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Irrlicht Engine – a cross-platform realtime 3D engine

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-23 10:40:17

The Irrlicht Engine supports 5 rendering APIs, which are 4 more than most other 3D engines do: Direct3D 9.0 OpenGL 1.2-4.x The Irrlicht Engine software renderer . . The Burningsvideo Software Renderer A null device. When using the Irrlicht engine, the programmer needs not know, which API the engine is using, it is totally abstracted. He only needs to tell the engine which API the engine should prefer. There are three reasons why the engine not only focuses on one API: Performance . Some gra

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New Nuclear Rocket Concept Could Slash Mars Travel Time in Half

gizmodo.com Passant Rabie 2025-09-26 11:00:58

Engineers from Ohio State University are developing a new way to power rocket engines, using liquid uranium for a faster, more efficient form of nuclear propulsion that could deliver round trips to Mars within a single year. NASA and its private partners have their eyes set on the Moon and Mars, aiming to establish a regular human presence on distant celestial bodies. The future of space travel depends on building rocket engines that can propel vehicles farther into space and do it faster. Nucl

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Adam (YC W25) Is Hiring to Build the Future of CAD

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-29 16:16:09

We’re building the founding engineering team at Adam. At Adam, we’re tackling a frontier problem: building a new way to interface with CAD via AI. This demands creativity, deep technical ability, and novel thinking. As part of the founding engineering team you may: Sprint for two weeks to build a new product vertical from scratch Develop new interfaces for AI-driven CAD workflows Design, implement, test, and deploy full features Work with our product team to ensure a fast, consistent, and

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Computing’s Top 30: Upal Mahbub

computer.org Laurel Tweed 2025-09-30 02:00:11

When he’s not developing hardware-efficient computer vision solutions for extended reality (XR) or creating novel facial landmark detection algorithms for mobile devices, you might find Upal Mahbub writing poetry in Bengali, creating “zentangle” art, or editing Dorpon, the literary magazine he publishes. Or? You might check the list of Computing’s Top 30 Early Career Professionals for 2024, where you will definitely find him. Mahbub is a staff engineer in the Multimedia R&D Lab at Qualcomm. In

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Pure and Impure Software Engineering

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-27 22:07:05

Why do solo game developers tend to get into fights with big tech engineers? Why do high-profile external hires to large companies often fizzle out? Why is AI-assisted development amazing for some engineers and completely useless for others? I think it’s because some engineers are doing very different kinds of work to other engineers. Those two types of engineers often assume their counterparts are simply incompetent, but they’re really just working in different fields. Pure and impure enginee

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Infracost (YC W21) Is Hiring First Product Manager to Shift FinOps Left

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-03 00:00:59

Overview We were the first to shift FinOps left, and we see a big opportunity to make the $600B/year spent on cloud proactively managed, instead of teams reacting to surprise cost spikes. Reactive is too late, we already tried that approach with our first startup. Join us as our first PM 🚀 This is a high-impact role at the heart of our product and growth strategy. You’ll own critical parts of our roadmap, from early-stage discovery through to GTM, and shape how we scale. You’ll work directly

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Intel’s chief executive of products departs among other leadership changes

techcrunch.com Rebecca Szkutak 2025-10-05 20:22:13

Semiconductor giant Intel continues to shake up its senior leadership since Lip-Bu Tan took the helm as CEO in March. Intel announced Monday that Michelle Johnston Holthaus will depart the company after more than three decades. Johnston Holthhaus was most recently chief executive officer of Intel products and will remain a strategic adviser. The company also announced the creation of a central engineering group that will build a new custom silicon business for outside customers, according to I

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Unity developers can now tap into system screen reader tools on macOS and Windows

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-08 08:03:48

Unity is updating its game engine to support native screen readers in both macOS and Windows. The feature is available now in the Unity 6000.3.0a5 alpha, and should make the process of making games accessible for blind players cheaper for developers, Can I Play That? writes . Screen readers narrate on-screen menus so blind and low-vision players can navigate a game or a piece of software without additional assistance. Typically, screen reading software is custom-built for each game, which can m

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OnePlus and Hasselblad are parting ways

theverge.com Dominic Preston 2025-10-10 00:30:52

is a news editor with over a decade’s experience in journalism. He previously worked at Android Police and Tech Advisor. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. OnePlus CEO Pete Lau announced on the company’s user forums today that its five-year partnership with camera company Hasselblad has come to an end. From now on, OnePlus will develop its own imaging engine instead. OnePlus first teamed up with Hasselblad for the 9 and 9 Pro flagships, and

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Apple's AI search engine could be driven by Google and help revive Siri, report says

zdnet.com Sabrina Ortiz 2025-10-10 12:51:54

Sabrina Ortiz/ZDNET ZDNET's key takeaways Apple plans to launch an AI search engine, reportedly. The AI search experience would power the Siri voice assistant. The expected launch is in the spring as part of the Siri overhaul. Though Apple offers useful AI features through its Apple Intelligence suite, discussion of the company's AI efforts usually returns to one main sticking point: the delay of a revamped Siri. That launch has been highly anticipated, as it is supposed to push Siri's cap

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I should have loved electrical engineering

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-07 00:12:13

Author’s note: Drafted in 2022, lightly edited and finished on Sep 1, 2025 for clarity. Substance unchanged. I tried to not glamorize my undergraduate experience but I could be hallucinating. “Hardware invention enabled the information revolution. The internet and all the fancy applications are nothing but some byproduct of the advancement in computer chips and fiber optic cables”, 18-year-old me thought wishfully, concluding that the next natural sequence in the major global transformation mus

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GE Aerospace to invest $300M in Beta Technologies to pair up on hybrid-electric power

techcrunch.com Aria Alamalhodaei 2025-10-11 03:51:00

GE Aerospace is taking a sizable stake in electric aviation company Beta Technologies, with the pair teaming up to build a hybrid-electric turbogenerator for next-gen aircraft. GE will also invest $300 million, pending regulatory approval, under a strategic deal announced Thursday. The new partnership comes as hybrid solutions gain momentum in the advanced air mobility (AAM) space, a catch-all term to describe the next generation of aviation concepts like eVTOL, hydrogen, and so on. Aircraft ma

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GE Aerospace to invest $300M in Beta Technologies, pair up on hybrid-electric power

techcrunch.com Aria Alamalhodaei 2025-10-11 08:51:00

GE Aerospace is taking a sizable stake in electric aviation company Beta Technologies, with the pair teaming up to build a hybrid-electric turbogenerator for next-gen aircraft. GE will also invest $300 million, pending regulatory approval, under a strategic deal announced Thursday. The new partnership comes as hybrid solutions gain momentum in the advanced air mobility (AAM) space, a catch-all term to describe the next generation of aviation concepts like eVTOL, hydrogen, and so on. Aircraft ma

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I Should Have Loved Electrical Engineering

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-09 07:12:13

Author’s note: Drafted in 2022, lightly edited and finished on Sep 1, 2025 for clarity. Substance unchanged. I tried to not glamorize my undergraduate experience but I could be hallucinating. “Hardware invention enabled the information revolution. The internet and all the fancy applications are nothing but some byproduct of the advancement in computer chips and fiber optic cables”, 18-year-old me thought wishfully, concluding that the next natural sequence in the major global transformation mus

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Polars Cloud and Distributed Polars now available

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-12 01:01:49

After working hard since our Polars Cloud announcement last February, we are pleased to officially launch Polars Cloud. Polars Cloud is now Generally Available on AWS. Beyond that, we also launched our novel Distributed Engine in Open Beta on Polars Cloud. You can immediately get started at https://cloud.pola.rs/. After that you can fire a remote distributed query: import polars_cloud as pc import polars as pl from datetime import date with pc . ComputeContext ( workspace = "<my-workspace>" ,

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Just one word in the Google antitrust ruling was worth $20B a year to Apple

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2025-10-14 04:44:04

For more than a year now, there have been debates about whether Google’s payment to Apple to be the default search engine in Safari would be outlawed. While it had seemed likely this would be the case, what we got was a compromise ruling. It turned out that the difference between Apple earning $20 billion a year and $0 hinged on a single word … It had seemed likely both companies would lose The ruling just over a year ago was very clear: Google’s deal with Apple to be the default search engin

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Apple shares rise after judge rules Google can continue preload deals in antitrust case

cnbc.com Kif Leswing 2025-10-15 04:29:17

Tim Cook, CEO of Apple Inc., during the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference at Apple Park campus in Cupertino, California, on June 9, 2025. Apple shares rose more than 3% in extended trading Tuesday after a federal judge ruled that Alphabet may continue making payments to preload Google Search onto the iPhone. Although Apple wasn't a party in the search monopoly trial, the judge was considering remedies that would bar Google from paying billions per year to Apple to be the default search eng

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Anduril: Amusement Park for Engineers

news.ycombinator.com Adnan Esmail 2025-10-18 23:14:15

This article features first-ever photos taken from inside Anduril’s R&D facilities in Costa Mesa, California. All photos by Ryan Young. On a Saturday afternoon in April 2024, I was on the rooftop pool deck of a Marriott hotel, setting up radar equipment aimed above the Hollywood Hills in Burbank, California. My five-year-old son, still damp from swimming, darted around as I calibrated the system. “What are you doing?” he asked, touching the electronics with wet hands. “Tracking … flying o

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Why China Builds Faster Than the Rest of the World

wired.com Zeyi Yang 2025-10-22 20:00:00

There’s never been a shortage of hot takes about what really makes the United States and China so different: Capitalism versus socialism; democracy as opposed to authoritarianism; Christianity or Confucianism; equity versus efficiency. In his highly anticipated new book, Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future, Hoover Institution fellow Dan Wang proposes a fresh lens for looking at the world’s two largest superpowers: the US is a “lawyerly society,” he argues, while China is an “engineer

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With Starship Flight 10, SpaceX prioritized resilience over perfection

techcrunch.com Aria Alamalhodaei 2025-10-24 12:39:43

SpaceX has long marketed Starship as a fully and rapidly reusable rocket that’s designed to deliver thousands of pounds of cargo to Mars and make life multiplanetary. But reusability at scale means a space vehicle that can tolerate mishaps and faults, so that a single failure doesn’t spell a mission-ending catastrophe. The 10th test flight on Tuesday evening demonstrated SpaceX’s focus on fault tolerance. In a post-flight update, SpaceX said the test stressed “the limits of vehicle capabilities

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How to Prepare for Leadership Roles in Software Engineering

computer.org Vanessa Castro 2025-10-29 09:35:39

Struggling between the comfort of an individual contributor (IC) role and the desire to move into software engineering leadership? It’s a tough fork in the road that many engineers face. The idea of stepping away from hands-on technical work to move into leadership requires mastering new skills, stepping into the spotlight, and strategic thinking. It feels like a major departure from their comfort zone of code development, testing, and debugging. But the truth is, growth happens outside the comf

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The New Face of Data Engineering: No-Code, High Velocity, and AI-Driven

computer.org Laurel Tweed 2025-10-29 18:00:50

Data engineering is experiencing rapid transformation due to artificial intelligence’s (AI) modification of work processes and responsibilities. AI-assisted low- and no-code solutions dominate previously code-heavy processes, delivering streamlined development and reduced complexity. This transition challenges engineers to shift from writing pure extract, transform, and load (ETL) code to managing system design, data governance, compliance, and strategic AI tool integration. Transformation of C

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Librebox: An open source, Roblox-compatible game engine

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-29 23:22:15

Librebox Engine (demo) An open-source Roblox-compatible game engine NOTE: Librebox IS NOT AFFILIATED WITH Roblox or Roblox Corporation. What is Librebox? Librebox is an open-source game engine that runs Luau. It aims to replicate the Roblox Public API, allowing Roblox code to run on the Librebox engine. Why Librebox? Librebox gives developers agency over their games -- from the code to the engine. Create your own immersive games with a familiar interface (and fully own your platform). Exa

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From Classroom to Career: Skills That Shape Your Path Beyond Coding

computer.org Vanessa Castro 2025-10-30 14:28:47

Key Takeaways Beyond building technical skills, new software engineers need to develop soft skills that enable them to work well with other team members. Understanding the unique needs of each industry in which a professional wants to work makes it easier to make meaningful contributions to the organization. SWEBOK streamlines your transition into the working world because it outlines certifications that give graduates a competitive edge in the technology job market. According to the U.S. Bu

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Nonprofit search engine Ecosia offers $0 for control of Chrome

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-01 23:21:58

Germany-based search engine and browser nonprofit Ecosia is the latest party to make an offer for Google's Chrome. Questions about Chrome's fate have been swirling since the news that the Department of Justice would push for Google to sell the browser after the ruling that the company's search engine business constituted a monopoly. Although Google is planning to appeal the decision, that hasn't stopped other big tech businesses from pitching themselves as potential owners of Chrome. Ecosia's p

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A Decoder Ring for AI Job Titles

news.ycombinator.com Drew Breunig 2025-11-02 02:22:26

A Cheat Sheet for Job Titles in the AI Ecosystem Even when you live and breathe AI, the job titles can feel like a moving target. I can only imagine how mystifying they must be to everyone else. Because the field is actively evolving, the language we use keeps changing. Brand new titles appear overnight or, worse, one term means three different things at three different companies. This is my best attempt at a “Cheat Sheet for AI Titles.” I’ll try to keep it updated as the jargon shifts, settl

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Why Did a $10 Billion Startup Let Me Vibe-Code for Them—and Why Did I Love It?

wired.com Lauren Goode 2025-11-04 03:00:00

Sitting a few feet away was Simon Last, one of Notion’s three cofounders. He is gangly and shy, an engineer who has relinquished management responsibilities to focus on being a “super IC”—an individual contributor. He stood to shake my hand, and I awkwardly thanked him for letting me vibe-code. Simon returned to his laptop, where he was monitoring an AI as it coded for him. Later, he would tell me that using AI coding apps was like managing a bunch of interns. Since 2022, the Notion app has had

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‘How Apple AirPods Work’: This awesome video just made me love my AirPods even more

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-11-04 22:36:07

Even if you’ve never wondered about how Apple manages to pack so much advanced tech inside its teeny tiny AirPods, do yourself a favor and set aside a few minutes to watch this awesome breakdown by the always fascinating folks at the Real Engineering YouTube Channel. Watch the video below. You’d be hard-pressed to find an event in which Apple didn’t proudly feature one of those animations of an exploded set of AirPods, and the dozens of impossibly tiny pieces that snugly fit together inside eac

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Ready to Escape Google? Start by Changing Your Phone's Default Search Engine

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-09 18:15:04

It's hard to imagine life without Google. The internet as we know it is built around search engines, and Google is the biggest of them all. In 2024, Google was the primary search engine for 76% of desktop users and 95% of mobile users. Even if you don't have Google Chrome on your device, you probably use Google Search multiple times a day without thinking about it. If you have an iPhone and you open the Safari app to perform a search, you're automatically using Google. That's no accident: Goog

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HR giant Workday discloses data breach after Salesforce attack

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-11-12 09:53:49

Human resources giant Workday has disclosed a data breach after attackers gained access to a third-party customer relationship management (CRM) platform in a recent social engineering attack. Headquartered in Pleasanton, California, Workday has over 19,300 employees in offices across North America, EMEA, and APJ. Workday's customer list comprises over 11,000 organizations across a diverse range of industries, including more than 60% of the Fortune 500 companies. As the company revealed in a Fr

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Irrlicht Engine – a cross-platform realtime 3D engine

New Nuclear Rocket Concept Could Slash Mars Travel Time in Half

Adam (YC W25) Is Hiring to Build the Future of CAD

Computing’s Top 30: Upal Mahbub

Pure and Impure Software Engineering

Infracost (YC W21) Is Hiring First Product Manager to Shift FinOps Left

Intel’s chief executive of products departs among other leadership changes

Unity developers can now tap into system screen reader tools on macOS and Windows

OnePlus and Hasselblad are parting ways

Apple's AI search engine could be driven by Google and help revive Siri, report says

I should have loved electrical engineering

GE Aerospace to invest $300M in Beta Technologies to pair up on hybrid-electric power

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I Should Have Loved Electrical Engineering

Polars Cloud and Distributed Polars now available

Just one word in the Google antitrust ruling was worth $20B a year to Apple

Apple shares rise after judge rules Google can continue preload deals in antitrust case

Anduril: Amusement Park for Engineers

Why China Builds Faster Than the Rest of the World

With Starship Flight 10, SpaceX prioritized resilience over perfection

How to Prepare for Leadership Roles in Software Engineering

The New Face of Data Engineering: No-Code, High Velocity, and AI-Driven

Librebox: An open source, Roblox-compatible game engine

From Classroom to Career: Skills That Shape Your Path Beyond Coding

Nonprofit search engine Ecosia offers $0 for control of Chrome

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‘How Apple AirPods Work’: This awesome video just made me love my AirPods even more

Ready to Escape Google? Start by Changing Your Phone's Default Search Engine

HR giant Workday discloses data breach after Salesforce attack

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