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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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Engineering 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