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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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GiveCampus (YC S15) Is Hiring Engineering Managers

job-boards.greenhouse.io · 1 points · 0 comments

Tailscale Traces Database Corruption to 16y/o SQLite WAL-Reset Bug

tailscale.com · 266 points · 239 comments

Stealing Reasoning Traces from Proprietary LLM APIs

arxiv.org · 5 points · 0 comments

Tim King, AmigaDOS developer, has died

amiga-news.de · 306 points · 44 comments

My Python course for those who want to improve their skills

en.andros.dev · 4 points · 2 comments

AI is removing the middle class of software engineering

blog.florianherrengt.com · 306 points · 937 comments

MintPDF – HTML/Markdown to PDF API with an MCP Server

mintpdf.dev · 3 points · 0 comments

The Egison Programming Language

egison.org · 6 points · 1 comments

I hate packaging my software for Linux

getfresh.dev · 100 points · 150 comments

Numba in the Browser: Unlocking a New Scientific Python Stack in JupyterLite

notebook.link · 8 points · 16 comments

Kernelspace- interactive course on systems programming for LLM Serving

kernelspace.naigap.com · 2 points · 0 comments

Jaithon 3, a fast programming language with the perfect syntax

github.com · 20 points · 61 comments

Tales of the Autistic Developer – Bringing It into Focus

baweaver.com · 10 points · 1 comments

Five Programming Books That Changed How I Think

adamtornhill.substack.com · 30 points · 8 comments

Game Developers Conference – Royalty Free Sound Effects

sonniss.com · 13 points · 0 comments

Woman pulled over twice after Flock-linked software connected her to homicide

guessingheadlights.com · 251 points · 241 comments

Go is an ideal language for AI-assisted software engineering

developers.googleblog.com · 269 points · 542 comments

Stealing Reasoning Traces from Proprietary LLM APIs

arxiv.org · 5 points · 0 comments

Proxima serves 4x more requests with no hardware change on vLLM

github.com · 3 points · 1 comments

The self-improving QA agent for software teams

vostride.com · 3 points · 0 comments

Stealing Reasoning Traces from Proprietary LLM APIs

stolen-thoughts.com · 491 points · 308 comments

OpenAI Daybreak Blue

developers.openai.com · 18 points · 1 comments

DeepSeek: Reverse Engineering an AI Assistant by Interviewing Itself

manish.sh · 20 points · 5 comments

Insidedb, an interactive, animated explainer of database internals

david-g-3654.github.io · 5 points · 0 comments

Typegres 0.3 – SQL-as-your-API, safely (using Cap'n Web RPC)

typegres.com · 4 points · 0 comments

Don't classify, hallucinate

softwaredoug.com · 184 points · 107 comments

What's the best programming language for coding agents?

danluu.com · 14 points · 188 comments

Slashscore, an open developer graph built from public GitHub activity

slashscore.com · 2 points · 4 comments

A fortuitous decade as an indie software developer

lapcatsoftware.com · 166 points · 40 comments

LLM Rewrite of the TerminalTextEffects Python

github.com · 7 points · 2 comments