What are the best engineering blogs with real-world depth (no fluff)?

I’m looking for examples of high-quality engineering blog posts—especially from tech company blogs, that go beyond surface-level explanations. Specifically interested in posts that: 1. Explain technical concepts clearly and concisely 2. Show real implementation details, trade-offs, and failures 3. Are well-structured and readable 4. Tie engineering decisions back to business or product outcomes Any standout […]

Show HN: GeneGuessr – a daily biology web puzzle

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How to Play GeneGuessr Welcome to GeneGuessr! This is the protein of the day. Can you figure out which gene made it? You will see spoiler bars that cover valuable hints. Tap the spoiler bar to reveal a hint underneath. Look up your favorite gene with the search bar. Submit it as your first guess. […]

Carnap – A formal logic framework for Haskell

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Background Carnap is a free and open software framework written in Haskell for teaching and studying formal logic. Carnap powers logic courses at dozens of colleges and universities around the world. If you’re a student in a course that uses Carnap, please follow the links at the top of the page to log in and […]

Instant database clones with PostgreSQL 18

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Have you ever watched long running migration script, wondering if it’s about to wreck your data? Or wish you can ”just” spin a fresh copy of database for each test run? Or wanted to have reproducible snapshots to reset between runs of your test suite, (and yes, because you are reading boringSQL) needed to reset […]

10 years bootstrapped: €6.5M revenue with a team of 13

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As 2025 comes to a close, it’s once again time to reflect. It’s been another packed twelve months, and it’s great to look back at everything we achieved, day by day. (Yes, we’re patting ourselves on the back. It’s our blog, we’re allowed to.) Want to take a walk down memory lane? Here are previous […]

Show HN: CineCLI – Browse and torrent movies directly from your terminal

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📡 YTS API Status 🟢 API STATUS: ACTIVE & OPERATIONALAll CineCLI features are fully functional. Browse, inspect, and launch movie torrents directly from your terminal.Fast. Cross-platform. Minimal. Beautiful. ✨ Features 🔍 Search movies from YTS 🎥 View detailed movie information 🧲 Launch magnet links directly into your torrent client 📦 Download .torrent files if preferred […]

Snitch – a friendly netstat alternative for humans

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a friendlier ss / netstat for humans. inspect network connections with a clean tui or styled tables. go install github.com/karol-broda/snitch@latest nixos / nix # try it nix run github:karol-broda/snitch # install to profile nix profile install github:karol-broda/snitch # or add to flake inputs { inputs.snitch.url = ”github:karol-broda/snitch”; } # then use: inputs.snitch.packages.${system}.default arch linux (aur) […]