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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RSS feed for ProgrammingNew all in one 6502 computer (Neo6502kbd)
olimex.wordpress.com · 6 points · 19 comments
Bespoke: A Programming Language for People Who Say Please
blog.hofstede.it · 3 points · 43 comments
Blunderbase: A Personal Chess Database
github.com · 2 points · 0 comments
Decapitating a MacBook
mm-dev.rocks · 5 points · 48 comments
Chrome again exempts Google from user site data settings
lapcatsoftware.com · 621 points · 118 comments
Learn Programming with OCaml
usr.lmf.cnrs.fr · 318 points · 139 comments
How the Tobacco Industry Drove the Rise of Ultra-Processed Foods (2025)
vcresearch.berkeley.edu · 77 points · 141 comments
Microsoft Project Zenith: A ready-to-code Windows setup for developers
blogs.windows.com · 7 points · 3 comments
Portal by Spotify cut my Claude Code token usage by 90%
engineering.atspotify.com · 50 points · 178 comments
Claude Code skills for advanced context engineering techniques and patterns
github.com · 13 points · 4 comments
The Download: selling battlefield drone data and AI reshaping language
technologyreview.com · 4 points · 1 comments
Most Software Was Already Slop
abeautifulsite.net · 5 points · 1 comments
Reverse Engineering an ASIC
outercloud.dev · 3 points · 0 comments
Declick – Turn an OpenAPI Spec, MCP Server or SQLite DB into a CLI
github.com · 4 points · 2 comments
Top Pentagon Official Contracted Personal Lawyer to Handle Minerals Deal
prospect.org · 153 points · 81 comments
O&O ShutUp10 – The antispy tool for Windows 10 and 11
oo-software.com · 92 points · 111 comments
Solving the Jane Street reverse engineering challenge
jestoph.com · 439 points · 99 comments
Reverse engineering the storage format for an undocumented database
blog.glazer.ee · 3 points · 7 comments
How do you market Open Source Software?
5 points · 11 comments
Who is using FPGA for ML inference?
6 points · 16 comments
Interactive demo of MINIX1-like O/S on emulated CPU
swtos.softwarewrighter.com · 5 points · 2 comments
Model – A Minimal Python ORM for MySQL and SQLite
github.com · 4 points · 0 comments
Ensemble Prover - Open-Source Python Autonomous Theorem Prover
github.com · 2 points · 1 comments
A Context Registry for AI coding agents
context.apimatic.io · 8 points · 1 comments
VC isn't VC anymore
anildash.com · 162 points · 2 comments
Ardent, a code-first agent for non-engineering work
ardent.ai · 10 points · 2 comments
Mom gets 6-month suspended sentence for letting 5-year-old walk to the pond
reason.com · 262 points · 292 comments
Python sets and dictionaries can have quadratic-time performance
lemire.me · 6 points · 1 comments
Nginx 1.31.5 introduces a built-in JSON parser, Control API, and predicate locat
linuxcompatible.org · 12 points · 0 comments
4.5B Posts Scraped from TikTok
tiktok-api.seeksocial.io · 55 points · 61 comments