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355 titles from 300 authors in the last 30 days, with 318 distinct links and 26 Show HN.

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• Show HN: Fabrika, Opinionated Software Factory · score 7.8

  Fabrika is an opinionated software factory that orchestrates model agents to build features from high-level intents, producing review packets with code and structured evidence instead of raw pull requests. It emphasizes human decision gates, blind testing, append-only records, and Docker isolation, making agent-generated code auditable and trustworthy.

• Show HN: Mecum, open source Mac app that lets agents use ANY desktop software · score 7.5

  Braus (formerly Mecum) is an open-source macOS app that lets AI agents interact with desktop applications through a virtual display, even when those apps lack APIs or accessibility trees. It uses a Swift-based driver, perception engine, and memory system to move app windows off-screen, route agent input, and provide structured text representations of the UI, enabling agents like Claude Code or Codex to work in parallel without disrupting the user.

• Show HN: Self-bench – benchmark coding agents on real-world software · score 7.5

  SelfBench generates private coding-agent benchmarks from a repository's own merged pull requests by reconstructing tasks, writing hidden tests, and validating them through a multi-gate pipeline. It runs agents and models on these tasks to plot accuracy versus cost with a Pareto frontier, filling a real gap between generic public benchmarks and repo-specific performance.

• Show HN: Lights-on software factory boilerplate for Claude Code · score 7.3

  This project provides a boilerplate for running a 'lights-on software factory' with Claude Code, featuring a sandboxed container, deterministic bash-command regulator, linter-based feedback hooks, and a multi-agent workflow orchestrator. It demonstrates how to reduce token spend and approval fatigue by moving mechanical orchestration tasks from LLM inference to deterministic scripts, based on a real-world setup that achieved ~80% token reduction.

Recent titles

1. AI Software Clones Are Coming for Big-Name Companies Like Adobe
   2026-11-01 · engadget.com · HN discussion
2. RPG Mapper – Mapping Software for Classic RPGs and Tabletop Adventures
   2026-11-01 · amigalove.com · HN discussion
3. Any software developers not ready for FIRE changing their careers?
   2026-11-01 · old.reddit.com · HN discussion
4. Securing Internet-Critical Software: How We Could Have Backdoored Bash
   2026-11-01 · hacktron.ai · HN discussion
5. The Perceived Value of Software Engineers Is Going Down
   2026-11-01 · vincentschmalbach.com · HN discussion
6. Eulogy for the Software Engineer [video]
   2026-11-01 · youtube.com · HN discussion
7. When AI writes almost all code, what happens to software engineering?
   2026-10-31 · newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com · HN discussion
8. Critical Software is rebuilding itself around AI (200 ppl being layed off)
   2026-10-31 · ai.pt · HN discussion
9. Show HN: Muse Zouroboros, gives Muse a software factory
   2026-10-31 · github.com · HN discussion
10. Ask HN: Where do you see software engineering careers heading?
    2026-10-31 · HN discussion
11. Software is Eating AI (2017)
    2026-10-31 · hyperparameter.space · HN discussion
12. Current Practices in Software Development (1984)
    2026-10-31 · archive.org · HN discussion
13. ViBench 2.0: A Benchmark for Long-Horizon Software Building
    2026-10-31 · frontier.replit.com · HN discussion
14. Software Engineers in 2028
    2026-10-31 · youtube.com · HN discussion
15. Hands-On Embedded Software Design – 21 progressive steps on STM32F7
    2026-10-31 · github.com · HN discussion
16. Show HN: No moat – Software is dead. Nobody told these companies
    2026-10-31 · nomoat.app · HN discussion
17. Remixable Software
    2026-10-31 · lamp.dev · HN discussion
18. The way we build software is shifting UP and LEFT
    2026-10-30 · linkedin.com · HN discussion
19. A software audit skill for solo builders
    2026-10-30 · github.com · HN discussion
20. Patterns in AI-Driven Software Development
    2026-10-30 · akos.ma · HN discussion
21. AI killed my software career [video]
    2026-10-30 · youtube.com · HN discussion
22. Elephant-goldfish-model: skills for designing and reviewing software with agents
    2026-10-30 · github.com · HN discussion
23. Show HN: MadTracker – Scoring software for track cycling races
    2026-10-30 · HN discussion
24. Sustainable Software Development Goals
    2026-10-29 · numpde.github.io · HN discussion
25. The importance of communities around software
    2026-10-29 · lumi.codeberg.page · HN discussion
26. Artcraft, Mindscaper, et al.: Can we just vibecode creative software?
    2026-10-29 · leo.wattenberg.dk · HN discussion
27. Show HN: SLCR – An open standard for agent-native software requirements
    2026-10-29 · slcr.dev · HN discussion
28. I 'write software' as of Oct 2026 – Part 1
    2026-10-29 · chicagobuss.dev · HN discussion
29. AI is making niche software viable
    2026-10-29 · muddy.jprs.me · HN discussion
30. Discovering and exploiting vulnerabilities in critical software with Claude
    2026-10-29 · anthropic.com · HN discussion

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