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Show HN: Engineering.fyi – Search across tech engineering blogs in one place (engineering.fyi)
zX41ZdbW 3 days ago [-]
Only 16 companies - quite sparse. May I ask to add my blog if possible? https://clickhouse.com/blog?category=engineering
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indiehackerman 3 days ago [-]
Just getting started but will definitely add to the list!
gombosg 2 days ago [-]
I kind of miss the RSS days when you just had your own news/blog aggregator without the annoyance of Substack, Medium or anything else.
rambambram 2 days ago [-]
Don't act like RSS is done with. It's twenty plus years old, and still going strong. Nobody is stopping you from using it, whether you only read or also post.

Hyped up tech is like milk, it stinks after a couple of days. Open protocols are like fine wine, they age beautifully.

P.S. Your site is offline. If it wasn't and you even had one interesting article, I would have added your website to my list of feeds. I picked up hundreds of interesting websites/feeds through HN alone in the last years.

ctxc 2 days ago [-]
Damn, if I knew I'd get one person to read what I write I'd have added RSS :P
dewey 2 days ago [-]
Less people are blogging these days but there's still a lot of interesting blogs out there. It's even more self-selected than before but I almost always find a RSS feed for a blog that I think is useful and interesting.
freetonik 3 days ago [-]
Shameless plug, but hopefully relevant enough: my directory and search engine for personal blogs[1] indexes over 1000 RSS feeds, and naturally lots of them are about engineering and software development. Full-text search is implemented with Typesense, and there are also "related" recommendations for each post, example [2].

1. https://minifeed.net/

2. https://minifeed.net/items/n1HZYMDEKyra

pnt12 2 days ago [-]
I was surprised that I started reading one blog on your site, and it was badly written. Only afterwards below the text, did I notice it was a summary!

I'd advise to put it at the top, before the text, to let people know beforehand and not be caught off guard. Then you can have a big button saying "read full article in website" or something, to make it easy for people to see both options.

pnt12 2 days ago [-]
OK turns out it was not a summary, just a preview paragraph that mixed headers and text from the original, leading to strange casing and reading. I'd suggest not to include headers there or distinguish them!

Example (had to search on kagi with site:minifeed.net):

You Can Either Steal Great Developers or Farm Them To grow software development teams, you can either steal excellent developers or you can develop them internally.

freetonik 2 days ago [-]
Yeah, the parsing is suboptimal right now. I'll work on that!
pnt12 2 days ago [-]
Also when going back the page, I don't see that post anymore - it was featured in random blogs, so I lost it.

It's a cool idea, but maybe a improvement could be to select a random handful per day, and let them stay there for a while? Fewer surprises this way!

freetonik 2 days ago [-]
Good idea, thanks! I was planning to modify the welcome page into that kind of "Minifeed Today" page, and to regenerate it only once a day.
jpmonette 3 days ago [-]
Looks really nice! Any plan to add social aspect like comments, likes and such?
freetonik 2 days ago [-]
Thought about it, but not sure yet. Not too many user yet for that sort of thing.
OisinMoran 2 days ago [-]
I'm building something similar with a bit more of a social angle (has comments, likes, and reposts) at lynkmi.com. If you sign up to the waitlist it's a very very short wait!
jpmonette 2 days ago [-]
will have a look!
victorbjorklund 3 days ago [-]
Can we add / suggests sites?
freetonik 3 days ago [-]
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rkj93 2 days ago [-]
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angelmm 3 days ago [-]
I like the concept. Many times I look for high quality articles to go deep on some topics. I recommend you the fly.io blog [1], it has really nice articles.

[1] https://fly.io/blog/

indiehackerman 3 days ago [-]
Adding to the list!
skyzouwdev 2 days ago [-]
I like the premise — I’ve lost count of how many times I ended up deep in Google’s search results or on page 4 of some company blog just to find a relevant architecture post.

A couple of thoughts from my own workflow: • I’d definitely add smaller but high-signal engineering blogs. Some of the most interesting write-ups I’ve read came from companies that aren’t FAANG-level but are operating at scale (think Segment, Plaid, Posthog, Linear). They often publish very focused “lessons learned” pieces that don’t get much SEO love. • AI summaries could be useful if they’re really accurate and highlight the “why” behind a technical decision, not just rephrase the intro paragraph. I’d probably use them to triage which posts to read in full. • For discovery, I usually rely on Twitter/X and the occasional Reddit thread. The problem is that those channels are noisy — so something that’s searchable and filterable like you’ve built is appealing.

One nit: for tagging, maybe consider a lightweight NLP approach (spaCy / transformers) that can detect concepts beyond exact matches. Even basic keyword clustering could improve relevance without needing a massive ML pipeline.

Nice work — bookmarking this for the next time I need to dig into how someone scaled their job queues without setting their hair on fire.

kenanfyi 2 days ago [-]
Looks good, but it‘s fascinating the term engineering nowadays almost only boils down to software(also mostly web) and AI, although it is way more than that.
mrugge 2 days ago [-]
the engineering that pays (big bucks)
kawfey 1 days ago [-]
idk, hardware engineering (whether electrical, mechanical, civil, aerospace, etc) is just as lucrative and IMO more interesting, since physics isn't an invention of the human mind like software is, and mistakes go boom instead of segfault.
kenanfyi 15 hours ago [-]
As an hardware engineer, I can't say if it's more interesting or not, but definitely a different mindset and tempo you have during development. Things are not running in a sandboxed environment where you can iterate theoretically endless times.
pbronez 3 days ago [-]
Cool idea. I thought I’d try to make a Kagi Lens to accomplish the same thing:

https://kagi.com/lenses/LdYine8hZtYmrt8yTMngOUtvTM9rmkRy

Kagi Lenses can be defined in many ways, one of which is specifying URLs to search. Unfortunately you can only provide 10 URLs per lens. Here are the ones I chose:

https://stripe.com/blog/engineering, https://engineering.fb.com/, https://www.uber.com/en-US/blog/engineering/, https://netflixtechblog.com/, https://research.google/blog/, https://technology.riotgames.com/, https://incident.io/blog, https://www.anthropic.com/engineering, https://openai.com/news/, https://shopify.engineering/

pbronez 3 days ago [-]
When I use this lens to search for “Python” the top three hits are:

Meta’s Pyrefly announcement (may 2025)

Netflix post about their overall use of python (March 2013)

Google’s announcement of the Croissant ML metadata format (March 2024)

__turbobrew__ 2 days ago [-]
No AWS blog? If anything I have found the AWS blog the highest quality and most novel. The articles on things like route53 are really interesting.
jzig 2 days ago [-]
Now make a lens of lenses!
plucafs 3 days ago [-]
I'd suggest to add the Riot Games tech blog (https://technology.riotgames.com)
sontek 1 days ago [-]
They haven't posted since February of 2024, seems inactive?
indiehackerman 3 days ago [-]
Adding to the list!
demarq 2 days ago [-]
> When learning a new technology, the best insights often come from how companies like Google, Meta, or Stripe actually implement it in production.

I think not.

skhameneh 2 days ago [-]
Can you add cross support for Fediverse? I really haven't been keeping up but I think with ActivityPub you can support Bluesky, Mastodon, and Threads. A lot of the general support and progress went from GNU Social > Mastodon > whatever.
idosh 2 days ago [-]
Shameless plug, you can find all of them and many more on https://daily.dev/. It's a personalized aggregator for developer news
grub5000 2 days ago [-]
I can't figure this one out - is it only a browser extension? The site keeps trying to trick me into installing a browser extension, which seems incredibly sketchy
idosh 1 days ago [-]
you can go directly to our webapp https://app.daily.dev. Btw, the extension is open source so you can see nothing is sketchy: https://github.com/dailydotdev/apps/
ozgrakkurt 3 days ago [-]
Amazing idea but Cloudflare DDOSes my browser when I try to open it.

Also a nice reminder to move my website off of cloudflare asap

jagged-chisel 2 days ago [-]
Maybe I’m a bit out of the loop on Cloudflare’s activity these days, but I’m not sure I understand your statement.

Cloudflare thinks your browser is part of a DDoS?

Cloudflare is attacking your browser from several places across the internet?

8organicbits 2 days ago [-]
My guess is that this refers to the CPU challenge. Presumably DDoS here should be DoS, specifically overwhelming their CPU or draining their battery.

https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/278660/why-are-...

ozgrakkurt 2 days ago [-]
On my phone, it locks up my browser with it’s “check” so I have to restart it.

I understand it isn’t related to DDOS but used it as a joke since it is basically attacking my browser

chandu_vrs 2 days ago [-]
Nice work. I started working on something similar, but my use case is slightly different (but the solution is similar). We all are interested in certain topics, there is a lot of content that gets published and our time is limited, so we need something that helps us identify top 10 articles or so per topic. This is why most of us like HackerNews. I think HackerNews by topic or interest would be a good idea to implement (but along with users posting links, it can come from crawling few sites as well)
indiehackerman 18 hours ago [-]
Thanks for the support and suggestion!
meander_water 2 days ago [-]
There's a good list here which you could add as well https://github.com/kilimchoi/engineering-blogs
indiehackerman 2 days ago [-]
Thanks! It's a great collection and have been using that as a reference. Hasn't been updated in a while but definitely will try to add as many as I can
mmargenot 2 days ago [-]
Are you trying to stick with company blogs primarily, or to expand into general non-affiliated eng blogs? People like Maggie Appleton (https://maggieappleton.com/) and Patrick McKenzie (https://www.kalzumeus.com/) frequently have compelling ideas around technology, but I suppose that's a different "product" from what a company blog is selling.
indiehackerman 2 days ago [-]
Great suggestions, I'm a big fan of Patrick McKenzie as well. I was going to start with company blogs but expand to individuals as well if there's enough demand/usage
mmargenot 5 hours ago [-]
Yeah, it's one of those things where it's very reasonable to draw a line between company and individual blogs and keep it to one or the other.

In any case, I know there are some other solid individual blog collections in the comments - good luck with feature addition.

indiehackerman 5 hours ago [-]
Thanks for your support!
colesantiago 3 days ago [-]
It would be great if you can add RSS on this.
indiehackerman 3 days ago [-]
Adding to the list!
bilguudeiblgd 17 hours ago [-]
It'd be nice if there' some kind of relevancy, or hottest* articles filters.
8organicbits 3 days ago [-]
> Each blog requires custom parsing logic (no standard format)

This is unfortunate, RSS has promise to be that standard format. I've seen high adoption, but it's not universal.

indiehackerman 3 days ago [-]
I started off with scraping through RSS but quickly realised it doesn't include all historical posts
lysecret 2 days ago [-]
Are you using ai for the parsing/setting up the parsing structure?
Catbert59 3 days ago [-]
First thing I saw was an annoying Cloudflare captcha.. ugh
marit77 19 hours ago [-]
Would it be possible to add the JetBrains blog? https://blog.jetbrains.com/
ordinarily 2 days ago [-]
This is awesome! We got some really technical deep dives here https://www.warpstream.com/blog-category/engineering
indiehackerman 18 hours ago [-]
Thanks for the support, will add to the list!
fuzball1989 2 days ago [-]
Are you sure you want to add hundreds of blogs? I would keep it curated to 10-20 otherwise it will turn into an RSS feed but I think you are chasing a goal of having the most interesting blogs to read and for people to use in their designs, coding etc.
indiehackerman 2 days ago [-]
I think people would get less value if I kept it to 10-20. I was thinking of extending it to have user accounts were people could create their own lists of the articles (based on company, author, tags, etc) on there if there was enough interest
farai89 2 days ago [-]
This is great. Would be good if you add RAMP also, have found the engineering blog useful. https://engineering.ramp.com/
sontek 1 days ago [-]
There doesn't seem to be an RSS feed on there
indiehackerman 2 days ago [-]
Thanks for your support! Added to the list
ndom91 2 days ago [-]
Nice one! You should definitely offer some sort of master rss feed though
indiehackerman 2 days ago [-]
Thanks for your support! Will add that to the list
brikym 2 days ago [-]
I can't say I like the infinite scrolling and lack of body scroll bar.
bkhl 2 days ago [-]
> Current status: Core search is working. Adding new blogs weekly as I index them.

I guess this is a reason why it does not have recent blogs from some of the sites. Otherwise, it's definitely something I'd use

indiehackerman 2 days ago [-]
Glad to hear it'd be useful for you :)
dgs_sgd 2 days ago [-]
Awesome work! I would suggest adding Netflix’s blog [1]. It’s very high quality imo.

[1] https://netflixtechblog.com/

indiehackerman 2 days ago [-]
Thanks for your support! Have added Netflix: https://engineering.fyi/company/netflix
WASDx 3 days ago [-]
FYI here is a list of hundreds of engineering blogs: https://github.com/kilimchoi/engineering-blogs
8organicbits 3 days ago [-]
I've been collecting OPML blogrolls for a project, here's over one hundred I've found. I'll add this one too.

https://alexsci.com/rss-blogroll-network/blogrolls/

indiehackerman 2 days ago [-]
Awesome, thanks!
indiehackerman 3 days ago [-]
Thanks! It's a great collection and have been using that as a reference. Hasn't been updated in a while but definitely will try to add as many as I can
shelika 3 days ago [-]
Biased as I work for them but I think https://incident.io/blog/engineering is definitely worth adding.
indiehackerman 3 days ago [-]
Adding to the list!
FailureCrown 2 days ago [-]
I can't find tags for C#, asp.Net
LtdJorge 2 days ago [-]
Should definitely be able to filter out any of the sources. Unless that's already there and I'm not seeing it.
indiehackerman 18 hours ago [-]
Thanks for the suggestion
aeve890 3 days ago [-]
>Engineering

Looks inside

>15 tech companies blogs

indiehackerman 3 days ago [-]
Gotta start somewhere :)
g8oz 2 days ago [-]
I would add: - Instacart - Temporal - Pinterest - Etsy - Atlassian
indiehackerman 18 hours ago [-]
Thanks for the suggestions
cosmicgadget 2 days ago [-]
Great idea and the post preview cards are excellent.

I've found software security companies tend to have interesting blog posts.

indiehackerman 2 days ago [-]
Thanks for your support and the great suggestion!
__natty__ 3 days ago [-]
I have so many of tech blogs in my bookmarks. And I open them maybe once per month. How often do you read these blogs?
indiehackerman 3 days ago [-]
I read them especially when I'm picking up a new task at my job with new technologies
dbgrman 3 days ago [-]
none of the filters seem to work for me. Good concept. Wish it wasn't in the done-to-death vibe coding UI.
indiehackerman 3 days ago [-]
Thanks for the feedback! Have made fixes to the filters so please try again
coldtrait 3 days ago [-]
What is a more standard UI that doesn't scream vibe coded?
yieldcrv 2 days ago [-]
Thanks for having a default feed to show an example of what to expect

So many show and tells neglect that

indiehackerman 2 days ago [-]
Thanks for your support and glad you liked it :)
kushan2020 3 days ago [-]
The performance is really slow on my phone - iPhone XR. Even selecting filters takes away lot of time.
indiehackerman 3 days ago [-]
Made some performance improvements, hope it's better for you now!
kathir05 2 days ago [-]
This is interesting stuff!! Love to see further updates and scale on this
indiehackerman 2 days ago [-]
Thanks for your support! Stay tuned for more updates
penguin202 2 days ago [-]
I'll be building a MCP for this
majom 3 days ago [-]
Great start. I would be great to see more blogs added to your project.
indiehackerman 3 days ago [-]
Thanks for your support! Will definitely be adding plenty more this week
matkurianski 2 days ago [-]
I always wanted something like that. Awesome job!
indiehackerman 2 days ago [-]
Thanks for your support! Glad I could help build it for you :)
DiabloD3 3 days ago [-]
Already hug of death?
indiehackerman 3 days ago [-]
Back up now
Quitschquat 2 days ago [-]
It would be cool to filter out the AI/LLM stuff
indiehackerman 2 days ago [-]
Will add that to the list, thanks for the suggestion
dwedge 3 days ago [-]
I love this idea. Like others mentioned the cloudflare is annoying and search is way too slow, but as a concept I like it. Make it faster and I can see myself using this every week
indiehackerman 3 days ago [-]
Thanks for the feedback! Search should be better now
netloks9599 2 days ago [-]
I think you might want to add a "debounce" to the search, typing more than a few characters at a time automatically kicks off a new request for the entire page
indiehackerman 2 days ago [-]
Thanks for the suggestion, added!
kwakubiney 3 days ago [-]
Nice project. Filtering took forever though.
indiehackerman 3 days ago [-]
Have made improvements to the filters! Hope you get a better experience now
xyst 3 days ago [-]
AI-grifters: "why bother using yet another search engine? In a few weeks {{preferred LLM}} will be trained on the underlying data"
gricardo99 3 days ago [-]
nice concept. fyi, search feature doesn’t seem to work
indiehackerman 3 days ago [-]
Thanks for your support! Search should be fixed now
3 days ago [-]
whattheheckheck 3 days ago [-]
I get an ssl error
indiehackerman 3 days ago [-]
Can you try again? Seems to be working for others
ayerajath 3 days ago [-]
this is good! will revisit soon!
indiehackerman 3 days ago [-]
Thanks for your support!
anonymous344 2 days ago [-]
order by latest?
tamimio 2 days ago [-]
I believe there should be an industry standard to distinguish between engineers (the ones who spent 4-5 years in school) and software engineers (not necessarily those who spent 4-5 years in school) by name only. Either one should not be called engineers anymore, or the other should be called legacy engineers or something along these lines. I was expecting to search through articles of IEEE, RF, hardware maybe, or even other disciplines like civil and mechanical. The word "engineer" lost its meaning in the past ~2 decades because everyone now who touches a PC suddenly can call themselves an engineer, diluting the market now with hordes of bootcampers and "prompt engineers". How come we don't see the same in other white-collar jobs like doctors, nurses, lawyers, or even blue-collar ones that now require some sort of control over who calls themselves or is able to work in a trade by having apprenticeships? P. Eng isn't enforced, so it's meaningless.
xyzzy_plugh 2 days ago [-]
I have no idea how you can dismiss P.Eng as being meaningless. Engineer, yes, certainly overloaded. But P.Eng? It literally implies licensure.

That's the industry standard.

My GP and my veterinarian and also my librarian are all doctors, but less ambiguously they are respectively MD, DVM and PhD.

tamimio 2 days ago [-]
I am not the one who's dismissing it, industry does. You can get hired as an engineer, holding an engineering title with zero engineering education nowadays, you can have senior or principal title as well, and no formal education either. Find me one hospital that would hire a nurse that never had formal education or went through acquiring the proper license? No wonder a doctor can earn 4 times more than an engineer nowadays.
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