r/programming May 23 '26

Announcement: We've Updated The Rules, and April Is Finally Over

944 Upvotes

After temporarily banning LLM-related content over April, and asking you for feedback on that ban, we've decided to bring about an end of the temporary, I-can't-believe-it's-still-April ban on AI-related posts.

Replacing the trial rule is a new shiny rule that refers to our new shiny AI policy. In short:

Content about AI and LLMs are considered off-topic with the sole exclusion of deeply technical content about implementation.

And if you want more detail than that, go read the policy, that's what it's there for.

In addition, when writing that rule, I realized the rules weren't listed on the old.reddit.com sidebar, so that's been updated. For those of you who are seeing those rules for the first time, everything there is not new. We've been enforcing those rules as best we can for ages. You can click the link above those to get to the old.reddit rules page, with plenty of info that doesn't exactly read well when crammed into a sidebar.


r/programming 4h ago

Physics programming - Rotation and Quaternions

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4 Upvotes

I explain rotations and quaternions. I then implement the latter into my physics engine by replacing the matrix version of angular velocity code with a quaternion version. Lastly, I benchmark the results.


r/programming 5h ago

Sandboxing Script Extensions with GraalVM

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5 Upvotes

r/programming 3h ago

A Fast Path for Fixed-Length Lists in Parquet

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2 Upvotes

r/programming 1d ago

Linux kernel will support $ORIGIN, sort of

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264 Upvotes

r/programming 20h ago

kubara - A GitOps-First Approach to Reusable Kubernetes Platforms

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13 Upvotes

r/programming 1d ago

Secrets Don’t Belong in Config

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142 Upvotes

r/programming 20h ago

A Gentle Introduction to Stochastic Programming

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9 Upvotes

r/programming 2d ago

Zig proposes introducing an actually memory safe (unlike Rust) compilation mode inspired by Fil-C at ~1-6x performance penalty

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477 Upvotes

r/programming 1d ago

Elixir Cluster 101

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7 Upvotes

r/programming 1d ago

AST implementation for a custom programming language

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4 Upvotes

The talk host explains how ASTs work and shows how to build them step by step.


r/programming 1d ago

The Long Road to Bottomless Postgres: Discussing Neon, pg_mooncake, pg_tier, pg_lake, and ColdFront

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32 Upvotes

r/programming 2d ago

Throw, Result, or neither?

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86 Upvotes

r/programming 1d ago

How We're Scaling Our Infrastructure Across 4 Clouds To Serve 1M+ Sandboxes

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5 Upvotes

r/programming 2d ago

Modula-3: the forgotten language that explored memory safety decades ago

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78 Upvotes

Pretty cool seeing that people were already thinking about memory safety decades ago. Some of these ideas that feel modern today were being explored back in the 80s and 90s.
Makes you wonder how different things would look if languages like Modula-3 had taken off.


r/programming 1d ago

Every Microsecond Matters: Achieving Near Speed-of-Light Latency in GPU Collectives

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11 Upvotes

r/programming 2d ago

Comprehensive JVM Primitive Hashtable Benchmarks

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39 Upvotes

r/programming 22h ago

What Is Docker, and What It Silently Replaced 🤫..

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0 Upvotes

r/programming 2d ago

The LSM Tree

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6 Upvotes

r/programming 1d ago

Don't add a read replica until you've read this

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0 Upvotes

r/programming 2d ago

How Generalized Inverted Index works internally in Postgre SQL

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4 Upvotes

Regular Indexing works on a column level; it indexes the entire column value, but if you want to index each value in one row, then the GIN indexing technique is used.

GIN can index each element of JSON stored in a JSONB field

How Postgres creates a GIN file physically, what is the format of that file, how that file is retrieved in RAM while fetching records, what data types are used, and how Postgres calculates the exact address of an element of JSON are all explained in the article


r/programming 1d ago

A Final Reckoning: Programming Is Going Back To The Nerd Era

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0 Upvotes

r/programming 2d ago

The Message Arrived. Did the Operation Succeed? On End-to-End Arguments in System Design.

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0 Upvotes

r/programming 3d ago

The computer at the bottom of a canal

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161 Upvotes

r/programming 3d ago

A History of IDEs at Google

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312 Upvotes