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 ProgrammingEngineering management after the cost of code collapsed
karimjedda.com · 127 points · 180 comments
TypeScript software rasterizer with programmable shaders
github.com · 2 points · 0 comments
Kyber (YC W23) Is Hiring a Head of Engineering
ycombinator.com · 1 points · 0 comments
The new rules of context engineering for Claude 5 generation models
claude.com · 6 points · 0 comments
Why Software Factories Fail
twitter.com · 3 points · 0 comments
AI codebase analyser and auto-fixer
getdebug.dev · 2 points · 1 comments
How to use agents via API cheaply?
3 points · 3 comments
Good Data Classification Software?
2 points · 0 comments
Rivers – a Rust/Python orchestrator with native OIDC and forward auth
github.com · 3 points · 0 comments
Evaluation of a pentapropellant upper stage (1970) [pdf]
ntrs.nasa.gov · 3 points · 1 comments
Ford Will Use Apple Maps in New Self-Driving System
nytimes.com · 8 points · 3 comments
Implementing SEH in Rust and why you shouldn't do it
engineering.zeroitlab.com · 3 points · 0 comments
h5i-db: Fast Embeded Time-Series Database Written in Rust
medium.com · 3 points · 0 comments
Fly.io New CEO Turn and Face the Strange
twitter.com · 11 points · 0 comments
The new rules of context engineering for Claude 5 generation models
claude.com · 9 points · 1 comments
GFQL: Run Cypher on Polars, CPU and GPU, no database required
graphistry.com · 6 points · 0 comments
Twigg – open-source big-tech-like version control and software forge
github.com · 17 points · 12 comments
Die Zeit Built a Searchable Database of Nazi Party Members
gijn.org · 9 points · 2 comments
The Dracula programming environment for ACL2
dracula-lang.github.io · 4 points · 0 comments
Online Historical Encyclopaedia of Programming Languages
hopl.info · 23 points · 2 comments
History of John Backus's functional programming project [draft]
softwarepreservation.computerhistory.org · 14 points · 1 comments
Micro-SaaS Is Dead. Service With A Software Replaces It
adriengonin.com · 51 points · 71 comments
A Database Engine Written in SWI-Prolog
asa-db.kocoygroup.site · 3 points · 0 comments
Google Lawsuit Against SerpApi over Scraping Search Results Has Been Dismissed
seroundtable.com · 11 points · 0 comments
How much software do you build for yourself these days?
4 points · 8 comments
Programming language file extensions that match ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code
bruh.ltd · 13 points · 4 comments
Programming Languages Are Authoring Tools for Platforms
makonea.com · 46 points · 11 comments
Why is programming so captivating, yet so agonizing?
elsewhere.news · 10 points · 5 comments
Any Good Pi.dev Setups?
3 points · 1 comments
LLM Proxy - Python with SSE stream aggregation and timeout prevention
github.com · 2 points · 0 comments