Ask HN: What are the best engineering blogs with real-world depth? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What are the best engineering blogs with real-world depth?

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Post by NickJLange » Tue, Dec 23, 2025, 3:55 PM UTC

A lot of great links here to the firehose (or at least for working parents). Unless someone has built it - anything that aggregates and shows beyond the first click of the by-line. (i.e. a first paragraph, or LLM-summary of the content)?

Otherwise... coming soon from a vibe-coding session near you...

Re: Ask HN: What are the best engineering blogs with real-world depth?

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Post by aranw » Tue, Dec 23, 2025, 4:02 PM UTC

https://samwho.dev has some fantastic blog posts with great visualisations

Re: Ask HN: What are the best engineering blogs with real-world depth?

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Post by nsm » Tue, Dec 23, 2025, 4:15 PM UTC

https://randomascii.wordpress.com/ - former Chrome engineer about all things performance engineering and particularly focused on Windows.

Re: Ask HN: What are the best engineering blogs with real-world depth?

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Post by agumonkey » Tue, Dec 23, 2025, 4:19 PM UTC

Often enjoyed article by chris wellons https://nullprogram.com/

quite diverse, often challenging, sometimes mind bending

Re: Ask HN: What are the best engineering blogs with real-world depth?

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Post by corbet » Tue, Dec 23, 2025, 4:21 PM UTC

I feel obligated to mention LWN - https://lwn.net/ - since that is exactly what we aspire to.

Re: Ask HN: What are the best engineering blogs with real-world depth?

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Post by iancmceachern » Tue, Dec 23, 2025, 4:26 PM UTC

It's so interesting to me as a Mechanical Engineer and Hardware designer/architect how on HN "Engineering" almost always means "Software engineering" here.

Re: Ask HN: What are the best engineering blogs with real-world depth?

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Post by loloquwowndueo » Tue, Dec 23, 2025, 4:30 PM UTC

vibesareoff wrote: post #42

bell-cot wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

OP is asking a good question. There's no dishonor if he is not fluent in English, and used an LLM to translate.

"OP" couldn't even be bothered to reformat the numbered list to run on separate fucking lines. But sure, cheer on the homogenization of online spaces into beige slop staccato bullshit! ˙ ͜ʟ˙

How do you reformat a list so it runs on separate fucking lines?

Always happens to me (and I don’t use fucking LLMs) so I’d really like to know.

Re: Ask HN: What are the best engineering blogs with real-world depth?

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Post by jvanderbot » Tue, Dec 23, 2025, 4:37 PM UTC

iancmceachern wrote: post #66

It's so interesting to me as a Mechanical Engineer and Hardware designer/architect how on HN "Engineering" almost always means "Software engineering" here.

I would love more blogs on mechanical, hardware, and especially industrial engineering, but the demographics in those areas skew stereo-typically older and also likely less blog-oriented, right?

Re: Ask HN: What are the best engineering blogs with real-world depth?

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Post by SleepySteve_sk » Tue, Dec 23, 2025, 4:38 PM UTC

NickJLange wrote: post #61

A lot of great links here to the firehose (or at least for working parents). Unless someone has built it - anything that aggregates and shows beyond the first click of the by-line. (i.e. a first paragraph, or LLM-summary of the content)? Otherwise... coming soon from a vibe-coding session near you...

We're currently building something to solve this problem.

https://joinheader.com/

We'll filter an RSS feed based on the topic and description that you provide. Feel free to reach out to me at s.kufuor@ if you have any questions or feedback.

Re: Ask HN: What are the best engineering blogs with real-world depth?

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Post by samwho » Tue, Dec 23, 2025, 4:39 PM UTC

aranw wrote: post #62

https://samwho.dev has some fantastic blog posts with great visualisations

Thank you <3