All topics

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.

1126 stories archived · Page 35 of 38

RSS feed for Programming

Citicorp Center Engineering Crisis

en.wikipedia.org · 3 points · 1 comments

Python SDK for Content Integrity

github.com · 2 points · 0 comments

A software engineering interview question I like: computing the median

krisshamloo.com · 13 points · 93 comments

Ghislaine Maxwell's Dad Sold Bugged Israeli Software to Two Nuclear Weapons Labs

alisav.substack.com · 4 points · 5 comments

Open Source Barware: free, local-first bar inventory software (GPLv3)

opensourcebarware.com · 3 points · 18 comments

America's Support for Capitalism Has Declined over Last Decade

wsj.com · 4 points · 1 comments

Claude, Start My Database

docs.eventsourcingdb.io · 3 points · 2 comments

Slughorn, Slug font/glyph render lib for OpenGL/OSG/Vulkan/GPU APIs (MIT lic))

alphapixeldev.com · 5 points · 1 comments

How to Generate an API Key

jamdesk.com · 5 points · 0 comments

Connect DuckDB to any database that has an ADBC driver

github.com · 3 points · 2 comments

Requirements Engineering with Formal Verification

fizzbee.ai · 9 points · 5 comments

TypeScript 7

devblogs.microsoft.com · 38 points · 301 comments

DuckDuckGo's Free Browser Now Blocks Most YouTube Video Ads

cnet.com · 6 points · 0 comments

Don't rewrite your CLI for agents

developer.microsoft.com · 6 points · 3 comments

How America's Wealth Distribution Has Changed Since 1989

visualcapitalist.com · 9 points · 1 comments

FactIQ – a realtime econ+finance database for AI agents

github.com · 6 points · 2 comments

EU AI Act becomes applicable Aug 2: an engineering checklist

conformityengineering.com · 7 points · 0 comments

I built an AI spritesheet generator for game developers

autosprite.io · 3 points · 1 comments

Instant GraphRAG over any Postgres database

polygres.com · 5 points · 4 comments

Why TypeScript 7.0 Was Rewritten in Go

spf13.com · 29 points · 3 comments

SQLite-utils 4.0, now with database schema migrations

simonwillison.net · 20 points · 0 comments

How do I setup SSO and SLO on my two WP websites with separate databases

2 points · 1 comments

Notes on Software Quality

anthonyhobday.com · 168 points · 76 comments

Court tosses Microsoft's appeal in pre-owned software licenses battle

theregister.com · 31 points · 2 comments

Almost all coders at Id Software have been fired, following Xbox reset

xcancel.com · 47 points · 14 comments

Performance Optimized Statically Typed Python

post-py.org · 3 points · 0 comments

YC CEO says he ships 37K LoC AI code per day. A developer looked under the hood

fastcompany.com · 118 points · 100 comments

The Art of Computer Programming by Donald E. Knuth

www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu · 239 points · 60 comments

Acronym Fatigue Series Introduction: why I'm wary of acronyms

devz.cl · 60 points · 68 comments

Query Companion (QCP) for your database

v0-qcp.vercel.app · 3 points · 0 comments