Backend Engineering

Same stateful trick, now with your own infrastructure

Prepare to be befuddled and bamboozled – and probably bewitched

Samsung's flagship 990 Pro SSD just got slashed to a near-record low price for Prime Day. Here's what to know.

The software engineers filed a complaint with Seattle’s civil rights office accusing Amazon of illegally retaliating against them for expressing their personal

Better laptop sleep and Wi-Fi support make the beastie more portable-friendly, but getting beyond the shell remains a DIY job

Big Red drops ominous mention of 'Market Driven Support' beyond 2027 - but there's good news for AIX users

Following its official debut last month, Google is now rolling out Android 17 to compatible Pixel phones, alongside additional exclusive features as part of the

Considering a PC upgrade, but not sure about how much RAM to buy? Here's how I make that decision in the current climate.

For those who've used both, did Mythos feel noticeably more capable than Fable? submitted by /u/TeamAlphaBOLD [link] [comments]

Known primarily for containers and servers, Alpine Linux isn't always considered for traditional desktop use. I think this lightweight distro could be your dail

Apple has released the first iPadOS 27 beta, offering early access to an upgraded Siri, new Safari features, and more.

Microsoft is releasing a server Linux, a container Linux, and a Windows 11 built for Linux programmers. Here's why.

I can't remember the last time Microsoft kicked off a Build keynote with Windows front and center, but that's exactly what CEO Satya Nadella did this week. Nade

This web-based Linux platform makes it easy to explore dozens of distributions, from the familiar to the obscure. It's free and works in any browser.

I've been using Linux since 1997. If you intend to climb the hierarchical ladder of Linux users, then there are things you'll need to learn along the way.

People feature with Afolabi Oyebiyi, a software engineer at Nigerian software consulting firm Cyclone, on how he navigates the digital world.

Software engineering may no longer be a lifetime career. 479 comments, 278 points on Hacker News.

Looking for non-Linux open-source options? From ghosts of past operating systems to fascinating works in progress, here are my top picks.

Laws of Software Engineering. 100 comments, 248 points on Hacker News.

The demise of software engineering jobs has been greatly exaggerated. 5 comments, 19 points on Hacker News.

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What does the future of software engineering look like?. 1 comments, 27 points on Hacker News.

The unwritten laws of software engineering. 0 comments, 18 points on Hacker News.

Hi HN! I built Oxyde because I was tired of duplicating my models. If you use FastAPI, you know the drill. You define Pydantic models for your API, then define

Lf-lean: The frontier of verified software engineering. 9 comments, 47 points on Hacker News.

Sup HN, So I got tired of bouncing between Flightradar, MarineTraffic, and Twitter every time something kicked off globally, so I wrote a dashboard to aggregate

sql-tap is a transparent proxy that captures SQL queries by parsing the PostgreSQL/MySQL wire protocol and displays them in a terminal UI. You can run EXPL

Is software engineering still a craft?. 4 comments, 18 points on Hacker News.

Hey HN! I've been building random tools whenever I needed them over the past few months, and now I have 177 of them. Started because I was tired of sketchy

Sqldef: Idempotent schema management tool for MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite. 61 comments, 263 points on Hacker News.

The future of software engineering is SRE. 138 comments, 265 points on Hacker News.

The next two years of software engineering. 383 comments, 328 points on Hacker News.

Global software engineering job postings outlook – 2026. 33 comments, 80 points on Hacker News.

Hi HN, I'm Mohammed, a technical founder who loves shipping and giving back to the community. I'm open-sourcing the full-stack engine that powers my B

got tired of paying $29–99/month for simple contact forms on landing pages and side projects (Typeform, Tally, etc.).So I built GitForms: an open-source co

Hi HN, I built Titan, a backend framework where you write routes and logic in JavaScript, and the CLI compiles everything into a single Rust + Axum binary using

Reddit Migrates Comment Back End from Python to Go Microservice to Halve Latency. 7 comments, 38 points on Hacker News.

Hi HN! I've been building ReadyKit, an open-source SaaS boilerplate that handles all the hard parts: multi-tenant workspaces, Stripe billing, OAuth + MFA a

Kalendis is an API-first scheduling backend. You keep your UI; we handle the gnarly parts (recurrence, time zones, DST, conflict-safe bookings). What it does: •

Z3 API in Python: From Sudoku to N-Queens in Under 20 Lines (2015). 14 comments, 155 points on Hacker News.

I spent a few hours last weekend testing whether AI can replace code by executing directly. Built a contact manager where every HTTP request goes to an LLM with

Hi HN — I built FlashRecord, a tiny (≈2MB) Python-native CLI tool for screenshots and GIF recordings aimed at developers who want automation-friendly, scriptabl

What is “good taste” in software engineering?. 229 comments, 342 points on Hacker News.

Hi HN, I built Small Transfers , a payments platform for SaaS / API makers who want to bill customers per request instead of pushing them into subscription

Pure and Impure Software Engineering. 45 comments, 70 points on Hacker News.

No Silver Bullet: Essence and Accidents of Software Engineering (1986) [pdf]. 31 comments, 117 points on Hacker News.

Hi all, Aram and Eduard here - authors of Modelence ( https://github.com/modelence/modelence ), an all-in-one backend platform for teams tha

Vibe coding is the fast fashion industry of software engineering. 69 comments, 53 points on Hacker News.