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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UK air traffic control outage caused by software defect, says operator

reuters.com · 10 points · 1 comments

Science Is Open Software

jepedersen.dk · 78 points · 74 comments

An OSS Python dependency scanner for exploited, unmaintained packages

github.com · 3 points · 5 comments

Android 17 is the first since 3.x to add new APIs without releasing to the AOSP

grapheneos.social · 251 points · 721 comments

Xcode 27.1 Beta Release Notes

developer.apple.com · 76 points · 116 comments

TikTok users' cameras hacked with open weight model

washingtonpost.com · 11 points · 0 comments

We made Playwright 2x faster and 80% more token efficient

github.com · 25 points · 41 comments

Figranium – Stack blocks to build browser workflows and call via API

github.com · 2 points · 0 comments

Quokka – a self-hosting, deterministic programming language

quokka.space · 6 points · 2 comments

Servers for AI, not another AWS

rawhq.io · 2 points · 0 comments

A curated list of open source projects used in nuclear science and engineering

github.com · 6 points · 0 comments

Microsoft exec called AI scraping 'the largest theft of labor in human history'

techcrunch.com · 54 points · 835 comments

Microsoft exec called AI scraping 'the largest theft of labor in human

techcrunch.com · 22 points · 4 comments

Snapdrop: Instantly share files between devices. No setup, no signup

snapdrop.me · 9 points · 52 comments

Composing domain-specific harness on Python in 10 mins

cayu.dev · 3 points · 0 comments

Flet 1.0 – Build cross-platform apps in Python

flet.dev · 22 points · 89 comments

Microsoft, OpenAI lose fight to hide internal docs admitting scraping is theft

arstechnica.com · 24 points · 15 comments

Hishel – HTTP Caching for Python

hishel.com · 3 points · 0 comments

DuckDuckGo No-AI: Private Search Without AI

noai.duckduckgo.com · 6 points · 3 comments

From Stonemasons to Carpenters

thelastsoftwareengineer.substack.com · 48 points · 8 comments

LLM Classification Is Feature Engineering

minimallysufficient.com · 53 points · 25 comments

A.I. Slopware Is Everywhere Now. Nobody Is Using It

nytimes.com · 5 points · 6 comments

Taco Bell Programming (2010)

widgetsandshit.com · 20 points · 4 comments

Ex-MS engineer reveals the story behind the infamous 'FCKGW' Windows XP key

pcgamer.com · 8 points · 1 comments

Trove of Never-Before-Seen Records Reveal How the Wealthiest Avoid Income Tax

propublica.org · 23 points · 12 comments

Fedora 45 beta drags the Linux console into the 21st century

theregister.com · 13 points · 3 comments

Small programming tricks

will-keleher.com · 652 points · 294 comments