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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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How I changed teaching after AI managed to do all my homework assignments

thelastsoftwareengineer.substack.com · 91 points · 268 comments

Radix – Visual UI for agentic programming

radix-os.com · 9 points · 18 comments

Programming Tutorials Are Dead

robrace.dev · 18 points · 16 comments

DOJ: Uncle Sam bought forensics software from same Russian operation supplying

theregister.com · 10 points · 0 comments

Whiteboard (YC W26) – An open-source IDE for thoughtful software design

github.com · 32 points · 141 comments

Developer ported Word for Windows 1.1a from 1990 to run natively on Windows 11

neowin.net · 6 points · 1 comments

LinkedIn wins court order blocking mass scraping of user data

therecord.media · 4 points · 33 comments

GitHub has not removed malicious imitation software after 3 weeks

successfulsoftware.net · 7 points · 119 comments

Scalar.dev – Python/SQLite server-rendered starter app, no build step

getscalar.dev · 2 points · 0 comments

The newest ESP32 can run Linux and it's getting close to a Raspberry Pi

xda-developers.com · 15 points · 123 comments

JEV Engineering for Coding Agents

drive.google.com · 6 points · 0 comments

Jensen Huang says the junior developer problem ends in two years

thenewstack.io · 8 points · 60 comments

Why didn't anybody tell me about Redis hash slots?

blog.verygoodsoftwarenotvirus.dev · 17 points · 10 comments

Build a CPU from gates, in TypeScript, in the browser

play.simten.dev · 3 points · 5 comments

The Price of Intelligence Is Falling Rapidly

marginalrevolution.com · 75 points · 85 comments

Samsung accidentally freezes its smart fridges with a software update

androidauthority.com · 211 points · 283 comments

Longtime SUSE staff asked if they'd opt for 'voluntary separation'

theregister.com · 5 points · 2 comments

Jev in 25 Lines of Python

nobodywho.ai · 371 points · 212 comments

How often do you think about the 1893 World's Fair?

thebirthofacapital.info · 37 points · 27 comments

I'm sick of Claudisms, & what will happen next in AI-boosted software dev

polso.info · 5 points · 5 comments

CatQueue-A zero-dependency PostgreSQL job queue for Node and TypeScript

github.com · 2 points · 0 comments

LARP Capital – Prestige as a Service

larpcapital.us · 3 points · 1 comments

Longtime SUSE staff asked if they'd opt for 'voluntary separation'

theregister.com · 4 points · 0 comments

Native apps written in TypeScript and CSS

github.com · 69 points · 54 comments

Explaining to business people why building software is still hard

manager.dev · 58 points · 59 comments

Prominent art therapist quoted by Vice, Forbes and others is AI-generated

pressgazette.co.uk · 15 points · 1 comments

Data liberation: Apache Kafka's native cluster mirroring

developers.redhat.com · 13 points · 4 comments

JetBrains Air: A System of Products for Agentic Software Development

blog.jetbrains.com · 57 points · 116 comments

How software gets permission today

deask.com · 9 points · 0 comments

Data center developer sues city for requiring to supply renewable energy on-site

independent.co.uk · 6 points · 0 comments