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 ProgrammingAI demands more engineering discipline. Not less
charitydotwtf.substack.com · 429 points · 213 comments
X – A programming language with switchable memory modes
github.com · 5 points · 2 comments
Dalus (YC W25) Is Hiring a Senior Software Engineer in Germany
ycombinator.com · 1 points · 0 comments
Even more batteries included with Emacs
karthinks.com · 366 points · 135 comments
Python 3.14 garbage collection rigamarole
theconsensus.dev · 94 points · 76 comments
MicroECS – entity component system library in Python/NumPy
github.com · 5 points · 0 comments
Malware developers added nuclear and biological weapons text to to their spyware
twitter.com · 460 points · 239 comments
Reverse engineering circuitry in a Spacelab computer from 1980
righto.com · 123 points · 23 comments
The Emacsification of Software
sockpuppet.org · 465 points · 284 comments
Why senior developers fail to communicate their expertise
nair.sh · 826 points · 333 comments
Learning Software Architecture
matklad.github.io · 612 points · 120 comments
If AI writes your code, why use Python?
medium.com · 919 points · 980 comments
Google says criminal hackers used AI to find a major software flaw
nytimes.com · 244 points · 177 comments
7 lines of code, 3 minutes: Implement a programming language (2010)
matt.might.net · 111 points · 38 comments
Profiling.sampling – Statistical Profiler
docs.python.org · 89 points · 23 comments
America's carpet capital: an empire and its toxic legacy
apnews.com · 185 points · 112 comments
Write some software, give it away for free
nonogra.ph · 373 points · 271 comments
Computer Use is 45x more expensive than structured APIs
reflex.dev · 495 points · 271 comments
Accelerating Gemma 4: faster inference with multi-token prediction drafters
blog.google · 687 points · 330 comments
Texico: Learn the principles of programming without even touching a computer
www3.nhk.or.jp · 227 points · 19 comments
I wrote a DOOM clone in my own programming language
spectrelang.org · 34 points · 18 comments
The Database of Faces
cl.cam.ac.uk · 9 points · 0 comments
Hypothesis: Property-Based Testing for Python
hypothesis.readthedocs.io · 231 points · 161 comments
Patching 68K Software – SimpleText
tinkerdifferent.com · 106 points · 17 comments
Data breach at major Swedish software supplier impacts 1.5M
bleepingcomputer.com · 57 points · 20 comments
How devtools map minified JS code back to your TypeScript source code
polarsignals.com · 107 points · 16 comments
Some software bloat is OK
waspdev.com · 60 points · 130 comments
Amazon imposing fees on using their marketplace API
developer.amazonservices.com · 38 points · 18 comments
Why engineers can't be rational about programming languages
spf13.com · 164 points · 200 comments
Python Steering Council unanimously accepts "PEP 810, Explicit lazy imports"
discuss.python.org · 170 points · 61 comments