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Amazon cracks down on 'CPU waste' among engineers as agentic AI crunch intensifies — CPU demand makes low-utilization EC2 instances a hot commodity [Updated] (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-07 | by Jake Roach | tags: amazon, capacity, cpus

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Amazon cracks down on 'CPU waste' among engineers as agentic AI crunch intensifies — CPU demand makes low-utilization EC2 instances a hot commodity (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-07 | by Jake Roach | tags: amazon, cpus, demand

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The National Design Studio Became a DOGE Landing Pad. Now ‘Big Balls’ Is Recruiting (wired.com)

2026-08-05 | by Vittoria Elliott | tags: coristine, doge, engineer

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The world's smallest USB drive has more storage than an iPhone 17 (engadget.com)

2026-08-05 | by Dave Meikleham | tags: connector, drive, engineer

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Not hiring junior engineers won't solve the problem you think you have (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-05 | tags: engineer, engineering, engineers

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Eight Myths on Software Engineering and GenAI (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-04 | tags: software engineering, genai, myths

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Earth Has a Billion Years Left. This Plan Could Stretch It to 9 Quadrillion (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-04 | tags: earth, engineered safeguards, habitability

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Roame (YC S23) Is Hiring Lead Engineer (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-04 | tags: roame, airbnb, award travel

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Device Code Phishing Up 1,500% in 2026; Vishing Doubles (darkreading.com)

2026-08-04 | tags: device code, phishing, vishing

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Europe can become a bioengineering powerhouse with these three changes (feeds.nature.com)

2026-08-04 | by Ntziachristos | tags: bioengineering, europe, artificial intelligence

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Interviewing Engineers in the AI Era: Lessons from a Year of Rebuilding (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-03 | tags: ai era, engineers, engineers ai

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LLMs reward expertise (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-03 | tags: llms, chatgpt, jacobian conjecture

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Want to get more from AI? Treat every prompt like an experiment (feeds.nature.com)

2026-08-03 | by Dewar | tags: biomedical, vanderbilt university, prompt engineering

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Performance Reviews: Three Tips for Proving Your Expertise (computer.org)

2026-08-02 | tags: performance reviews, software engineers, ieee computer society

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Fridays With Bob (spectrum.ieee.org)

2026-08-01 | by Harry Goldstein | tags: ieee, spectrum, software engineering

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AI doesn't generate working products, that's still your job (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-01 | by Anuradha Weeraman | tags: openai, api tokens, software engineering

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Employees Long for the Days Before the Workplace Filled Up With AI Slop (futurism.com)

2026-08-01 | by Victor Tangermann | tags: adaptavist, generative ai, prompt engineering

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Engineers redesigned the recipe to make it easier to follow (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-07-31 | tags: google, recipe, croquembouche

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Decades-old fish sauce at abandoned factory in Canada finally being removed (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-31 | by Giri Nathan | tags: fish sauce, newfoundland and labrador, st. mary's

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The Abandoned Fish Sauce Terrorizing a Small Canadian Town (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-31 | by Giri Nathan | tags: fish sauce, newfoundland and labrador, fish sludge

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Tasklet (YC P26) Is Hiring a Customer Success Engineer (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-31 | tags: tasklet, ai platform, customer success engineer

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The Economic Benefit of Refactoring (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-30 | by Giles Edwards-Alexander | tags: thoughtworks, gen ai, rust

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Forward-deployed engineers are the AI industry’s latest talent obsession (techcrunch.com)

2026-07-30 | by Rebecca Bellan | tags: forward-deployed engineers, christian & timbers, applied ai

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Why don't people use formal methods? (2019) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-30 | tags: formal methods, formal verification, software engineering

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Why Don't People Use Formal Methods? (2019) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-30 | tags: formal methods, formal verification, software engineering

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Why Don't People Use Formal Methods? (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-30 | tags: formal methods, formal verification, software engineering

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NSF pilots 4-year PhDs with industry research placements (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-30 | tags: nsf, phd, industry research

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Daily briefing: ‘Raygun’ AI can shrink or supersize proteins (feeds.nature.com)

2026-07-30 | by Smith | tags: raygun, spin qubits, hrl laboratories

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GitHub is the wrong shape for this new world (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-29 | tags: github, software engineering, ci/cd

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Graph Engineering Needs a Compiler (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-29 | tags: langchain, graph engineering, compiler