- Author
- Posted by nishilpatel, with replies from many commenters
- Published
- 23 December 2025
- Kind
- Hacker News Ask thread, with many link recommendations
- Original
- news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46363921
- Subject
- Software design
What it is
nishilpatel posted a four point request for high-quality engineering posts. Commenters replied with links and short reasons. The thread is a crowd-sourced reading list, not an article.
What it says
- The poster asks for blogs with real implementation details, trade-offs and failures.
- One reply answers with Cloudflare and Google Project Zero.
- One reply praises an individual blog for explaining technical concepts clearly.
- One commenter says no such blogs exist, since retrospectives are scattered.
- One reply says the poster may want books rather than a blog.
- A side thread debates whether the question itself was written with an LLM.
What evidence it gives
The evidence is personal recommendation. Most replies give a link and a phrase of praise. Few explain why a blog meets the four criteria. No ranking or test is offered.
Interests and limits
Recommendations come from Hacker News readers, who mostly work in software. Some links are from people who run the blogs they name. Links were not followed for this page. Popularity in the thread does not show quality.