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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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LLM Proxy - Python with SSE stream aggregation and timeout prevention

github.com · 2 points · 0 comments

Measuring developer productivity with the DX Core 4

getdx.com · 47 points · 38 comments

If coding has been solved, why does software keep getting worse?

ptrchm.com · 896 points · 690 comments

filtersql – a dependency-free JSON-to-SQL compiler for LLMs and WebAPIs

github.com · 3 points · 1 comments

Generous free tier for SERP and AI web scraping

cloro.dev · 2 points · 0 comments

How to Resolve Software Deployment Issues with SeaTicket

2 points · 0 comments

RubyGems advisory: Possible leak of legacy API keys via improper cache config

blog.rubygems.org · 4 points · 1 comments

MTTR is the wrong metric for Engineering Teams today

ito.ai · 6 points · 0 comments

Why care about programming languages

ebellani.github.io · 7 points · 0 comments

AMD calls CUDA a 'non-event'

pcgamer.com · 13 points · 0 comments

Experimental freshness-first caching library for FastAPI

github.com · 2 points · 0 comments

What verb best describes what a developer does in 2026?

4 points · 3 comments

Americans – including many Republicans – are losing faith in capitalism

cnn.com · 47 points · 38 comments

Syncle – Open-source real-time database synchronization engine

github.com · 4 points · 0 comments

JEP 540: Simple JSON API (Now in Incubator)

openjdk.org · 101 points · 82 comments

Why Software Factories Fail (or: harness engineering is not enough)

github.com · 393 points · 272 comments

Find undervalued bikes near you with ML

bike.broker · 3 points · 0 comments

A primer for non-coders to design software via structured AI dialogue

github.com · 6 points · 1 comments

Verify what an AI agent did, then tamper with the record (no signup)

api.cinchor.com · 2 points · 0 comments

Does anyone have an old Goodreads API key?

20 points · 3 comments

Hosted PaddleOCR-VL-1.6 API

openparser.dev · 5 points · 0 comments

15 years of hand-curated architecture, art and design as an MCP server

thisispaper.com · 4 points · 1 comments

Software rendering in 500 lines of bare C++

haqr.eu · 295 points · 70 comments

I built a zero-latency developer tool suite in pure Vanilla JavaScript

omnideck.cc · 24 points · 11 comments

VibeSchema – database schema visualizer for large schemas

vibe-schema.com · 3 points · 1 comments

Why care about programming languages

ebellani.github.io · 48 points · 67 comments

The Harbinger- mTLS proxy that gives AI agents identity, not API keys

github.com · 4 points · 1 comments

Verlex - A Python SDK that treats cloud providers like a load balancer

verlex.dev · 2 points · 0 comments

We added x402 so AI agents can pay to use our cloud simulation API

cloudworldmodel.ai · 3 points · 0 comments

The Zen of Parallel Programming: The Posture of a Kernel

smolnero.com · 21 points · 2 comments