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Ask HN: News aggregrator sites for mechanical engineers

11 points by kabouseng ↗ HN
So HN has been invaluable as a source of news, blogs, guides and general tips relevant to our industry.

I have a mechanical engineering colleague and was wondering if there are similar sites like HN for mechanical engineering related news. I know HN itself is a pretty rare and high quality site, but you never know.

I am aware of the reddit groups /r/engineering and /r/MechanicalEngineering, but is there any other similar sites?

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richardboegli
Great question.

I've never seen the need. Having a variety of tech sites usually gets the larger mechanical projects as everything is leading to Mechatronics anyway.

Exactly what kind of Mechanical engineering specialisation are they looking at?

kabouseng
Well they are more in the traditional mechanical engineering fields, namely petro-chemical, mining, transport, hvac etc. Or rather lets say heavy industrial.

Usually these industries are serviced by trade magazines, usually you can only get a hard copy, so very little online presence, and very little community participation (forums, user submitted content etc.)