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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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Do you still do pair programming in this agentic age?

6 points · 4 comments

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

github.com · 978 points · 716 comments

Taalas API Anyone?

2 points · 2 comments

GitHub Publishes IPv6 Addresses for Git SSH remotes

api.github.com · 55 points · 17 comments

Programming as a Hobby in the Age of AI

bennadel.com · 6 points · 4 comments

Re-fueling while cycling made all the difference

text.tchncs.de · 8 points · 0 comments

Playdate maker Panic is refunding tariff fees to customers

gamedeveloper.com · 21 points · 6 comments

Use GLM-5.3 in Cursor today via tokengo API

tokengo.com · 3 points · 2 comments

Six government passport CAs that Python rejects and OpenSSL accepts

github.com · 7 points · 6 comments

Have You Heard? Discover great software via browser notifications

haveyouheardof.app · 2 points · 0 comments

A lightweight, stateless database for agent memory

polign.com · 35 points · 14 comments

TypeScript compile-time dice rolls

github.com · 3 points · 3 comments

Is it safe to call print in a Python signal handler?

iafisher.com · 61 points · 35 comments

Tabu, NSFW image and video API for explicit content moderation

tabushield.com · 4 points · 0 comments

Apple's Quiet Shift to Rust: What It Means for Developers (2025)

goktugaral.medium.com · 4 points · 0 comments

fake-bpy-module – Blender/UPBGE Python autocompletion for external IDEs

github.com · 3 points · 0 comments

Beyond WASI: Running any Rust application in the browser with BrowserPod 3.0

labs.leaningtech.com · 9 points · 0 comments

Routebase – One OpenAPI spec drives your docs, mocks, tests, monitors

routebase.dev · 3 points · 0 comments

DBLift – database migration management for Python teams

dblift.com · 6 points · 5 comments

Typebase – A single-folder back end you write in TypeScript

typebase.io · 2 points · 49 comments

As Ubuntu embraces AI, Debian discusses banning all AI-generated code

xda-developers.com · 3 points · 0 comments

Debian polls its developers on AI: permit or ban?

theregister.com · 38 points · 60 comments

It's not the end of programming

mathstodon.xyz · 49 points · 89 comments

The End of Programming

pauldix.com · 80 points · 121 comments

Email Verification API

github.com · 3 points · 0 comments

A proxy that makes Forgejo speak the GitHub API

github.com · 2 points · 0 comments

Extension 'ms-VSCode-remote.remote-SSH' CANNOT use API proposal

github.com · 3 points · 0 comments

Dependencies in the LLM API Reseller Ecosystem

arxiv.org · 4 points · 0 comments

The End of Programming

pauldix.com · 14 points · 1 comments

Use-Fs – A React Hook for the File System Access API and OPFS

use-fs.com · 5 points · 0 comments