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NASA’s Curiosity Rover Got Its Drill Stuck on a Rock. Here’s How They Freed It (wired.com)

2026-05-13 | by Marta Musso | tags: curiosity, drill, engineers

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Snowflake Postgres, Lakebase, HorizonDB: Picking the Lock-In You Want (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-12 | tags: snowflake postgres, databricks lakebase, horizondb

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Signal adds security warnings for social engineering, phishing attacks (bleepingcomputer.com)

2026-05-12 | tags: engineering, phishing social, request

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Once again, SpaceX has set a new record for the tallest rocket ever built (arstechnica.com)

2026-05-12 | get SpaceX Falcon Heavy Model → | tags: spacex, starship, raptor engines

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Lotus will return to combustion engines for its cars (engadget.com)

2026-05-12 | by Daniel Cooper | get Lotus Emira Sports Car → | tags: lotus, combustion engines, electre

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GM just laid off IT workers to hire those with stronger AI skills (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-11 | by Kirsten Korosec | get AI Skills Training Course → | tags: cloud computing, data engineering, software development

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GM just laid off hundreds of IT workers to hire those with stronger AI skills (techcrunch.com)

2026-05-11 | by Kirsten Korosec | get AI Skills Training Course → | tags: data engineering, cloud computing, software development

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Everything Small Business Owners Need to Know to Get Started With SEO (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-05-11 | by Makena Finger Zannini | get SEO Starter Kit → | tags: google, backlinks, local seo

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Bild AI (YC W25) Is Hiring Founding Product Engineers (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-11 | get AI Developer Kit → | tags: bild ai, product engineers, founding team

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F1 set for another engine tweak in 2027, and what's this about V8s? (arstechnica.com)

2026-05-11 | get F1 Engine Tuning Kit → | tags: v8 engines, fia, hybrid power units

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Software engineering may no longer be a lifetime career (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-11 | get Software Engineering Career Guide → | tags: software engineering, artificial intelligence, assembly language

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Fostering breakthrough AI innovation through customer-back engineering (technologyreview.com)

2026-05-11 | by Mit Technology Review Insights | get AI Development Kit → | tags: capital one, ai innovation, customer-centric

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Obsidian plugin was abused to deploy a remote access trojan (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-10 | get Cybersecurity Awareness Poster → | tags: obsidian, phantompulse, remote access trojan

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Local AI needs to be the norm (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-10 | get Raspberry Pi 4 Kit → | tags: openai, anthropic, neural engine

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Former Epic director is building a European rival to the Unreal and Unity game engines — 'The Immense Engine' dev sees opportunity for AI agents to 'do the work of ten or fifteen people' (tomshardware.com)

2026-05-10 | by Mark Tyson | get Game Development AI Toolkit → | tags: unreal engine, unity, guerrilla games

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Former Epic director and Guerrilla Games co-founder is building a European game engine to rival Unreal and Unity (techspot.com)

2026-05-10 | get Godot Engine Software → | tags: epic games, unreal engine, guerrilla games

17.

I caught the car (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-09 | get Car Dash Cam → | tags: uber, senior software engineer, internal leveling scheme

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Optimize for change not application performance (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-09 | by Christian Rackerseder | tags: rendering benchmarks, bundle size, hydration speed

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Europe May Soon Get a Non-U.S. Alternative to Unreal Engine (gizmodo.com)

2026-05-09 | get Unity Software Development Kit → | tags: unreal engine, europe, non-u.s.

20.

Let it snow (theverge.com)

2026-05-09 | by Andrew Webster | get Smart Snow Melting Mat → | tags: moomintroll, ray tracing, physics engine

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Production engineering when trading billions of dollars a day [video] (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-08 | tags: production engineering, trading, billions of dollars

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What we lost the last time code got cheap (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-08 | by Mark Downie | get Raspberry Pi 4 Kit → | tags: heartland information services, offshore transcription, medical transcription

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Google Is Testing a New Rule That Could Transform Job Interviews (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-05-08 | by Sherin Shibu | get Interview Preparation Book → | tags: google, gemini ai, software engineering

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PC Engine CPU (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-08 | get TurboGrafx-16 Console → | tags: pc engine, turbo grafx-16, hu6280

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Teenage Engineering’s KO Sidekick is a mixer with fun performance effects (theverge.com)

2026-05-08 | by Terrence O'Brien | get Teenage Engineering KO Sidekick → | tags: teenage engineering, ko sidekick, ko-ii

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How Ask Jeeves blew it (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-05-08 | tags: ask jeeves, search engine, fast company

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First Segment of the Fehmarnbelt Tunnel Is In Place (slashdot.org)

2026-05-08 | get Fehmarnbelt Tunnel Model → | tags: fehmarnbelt, fermats theorem, acm sigplan

28.

Colored Shadow Penumbra (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-07 | get Colorful Shadow Art Kit → | tags: unreal engine, lumen, substrate

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Teenage Engineering just released a stereo mixer that physically connects to its EP-series samplers (engadget.com)

2026-05-07 | by Lawrence Bonk | get Teenage Engineering Mixer → | tags: teenage engineering, ep-136 k.o. sidekick, ep-series samplers

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Removing fsync from our local storage engine (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-07 | tags: storage engine, fsync, ssd