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 ProgrammingHow 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