/r/programming - top ten submissions for each month of 2026

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2026, July
HTTP gets a QUERY method so complex searches ca...
1871 HTTP gets a QUERY method so complex searches ca...
Linux has officially won
1773 Linux has officially won
Open source is a thankless job and I think we'v...
1500 Open source is a thankless job and I think we'v...
Decoding the obfuscated bash script on a Uniqlo...
891 Decoding the obfuscated bash script on a Uniqlo...
Google pays $250K for Linux vulnerability allow...
833 Google pays $250K for Linux vulnerability allow...
Maintaining the code of the man who wrote "How ...
754 Maintaining the code of the man who wrote "How ...
Cursor 0day: When Full Disclosure Becomes the O...
702 Cursor 0day: When Full Disclosure Becomes the O...
Stacked pull requests are now in public preview...
590 Stacked pull requests are now in public preview...
Drunk Post: Things I’ve Learned as a Senior Eng...
480 Drunk Post: Things I’ve Learned as a Senior Eng...
Announcing TypeScript 7.0
467 Announcing TypeScript 7.0
2026, June
Old Software Was Fast Because It Had No Choice
1418 Old Software Was Fast Because It Had No Choice
Why is Meta destroying its engineering organiza...
1131 Why is Meta destroying its engineering organiza...
In memory of the man who put red squiggles unde...
877 In memory of the man who put red squiggles unde...
To my students
869 To my students
New HTTP QUERY Method
835 New HTTP QUERY Method
VS Code Adds 2-Hour Extension Auto-Update Delay...
826 VS Code Adds 2-Hour Extension Auto-Update Delay...
@redhat-cloud-services publish pipeline is comp...
627 @redhat-cloud-services publish pipeline is comp...
Fintech Engineering Handbook
618 Fintech Engineering Handbook
RFC 10008: The HTTP QUERY Method
609 RFC 10008: The HTTP QUERY Method
Elixir v1.20 released: now a gradually typed la...
540 Elixir v1.20 released: now a gradually typed la...
2026, May
Raven Software released the Jedi Academy source...
2050 Raven Software released the Jedi Academy source...
The infamous 20 year old MySQL Bug #11472 has b...
1891 The infamous 20 year old MySQL Bug #11472 has b...
‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Package Man...
1505 ‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Package Man...
The FreeBSD vulnerability "discovered" by Mytho...
1307 The FreeBSD vulnerability "discovered" by Mytho...
The gold standard of optimization: A look under...
1068 The gold standard of optimization: A look under...
Announcement: We've Updated The Rules, and Apri...
960 Announcement: We've Updated The Rules, and Apri...
Someone hid a full RAT inside a fake npm packag...
869 Someone hid a full RAT inside a fake npm packag...
Bjarne Stroustrup: How do I deal with memory le...
822 Bjarne Stroustrup: How do I deal with memory le...
COBOL is the Asbestos of Programming Languages
739 COBOL is the Asbestos of Programming Languages
314 npm packages just got compromised, 271 @ant...
732 314 npm packages just got compromised, 271 @ant...
2026, April
Announcement: Temporary LLM Content Ban
2816 Announcement: Temporary LLM Content Ban
How Microsoft Vaporized a Trillion Dollars
2060 How Microsoft Vaporized a Trillion Dollars
Ghostty Is Leaving GitHub
1252 Ghostty Is Leaving GitHub
Fake It Until You Break It: The End Of Non-Tech...
1088 Fake It Until You Break It: The End Of Non-Tech...
How good engineers write bad code at big companies
874 How good engineers write bad code at big companies
How Pizza Tycoon (1994) simulated traffic on a ...
790 How Pizza Tycoon (1994) simulated traffic on a ...
Microsoft open-sources "the earliest DOS source...
770 Microsoft open-sources "the earliest DOS source...
The API Tooling Crisis: Why developers are aban...
655 The API Tooling Crisis: Why developers are aban...
How NASA Built Artemis II’s Fault-Tolerant Comp...
593 How NASA Built Artemis II’s Fault-Tolerant Comp...
GitHub Stacked PRs
555 GitHub Stacked PRs
2026, March
I Decompiled the White House's New App
2675 I Decompiled the White House's New App
Tony Hoare, creator of Quicksort & Null, passed...
2599 Tony Hoare, creator of Quicksort & Null, passed...
‘Devastating blow’: Atlassian lays off 1,600 wo...
2432 ‘Devastating blow’: Atlassian lays off 1,600 wo...
Software dev job postings are up 15% since mid ...
2220 Software dev job postings are up 15% since mid ...
AWS Middle East Central (mec1-az2) down, appare...
2168 AWS Middle East Central (mec1-az2) down, appare...
Claude Code's source leaked via a map file in t...
1481 Claude Code's source leaked via a map file in t...
Storing 2 bytes of data in your Logitech mouse
1225 Storing 2 bytes of data in your Logitech mouse
Slug Algorithm released into public domain
1197 Slug Algorithm released into public domain
A bug in Bun may have been the root cause of th...
1171 A bug in Bun may have been the root cause of th...
Why developers using AI are working longer hours
1126 Why developers using AI are working longer hours
2026, February
AWS suffered ‘at least two outages’ caused by A...
2826 AWS suffered ‘at least two outages’ caused by A...
Anthropic built a C compiler using a "team of p...
2785 Anthropic built a C compiler using a "team of p...
Slop pull request is rejected, so slop author i...
2492 Slop pull request is rejected, so slop author i...
Creator of Claude Code: "Coding is solved"
2166 Creator of Claude Code: "Coding is solved"
Amazon service was taken down by AI coding bot ...
1705 Amazon service was taken down by AI coding bot ...
Notepad++ Hijacked by State-Sponsored Hackers
1663 Notepad++ Hijacked by State-Sponsored Hackers
96% Engineers Don’t Fully Trust AI Output, Yet ...
1372 96% Engineers Don’t Fully Trust AI Output, Yet ...
“Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Time” sti...
1264 “Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Time” sti...
Why “Skip the Code, Ship the Binary” Is a Categ...
1258 Why “Skip the Code, Ship the Binary” Is a Categ...
Spotify says its best developers haven't writte...
1047 Spotify says its best developers haven't writte...
2026, January
Anthropic: AI assisted coding doesn't show effi...
4013 Anthropic: AI assisted coding doesn't show effi...
Replit boss: CEOs can vibe code their own proto...
2054 Replit boss: CEOs can vibe code their own proto...
Overrun with AI slop, cURL scraps bug bounties ...
2047 Overrun with AI slop, cURL scraps bug bounties ...
Linus Torvalds: "The AI slop issue is *NOT* goi...
1283 Linus Torvalds: "The AI slop issue is *NOT* goi...
The dev who asks too many questions is the one ...
1198 The dev who asks too many questions is the one ...
Tailwind just laid off 75% of their engineering...
1092 Tailwind just laid off 75% of their engineering...
Whatsapp rewrote its media handler to rust (160...
1062 Whatsapp rewrote its media handler to rust (160...
I got paid minimum wage to solve an impossible ...
1016 I got paid minimum wage to solve an impossible ...
Cursor Implied Success Without Evidence | Not o...
972 Cursor Implied Success Without Evidence | Not o...
Here is the 15 sec coding test to instantly fil...
955 Here is the 15 sec coding test to instantly fil...