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 ProgrammingTwo lines of Python that segfault the interpreter
deadlovelll.github.io · 13 points · 3 comments
Companies promote incompetent employees to management to limit damage they do
lawsofsoftwareengineering.com · 56 points · 77 comments
Releasaurus – software versioning and release automation tool
github.com · 2 points · 0 comments
The Capital Cycle Theory
s-1.vercel.app · 18 points · 2 comments
Renewable Energy Is Shaping Up to End Decades of Energy Colonialism
ryanhansson.substack.com · 5 points · 4 comments
The SEC is no longer independent
bloomberg.com · 10 points · 2 comments
Python Polars Cheatsheet (based on our O'Reilly book)
opensource.posit.co · 18 points · 41 comments
Figranium – Dockerized, API-first, block-based browser automation
github.com · 3 points · 2 comments
Stunt – a stunt double for the APIs you integrate (95 adapters)
github.com · 2 points · 2 comments
Glade API – Amazon data for every build
gladeapi.com · 4 points · 0 comments
Engrava – a local graph memory database for AI agents (SQLite, MIT)
github.com · 3 points · 0 comments
Rethinking Database Programming
acadia.engineering · 89 points · 161 comments
Convex clients in 100 programming languages
github.com · 2 points · 0 comments
USS Benfold Stalled and Lost Power in the South China Sea for Four Days
news.usni.org · 8 points · 0 comments
A Buyer's Editor to Fix B2B Procurement PDF Hell with API and MCP
orbitquote.com · 4 points · 0 comments
We don't search databases–we calculate reality. EXXOGEN is now live
sites.google.com · 5 points · 5 comments
Ubuntu is growing faster on Windows than on Linux to become its biggest base
xda-developers.com · 5 points · 6 comments
Eve Software Factory
github.com · 10 points · 4 comments
Software That Implements Itself
achad4.substack.com · 4 points · 0 comments
How to ship a database every day
turbopuffer.com · 6 points · 10 comments
The Marxist Case for the Technofeudal Hypothesis
jacobin.com · 29 points · 5 comments
My Microscope Is a Dashcam
xecaz.com · 8 points · 7 comments
Selvum – a password manager designed to outlive its developer
selvum.app · 4 points · 1 comments
AI is not just one bubble, strategist says – but a 'rolling sequence of bubbles'
fortune.com · 10 points · 11 comments
PageSieve, a web scraping browser extension
julius383.github.io · 17 points · 1 comments
Tasklet (YC P26) Is Hiring a Head of Design Engineering
tasklet.ai · 1 points · 0 comments
Where to learn software engineering fundamentals?
9 points · 7 comments
PyScrappy, self-healing web scraping selectors plus an MCP server
github.com · 18 points · 2 comments
The quirky personal homepages of programming language creators
breck.lol · 64 points · 21 comments
Software Engineering fundamentals matter more
rhonabwy.com · 315 points · 247 comments