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 ProgrammingDetailed report on the use of solar geoengineering
technologyreview.com · 5 points · 8 comments
Pamir AI Launches the Lapis One Linux Computer with Built-In Agent KVM Feature
hackster.io · 4 points · 0 comments
Silicon Valley Is Transforming the Military-Industrial Complex
costsofwar.watson.brown.edu · 96 points · 383 comments
Dbmask – Discover, mask, and verify sensitive data in SQL databases
github.com · 4 points · 0 comments
Xfinlab – a financial intelligence API with an MCP server for AI agents
github.com · 2 points · 0 comments
MailPace now has a Domains API
mailpace.com · 5 points · 0 comments
Solo Developer donates 40k to Postgres
postgresql.org · 4 points · 1 comments
AI Is Breaking This Thing We Call Trust
terriblesoftware.org · 9 points · 70 comments
Shopify moves back to Native from React Native
shopify.engineering · 556 points · 957 comments
Sirius – A type system for array programming
sirius-lang.org · 2 points · 0 comments
Kagi Translate Is Back
blog.kagi.com · 14 points · 17 comments
LRU is harder to beat than the KV-cache papers suggest
github.com · 3 points · 58 comments
Pragma Twice – A dystopian sci-fi themed programming game
bryanpg.com · 2 points · 0 comments
A free API to query 3.5B subdomains
subdomains.jsmon.sh · 3 points · 0 comments
Laid-Off Developers Create AI Model to Replace CEOs and Other Executives
uk.pcmag.com · 7 points · 2 comments
Reverse engineering my e-scooter and rewriting the firmware in Rust
bensimms.moe · 451 points · 105 comments
CUDA Rust: Two Tracks for Writing GPU Kernels
developer.nvidia.com · 8 points · 0 comments
Suddenly I'm a Go Developer
infoworld.com · 6 points · 1 comments
Busabase for DeepSeek Harness: An Agent database that runs apps and skills
github.com · 4 points · 2 comments
1900 Blizzard Developers Just Won a Union Contract
kotaku.com · 7 points · 1 comments
Blizzard Workers Win Historic Union Contract
latimes.com · 253 points · 110 comments
Goodbye Sourcehut
timharek.no · 5 points · 0 comments
Software is about to eat the world much faster
twitter.com · 6 points · 0 comments
Software Licenses that prevent LLMs from training on open source?
4 points · 5 comments
Mnemiq – Open-source text-to-SQL tuned to your own database
github.com · 2 points · 1 comments
CUDA Rust: Two Tracks for Writing GPU Kernels
developer.nvidia.com · 5 points · 0 comments
What non-IT/Software industries have benefitted the most from AI?
2 points · 6 comments
How I advertise malicious software on Google Ads
xlii.space · 438 points · 261 comments
Logo Programming
el.media.mit.edu · 309 points · 147 comments
Full feature ECS game engine for TypeScript
github.com · 2 points · 0 comments