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 ProgrammingCuprate – Alternative Monero node software written in Rust syncs 2x faster
reddit.com · 4 points · 1 comments
Programming the Gigatron
iwriteiam.nl · 19 points · 1 comments
Seedance 2.5 video API (30s single-take, 50 refs, 4K) on Atlas Cloud
atlascloud.ai · 2 points · 3 comments
New Orleans is testing Carbyne’s AI-powered Emergency Call Triage software
shreveporttimes.com · 79 points · 119 comments
How the U.S. Squandered Its Strategic Advantage
theatlantic.com · 5 points · 0 comments
With software alone, one B200 beats the LPU and gets close to Cerebras
runinfra.ai · 10 points · 1 comments
Qwen3.8 Max now ranked as the best overall model by agentic index
artificialanalysis.ai · 427 points · 354 comments
Faster floating point math with Rust's new API
pythonspeed.com · 13 points · 58 comments
High-Res Photo Shows Sand-Capped Butte Rising from Mars Plain of Polygons
petapixel.com · 168 points · 18 comments
Cuprate – an alternative and independent Monero node software written in Rust
github.com · 24 points · 0 comments
DeepSeek announced to raise its API price tremendously
16 points · 25 comments
Python string literals are kinda funny
sebsite.pw · 63 points · 61 comments
How to Install Python3.14 from source on Ubuntu 26.04
jamesoclaire.com · 6 points · 8 comments
The End of Software
evanjconrad.com · 6 points · 1 comments
Why mobile software infrastructure never belongs to its owner?
2 points · 6 comments
Developers–How Did You Get Your First Paying Customers?
3 points · 17 comments
Born Against, or why hobby programming communities are against LLM usage
blog.fogus.me · 442 points · 526 comments
ClickBench Playground – a playground for 110 database systems
benchmark.clickhouse.com · 22 points · 6 comments
Something is changing in the unit economics of software
nicolo.xyz · 10 points · 57 comments
DuckDuckGo's Smart Glasses Have No Camera, No AI, and No Electronics
petapixel.com · 3 points · 0 comments
ResizeKit – Browser-only image resizer for developer asset packs
resizekit.app · 2 points · 0 comments
Overcheck – self-hosted uptime monitoring, API and multi-user access
github.com · 4 points · 0 comments
Turn one giant AI-generated pull request to a reviewable stack
github.blog · 4 points · 0 comments
Show your micro-SaaS / MRR updates (August 2026)
6 points · 9 comments
Claude-account now works on macOS too
github.com · 2 points · 0 comments
The software group Palantir paid just £2M in corporation tax in the UK in 2024
theguardian.com · 51 points · 77 comments
Rever-browser – AI-agent browser for reverse-engineering
github.com · 2 points · 0 comments
The Grid That Doubles the Strength of the Ground
practical.engineering · 137 points · 40 comments
Eight Myths on Software Engineering and GenAI
queue.acm.org · 291 points · 249 comments
Crash experiences of highly automated vehicles and human drivers
iihs.org · 4 points · 1 comments