Best Programming stories of 2026

Programming languages, developer tools, databases, and software engineering posts.

CEO fired developers to make room for AI. Developers create open source AI CEO

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If AI writes your code, why use Python?

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If coding has been solved, why does software keep getting worse?

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Why senior developers fail to communicate their expertise

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Google Has Removed MV2 Extensions from the Chrome Web Store, Including UBO

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The session you cannot take with you

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California lawmakers unanimously pass Linux exemption from age-verification law

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DeepSeek-V4-Flash Update

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Hacker wipes Romania's land registry database

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#10

Accelerating Gemma 4: faster inference with multi-token prediction drafters

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#11

There's no reason for software to be slow anymore

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#12

Chrome again exempts Google from user site data settings

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#13

Learning Software Architecture

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#14

iCloud+ Hide My Email addresses will remain on icloud.com

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#15

Shopify moves back to Native from React Native

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#16

Computer Use is 45x more expensive than structured APIs

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#17

Stealing Reasoning Traces from Proprietary LLM APIs

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#18

The Emacsification of Software

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#19

The new rules of context engineering for Claude 5 generation models

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#20

Firefox Containers Preview

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#21

Malware developers added nuclear and biological weapons text to to their spyware

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#22

Born Against, or why hobby programming communities are against LLM usage

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#23

Solving the Jane Street reverse engineering challenge

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#24

AI demands more engineering discipline. Not less

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#25

Qwen3.8 Max now ranked as the best overall model by agentic index

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#26

Google will expand age checks on Android worldwide till the end of the year

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#27

Netflix employee fired for sharing personal details in retreat trust exercise

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#28

Benchmarking Opus 5 on SlopCodeBench

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#29

Why Software Factories Fail (or: harness engineering is not enough)

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#30

Aaron Swartz was prosecuted for scraping, while Meta does it without consequence

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#31

Write some software, give it away for free

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#32

Even more batteries included with Emacs

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#33

DeepSeek Harness developer preview

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#34

Pentagon's blacklisting of Anthropic was unlawful, US judge rules

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#35

Muse Spark 1.3

326 pts, 232 comments

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#36

Learn Programming with OCaml

317 pts, 139 comments

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#37

Reverse engineering my ADHD test

316 pts, 236 comments

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#38

Software Engineering fundamentals matter more

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#39

Harness engineering for self-improvement

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#40

AI is removing the middle class of software engineering

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#41

Tim King, AmigaDOS developer, has died

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#42

Thinking in Python

305 pts, 60 comments

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#43

Software rendering in 500 lines of bare C++

295 pts, 70 comments

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#44

Eight Myths on Software Engineering and GenAI

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#45

Perfection is not over-engineering

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