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r/programming is a subreddit with 6.8M members. Its distinguishing qualities are that the community is massive in size, and has crazy activity.
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Popular Themes in r/programming
#1
Solution Requests
: "How to Build a Smart RGB LED Strip Controller with a Raspberry Pi Zero W"
2 posts
#2
Pain & Anger
: "It's really time tech workers start talking about unionizing - Rumors of heavy layoffs at Amazon, targeting high-senior devs"
2 posts
#3
Advice Requests
: "I wrote a practical guide to observability — would love feedback"
2 posts
#4
Self-Promotion
: "Built a macOS app solo →$3.6K revenue, 5.3K users, $0 ads, and total chaos (in a good way)"
2 posts
#5
Opportunities
: "Open Source Hackathon with $5k+ prize pool"
1 post
Popular Topics in r/programming
#1
Programming
: "A New Programming Fundamentals Course"
51 posts
#2
Development
: "I wasted weeks hand optimizing assembly because I benchmarked on random data"
26 posts
#3
Ai
: "METR study finds Ai doesn't make devs as productive as they think"
18 posts
#4
Web
: "The Untold Revolution Beneath iOS 26. WebGPU Is Coming Everywhere"
12 posts
#5
Coding
: "How AI Vibe Coding Is Destroying Junior Developers' Careers"
8 posts
#6
Javascript
: "3D engine on software rendering vanilla Javascript."
6 posts
#7
Database
: "How to run Kubernetes microservices locally (localhost) for fast development"
5 posts
#8
Security
: "Legally Hacking Dormant Bitcoin Wallets in C"
5 posts
#9
Linux
: "How to write Rust in the Linux kernel: part 3"
4 posts
#10
Python
: "Python 3.14 release candidate 1 is go"
4 posts
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