Programming stories

Software engineering is the backbone of Hacker News. This topic covers programming languages, frameworks, databases, developer tooling, and the craft of building reliable systems at scale.

From language design debates to database internals and CI/CD practices, these stories reflect what working engineers care about. Birbla keeps a running archive so you can revisit discussions that aged well.

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Engrava – a local graph memory database for AI agents (SQLite, MIT)

github.com · 3 points · 0 comments

Rethinking Database Programming

acadia.engineering · 89 points · 39 comments

Convex clients in 100 programming languages

github.com · 2 points · 0 comments

USS Benfold Stalled and Lost Power in the South China Sea for Four Days

news.usni.org · 7 points · 0 comments

A Buyer's Editor to Fix B2B Procurement PDF Hell with API and MCP

orbitquote.com · 4 points · 0 comments

We don't search databases–we calculate reality. EXXOGEN is now live

sites.google.com · 5 points · 3 comments

Ubuntu is growing faster on Windows than on Linux to become its biggest base

xda-developers.com · 5 points · 2 comments

Eve Software Factory

github.com · 3 points · 0 comments

Software That Implements Itself

achad4.substack.com · 4 points · 0 comments

How to ship a database every day

turbopuffer.com · 6 points · 0 comments

My Microscope Is a Dashcam

xecaz.com · 6 points · 1 comments

Selvum – a password manager designed to outlive its developer

selvum.app · 4 points · 0 comments

AI is not just one bubble, strategist says – but a 'rolling sequence of bubbles'

fortune.com · 10 points · 10 comments

PageSieve, a web scraping browser extension

julius383.github.io · 7 points · 0 comments

Tasklet (YC P26) Is Hiring a Head of Design Engineering

tasklet.ai · 1 points · 0 comments

Where to learn software engineering fundamentals?

9 points · 4 comments

PyScrappy, self-healing web scraping selectors plus an MCP server

github.com · 18 points · 1 comments

The quirky personal homepages of programming language creators

breck.lol · 64 points · 20 comments

Software Engineering fundamentals matter more

rhonabwy.com · 315 points · 241 comments

Were Touch Bar's problems software rather than hardware?

unsung.aresluna.org · 10 points · 9 comments

Firefox stunts on Edge as Microsoft gears up to neuter adblockers

pcgamer.com · 7 points · 4 comments

First human trials of designer protein therapies stun US neuroscientists

cen.acs.org · 20 points · 51 comments

DHS demands AAMVA's national commercial driver database

papersplease.org · 10 points · 1 comments

Learn electronics by making your own circuit simulator in Python

spicycircuits.dev · 8 points · 0 comments

A 25-year-old video patent just expired, ending a legal headache for Linux

xda-developers.com · 17 points · 3 comments

The AI Situation in Software Development

srikanth.ch · 38 points · 63 comments

DeepSeek V4 Flash at 278 tok/s, full precision, no quantization

runinfra.ai · 5 points · 3 comments

What physical publication do you still buy?

2 points · 6 comments

Pikuma: SIMD in the 90s: Programming Intel's Pentium MMX

pikuma.com · 5 points · 1 comments

A simple, powerful, and cheaper email verification API

emailverifier.dev · 2 points · 1 comments