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 ProgrammingProgramBench Vetted: Reverse Engineering from a Runnable Binary
vetto.ai · 18 points · 1 comments
FindHost – hosting provider database with no affiliate links
findhost.app · 4 points · 5 comments
Free OSS Software Factory Template
github.com · 3 points · 0 comments
Fail CI when your stack runs end-of-life software
github.com · 3 points · 0 comments
Risk Engineering
risk-engineering.org · 57 points · 17 comments
Spotify Soloist, official terminal client for headless and DIY setups
developer.spotify.com · 9 points · 3 comments
Asana cleared 5 years of engineering work in 2 weeks with Codex
openai.com · 44 points · 96 comments
Building high-performance flat 2D arrays in Rust (SIMD, L1 Cache)
developerlife.com · 3 points · 0 comments
More tales of App Store curation
lapcatsoftware.com · 5 points · 0 comments
Hack Club Folktale: Learn Python, Make a Game, Get Free Stickers
folktale.hackclub.com · 4 points · 1 comments
Go 1.27
go.dev · 182 points · 265 comments
CtrlTool – 132 free online tools for developers and everyday tasks
ctrltool.wtf · 2 points · 0 comments
Naeos – an engineering system for AI coding agents
github.com · 4 points · 0 comments
Extensible Software in the age of LLMs
jeremymorrell.dev · 64 points · 88 comments
Verify OpenAI's signed agent traffic in Python (RFC 9421/Web Bot Auth)
github.com · 3 points · 0 comments
AI Has Plunged the Book Publishing Industry into Utter Chaos
wsj.com · 24 points · 21 comments
Marginal – See which customers and features drive your AI API costs
marginalhq.com · 5 points · 1 comments
Geolocating a random island using geometry and CUDA programming
yassa9.github.io · 91 points · 88 comments
What are independent software contractors doing now?
6 points · 2 comments
λλ: A Programming Language for Silicon Photonics
dl.acm.org · 91 points · 18 comments
TinyRetroPad is 130 times smaller than Windows Notepad
xda-developers.com · 9 points · 1 comments
The Economics and Engineering of On-Premises LLMs
cacm.acm.org · 6 points · 1 comments
Over 170k Nonprofits Lost All Their Data. Is Microsoft to Blame?
slate.com · 7 points · 1 comments
Cursor capitalizes on GitHub frustration, launches rival hosting platform
techcrunch.com · 4 points · 2 comments
Software Engineering Humble Book Bundle
humblebundle.com · 4 points · 1 comments
Threepp: Cross-platform C++20 3D library with the high-level API of Three.js
github.com · 3 points · 0 comments
A sample dataset of computer-use tasks on professional software
cua.graderlabs.com · 16 points · 3 comments
Google 'gradually' rolling out Android's 'advanced' sideloading
9to5google.com · 4 points · 0 comments
AI usage patterns in software teams
linear.app · 17 points · 7 comments
GLM-5.3 Artificial Analysis Benchmarks
artificialanalysis.ai · 60 points · 55 comments