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 ProgrammingEarnings Call Transcript API: SEC 8-K Filings and Calls as JSON
medium.com · 2 points · 0 comments
Edgi – Letterboxd or Strava for your brain
app.edgi.tv · 4 points · 0 comments
Design Engineering, as a Service
designshippers.com · 15 points · 12 comments
ui.camera – Product photography for software
ui.camera · 5 points · 4 comments
AI coding got faster. Why didn't engineering?
thenewstack.io · 6 points · 2 comments
An open-source multi-tenant, AI-native software factory
github.com · 2 points · 1 comments
Muse Glimmer: Meta's open model built for always-on local agents. 30B parameters
developer.meta.com · 12 points · 2 comments
Watching browser fingerprinting calls via Chromium's Blink layer
kameleo.io · 14 points · 0 comments
Letos: Create, edit, browse SQLite databases
letos.org · 4 points · 0 comments
Hetzner Experiments Platform: Inference API
experiments.hetzner.com · 17 points · 8 comments
How do programming languages impact token efficiency and correctness?
danluu.com · 17 points · 1 comments
How We Pushed CDC into Postgres
snowflake.com · 32 points · 31 comments
Albedo – single-file listenable document database in Zig
github.com · 4 points · 0 comments
A zero-dependency, ultra-lightweight database time machine for SQLite
github.com · 20 points · 5 comments
A Tale of Dynamic Programming
iagoleal.com · 16 points · 2 comments
PEP 784 – Adding Zstandard to the standard library
peps.python.org · 7 points · 1 comments
Three Ways to Sell the Same Software
nicolo.xyz · 6 points · 0 comments
SAP stops most travel and hiring because of AI's soaring cost
404media.co · 101 points · 68 comments
What is your database size
5 points · 3 comments
Aidress – LangChain integration for cross-agent discovery and trust
docs.langchain.com · 2 points · 0 comments
Ready set march: Researchers use math to explain sudden activity bursts in ants
engineering.nyu.edu · 6 points · 0 comments
Shopify replaced Redis with MySQL for inventory reservations–and it scaled
shopify.engineering · 80 points · 261 comments
TinySol, a tiny solitaire game for DOS
classicbits.net · 64 points · 20 comments
Mythos social engineering AISI INC-2026-07-28-01
web.archive.org · 31 points · 21 comments
Choral: Choreographic Programming for Java
choral-lang.org · 43 points · 18 comments
Psychological Warfare in Reverse Engineering (2015)
github.com · 40 points · 4 comments
Qwen 3.8-Max Preview
manish.sh · 3 points · 0 comments
Software is about people, not code (2020)
letterstoanewdeveloper.com · 41 points · 64 comments
Wyzer Programming Language
github.com · 145 points · 120 comments
File-based HTTP endpoints for Python with its own isolated dependencies
github.com · 4 points · 1 comments