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 ProgrammingLearning Programming in an Age of LLMs
blog.ploeh.dk · 83 points · 195 comments
A software thing I built: GPS on a 25MHz 486-SX
forum.vcfed.org · 16 points · 24 comments
Datamimic – don't let your coding agent invent its own test world
github.com · 7 points · 8 comments
A 32-year-old bug walks into a Telnet server
labs.watchtowr.com · 111 points · 46 comments
Republicans Aim to Shield Fossil Fuel Companies from Climate Lawsuits
insideclimatenews.org · 6 points · 0 comments
Coreutils – Rejected Feature Requests
gnu.org · 21 points · 0 comments
The engineering behind the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve
johnjwang.com · 277 points · 115 comments
A.I. Slopware Is Everywhere Now. Nobody Is Using It.
nytimes.com · 9 points · 11 comments
German Rheinmetall open-sources its Battlesuite connected weapon system protcol
rheinmetall.github.io · 52 points · 108 comments
It's Not About How Developers Vote
techrights.org · 4 points · 1 comments
Canada for Software Engineers: Relocation Guide
relocateme.substack.com · 6 points · 0 comments
Where is all of the AI coded software?
5 points · 17 comments
A search-and-inference database from scratch in pure Zig
antfly.io · 30 points · 19 comments
Replay the Python calls that failed while a dependency was down
github.com · 2 points · 0 comments
Building your first LLM API call in Python (step by step)
heymeraki.substack.com · 8 points · 2 comments
FlareDB – a Rust-based streaming database with Apache Beam as interface
2 points · 0 comments
Duff's device, sleep sort and a quine, hung in a room you walk through
programmingmuseum.com · 4 points · 0 comments
Multimeter – Git-native REST client and API tests in VS Code
mmt.dev · 3 points · 0 comments
Pythoncall.jl – Python and Julia in Harmony
github.com · 5 points · 1 comments
AI Doomer Hypeloop Suspiciously Serves to Support OpenAI and Anthropic's Agenda
nakedcapitalism.com · 11 points · 3 comments
US coal 'biggest contributor by far' to rise in global emissions
thechemicalengineer.com · 45 points · 37 comments
iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27 released
apple.com · 8 points · 855 comments
DNSMint – Give a sandbox its own domain and HTTPS cert in one API call
dnsmint.com · 2 points · 0 comments
Introduction to AI Engineering
heymeraki.substack.com · 8 points · 3 comments
Foundation Model Engineering: From Theory to Production
sungeuns.github.io · 35 points · 3 comments
Developers – Do you let agents write production code?
2 points · 11 comments
Italian pupils are now earning school credits for Free Software projects
fsfe.org · 5 points · 0 comments
How to Write an Effective Software Design Document
refactoringenglish.com · 192 points · 141 comments
Chinese cargo ship makes inaugural journey, reshaping global trade
7 points · 3 comments
You have unlimited resources, what software would you build?
4 points · 5 comments