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.
1121 stories archived · Page 15 of 38
RSS feed for ProgrammingSoftware is now user-generated content
valentinewatkins.com · 12 points · 1 comments
One Go binary, one YAML file, one SQLite database: I wrote my monitoring tool
rvier.fr · 39 points · 18 comments
Python's pre-declared constants are kinda weird
sebsite.pw · 58 points · 227 comments
Improving matrix multiplication with MacBook and a proof assistant
github.com · 4 points · 0 comments
When str.lower() is a security vulnerability in Python
sethmlarson.dev · 174 points · 75 comments
Flyway for freeloaders, rollback implemented in Python
aconcan.io · 6 points · 2 comments
LatticeDB – Like SQLite but for graph databases
github.com · 89 points · 54 comments
Time complexity of operations on Python's built-in types
docs.python.org · 109 points · 42 comments
Creating Teensy ELF Executables for Linux (Or, "Size Is Everything") (1999)
muppetlabs.com · 87 points · 22 comments
EVE Online moves to Python 3
eveonline.com · 25 points · 227 comments
Decades-long Linux ownership dispute dead after Xinuos appeal rejected
tomshardware.com · 7 points · 0 comments
My experience with LLM-assisted tools in software development
ounapuu.ee · 3 points · 0 comments
Solving the 1+N Query Problem
acadia.engineering · 49 points · 54 comments
HelloAssembly The smallest possible complete Windows application
github.com · 55 points · 54 comments
Hot Chips 2026: Intel's Diamond Rapids
chipsandcheese.com · 16 points · 1 comments
80% of developers find AI coding more addictive than helpful
zdnet.com · 19 points · 1 comments
Pyrift – static analyser for silent Python/PyPy behaviour differences
github.com · 3 points · 1 comments
SQLite as a Document Database (2020)
dgl.cx · 252 points · 60 comments
iCloud+ Hide My Email addresses will remain on icloud.com
developer.apple.com · 597 points · 206 comments
RISC-V is now officially supported by CPython
blog.python.org · 5 points · 66 comments
Intel Diamond Rapids the 2027 Intel Xeon at Hot Chips 2026 – ServeTheHome
servethehome.com · 4 points · 0 comments
Trump Media CEO defends selling faster access to president's Truth Social posts
cnbc.com · 9 points · 1 comments
You can just build any software now
mkagenius.substack.com · 9 points · 3 comments
Scant helps you find barely used Python dependencies
github.com · 2 points · 0 comments
Nvidia Groq 3 LPX Unlocks Ultrafast Interactivity at Long Context
developer.nvidia.com · 14 points · 1 comments
A Blackstone real estate company exposed SSN digits, DOBs, addresses and more
alexschapiro.com · 62 points · 56 comments
AICostBudget – Estimate monthly AI API costs before launch
aicostbudget.com · 3 points · 1 comments
OpenAI: GPT 5.6 Sol price reduction (until at least Nov 21)
developers.openai.com · 161 points · 344 comments
Sign Android APKs with schemes v2, v3 pure Python CLI
github.com · 3 points · 0 comments
OpenMRP – an open-source manufacturing ERP built over 4 years
github.com · 8 points · 2 comments