report: Linux 7.3 - Asahi Linux
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  38. A barbarian tribe's mythic origin story is true, ancient DNA reveals
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    Article URL: https://www.science.org/content/article/barbarian-tribe-s-mythic-origin-story-true-ancient-dna-reveals Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50401740 Points: 229 # Comments: 201

  39. Exploring Janet and the httpf web framework
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  40. A Maintainer's Advice on Contributing to Open Source in 2026
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  41. Inform is a programming language for creating interactive fiction
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  42. I toured Unitree's factory. I'm more bullish on the West
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    Article URL: https://josef.cn/blog/unitree Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50400597 Points: 105 # Comments: 69

  43. How hard could implementing DTLS 1.3 possibly be?
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  44. UploadYourRam.org
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