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 ProgrammingTell HN: Amazonbot aggressively scraping my website and ignoring robots.txt
11 points · 21 comments
Free AI Prompt Gen – A local-first, open-source prompt engineering tool
freeaipromptgen.com · 3 points · 0 comments
The Bedrock of Software Design
alex.draftist.io · 15 points · 0 comments
Reaping the Whirlwind – Inside the Potomac River Midair Collision
admiralcloudberg.medium.com · 9 points · 1 comments
Wyro – Draw a backend on a canvas, export TypeScript with no lock-in
2 points · 2 comments
Dead Software Walking: The ongoing evolution of relayd(8) and httpd(8)
rsadowski.de · 20 points · 1 comments
The Obligatory AI Post
lapcatsoftware.com · 5 points · 1 comments
Firefox Local Mode for Web Developers
firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org · 21 points · 2 comments
I built a Python obfuscator that keeps production traces debuggable
github.com · 2 points · 1 comments
The Obligatory AI Post
lapcatsoftware.com · 8 points · 0 comments
Dead Software Walking: The ongoing evolution of relayd(8) and httpd(8)
rsadowski.de · 7 points · 0 comments
Don't stop early: Case-folding source code at memory speed
github.blog · 50 points · 34 comments
A Back End You Can Call Directly from React – No API Required
linkedrecords.com · 3 points · 0 comments
Netflix sued for $105M for losing HDs with unencrypted film masters
cbsnews.com · 8 points · 0 comments
qm
github.com · 92 points · 163 comments
DeepSeek API service will soon adopt a peak-valley pricing strategy
2 points · 0 comments
The Conductor Developer
martinfowler.com · 3 points · 0 comments
Companion AI, Sycophancy, and the Engineering of Attachment
papers.ssrn.com · 6 points · 0 comments
The Database Is Not the Data Model
practicaldatamodeling.substack.com · 5 points · 0 comments
13 Models and 4 Agents on SWE Tasks: Go, Java, Python, Rust, TS
swe-rebench.com · 27 points · 15 comments
GeoEQ, a Python package for civil/geotechnical engineering
github.com · 2 points · 0 comments
Arch Linux disables AUR package adoption
lwn.net · 86 points · 128 comments
DeepSeek-V4-Flash Update
api-docs.deepseek.com · 714 points · 347 comments
Just brute force your embeddings
softwaredoug.com · 5 points · 6 comments
Prizm – One API key for every top AI video, image and voice model
prizmkey.com · 2 points · 0 comments
The session you cannot take with you
earendil.com · 751 points · 226 comments
How your software will fail at scale [video]
youtube.com · 6 points · 0 comments
Predictable RNG Fallback and 32-Bit Reseed in Coldcard Firmware
engineering.block.xyz · 22 points · 3 comments
ResiliReplay - Chaos testing for AI agents and MCP servers
github.com · 3 points · 0 comments
ChatGPT Optimizes Its Agent Loop: Harness, API, and Inference
blog.bytebytego.com · 4 points · 0 comments