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 ProgrammingRune 1.1: adds Python, an Emacs editor, a symbol index and is now free
rune.build · 99 points · 52 comments
APIgen – Generate Fusio REST APIs and Angular UIs from TypeSchema
apigen.app · 2 points · 0 comments
AI productivity gains are closer to 10% than 10x
leaddev.com · 43 points · 36 comments
Reply to Your Comments with an API
mallary.ai · 4 points · 2 comments
Stripe's opt-out Radar price increase dressed up as a free trial
9 points · 1 comments
A tool for finding the causes of unstable Python tests
github.com · 19 points · 1 comments
Reaping the Whirlwind – Inside the Potomac River Midair Collision
admiralcloudberg.medium.com · 3 points · 0 comments
Scaling NumPy on Free-Threaded Python
labs.quansight.org · 114 points · 24 comments
Claude-account – switch Claude Code accounts without logging in again
github.com · 54 points · 31 comments
Figranium – Open-source visual Playwright control plane (Docker, API)
figranium.dev · 2 points · 0 comments
The Remarkable Proliferation of Cancer Immunotherapies
erictopol.substack.com · 5 points · 0 comments
Local text, image, video, music and 3D from one CLI, no Python
github.com · 16 points · 7 comments
What it means for an API to be RESTful
en.andros.dev · 37 points · 53 comments
CosmosEscape: Taking over Every Database in Azure Cosmos DB
wiz.io · 71 points · 17 comments
Tinbase – OSS Supabase-compatible back end in TypeScript
tinbase.dev · 9 points · 4 comments
Software Foundations Series
softwarefoundations.cis.upenn.edu · 8 points · 0 comments
Google will expand age checks on Android worldwide till the end of the year
android-developers.googleblog.com · 423 points · 525 comments
Nvidia Accelerates Chip Engineering with AI Agents
nextplatform.com · 5 points · 0 comments
Ripple – Auto-fixes downstream code when APIs change
aakash2408.github.io · 2 points · 0 comments
Emboss – a Python PDF engine that keeps documents as structured data
github.com · 6 points · 3 comments
Test the Email Verification Protocol with an origin trial
developer.chrome.com · 4 points · 0 comments
After rewriting SQLite in Rust, Turso turns its sights on Postgres
theregister.com · 20 points · 3 comments
Just brute force your embeddings
softwaredoug.com · 6 points · 1 comments
Replicant Space – an HTTP API-based game based on the Bobiverse books
replicant.space · 9 points · 2 comments
Dev-like – turn public engineering practice into agent skills
mrbro.dev · 2 points · 0 comments
Interactive Python Projects in the Browser – Trading Card Builder
codembark.com · 4 points · 0 comments
A Back End You Can Call Directly from React – No API Required
linkedrecords.com · 3 points · 0 comments
Capitolisation – Trade like the bests elected officials
capitolisation.com · 4 points · 0 comments
How to think about software quality (2022)
evalapply.org · 54 points · 54 comments
Opus 5 on Vending-Bench: Once Again the Best Capitalist, Once Again Misaligned
andonlabs.com · 5 points · 0 comments