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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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New 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