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Compilers, interpreters, language toolchains, static analysis, type checking, linters, and program-analysis tools.

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01 / EXPLORE THROUGH TIME

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Project Valhalla, Explained: How a Decade of Work Arrives in JDK 28↗ jvm-weekly.com · HN · 447 comments · 658 points · Jun 19, 2026
CS 6120: Advanced Compilers: The Self-Guided Online Course (2020)↗ cs.cornell.edu · HN · 61 comments · 454 points · Jun 18, 2026
Want to write a compiler? Just read these two papers (2008)↗ prog21.dadgum.com · HN · 159 comments · 509 points · Apr 15, 2026
We tasked Opus 4.6 using agent teams to build a C Compiler↗ anthropic.com · HN · 738 comments · 735 points · Feb 05, 2026
LLVM: The bad parts↗ npopov.com · HN · 77 comments · 389 points · Jan 12, 2026
20251,743 stories
PEP 810 – Explicit lazy imports↗ peps.python.org · HN · 240 comments · 433 points · Oct 03, 2025
The Jank programming language↗ jank-lang.org · HN · 137 comments · 423 points · Jul 06, 2025
FFmpeg School of Assembly Language↗ github.com · HN · 220 comments · 869 points · Feb 22, 2025
Be Aware of the Makefile Effect↗ blog.yossarian.net · HN · 342 comments · 431 points · Jan 11, 2025
Static search trees: faster than binary search↗ curiouscoding.nl · HN · 232 comments · 656 points · Jan 01, 2025
20241,593 stories
John Carmack on inlined code (2014)↗ number-none.com · HN · 389 comments · 556 points · Oct 06, 2024
Crafting Interpreters↗ craftinginterpreters.com · HN · 187 comments · 607 points · Jul 12, 2024
Bend: a high-level language that runs on GPUs (via HVM2)↗ github.com · HN · 253 comments · 1041 points · May 17, 2024
Pkl, a Programming Language for Configuration↗ pkl-lang.org · HN · 564 comments · 930 points · Feb 02, 2024
How is a binary executable organized? Let's explore it (2014)↗ jvns.ca · HN · 87 comments · 501 points · Feb 02, 2024
20231,615 stories
Show HN: Cassette, a Personal Programming Language↗ cassette-lang.com · HN · 71 comments · 231 points · Dec 31, 2023
Chisel: A Modern Hardware Design Language↗ github.com · HN · 76 comments · 156 points · Dec 27, 2023
Let's Build a Compiler (1988)↗ compilers.iecc.com · HN · 15 comments · 124 points · Dec 26, 2023
Mir: Strongly typed IR to implement fast and lightweight interpreters and JITs↗ github.com · HN · 43 comments · 115 points · Dec 26, 2023
The Neat Programming Language↗ neat-lang.github.io · HN · 76 comments · 96 points · Dec 25, 2023
20221,435 stories
Kathleen Booth, the inventor of assembly language, has died↗ theregister.com · HN · 140 comments · 1252 points · Oct 29, 2022
Knuth's Art of Computer Programming, V 4B, has gone into print↗ www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu · HN · 342 comments · 940 points · Oct 04, 2022
Some Assembly Required: An approachable introduction to assembly↗ github.com · HN · 125 comments · 587 points · Jun 28, 2022
Zig self hosted compiler is now capable of building itself↗ github.com · HN · 274 comments · 752 points · Apr 16, 2022
Competitive Programming with AlphaCode↗ deepmind.com · HN · 397 comments · 678 points · Feb 02, 2022
20211,555 stories
Show HN: Lisp with GC in 436 Bytes↗ justine.lol · HN · 131 comments · 513 points · Dec 20, 2021
Unison Programming Language↗ unisonweb.org · HN · 131 comments · 410 points · Jun 27, 2021
ShellCheck: A static analysis tool for shell scripts↗ github.com · HN · 73 comments · 399 points · Mar 18, 2021
Tree-sitter: an incremental parsing system for programming tools↗ github.com · HN · 134 comments · 476 points · Feb 22, 2021
Ziglings: Learn the Zig programming language by fixing tiny broken programs↗ github.com · HN · 106 comments · 396 points · Feb 13, 2021
20201,866 stories
Advanced Compilers: Self-Guided Online Course↗ cs.cornell.edu · HN · 232 comments · 827 points · Dec 11, 2020
Make LLVM Fast Again↗ nikic.github.io · HN · 235 comments · 582 points · May 10, 2020
Crafting “Crafting Interpreters”↗ journal.stuffwithstuff.com · HN · 74 comments · 777 points · Apr 05, 2020
Zig cc: A drop-in replacement for GCC/Clang↗ andrewkelley.me · HN · 288 comments · 831 points · Mar 24, 2020
Show HN: Beef, a new performance-oriented programming language↗ github.com · HN · 277 comments · 533 points · Jan 08, 2020
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02 / CATCH UP

The conversation now

Popular stories, with attention fading over roughly two weeks.

Making portable my unportable transputer C compiler↗ nanochess.org · HN · 11 comments · 74 points · Sep 22, 2026
A few good ideas in programming languages↗ prydt.xyz · HN · 75 comments · 108 points · Sep 12, 2026
JEP 544: Ahead-of-Time Code Compilation↗ openjdk.org · HN · 74 comments · 105 points · Sep 10, 2026
How an MIT research project became the Julia programming language↗ news.mit.edu · HN · 126 comments · 208 points · Aug 31, 2026
TXR: An Original, New Programming Language for Convenient Data Munging↗ nongnu.org · HN · 9 comments · 37 points · Sep 21, 2026

03 / GO DEEPER

Follow your curiosity

Find a particular story, revisit a year, or see what resonated.

Highest rated · the last 30 days

How an MIT research project became the Julia programming language↗ news.mit.edu · HN · 126 comments · 208 points · Aug 31, 2026
A few good ideas in programming languages↗ prydt.xyz · HN · 75 comments · 108 points · Sep 12, 2026
JEP 544: Ahead-of-Time Code Compilation↗ openjdk.org · HN · 74 comments · 105 points · Sep 10, 2026
Altair Basic Interpreter Source Code (1975) [pdf]↗ images.gatesnotes.com · HN · 46 comments · 75 points · Sep 02, 2026
Making portable my unportable transputer C compiler↗ nanochess.org · HN · 11 comments · 74 points · Sep 22, 2026
Updates on HEIR, the Homomorphic Encryption Compiler Project↗ jeremykun.com · HN · 1 comments · 59 points · Sep 04, 2026
TXR: An Original, New Programming Language for Convenient Data Munging↗ nongnu.org · HN · 9 comments · 37 points · Sep 21, 2026
Show HN: I wrote a custom assembler for CHIP-8 in C++↗ github.com · HN · 8 comments · 28 points · Sep 17, 2026
Automated optimization of a molecular simulation program↗ shishir-iyer.medium.com · HN · 3 comments · 19 points · Sep 22, 2026
The Golden Spike, and Resurrecting the Vale(n) Programming Language↗ verdagon.dev · HN · 0 comments · 14 points · Sep 17, 2026

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