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 ProgrammingThe quirky personal homepages of programming language creators
breck.lol · 64 points · 21 comments
Software Engineering fundamentals matter more
rhonabwy.com · 315 points · 247 comments
Were Touch Bar's problems software rather than hardware?
unsung.aresluna.org · 10 points · 47 comments
Firefox stunts on Edge as Microsoft gears up to neuter adblockers
pcgamer.com · 7 points · 4 comments
First human trials of designer protein therapies stun US neuroscientists
cen.acs.org · 20 points · 81 comments
DHS demands AAMVA's national commercial driver database
papersplease.org · 14 points · 1 comments
Filtered Vector Search: What Acorn Fixes, and What Fixes Acorn
qdrant.tech · 9 points · 0 comments
Learn electronics by making your own circuit simulator in Python
spicycircuits.dev · 8 points · 0 comments
A 25-year-old video patent just expired, ending a legal headache for Linux
xda-developers.com · 17 points · 179 comments
China is shaping the future of open‑source technology – including AI
theconversation.com · 4 points · 0 comments
The AI Situation in Software Development
srikanth.ch · 38 points · 69 comments
DeepSeek V4 Flash at 278 tok/s, full precision, no quantization
runinfra.ai · 5 points · 4 comments
What physical publication do you still buy?
2 points · 6 comments
Pikuma: SIMD in the 90s: Programming Intel's Pentium MMX
pikuma.com · 5 points · 1 comments
A simple, powerful, and cheaper email verification API
emailverifier.dev · 2 points · 1 comments
Going Dark, and the era of law enforcement hacking
blog.cryptographyengineering.com · 205 points · 249 comments
Mocktail – Free, open-source mock API server with a built-in dashboard
getmocktail.com · 5 points · 0 comments
How AI is changing how I build software with Simon Willison, on Talking Postgres
talkingpostgres.com · 3 points · 0 comments
The Engineering State? [Book Review – Breakneck, by Dan Wang]
onethousandmeans.com · 6 points · 0 comments
Mark J. Wielaard (Mjw) Receives Distinguished Service Award in Software Freedom
sfconservancy.org · 5 points · 0 comments
The Qdrant Output Connector
opencrawling.org · 7 points · 0 comments
How to ship a database every day
turbopuffer.com · 11 points · 0 comments
Maximizing the value of your Claude Code sessions
claude.com · 80 points · 185 comments
Hexis, open-source Claude Skills management
github.com · 5 points · 0 comments
NIST Seeks Blueprint for AI-Era Overhaul of National Vulnerability Database
securityboulevard.com · 4 points · 0 comments
RayforceDB – a pure C analytics database with a Lisp-like syntax
rayforcedb.com · 28 points · 18 comments
Online SNMP MIB database - upload/view your own MIBs
mib-viewer.com · 15 points · 0 comments
Eve Software Factory Template
github.com · 2 points · 0 comments
Personal Software Is Getting Cheaper to Build, So I Killed My LinkedIn Feed
andrewpollack.dev · 5 points · 0 comments
Unsloth Qwen3.8-27B GGUF files
huggingface.co · 56 points · 5 comments