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 ProgrammingA software engineering interview question I like: computing the median
krisshamloo.com · 13 points · 3 comments
Ghislaine Maxwell's Dad Sold Bugged Israeli Software to Two Nuclear Weapons Labs
alisav.substack.com · 4 points · 0 comments
Open Source Barware: free, local-first bar inventory software (GPLv3)
opensourcebarware.com · 3 points · 0 comments
America's Support for Capitalism Has Declined over Last Decade
wsj.com · 3 points · 0 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 · 0 comments
Requirements Engineering with Formal Verification
fizzbee.ai · 9 points · 0 comments
TypeScript 7
devblogs.microsoft.com · 38 points · 6 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 · 0 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 · 19 points · 0 comments
How do I setup SSO and SLO on my two WP websites with separate databases
2 points · 0 comments
Notes on Software Quality
anthonyhobday.com · 159 points · 71 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 · 45 points · 14 comments
Performance Optimized Statically Typed Python
post-py.org · 3 points · 0 comments
The Art of Computer Programming by Donald E. Knuth
www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu · 235 points · 59 comments
Acronym Fatigue Series Introduction: why I'm wary of acronyms
devz.cl · 60 points · 67 comments
Query Companion (QCP) for your database
v0-qcp.vercel.app · 3 points · 0 comments
Messageboard – A simple API-first dashboard for human readable messages
messageboard.tech · 2 points · 0 comments
Belgie – Run TypeScript from Python in an Embedded Deno Sandbox
github.com · 5 points · 0 comments
Revised Rules of Engineering Leadership
lethain.com · 12 points · 1 comments