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I hope you're not tired of the 8087, because I have another article about Intel's floating-point chip. 1 In 1980, Intel introduced the 8087...

96 points•pwg•4 days ago•11 comments•
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AI engineering sounds fancy. New terms are everywhere: agentic development, AI-native engineering,...

48 points•ujja•27 days ago•50 comments
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33 points•ibobev•1 day ago•39 comments•
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An Arduino Library for working with the AMT630A chip - mogrinz/AMT630A

30 points•mogrinz•2 days ago•7 comments•
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<p>Christmas is coming up, and I know some of you have experience helping children/nieces/nephews/etc learn programming. Mind sharing?</p> <p>Are there any kid friendly books, toys, kits, or other such gifts you have experience with and would recommend?</p> <p>What approaches have you used to generate interest, projects have you done that were fun and rewarding, or any goals to aim for?</p> <p>Any pitfalls to avoid?</p> <p>Any success stories to learn from?</p> <p>Any wisdom on what is appropriate and approachable for different ages?</p> <p>Input, advice, or recommendations/reviews are much appreciated.</p> <p>Thanks!</p>

24 points•jshumway•almost 9 years ago•30 comments
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<p>This might be OT a bit here, but I still found it so fascinating after digging it up just now, that I thought people might want to see it. It's a description of the huge complexity of designing and repairing big power lines, and it's mind-blowing.</p>

24 points•mikemccracken•almost 12 years ago•3 comments
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A Sci-Fi Scenario Come True As a kid, when I watched sci-fi movies about computers with...

19 points•georgekobaidze•9 days ago•7 comments
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I hope you're not tired of the 8087, because I have another article about Intel's floating-point chip. 1 In 1980, Intel introduced the 8087...

11 points•calvin•4 days ago•2 comments
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There is a scene that is becoming more and more common in software development right now. You have...

11 points•sizzlebop•9 days ago•3 comments
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All this work was done in November last year. I haven’t worked on it since, but others have shown interest in picking this up, so it’s about time this gets thrown out in the open.

10 points•inactive-user•over 6 years ago•0 comments
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The rapid adoption of artificial intelligence in software development prompts critical questions...

8 points•vpodk•1 day ago•0 comments
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It means giving the agent enough context to do the right thing For this week's Agent Factory...

8 points•annthurium•16 days ago•4 comments
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A comprehensive guide for tech leads, staff architects, and engineering managers evaluating BlocSignal: cutting through CISC ceremony, unlocking AI agent velocity, eliminating the code-gen tax, and mastering push-pull reactivity.

8 points•randalschwartz•21 days ago•1 comment
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Blog about reverse-engineering, hacking and breaking your software in every way imaginable.

8 points•quad•almost 5 years ago•0 comments
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Back when I was an engineering student, I wanted to know &#8220;How do the big companies develop software? How does it happen in the real world?&#8221; Now that I work at a company that has to do l…

7 points•azhenley•over 4 years ago•0 comments
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Parity’s engineers tested open-weight AI models through a self-managed inference stack. Over one month, 25 engineers generated nearly 13 billion tokens. Here’s what they learned.

5 points•ilovefood•8 days ago•0 comments•
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5 points•couAUIA•11 days ago•0 comments•
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Reading notes of Chapter 2 of Software Engineering at Google

4 points•BD103•1 day ago•1 comment
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Trend: more CTOs, VPEs, and Heads of Engineering are walking away from their high-status, in-demand positions. There are many reasons, mostly related to AI, and to "founder mode"

4 points•iamflimflam1•2 days ago•0 comments•
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Litmus helps SREs and developers practice chaos engineering in a Cloud-native way. Chaos experiments are published at the ChaosHub (https://hub.litmuschaos.io). Community notes is at https://hack...

4 points•palash25•almost 7 years ago•0 comments
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Since ChatGPT launched, one question has kept coming back: ‘Why can’t I just upload my files to ChatGPT and have it work?’ In the year after the release, almost every company wanted the same thing: an internal chatbot…

3 points•gmrijpkema•about 10 hours ago•1 comment•
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The OS for modern engineering leadership. Structured sessions, automated action items, and growth tracking.

3 points•NotGeorgeHere•10 days ago•0 comments•
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Software engineering is a collaborative discipline, in which a single engineer typically works closely with others in a cross-functional team.

3 points•chrisloy•11 days ago•1 comment•
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According to VDE calculations, every euro invested in international electrical engineering students generates approximately 16 euros in added value over the long term. That figure could be even higher if so many…

2 points•rustoo•1 day ago•0 comments•
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Engineering, security, product, IT, compliance, support, and sales all touch customer identity. That's exactly why it needs a clear owner.

2 points•mooreds•1 day ago•0 comments•
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Jonathan McKinsey, head of engineering and games player experiences for the Times, was found on the ground at a park with multiple gunshot wounds, police said.

2 points•Vaslo•2 days ago•0 comments•
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Examining Jev's probability calibration, structured outputs, latency, and cost against open source LLMs, with experiments and reliability diagrams.

2 points•mustaphah•3 days ago•0 comments•
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2 points•hegem0n•4 days ago•0 comments•
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Code is the purest way to express complexity. We used it to describe engineering systems at Jimmy. Now I'm taking the idea further with AI agents and a drone.

2 points•couAUIA•5 days ago•0 comments•
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Free, practical AI GTM skills and starter projects for Claude Code and Codex. Build lead lists, enrich data, create knowledge bases, and grow organic traffic.

2 points•namadaza•6 days ago•0 comments•
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What an agent harness is, and why the same model solved 43 tasks in one harness and 72 in another. With Claude Code, Codex and six more coding agents compared.

2 points•arifulislamat•6 days ago•3 comments
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No longer a hypothetical question, this is a mega-trend set to hit the tech industry

2 points•gpi•6 days ago•1 comment•
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2 points•sonabinu•7 days ago•0 comments•
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A few years ago, I pushed a change that looked completely safe. The task was simple: improve the...

2 points•art_light•10 days ago•1 comment
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2 points•couAUIA•11 days ago•0 comments•
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A practitioner’s guide to frontier engineering. Ten principles for working with AI agents and shipping dramatically faster.

2 points•emersonmacro•11 days ago•0 comments•
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How to minimize user frustration in Antarctica.

2 points•initramfs•11 days ago•0 comments•
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Groundtrack turns agent work into reusable engineering judgment, evidence-backed initiatives, and measurable organizational improvement.

1 points•reybahl•about 11 hours ago•0 comments•
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Professional engineering tools in your browser. Voltage dividers, Ohm's Law, geometry solvers, number converters, and circuit simulators — all free, no signup.

1 points•levario•about 16 hours ago•0 comments•
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1 points•py4•about 16 hours ago•0 comments•
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This article explains the process of reverse engineering the terrain map files from Comanche: Maximum Overkill, developed and published by NovaLogic for MS-DOS in 1992.

1 points•atan2•1 day ago•0 comments•
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Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, and business…

1 points•imakwana•2 days ago•1 comment•
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How Meta's Muse AI agent picks products: its catalog search, the Unicorn system behind it, hidden seller ratings, and the steps that decide what shoppers see.

1 points•kalanpeace•2 days ago•0 comments•
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Free practical calculators for automotive, electrical, fabrication, machining, 3D printing and workshop engineering.

1 points•zacaw99•2 days ago•0 comments•
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1 points•dukebartnik•2 days ago•0 comments•
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The ClickFix social engineering technique has been growing in popularity, with campaigns targeting thousands of enterprise and end-user devices daily. This technique exploits users’ tendency to resolve technical issues…

1 points•n_plus_1_acc•2 days ago•0 comments•
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On the old iPods, generally referred to here in the future as iPod Classic, there lives a tiny, undocumented chip called Mikey. It sits at the headphone output and performs only two functions: powe…

1 points•OuterVale•4 days ago•0 comments•

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