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 ProgrammingUnsloth Qwen3.8-27B GGUF files
huggingface.co · 56 points · 5 comments
Unsloth - Qwen3.8 - How to Run Locally
unsloth.ai · 5 points · 0 comments
The TEMU-Fication of Software, Digital Goods and Services
xn--gckvb8fzb.com · 105 points · 135 comments
DeepSeek peak/off-peak pricing update
api-docs.deepseek.com · 238 points · 3 comments
RAGless – similar to RAG, but $0 LLM API costs at runtime
github.com · 4 points · 6 comments
DeepSeek Harness developer preview: Everything is a plugin
deepseek.com · 4 points · 0 comments
HS₂ installs a plaque 40M below London to celebrate the Brunels' legacy
ianvisits.co.uk · 13 points · 5 comments
A simple fix for LLM tail latency
engineering.myhoai.com · 5 points · 18 comments
Airbnb Eval-driven development: Lessons from evaluating GenAI at scale
medium.com · 10 points · 3 comments
Taco Bell Programming (2010)
widgetsandshit.com · 6 points · 0 comments
Windows 11's built-in weather app hogs more than 1.2 gigabytes of RAM
tomshardware.com · 17 points · 1 comments
Tired of hand-writing fake API data, so I built a CLI for it
github.com · 2 points · 0 comments
My Claude subscription did $5,868 of API-equivalent work last month
github.com · 2 points · 2 comments
Lark, OSS realtime database, drop-in compatible with Firebase SDKs
github.com · 4 points · 0 comments
Nine PBS could lose 70 years of archives after cloud vendor goes defunct
tomshardware.com · 98 points · 227 comments
DeepSeek Harness developer preview
deepseek.com · 365 points · 314 comments
DeepSeek API Pricing Update
twitter.com · 93 points · 185 comments
SIMD in the 90s: Programming Intel's Pentium MMX
pikuma.com · 4 points · 0 comments
Rapid warming may tip AMOC at 2°C, slower warming may avert collapse
phys.org · 69 points · 138 comments
Gemini API removes postpay billing
5 points · 1 comments
Ballet – Workflow automation that writes integrations against any API
ballet.dev · 27 points · 13 comments
SIMD in the 90s: Programming Intel's Pentium MMX
pikuma.com · 8 points · 2 comments
I stopped caring about programming terms
teadriven.com · 10 points · 25 comments
Intriguing stories in computer science
inventwithpython.com · 40 points · 11 comments
Rust is the largest beneficiary (among programming languages) of coding agents
twitter.com · 6 points · 0 comments
NIST RFI for modernizing the NVD in the wake of AI
federalregister.gov · 3 points · 0 comments
Learn to become a Rave Developer for the airline industry
olect.github.io · 3 points · 2 comments
DeepSeek-V4-Pro-0813 Publish
api-docs.deepseek.com · 66 points · 10 comments
I built this for other job seekers – local, your own API keys
github.com · 2 points · 0 comments
How do you envision the AI Software Factory?
2 points · 1 comments