Hacker Newsroom for 26 October: Ambitious Software, Bitcoin Hacking Challenge, Goose Programming Language

Opublikowano: 2026-10-26

Hacker Newsroom for 26 October recaps major Hacker News stories, moving through ambitious software, bitcoin hacking challenge, goose programming language. Chapters 00:00:00 — Intro 00:00:15 — Ambitious Software 00:02:03 — Bitcoin Hacking Challenge 00:03:53 — Goose Programming Language 00:05:52 — Closing 1. Ambitious Software argues that coding agents have made once impractical projects affordable to attempt. The post points to pgrust, a Postgres rewrite whose testing has uncovered bugs in Postgres itself, and describes experiments with faster regular expression matching, code search, and Rust builds. Story link Hacker News discussion 2. Bitcoin Hacking Challenge Stea...