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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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Introducing CUDA Rust: Two Tracks for Writing GPU Kernels

developer.nvidia.com · 7 points · 0 comments

Genotype: language that compiles to idiomatic TS, Rust and Python

genotype-lang.org · 6 points · 1 comments

Large language models develop novel social biases through adaptive exploration

openreview.net · 201 points · 116 comments

The universal programming language of LLMs

4 points · 9 comments

See all stocks traded by Donald Trump

capitolisation.com · 3 points · 0 comments

Hqtui: Terminal UI for TypeScript, Rust, Go, Python, Zig, Ruby

hqtui.com · 7 points · 1 comments

DOJ Blocked ICE Agent Shooting Charge over Federal Prosecutor's Objections

propublica.org · 7 points · 12 comments

Hire Every Engineer Like You'd Hire a VP

businessasusual.io · 9 points · 3 comments

Python sets and dictionaries can have quadratic-time performance

lemire.me · 4 points · 66 comments

C*: Unifying Programming and Verification in C

arxiv.org · 17 points · 59 comments

Reverse engineering the 2008 LogiCola, a logic drill program

logicola.org · 4 points · 2 comments

I think Astra is absolutely amazing but I'm back to 5.6 for software engineering

twitter.com · 5 points · 2 comments

Copperhead – Hardware as Fast as Software

copperhead.sh · 66 points · 115 comments

Experiment – Projectional Viewer

programmingsimplicity.substack.com · 3 points · 4 comments

YuzukiNeko – A Linux-Capable Allwinner F101 RISC-V SBC

cnx-software.com · 5 points · 0 comments

Prolog knowledge base over HTTP/JSON API, with an OpenAPI description

github.com · 3 points · 0 comments

Vagrant is approaching EOL. No more "Docker for VMs"

developer.hashicorp.com · 4 points · 8 comments

Why Labor's Share of Wealth Is Shrinking

nytimes.com · 10 points · 8 comments

Making software hurts now

notes.erlend.sh · 10 points · 4 comments

Reverse Engineering an ASIC

kjartanvandriel.github.io · 65 points · 9 comments

Forget Rigid Stock Screeners – A Universal Query API for Financial Data

financialdata.net · 2 points · 0 comments

Programming is Art

orchidfiles.com · 80 points · 206 comments

Golden hour API and a 3D globe of the best light

golden.sendafun.com · 2 points · 0 comments

Making a Python interpreter in 1024 bytes

austinhenley.com · 94 points · 112 comments

Windows 11's "special" developer edition looks like another marketing misfire

neowin.net · 83 points · 70 comments

Show your micro-SaaS (September 2026)

4 points · 44 comments

A defense of object-orientated programming

codeandcake.dev · 10 points · 6 comments

PixelDraw – simple drawing software for web(WASM) and desktop

akshy.codeberg.page · 2 points · 0 comments

Any Software Engineers here who enjoy their AI-native dev workflow?

3 points · 16 comments

I'm teaching an introductory 12 week course on Quantum Oracle Engineering

shukla.io · 22 points · 23 comments