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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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How to Build an AI Software Factory: Agents That Open, Review, and Merge PRs

firecrawl.dev · 29 points · 14 comments

Bernie Sanders AI Bill Threatens Developers with 20-Year Jail Terms

timesofindia.indiatimes.com · 5 points · 0 comments

GPT-6-sol appeared on OpenAI API

reddit.com · 10 points · 7 comments

Software people, where are you taking your careers next?

7 points · 9 comments

Codeveloper of Ethernet Predecessor Dies at 91

spectrum.ieee.org · 5 points · 1 comments

The EPA Is Planning to Scrap Public Review Rules for Data Center Pollution

capitalbnews.org · 26 points · 403 comments

Room 641A

en.wikipedia.org · 12 points · 78 comments

Λ Snap – An inviting programming language for kids and adults for CS study

snap.berkeley.edu · 27 points · 109 comments

Cancer Capital: It sucks for founders, too

anildash.com · 5 points · 0 comments

Codenaturally.net, a website for building manual programming fluency

codenaturally.net · 2 points · 1 comments

Rapidly scaling online storage to serve over 1B ChatGPT users

openai.com · 9 points · 0 comments

Zep AI (YC W24) Is Hiring a Head of Forward Deployed Engineering

getzep.com · 1 points · 0 comments

Re-Engineering YouTube for the Living Room: Bringing "Chrobalt" to RDK

collabora.com · 29 points · 12 comments

PythonOS – A tiny OS that boots into Python

github.com · 4 points · 1 comments

GPT‑Live‑1 in the API

openai.com · 54 points · 55 comments

Reverse-Engineering Claude Web's MicroVM: Uncovering Anthropic's Hidden Antspace

aprilnea.me · 33 points · 23 comments

Developer created an app to detect nearby Meta glasses

businessinsider.com · 6 points · 2 comments

Learn programming by building something you want

codeset.ai · 2 points · 0 comments

Stop externalizing the cost of your AI use to me

thelastsoftwareengineer.substack.com · 10 points · 2 comments

How Pokémon Go turned its players into Pentagon cartographers

thecradle.co · 4 points · 0 comments

OpenAI Agents API

developers.openai.com · 10 points · 187 comments

Loudkit, Local TTS with Native Swift, Go, Rust and TypeScript Ports

github.com · 2 points · 0 comments

OpenAI Agents API

openai.com · 13 points · 0 comments

hcode One-Person Engineering - SDLC Approach

hcode.works · 2 points · 5 comments

What are your plans for when Software Engineering is no longer a viable career?

4 points · 5 comments

Spotify browser API – A local, single-account API server in TypeScript

github.com · 3 points · 0 comments

Nola – a TypeScript superset where LLM inference is a language feature

nola.sh · 2 points · 2 comments

Native Python and TypeScript Drivers for ArcadeDB, from OpenAPI and Protobuf

arcadedb.com · 5 points · 0 comments

Meta tried to shrink engineering teams around AI

leaddev.com · 12 points · 9 comments

I have a theory that software drives people insane

graybeard.ing · 99 points · 197 comments