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 ProgrammingGiveCampus (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