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 ProgrammingI built an Instagram data dashboard with a REST API back end
hikerapi.com · 5 points · 2 comments
AI-Native dependency upgrades through codemods
apiweiser-cli-fe.vercel.app · 2 points · 0 comments
Intelligence per Watt: Measuring Intelligence Efficiency of Local AI
arxiv.org · 23 points · 65 comments
When code is a maze, smart developers make maps (2025)
medium.com · 39 points · 48 comments
Chess.com Leak Exposes 7.3M Users, Evidence Points to Scraping
securityaffairs.com · 29 points · 26 comments
A.I. Slopware Is Everywhere Now. Nobody Is Using It
nytimes.com · 18 points · 3 comments
I made a tiny MoE/Engram viz tool
sw-ml-study.github.io · 2 points · 0 comments
Apple's Dimensional Drawings
developer.apple.com · 60 points · 134 comments
I Never Want to Use Third-Party Software Again
twitter.com · 9 points · 4 comments
So software is mostly dead and hardware it is
twitter.com · 9 points · 0 comments
VibeWorld – a shared terminal world for developers and scientists
github.com · 5 points · 3 comments
AI Tools Accelerates Coding, but Not Overall Software Delivery – GitLab Research
infoq.com · 9 points · 0 comments
Libraries Run Rust Inside Python (With PyO3)
belderbos.dev · 69 points · 40 comments
Deeplearning from Scratch in 1400 Lines In my own Programming Language
github.com · 2 points · 1 comments
Houthis Used Claude Code to Develop Missile Guidance Software: Anthropic
clashreport.com · 31 points · 92 comments
When anyone can build software, who decides what not to build?
architectureintel.com · 44 points · 35 comments
Influential people don't network, they build social capital
thecaringtechie.com · 10 points · 0 comments
U.S. agencies say top Chinese AI companies systematically copied American models
nbcnews.com · 6 points · 0 comments
A.I. Slopware Is Everywhere Now. Nobody Is Using It
nytimes.com · 16 points · 0 comments
Xkcd-Font: The Xkcd Font
github.com · 14 points · 4 comments
Booting straight into a local LLM (no linux) on my Raspberry Pi
xda-developers.com · 6 points · 0 comments
Anthropic boss Dario Amodei calls for AI development to slow down
bbc.com · 33 points · 111 comments
Microcode in Intel's 8087 floating-point chip: the scale instruction
righto.com · 130 points · 53 comments
A few good ideas in programming languages
prydt.xyz · 108 points · 75 comments
Srvquery, a TypeScript toolkit for querying game servers
github.com · 2 points · 0 comments
Retrospectively Reverse-Engineering Apple's Neural Engine
eiln.github.io · 241 points · 36 comments
TablePro: A native, open-source database client for macOS
github.com · 6 points · 0 comments
Predicate Routing for Native Handling of API Traffic
blog.nginx.org · 3 points · 0 comments
Bernie's AI bill proposes to sentence AI developers to 20 years in prison
twitter.com · 13 points · 86 comments
How to Build an AI Software Factory: Agents That Open, Review, and Merge PRs
firecrawl.dev · 29 points · 14 comments