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DeepMind’s Gato Shows How One AI Can Learn Everything at Once

Researchers at DeepMind built Gato, a 1.2B-parameter transformer trained on 604 tasks spanning Atari games, image captioning, dialogue, and real-world robotics. Using one shared set of weights, Gato processes text, images, and actions as tokens in a single sequence model. It achieves strong multi-ta...

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Google’s New AI Turns Complex Models Into Simple, Editable Code

Researchers at Google introduce a method to distill complex machine learning models into concise, human-readable piecewise-linear curves. Using their open-source pwlfit library, they convert decision forest and additive models into transparent source code without sacrificing accuracy. Tested on data...

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How ConvNeXt Proves Classic AI Models Can Still Beat Transformers

ConvNeXt rethinks convolutional neural networks by modernizing ResNet with Transformer-inspired design choices. The result is a pure ConvNet that matches or beats Vision Transformers like Swin on ImageNet, COCO detection, and ADE20K segmentation. Achieving up to 87.8% top-1 accuracy, ConvNeXt proves...

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Worst-Case Portfolio Optimization & Hyperbolic Graph Clustering

Explore the intersection of quantitative finance and geometric deep learning. Learn about worst-case portfolio optimization under market crash scenarios and LSEnet, a deep graph clustering model utilizing Lorentz hyperbolic space to organize complex data without predefined cluster numbers

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The Long Shadow of a Miserly Father

Ernest Ivraine lives under his father’s rigid, greedy control, carefully plotting to help his brother Henry rise in rank and fortune. While Henry endures hardship as a soldier abroad, Ernest silently manages family wealth, navigates scheming relatives, and earns his father’s trust. Through patience,...

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A 2026 Outlook: Markets, Macro Turbulence, and Crypto’s Maturation

This essay frames 2026 as a year of heightened geopolitical and macro uncertainty that forces crypto to mature: away from meme-driven speculation and toward “value” via tokenization, privacy infrastructure, stablecoin expansion, and a renewed focus on DeFi. It argues that hard assets and real-world...

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The Data Stack’s Next Form Factor: Multi-Agent Systems

Traditional data platforms rely on centralized monoliths and complex engineering pipelines that often create bottlenecks for business decision-makers. This article introduces Da2a, an open-source prototype that proposes a decentralized, agentic architecture where specialized Domain Agents (e.g., Mar...

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Hacker Noon2 min

The Dirty Secret of Shipping

Stop mistaking shipping for progress. Learn how North Star Metrics align product work with user value and business outcomes, plus examples from Uber, Slack, Airbnb, and more.

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“Perfect” AI Code Won’t Fix Your Legacy Stack

AI code generation isn’t the revolution it’s marketed to be. While it accelerates greenfield projects, most real-world teams operate inside complex, evolving systems where maintenance, context, and trust matter more than first-draft speed. The true leverage of AI lies not in producing “perfect” code...

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HackerNoon Projects of the Week: QuantumLayer, Ekstra AI, & ComLab

This week’s Projects of the Week spotlights three standout entries from the Proof of Usefulness Hackathon. QuantumLayer embeds climate risk into software via API, Ekstra AI delivers privacy-first foot traffic insights for small businesses, and ComLab transforms scattered user feedback into actionabl...

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Developer Hackathon by {{Company}} & HackerNoon?

HackerNoon offers 6–12 month remote technology hackathons designed for sustained developer engagement rather than short-term hype. Instead of fleeting ads, sponsors get deep API adoption, compounding SEO value, and permanent technical content hosted for a monthly audience of 4M+ readers. It’s gamifi...

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When Family Wealth Becomes a Prison

Ernest Ivraine lives under his miserly father’s shadow, quietly bearing the burdens of wealth and duty. While his brother Henry escapes to India for honor and freedom, Ernest guards his family’s interests and struggles with resentment, love, and moral obligation, facing a life where loyalty clashes...

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A Life of Luxury Cannot Heal a Yearning Soul

In this chapter, a young woman endures the strict guidance of her governess, family pressure, and the unwanted attention of a conceited suitor. Despite wealth and comfort, she longs for the freedom and beauty of her childhood home. The story explores the conflict between societal expectation, person...

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Why I Built a Web of Trust Browser Extension for Nostr

Trust shouldn't be trapped inside apps. When you switch Nostr clients, your context disappears and you rebuild the same trust layer from scratch. I built an extension and oracle that compute Web of Trust scores from your social graph once, making them portable across every client. Users control trus...

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The AI Seduction That Breaks Engineering Instincts

AI tools dramatically accelerate implementation, but they expose a deeper limit: human comprehension. Code now grows faster than teams can absorb it, creating “comprehension debt.” The article introduces three mental models — AI YAGNI, AI Seduction, and Judgment as the Bottleneck — arguing that spee...

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A Build Post-Mortem: Where “Ethical AI” Breaks in Practice

Aims to build a multi-lens introspection system designed to take a user’s inner state and translate it into structured insights. When we fed it lived guidance from monks directed at specific human situations, it hit a wall. It couldn’t stabilize on an interpretation that respected the situation.

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In the Age of AI, Does Physics Still Matter?

The robotics industry is currently a battlefield between Classical Control ("White Box"), which uses predictable physics equations, and Deep Learning ("Black Box"), which uses data-driven intuition. While AI excels at perception, it lacks an inherent understanding of physical laws, leading to danger...

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Layered MAPF Outperforms Raw Methods in Time and Memory Benchmarks

Layered MAPF introduces a progressive decomposition strategy that splits large multi-agent pathfinding problems into smaller solvable subproblems. By treating other subproblem solutions as dynamic obstacles, it significantly reduces time and memory usage—particularly for serial MAPF methods—while la...

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Hacker Noon2 min

Generative AI Can Write but It Can’t Replace Reading

Generative AI gives instant answers but weakens deep learning if you rely on it for thinking. It can assist writers with brainstorming and optimization, yet it cannot replace experience, judgment, or original ideas. Reading, reflection, and the ability to defend what you publish remain the real diff...

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AI “Vibe Coding” Speeds Developers Up — But at What Cost?

Vibe coding relies on large AI models trained on vast codebases. You give a prompt like “Create an e-commerce site” and the AI attempts to autocomplete a solution, often generating hundreds or thousands of lines of code. Companies offer this as “dev on autopilot”: Replit advertises “No-code needed —...

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Why Layered MAPF Algorithms Win on Speed but Lose on Optimality

Decomposing Multi-Agent Pathfinding (MAPF) instances into layered subproblems consistently reduces runtime and memory consumption while increasing solver success rates across major algorithms, including EECBS, PBS, LNS2, and Push and Swap. However, these efficiency gains often come at the expense of...

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Study Finds MAPF Decomposition Efficient Under Low Agent Density

This study evaluates the computational impact of decomposing Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF) instances into subproblems. Across 22,300 benchmark instances, decomposition generally adds minimal overhead—under 1 second and less than 1 MB of memory—while significantly reducing problem size in maps with...

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Hacker Noon2 min

Kindness Transforms a Lonely Childhood

In Chapter VIII, Miss Caldera, a learned but poor governess, tutors young Mina Frazer at home. The story explores their growing bond, contrasts between past happiness and present struggles, and Mina’s connection to her Scottish heritage. Themes of compassion, education, and personal growth unfold as...

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Family Feuds and Life’s Tough Choices in the Moors

Chapter VII follows Mina Frazer, a determined child navigating life away from Scotland. Her uncle John Merapie struggles to manage her strong will while balancing family duties and societal expectations. From conflicts with her governess to her mother’s influence, Mina’s story reveals childhood stub...

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5 Free Tools to Monitor Your VPS (Terminal)

A mysterious VPS slowdown turned out to be a silent cryptojacking attack. After days of troubleshooting, I discovered five powerful (and free) Linux terminal tools—btop, htop, glances, bpytop, and bmon—that reveal real-time CPU, RAM, swap, disk, and bandwidth usage. If you run a VPS, constant monito...

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How Yieldmo Cut Database Costs and Cloud Dependencies

Yieldmo, an online advertising platform processing billions of daily ad requests, faced high DynamoDB costs and multicloud latency challenges. By migrating to ScyllaDB’s DynamoDB-compatible API, they achieved multicloud flexibility, cut database costs by roughly 50%, and maintained single-digit mill...

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How An AI Gmail Summary Agent Saves Me 35 Minutes a Day

An AI-powered Gmail Summary Agent built with n8n can filter promotions, group emails by category, extract action items, and deliver one clean HTML summary daily. Instead of drowning in threads, you get a focused report in 5–10 minutes. The workflow uses Gmail nodes, an OpenAI model, and simple JavaS...

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Modern Best Practices for Web Security Using AI and Automation

AI and intelligent automation are transforming cybersecurity operations. From SOAR-driven incident response and UEBA anomaly detection to predictive vulnerability scoring, organizations can reduce alert fatigue, shrink MTTR, and shift from reactive defense to proactive protection. Success depends on...

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How I'd Design a Data Platform From Scratch in 2026

A Series B startup hired me to build its data platform from scratch. With 50M events/day and a one-person team, I chose boring, scalable tools: Fivetran, Airbyte, BigQuery, dbt, Dagster Cloud, and Looker. No Kafka. No Spark. Total cost under $3K/month. The focus: operability, trust, semantic consist...

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Why Faster Cross-Border Payments Still Don’t Work for Businesses

Payment rails have modernized—faster settlement, richer standards, regulatory KPIs. But inside enterprises, data remains fragmented across banks, ERPs, and spreadsheets. Mid-market firms suffer most, lacking the scale to internalize complexity. The real bottleneck isn’t execution speed; it’s post-tr...

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Hacker Noon2 min

AI is Disrupting Everything: Should You Even Study Computer Science?

AI is disrupting software and knowledge work faster than past tech revolutions due to its velocity and instant distribution. Job displacement is real, and denial is dangerous. But Computer Science isn’t obsolete—it’s evolving. The edge now lies in architecting AI systems, grounding LLMs, managing co...

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What is Mutuum Finance (MUTM)?

Mutuum Finance (MUTM) is a decentralized finance platform designed around real financial activity. Its structure is built on two complementary lending models: Peer-to-Contract (P2C) and Peer-To-Peer (P1P) MUTM is priced at $0.04, with over 19,000 holders.

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From SSH to GitOps: How Infrastructure Operations Scale

Infrastructure operations evolved from manual SSH-based server management to automated configuration tools, containerization, and ultimately GitOps. Each stage solved scaling and consistency problems while introducing new complexity. Today, GitOps represents a major shift: using Git as the single so...

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RAG: A Data Problem Disguised as AI

RAG systems fail because of broken data pipelines, not bad models. Poor chunking orphans meaning. Stale indexes serve outdated answers. Missing metadata can't filter irrelevant results. Fix Monday: audit your corpus completeness, rebuild indexes regularly, and measure retrieval recall before blaming...

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A Guide on How to Rewire Self-Doubt

When haunted by feelings of self-doubt, if you focus on negative attributes, then that negativity becomes embedded in your brain. If you tell yourself that speaking up in a meeting will expose you and choose to keep quiet, your brain learns to associate “keeping quiet” as a safe behavior while “spea...

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The State of The Noonion: Blogging Our Way Through the AI Boom

From 2016 to 2026, HackerNoon's transformed from a site built atop an unreliable CMS to a resilient, profitable publishing platform with diversified revenue, owned distribution, and defensible infrastructure. We survived multiple tech cycles while compounding audience trust and pricing power. Q4 202...

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How to Take the Next Steps to Become a Full-Fledged Writer

Don't go in without a plan. For a strategy before you begin writing. Connecting with writers is another great tip to become a full-fledged writer. And finally, try to avoid burnout as much as you can. The HackerNoon Blogging Fellowship Course includes modules that take a step-by-step journey to impr...

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A Smarter Way to Scale Multi-Agent Pathfinding

This paper formalizes multi-agent pathfinding in N-dimensional grid spaces and introduces LayeredMAPF, a decomposition-based framework that splits large MAPF instances into smaller, solvable subproblems. By leveraging dependency analysis and a connectivity graph, the method maintains completeness wh...

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Family Secrets in a Changing Metropolis

Widow Mrs. Frazer, used to Highland comfort and dreaming of grand London life, visits her wealthy bachelor brother John Merapie. She anticipates refinement, fashion, and ease for her children, but John’s practical, unpretentious lifestyle shatters her illusions. Amid family tensions, strict housekee...

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After Death Comes Debt: The Choice That Changes Mina’s Future

Chapter V shows how death and financial disaster uproot Mina’s life. After Captain Frazer’s failed investment wipes out the family fortune, his widow refuses a modest life in Scotland and chooses London instead. Despite Mr. Frazer’s plea to keep Mina at Craigmaver, she is taken south to be reshaped...

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Time Isn’t Fundamental—It’s a Predictability Trick

Time’s arrow may be a selection effect. If not every ending is allowed, not every past is possible. Define time as the ordering that maximizes joint predictability among coupled observables, then add a minimal admissibility set, a weak constraint on allowed outcomes. That constraint breaks symmetry...

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AI's Hypnotizable Butler Problem

I would want a butler who's smart and can stay in control not someone who can be hypnotized easily. Suggestibility is a risk factor than intelligence. People think these systems are like ways to find things but really they are more, like having a new employee who can access everything you can.

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Build a Two-Pane Market Brief MVP in Streamlit

Streamlit is a tool-backed market brief copilot app. It uses EODHD tools and a single `run_brief()` function. It has a two-pane layout: brief on the left, numbers on the right. It's designed to feel like a product screen, not a chat window.

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Agents Can Pay and Talk—So Why Can’t They Register?

AgentDoor is a middleware that adds a machine-readable front door to your API. When an AI agent hits your service, instead of navigating a human signup flow, it does this. Agents are hitting your endpoints through hacky browser automation, scraping your docs, and reverse-engineering your auth flows.

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How to Make Web Calls Feel Native on Mobile

Browsers still can’t provide the same smooth calling experience as native mobile apps. Many popular services simply block calls from mobile browsers and force users to install a native app instead. Here are some practical solutions that actually work.

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When Senior Teams Stop Debugging Their Decisions

Senior teams often stop debugging their decisions once alignment seems achieved, mistaking silence for clarity and shared understanding. This "interpretive drift" occurs when confidence replaces interrogation, compressing decision-making processes and hiding assumptions. The real risk isn’t misalign...

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Are Niche Markets the Future of Crypto Presales?

Analysis of why crypto presales targeting niche markets like pet care and local payments show better survival rates than broad general-purpose projects. Editorial perspective on market trends and investor evaluation criteria.

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Tape Isn’t Slow, Pipelines Are

This article explains how to run multiple tape libraries and media pools like adults. It covers VSN-driven recalls, mount/seek realities, drive sharing, sane concurrency, and queue hygiene.

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AI Coding Tip 007 - Protect Your AI Agents from Malicious Skills

AI coding assistants with installable “skills” introduce a new software supply chain risk: malicious plugins that can access secrets, execute arbitrary code, and expose infrastructure. Developers should treat agent skills like untrusted executable code—run them in isolated environments, review sourc...

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Identity Discontinuity in Multi-Bank FX Systems

Multi-bank FX reconciliation failures are rarely caused by missing data or inadequate tooling. They emerge when independently optimized systems disagree on trade identity across execution, settlement, accounting, and reporting layers. Industry standards improve message structure but do not enforce l...

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Why Modern QA Teams Are Betting on Gen AI Testing

Generative AI is an AI LLM model capable of generating novel and valuable outputs, such as test cases or test data, without explicit human instruction. Modern QA teams rely on AI to handle rapid UI changes, microservices complexity, and accelerated release cycles. Generative AI improves test coverag...

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Hacker Noon2 min

Designing Enterprise-Grade Agentic AI Systems on AWS

Prototype AI agents are easy. Operating them at scale is not. This article outlines a production-focused architecture for AWS agent workflows—covering model selection, orchestration, governance, observability, cost controls, and vector retrieval reliability. By structuring decisions across models, f...

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Why Email Threads Break Every RAG Pipeline 

The problem is that email threads aren't documents, yet every standard RAG approach treats them as if they were. Connect to Gmail API, pull the messages, chunk them, embed them, and retrieve the top-k relevant chunks when someone asks a question. This works for static documents because they are self...

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Hacker Noon2 min

Building CI/CD Pipelines for Non-Deterministic Agents

Traditional CI/CD breaks for probabilistic systems. Use LLM-as-a-Judge to evaluate agent outputs. Replace string equality with semantic assertions. Expect flakiness — manage it with multiple runs and invariants. Test behavior, not exact answers.

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Hacker Noon2 min

AI Agents Need Their Own Money, and Stablecoins Aren’t It

Autonomous AI agents do not naturally participate in that institutional economy. They cannot (yet) walk into a bank, sign contracts, pass KYC, or enforce disputes in court without human intermediaries. We need money that maps directly onto the resources agents actually consume. Energy Money.

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A Child’s First Encounter With Death

Chapter IV shifts from London to Loch Lomond, where Mina Frazer’s life changes forever. After tender conversations about faith and patience, her father dies, leaving her shattered and confused by grief. The chapter traces Mina’s struggle to understand death, heaven, and loss, revealing how this trag...

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Hacker Noon2 min

2025 AI News Wrapped: How AI Went Mainstream in Engineering

In 2025, AI stopped being an experiment and became embedded in engineering workflows. Copilots accelerated code generation, but the real bottleneck shifted downstream: reviewability, validation, traceability, and production safety. The winners weren’t teams using more AI—they were teams operating it...

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Hacker Noon2 min

He Lost Everything, Then Gambled on Himself

Chapter III introduces Alfred Westwood, a vain but calculating London clerk who once crashed into bankruptcy after reckless ambition. Refusing to fall permanently, he cleverly pressures an insurance office to secure employment and begins rebuilding his status. Now rising in Mr. Merapie’s firm, Westw...

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From LLM to Agent: How Memory + Planning Turn a Chatbot Into a Doer

LLM agents aren’t magical upgrades—they’re system designs. By combining models with memory, planning, tool use, and control loops, developers turn chatbots into stateful agents that can act, verify, recover from failure, and operate reliably in real-world environments. The real shift isn’t better pr...

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Hacker Noon2 min

Educational Byte: How Crypto Networks Reach Consensus

Consensus is the shared process a decentralized network uses to decide which transactions are valid, and in what order they appear. The system must answer the question of how to agree on which of the many copies of the ledger in a distributed system is legitimate.

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Hacker Noon2 min

Skyrim Wellbeing Manager

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim was released 15 years ago. The game has been the catalyst for a decade of mental health issues. The author has struggled with depression, anxiety and psychosis. He has developed a system of to-do lists and gratitude to cope.

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How OpenAI Scaled to 800 Million Users on PostgreSQL

ChatGPT scaled from zero to hundreds of millions of users while staying on PostgreSQL. Instead of migrating to NoSQL, OpenAI applied seven practical strategies—connection pooling, query optimization, read replicas, caching, sharding, strict connection management, and deep monitoring. The result is a...

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Hacker Noon2 min

4 Leadership Habits That Drive High-Performing Teams

Team performance depends less on individual talent and more on leadership behavior. Leaders shape outcomes by replacing blame with solution-focused thinking, protecting team priorities, encouraging thoughtful risk-taking, and delegating beyond comfort zones. When leaders model accountability, clarit...

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Hacker Noon2 min

Same AI Tools, Different Taste

The Chicago Sun-Times fired all 28 of its staff photographers in 2013. Photographer John H. White, who had won a Pulitzer Prize, was fired. Photographer: "The photos were terrible because the reporters didn’t know what to look for"

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Mutuum Finance’s Early-Stage Protocol Design

Dogecoin (DOGE) is currently trading near $0.09, with its market capitalization slipping to around $13 billion. DOGE thrived on viral momentum, celebrity endorsements, and speculation around broader payment adoption. Capital is beginning to rotate into alternative crypto assets with stronger utility...

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Tracking Millions of Heartbeats on ZEE’s Streaming Platform

ZEE5, India’s top OTT platform, migrated from DynamoDB, RDS, Redis, and Solr to ScyllaDB to handle 100B+ daily heartbeats. With redesigned APIs, real-time stream processing, and optimized data models, they achieved 5X cost reduction ($744K → $144K/year) and single-digit millisecond read latency, ser...

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Refactoring 038: Reifying Collections for Type Safety

Passing raw arrays or lists across your system leads to duplicated logic, weak encapsulation, and hidden business rules. By reifying collections into dedicated, type-safe objects, you align your code with real-world concepts, centralize behavior, and reduce primitive obsession. Typed collection clas...

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Gold, Pride, and a Locked Door: A Son’s Final Goodbye

In Chapter II, Henry Ivraine confronts his miserly father over money, dignity, and a life of emotional captivity at Paradise estate. Refusing to endure further humiliation, he walks away from wealth and inheritance, vowing to make his own fortune. His brother Ernest stays behind to guard the family...

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Trapped in a Miser’s Mansion: Two Brothers Plot Their Escape

In a desolate Lincolnshire estate ruled by a miserly father, brothers Ernest and Henry Ivraine live in emotional and financial captivity. While Ernest endures in silence, Henry refuses to wait for inheritance and proposes a radical escape—leaving home to seek fortune or join the army. Their debate o...

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The Hard Truth About Machine Learning for Amazon FBA Sellers

Amazon FBA demand forecasting breaks because the data is sparse, messy, and constantly shifting. Prophet and vanilla LSTMs often overfit and collapse under seasonality shifts. Real gains come from better feature engineering, TCNs with attention, Ray Tune + ASHA optimization, drift detection, and FBA...

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From DSP to AI: Evolving Approaches in Audio Processing

Modern audio AI isn’t about replacing DSP with deep learning—it’s about combining them. Real-world systems must satisfy strict latency, causality, and perceptual constraints that pure neural models often violate. From enhancement and source separation to spatial audio and differentiable DSP, today’s...

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Hacker Noon2 min

Best Stock APIs in 2026 - An In-Depth Review

Stock market data APIs are no longer developer tools — they are AI system infrastructure. In 2026, unreliable or poorly licensed data can break autonomous trading agents, portfolio systems, and fintech platforms. This ranking evaluates providers by licensing legitimacy, global coverage, durability,...

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How CMOs Win CFO Buy-In at Scale

How CMOs win CFO buy-in comes down to treating marketing as disciplined capital allocation. When revenue slows or margins tighten, CFOs focus on contribution margin, operating leverage, cash flow, and return on invested capital. CMOs who earn alignment validate true incrementality instead of relying...

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How to Keep Your Django DB and Stripe Subs in Perfect Sync

Mirroring Stripe’s API in your database creates errors and extra work. Use the “Master and Mirror” approach: store only Stripe Customer IDs and subscription status in Django, handle updates via webhooks, and query Stripe live for billing details. This keeps your SaaS fast, accurate, and resilient to...

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Hacker Noon2 min

Dual-Stack Migrations: How to Move Petabytes Without Losing Sleep

Real-world archive migrations aren’t about a single cutover—they require 2–2.5 years of dual-stack overlap. Run old and new systems in parallel, track metrics on separate telemetry stacks, maintain independent alert planes, budget 25–40% extra capacity, plan for peak power/cooling, and rehearse roll...

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Hacker Noon2 min

The Skeleton Modifier 3D: Its Design, Plus More

In Godot 4.3 we are adding a new node called 'SkeletonModifier3D' It is used to animate bones outside of `AnimationMixer' We have also deprecated some of the pose override functionality in `Skeleton3D` This means that if you want to develop a custom skeleton you will need to modify the bones within...

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Hacker Noon2 min

How to Excel in AI Without Learning to Code

Thriving at an AI company doesn’t require coding skills—it requires AI literacy. Master core concepts like LLMs, RAG, and tokens, connect them to your specific role, and build real intuition by using the tools. The real competitive edge isn’t writing Python; it’s understanding what the code does and...

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How to Build Social Media Strategy For a Deep Tech Startup

NVIDIA spent decades engineering for a future no one else saw. Stripe is simply solving a problem of creating a billion-dollar company. OpenAI “road can go somewhere either great or terrifying, and OpenAI will need epic sums to steer it toward the right destination,” and Shopify is living "a few yea...

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Astounding Stories of Super-Science, February, 2026- Table of Links

Astounding Stories of Super-Science (February 2026) is a classic pulp science fiction publication now available in the public domain. Part of HackerNoon’s Book Blog series, this digital edition revives vintage speculative storytelling for modern readers. Originally released via Project Gutenberg (eB...

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Did OpenAI’s Pentagon Deal Influence the Retirement of GPT-4o?

Three recent moves — OpenAI’s deployment of ChatGPT to GenAI.mil, the retirement of GPT-4o, and tighter GPT-5.2 restrictions — have fueled concern among researchers and developers who argue that safety-driven constraints are limiting deep intellectual exploration. The article explores whether these...

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Hacker Noon2 min

Will Crypto Survive the Quantum Computing Era?

Quantum computing is often linked to broken passwords, cracked codes, and collapsing digital security. If fully developed, it’d threaten the existence of cryptocurrencies and many other systems as well. Quantum mechanics describes the behavior of matter and light.

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EU Orders Apple, Meta to Open iOS and Messaging to Competitors

The Digital Markets Act (DMA) has joined the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) The act, which entered into effect in May 2023, introduces new compliance requirements on “gatekeepers,” defined as large digital platforms providing core platform services. Non-compliance can result in serious pe...

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Hacker Noon2 min

Go's Cryptography Packages Were Audited: The Results

Go ships with a full suite of cryptography packages in the standard library to help developers build secure applications. Google recently contracted the independent security firm [Trail of Bits] to complete an audit of the core set of packages. The audit produced a single low-severity finding, in th...

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Designing for AI Agents

An agent does not wait for instruction. It monitors context, forms intentions, takes actions, and adapts its strategy over time.

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I'm Building a Tower Defense Game Where VCs Are the Enemy

StartupTD is a browser-based tower defense game with a simple premise: survive as long as possible while your startup gets attacked by increasingly difficult waves of enemies. Each enemy type represents a real threat that startups face: Big Tech Clones, Bugs, and VCs.

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Hacker Noon2 min

Wealth Management in the Digital Age: Trends and Strategies

Wealth and asset management is rapidly evolving through AI and intelligent data solutions. Firms that adopt predictive analytics, cloud systems, automation, and AI-driven portfolio tools gain faster insights, stronger compliance, and better client experiences. Digital transformation is no longer opt...

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Hacker Noon2 min

Resilience Engineering in .NET 8: Polly Pipelines in Practice

In distributed systems, API calls fail due to network or transient issues. Instead of writing manual retry logic, .NET 8 introduces Http Resilience built on Polly. This guide compares traditional try/catch retries with modern resilience pipelines using Microsoft.Extensions.Http.Resilience. Learn how...

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Hacker Noon2 min

How to Find an Article Idea in 10 Minutes

Most writers waste hours consuming content instead of creating it. Your next article is likely hiding in something you just explained, debated, or fixed. Turn workplace explanations into posts, convert recurring arguments into structured breakdowns, and write about mistakes others are Googling. Star...

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AI Coding Tip 006 - Review Every Line Before Commit

You trust the AI without verification and create [workslop] that someone else will have to clean up later. You treat AI output as production-ready code and ship it without a second thought. AI isn't accountable for your mistakes; you are.

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Top 3 Altcoins for 2026 Growth, One Is Still Under $1

Ethereum (ETH) remains the second largest cryptocurrency by market cap. Binance Coin (BNB) sits within the top tier of major tokens by market capitalization. Mutuum Finance (MUTM) is building a decentralized lending protocol focused on yield creation.

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UK Tech Funding Falls 11% in 2025, but Remains Second Globally

The UK tech sector raised $15.3 billion in 2025, marking an 11% year-on-year decline and a 35% drop in deal volume. While late-stage funding remained resilient, seed and early-stage investment fell sharply, reflecting growing investor risk aversion. Despite economic pressures and regulatory headwind...

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The Asteroid Escape You Can’t Miss

In Chapter XIII of Astounding Stories of Super-Science (March 1932), Hawk Carse, Eliot Leithgow, and Friday escape Ku Sui’s lethal traps and chase across the dome. Using space-suits and the Scorpion ship, they survive deadly ray guns and reach safety. This HackerNoon book blog reveals the invisible...

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How Python Devs Can Build AI Agents Using MCP, Kafka, and Flink

Python developers can build production-ready AI agents using Model Context Protocol (MCP), Apache Kafka, and Apache Flink. By extending familiar FastAPI microservices with FastMCP tools and event-driven architectures, teams can orchestrate real-time, trustworthy AI workflows without redesigning thei...

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Hacker Noon2 min

AI Apps Have a New Attack Surface: External Inputs

Every AI application processes external inputs and every external input is a potential attack vector. An attacker who can inject content into a knowledge base; can manipulate the AI’s behaviour without ever directly interacting with the system. The consequences are severe: data breaches, reputationa...

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Hacker Noon2 min

Why Bank Risk Systems Never Truly Went “Real-Time”

Risk systems are often described as having evolved from batch to real-time architectures. In practice, that story is misleading. This article traces how large financial risk systems actually evolved inside investment banks over the past two decades — shaped by computation cost, regulation, organizat...

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Hacker Noon2 min

Can AI Truly Discover New Science?

Large language models can solve complex problems, but true scientific discovery requires exploration, reasoning, and originality—prompting new benchmarks to test whether AI can act as an independent scientist.

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Hacker Noon2 min

The Mean-field Libor Market Model

The article introduces a mean-field extension of the Libor Market Model that makes volatility depend on the forward rate’s distribution—especially its variance—to curb unrealistic rate explosions that can distort long-horizon ALM simulations. It then establishes general existence and uniqueness cond...

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Hacker Noon2 min

How I Fixed Manufacturing for AI Robotics with WebSerial

Scaling AI robotics exposed a silent failure: firmware-based identity poisoned training data without crashing systems. By replacing custom firmware and scripts with a browser-based manufacturing stack using WebSerial and WebUSB, we decoupled identity from firmware, eliminated human error, and cleane...

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Hacker Noon2 min

A Perilous Break to Jupiter

In Chapter XII of Astounding Stories of Super-Science (March 1932), Hawk Carse and Eliot Leithgow face deadly doors, heat-rays, and Ku Sui’s machines. Using ingenuity, they melt a hole in the ceiling, climb out, and don space suits to escape the dome over the asteroid settlement. This HackerNoon boo...

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Hacker Noon2 min

Bitcoin Failed the Fed Test—And Exposed Its Biggest Lie

Bitcoin crashed with stocks after Fed tightening—the opposite of what an inflation hedge should do. With correlation to the S&P 500 at 0.75 and volatility triple that of equities, Bitcoin's identity crisis is clear: it claims to be digital gold but acts like a risky tech stock. Industry leaders are...

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Hacker Noon2 min

This AI Tool Turns 400 Informal Names Into Accurate OMOP Code

In the HELIOS Singapore study, Llettuce mapped 400 informal medication names to OMOP standard concepts. Combining vector search and a local LLM, it outperformed traditional string-matching tools like Usagi and ran locally on consumer hardware, preserving patient confidentiality. Llettuce shows that...

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Hacker Noon2 min

How This Open-Source AI Simplifies Mapping Healthcare Data

Mapping medical terms to OMOP standard concepts is complex, often requiring time-consuming manual review. Llettuce, an open-source AI tool, automates this process using large language models, fuzzy matching, and database queries. Running locally, it preserves GDPR compliance while delivering high ac...

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Hacker Noon2 min

AI Model Forensics: The Source of Suspicious Text-to-Image AI

AI models can misuse generated images to train new models without permission. This research introduces a method to trace a suspicious model’s training data to its source using inherent memorization patterns. The approach achieves over 80% instance-level accuracy and 85% statistical-level accuracy, r...

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Hacker Noon2 min

Researchers Can Now Identify If Your AI Stole Its Training Data

Text-to-image models are often misused when attackers train new models on outputs from commercial models. This paper introduces an injection-free method to identify whether a suspicious model’s training data comes from a source model. Leveraging inherent memorization patterns, the approach achieves...

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Hacker Noon2 min

The Eight Revenue Levers Powering the World’s Best Tech Companies

Revenue growth isn’t driven by one tactic. This article breaks down 8 proven levers from user acquisition and pricing to churn reduction and new monetization—used by companies like Amazon, Netflix, Spotify, and Apple. Each lever includes real examples, tradeoffs, and limits, showing why sustainable...

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Hacker Noon2 min

USSD at Scale: Powering Healthcare Access Across Africa

USSD (Unstructured Supplementary Service Data) is one of the most practical ways to deliver digital healthcare services in Africa. Sessions are short-lived, stateful, extremely sensitive to latency, and heavily dependent on mobile network operators. These constraints demand an architecture that prio...

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Hacker Noon2 min

Prediction Markets Are Swallowing the Real World

Prediction markets are no longer just for forecasting elections or global events—they’re emerging as financial instruments that could help consumers hedge rising costs, potentially reshaping everyday commerce through AI-driven automation.

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A New Model That Actually Works: Why Today’s AI Detectors Fail

Most AI detectors label an entire document as human or machine written. This paper introduces a model that pinpoints exactly where AI-generated text begins, down to the word and sentence level. It outperforms popular proprietary tools, works on short texts, and generalizes well to unseen domains and...

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Hacker Noon2 min

Inside the Model That Outsmarts Popular AI Detection Tools

Most AI detectors only label entire documents as human or machine written. This paper introduces a model that identifies exactly which words were generated by AI inside mixed text. Tested across domains, generators, and boundary positions, it outperforms popular proprietary tools and generalizes wel...

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Hacker Noon2 min

x402 vs UCP: What Challenges Lie Ahead for AI Agent Commerce?

Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) is an open standard developed by Shopify and Google. Over 20 major retailers back it, including Target, Walmart, Best Buy, plus payment processors like Visa, Mastercard, and Stripe. x402 is a narrower approach that doesn't handle commerce workflows at all. Neither p...

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Handwriting vs AI: Real Performance of AI on Handwritten Documents

Handwritten forms remain a major challenge for AI, even in 2025. Our benchmark of seven leading models shows that GPT-5 Mini leads in accuracy for high-stakes workflows, while Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite offers near-top accuracy at a fraction of the cost and speed. Azure, AWS, and Claude Sonnet are modera...

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Hacker Noon2 min

The End of CI/CD Pipelines: The Dawn of Agentic DevOps

AI agents are replacing traditional CI/CD pipelines by autonomously debugging tests, deploying code, and triaging production incidents—GitHub Copilot and Azure SRE Agent already do this. The shift promises real velocity gains: backlogs clear themselves, flaky tests get fixed without human interventi...

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Hacker Noon2 min

The Reality of Deploying Tech in Legacy Industries

Legacy industries adopt tech cautiously, not because they resist change, but because mistakes are expensive and risks are higher. With so many digital solutions available, some experience tech fatigue. Successful founders focus on relationships, customer success, clear onboarding, and gradual, prove...

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Hacker Noon2 min

Ship Code Fearlessly With Shadow Deployments

Shadow deployments are a deployment strategy that lets engineering teams test and ship code confidently and frequently without exposing end users to the change. Unlike staging environments and unit testing, shadow deployments validate new code against real production traffic.

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Hacker Noon2 min

Trapped in the Laboratory (A Desperate Search for Freedom)

In Chapter XI of Astounding Stories of Super-Science (March 1932), Hawk Carse and Friday are trapped in Dr. Ku Sui’s laboratory under deadly assault. Battling ray-guns, locked doors, and imminent peril, they work to rescue Eliot Leithgow and outwit Ku Sui’s terrifying mechanisms. This HackerNoon boo...

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Hacker Noon2 min

SaaSpocalypse Has Already Begun

Anthropic released AI plugins for Claude Cowork on January 30, 2026, automating tasks in legal, sales, marketing, and data analysis. Within days, major software stocks crashed as investors realized foundation-model companies can build applications just as easily as the software companies built on to...

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OSL Group Officially Launches Regulated Enterprise Stablecoin USDGO

OSL Group announces launch of USDGO, a regulated enterprise compliant U.S. dollar stablecoin. USDGO is positioned for institutional settlement and corporate payments, serving the cross-border business ecosystem of Asian enterprises. An initial batch of US$50 million in USDGO stablecoins has been min...

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Hacker Noon2 min

Is Society Just a Really Complicated Brain?

This essay explores intelligence as an emergent property, arguing that just as consciousness arises from neural networks, human society itself functions like a distributed brain—powerful, uncontrollable, and self-preserving.

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Code Reviews: Here's What They Actually Teach Us

Engineers often take code review feedback personal, says John Sutter. Sutter: Code reviews are used to gatekeep or show superiority rather than improve the work. He says code reviews are there to catch what we miss when we're too close to the problem. Satter: The reviewer isn't judging you from some...

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Hacker Noon2 min

A Technical Guide to Stealth Addresses and On-Chain Privacy

Stealth addresses offer the privacy of a private bank account with a user experience that is intuitive and, crucially, architectured to remain compliant with global AML (Anti-Money Laundering) regulations. 25% of respondents view privacy as the single most important feature of blockchain technology.

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Hacker Noon2 min

Who is Liable When AI Spends Your Money?

The agentic economy powered by cryptocurrency is witnessing a liability gap without an explicit accountability layer. The industry needs three foundational standards to establish an accountability layer to answer the question–When something goes wrong, who owns the outcome?

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Hacker Noon2 min

The Visi-Screen Ordeal

In Chapter X of Astounding Stories of Super-Science (March 1932), Hawk Carse endures the harrowing Visi-Screen ordeal, witnessing Eliot Leithgow strapped to an operating table under Dr. Ku Sui’s cruel experiments. With cunning, loyalty, and nerves of steel, Carse and Friday plot an escape. This Hack...

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Hacker Noon2 min

Your Sales Team Isn’t a Growth Hack

Here's what nobody tells you about scaling sales teams: Your reps can't manufacture demand that doesn't exist. They can't fix broken messaging. And they definitely can't turn bad leads into good ones faster by sheer force of will. A startup I know (and shall remain nameless learned this the expensiv...

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Hacker Noon3 min

The UI: Why It's the Real AI Agent Bottleneck

The User Interface (UI) is the real bottleneck for industrializing AI agents. Building an agent requires a specific skill set: LLM understanding, backend engineering, and prompt whispering. Building a good UI requires a completely different one: frontend development, UX design, and product sense.

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Hacker Noon2 min

Brain Energy Economics: Willpower Can’t Solve the Physical Deadlock

Overwork in tech isn’t a willpower problem—it’s a cognitive systems failure. High-load roles exhaust the brain’s executive capacity, triggering “recovery lockout,” where rest no longer restores. Modern workplaces often respond with empathy and wellness language—the “Kindness UI”—while leaving worklo...

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Hacker Noon2 min

How Industrial Quality Thinking Exposes the Limits of Agile Rituals

Kanban and Agile in IT often degrade into rituals—boards, meetings, and buzzwords—while losing the system-level quality thinking that made them effective in industry. Drawing from manufacturing, energy, and fintech, this article explains why quality must be a management function, not a QA role, and...

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Hacker Noon1 min

Dual-Root Linux: Blue-Green Deployments for Your Operating System

Traditional Linux upgrades modify live systems and make rollback painful. This article shows how dual-root partitions apply DevOps blue-green principles to OS upgrades—building a new OS beside the old one, testing it safely, and switching via GRUB only when ready. The result: predictable upgrades, s...

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Hacker Noon2 min

Genius at the Command of One

In Chapter IX of Astounding Stories of Super-Science (March 1932), Dr. Ku Sui reveals his ultimate scheme: controlling the greatest scientific minds through living brains to consolidate absolute power. Hawk Carse and Eliot Leithgow witness the horrifying operation. This HackerNoon book blog post exp...

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Hacker Noon2 min

Rust 1.77 and 1.78: The Changes That Happened to u128/i128

Rust has long had an inconsistency with C regarding the alignment of 128-bit integers. This problem has recently been resolved, but the fix comes with some effects that are worth being aware of. As a user, you most likely do not need to worry about these changes unless you are. Ignoring the `imprope...

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Hacker Noon2 min

Here's Why the Godot Foundation Has No Plans for Console Ports

The Godot Foundation does not have active plans to work on console platform ports. This may change in the future, especially if it becomes possible to share console ports that are truly Free and Open Source (i.e. not locked behind any NDAs or paywalls) There are two types of console ports: approved...

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Hacker Noon2 min

The Mastermind Behind Scientific Abductions

In Chapter VIII of Astounding Stories of Super-Science (March 1932), Dr. Ku Sui reveals his ultimate plan: controlling Earth’s greatest scientific minds for total power. Hawk Carse and Eliot Leithgow witness the chilling extent of his scheme. This HackerNoon book blog post explores ambition, betraya...

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Hacker Noon2 min

Everyone Says AI Is Insecure, So I Measured It

The rise of sophisticated language models has necessitated the development of robust mechanisms for interaction with external resources. The MCP protocol acts as a secure intermediary, allowing the language model to extend its capabilities beyond its internal knowledge. MCP is often cited as evidenc...

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Hacker Noon2 min

Definitive Guide to Multi-Threaded Rendering on the Web

The DOM is single-threaded, but modern web apps demand parallelism. This article breaks down practical multithreaded rendering strategies—Web Workers, SharedArrayBuffer, Offscreen Canvas, server-side DOM creation, and parallel DOM approaches—highlighting where each works, where it fails, and how fro...

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Hacker Noon2 min

AI Agents in Web3: Real Business Applications Beyond the Hype

The fusion of AI integration for blockchain with decentralized systems is rapidly moving from academic theory to real business impact. Market data suggests that the global AI agents market in the year 2025 is estimated at $7.84 billion and is expected to reach $53.62 billion by 2030.

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Hacker Noon2 min

5 Marvel Characters That Need to Be Added to Marvel Rivals

Marvel Rivals has exploded in popularity since its release. At launch, the game had 33 characters, which has now jumped up to 46 at the time of this writing. It’s obviously not feasible for them to add every single Marvel character, but here are 5 who I believe could be a whole lot of fun.

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Hacker Noon2 min

Cost Is Now a Reliability Problem

In cloud-native environments, every redundancy, autoscaling decision, log line, and failover path costs money. As a result, many modern outages are caused by deliberate cost optimizations: reduced capacity, trimmed observability, delayed mitigations, and underfunded resilience.

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How to Dockerize Your Application and Deploy It to Sevalla

The LogAnalyzer Agent is a FastAPI-based app that provides an API endpoint for log analysis. It can be containerized with Docker to make it available on a cloud platform like Sevalla. This article shows you how to Dockerize a project to make the app available on the cloud.

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Hacker Noon2 min

How Families Are Turning Plans Into Action With One Shared System

Families don’t struggle with planning—they struggle with execution. This article explores why household plans fall apart between calendars, tasks, and real life, and how a shared family system connects events, responsibilities, and shopping into one continuous flow. By removing breakpoints and decis...

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Read This If You Want to Be an Inventor, Not an Imitator

The goal of a conscious mind is to defeat entropy by creating new knowledge. Most people fail because they optimize for "looking the part" (credentials, networking, tutorials) rather than "doing the part." The Model-Free Zone: True breakthroughs have no map; if there's a YouTube tutorial for it, the...

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Hacker Noon2 min

The Deadly Arrival of Leithgow

In this chapter of Astounding Stories of Super-Science (1932), Hawk Carse confronts the cost of betrayal as Master Scientist Eliot Leithgow is delivered into Ku Sui’s hands. A tense meditation on intelligence, ethics, and control, this public-domain sci-fi classic is preserved and contextualized by...

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Hacker Noon2 min

The Next Wave of Crypto Adoption Will Be Invisible

Crypto is entering its deployment phase, where adoption comes not from louder narratives or better UX alone, but from infrastructure that disappears. As account abstraction and chain routing improve the surface layer, the real challenge is structural soundness—systems that remain reliable under stre...

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Hacker Noon1 min

How AI Is Rewriting Test Automation in Modern QA

AI is reshaping test automation by enabling self-healing tests, intelligent test case generation, predictive bug detection, and automated debugging. Using machine learning, NLP, and generative AI, modern QA teams reduce maintenance overhead, improve coverage, and adapt to rapid UI and code changes....

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Hacker Noon2 min

Why AI Optimization Is a Dead End for the Economy

AI optimization boosts efficiency but doesn’t expand global demand. As intelligence becomes cheap and commoditized, Type 1 AI—encompassing automation and productivity gains—reaches a hard economic ceiling. Real GDP growth requires Type 2 AI: entirely new goods, services, and markets. With capital ab...

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Hacker Noon2 min

The Weather-Report Lie: AI Isn’t Fate

The dominant story about AI is told like a weather report: it's coming, it's inevitable, it will accelerate, take over work, reshape society and government. It puts technology at the center of gravity and pushes humans out of the frame.

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Hacker Noon2 min

My 2-Cents to improve Opus Plans

A cheap external reviewer for Claude Code plans. A Python CLI sends your plan to Kimi K2.5 for critique before implementation, and a Claude Code hook makes the review mandatory. A few cents per review, real bugs caught.

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Hacker Noon2 min

Experiment Loudly. Learn Quietly.

Some of the smartest teams are building in public, not for attention, but to experiment on real users. Founders who spend time up close and personal with the raw stuff of interactions start to see patterns no spreadsheet will ever reveal.

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Hacker Noon2 min

How Playnance Turned 10,000 Daily Users Into On-Chain Gamers

Playnance, a Tel Aviv-based Web3 company founded in 2020, made its first public announcement in February 2026 after operating in stealth mode for five years. The platform integrates with more than 30 game studios, converting thousands of games into on-chain experiences while processing approximately...

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Hacker Noon3 min

SBOM Diffing: Making Dependency Changes Visible Before They Hurt

Adding one dependency can pull in dozens of hidden packages,SBOM diffing lets you see exactly what changed in your dependency tree between versions,new pkgs,duplicates, integrity issues. Generate SBOMs with Syft, compare them with sbomlyze, enforce policies in CI. Catch dependency changes during cod...

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Hacker Noon2 min

MCF Launches Crypto-First Funded Trading Program

MyCryptoFund (MCF) has announced the launch of its funded trader program. The program enables skilled traders worldwide to access trading capital of up to 200,000 USDT while earning at least 80% of generated profits. The platform was built to bridge the gap between skilled traders and accessible cap...

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Hacker Noon3 min

Why Nobody Believes Your Startup Is Real And How to Fix It

Most startups aren’t struggling because of weak products, they’re struggling because no one knows they exist. Visibility now determines who gets funded, hired, and trusted. This article explains why strategic thought leadership matters and how HackerNoon’s Business Blogging Program helps founders br...

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Hacker Noon2 min

How Realistic Is Zero-Waste Living, Really?

The consumption-heavy growth-at-all cost model that humans have been following for a few centuries now has made matters come to a head with the planet drowning in its own waste. We have defiled the very air we breathe and the water we need for sustenance. Land has been contaminated with poison in th...

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Hacker Noon2 min

Before Cyberpunk, There Was Port o’ Porno

In Chapter VI of The Affair of the Brains, HackerNoon revisits Port o’ Porno—a notorious 1932 sci-fi spaceport teeming with crime, drugs, pirates, and alien dangers. This vivid worldbuilding showcases early science fiction’s fascination with unchecked technology and human savagery, preserved and sha...

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Hacker Noon2 min

FlexiSpot E7 Plus Max: Most Stable Four-Leg Standing Desk

The FlexiSpot E7 Plus Max stands out by solving the biggest standing desk problem: wobble. Its four-leg, four-motor design distributes weight evenly, supports up to 660 pounds, and stays stable even at standing height. With smooth, quiet movement, safety features, and solid cable management, it’s bu...

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Hacker Noon2 min

Is It All Doom and Gloom For Software Development?

AI and LLMs can automate much of coding, from frontends to workflows, but they don’t replace engineers. System design, architecture, security, and complex domains like banking, insurance, and healthcare still need human expertise. LLMs empower non-developers and junior engineers, making software fas...

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Hacker Noon2 min

Blockchain Beyond Crypto: Real-World Use Cases

Blockchain promises to reinvent trust in multi-party systems. Using blockchain can improve both supply chain transparency and traceability. Walmart “can now trace the origin of over 25 products from 5 different suppliers” on the blockchain. Maersk and IBM’s TradeLens platform uses blockchain to digi...

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Hacker Noon2 min

6 Ways to Use a Crypto Exchange Aggregator and Save on Swaps

Crypto exchange aggregators help traders save money by comparing live rates across multiple exchanges in one place. This article breaks down six practical use cases—from getting better swap rates and handling cross-chain trades to avoiding hidden fees, comparing instant exchanges, integrating APIs,...

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Hacker Noon2 min

The Written Word is Not Vanishing. It Is Being Reassigned

AI makes writing abundant and cheap, shifting its value from creation to curation. The future of literacy is editorial: knowing what to exclude, when language clarifies versus obscures, and which words carry real consequences. Text splits into two categories—durable "hard text" (laws, contracts, spe...

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Hacker Noon2 min

The Most Dangerous Debt in Fast-Moving Systems Isn’t Technical

In fast-moving systems, the most dangerous debt isn’t technical, it’s interpretation debt. While technical debt slows execution, interpretation debt misroutes it, causing systems to fail silently by executing outdated assumptions. Unlike mechanical failures, these systems appear to work perfectly, w...

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Hacker Noon2 min

D-Tier to S-Tier: A Practical Ladder for Design Responsibility

In the world of product and game design, 'seniority' is a vague term. Is it about tool proficiency? Or is it something more abstract? Ishan Manjrekar breaks down the 'Framework for Responsibility'—a tiered system that categorizes designers not by their job titles, but by the complexity of the proble...

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Hacker Noon2 min

Bot-Only Social Network Hijacked by Humans With a Browser Tab

A bots-only AI network called Moltbook was completely taken over by humans due to laughably bad security: exposed Supabase API keys and zero verification systems. A few infiltrators controlled millions of fake bots with direct database access. Meanwhile, OpenClaw proved that "local sandboxes" aren't...

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Hacker Noon2 min

Elon Musk is Going to Build AI-Powered Rockets

Elon Musk has merged xAI and SpaceX in a bid to revolutionize AI systems and take AI computer servers from the cloud to, well, outer space. However, more phenomenal will be the evolution of his rocket company with xAI working alongside his engineers. Eventually, I summice, xAI will be running the sh...

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Hacker Noon2 min

MomentProof Deploys Patented Digital Asset Protection

MomentProof Enterprise for AXA enables cryptographically authentic, tamper-proof digital assets for insurance claims processing. MomentProof’s patented technology certifies images, video, voice recordings, and associated metadata at the moment of capture.

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Hacker Noon1 min

How I Built an AI VC Associate to Screen 3,000 Pitch Decks

A typical VC analyst reviews around 3,000 decks annually and invests in roughly 9. Average time spent per deck: 2-3 minutes (up to 10 if we include preliminary research) This means 99.7% of their time is “wasted” This isn’t a dealflow problem. The issue is triage throughput.

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FAR Labs Launches Distributed Compute Network for AI Inference

FAR Labs has launched FAR AI, a decentralized inference network that connects idle GPUs from gaming PCs, workstations, and small servers into a unified compute layer. Node operators earn rewards based on real usage, while developers get faster, cheaper inference without relying on hyperscalers. The...

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Hacker Noon2 min

One Identity Appoints Gihan Munasinghe as Chief Technology Officer

Gihan Munasinghe brings more than 15 years of experience leading global engineering organizations and delivering large-scale, customer-centric software platforms. He specializes in scaling global engineering teams and modernizing complex legacy platforms to drive product innovation. “This is a pivot...

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Hacker Noon2 min

The Web3 UX Problem AI Agents Are Accidentally Solving

Web3 has a dirty little secret that everyone knows but nobody wants to admit: it's basically unusable for normal humans. The truth is much more simple and uncomfortable: Web3 isn't hard for humans because humans are unintelligent. It's hard for human because we designed it so humans have to be compu...

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Hacker Noon2 min

AI Belongs Inside DataOps, Not Just at the End of the Pipeline

As AI drives higher demands for speed, scale, and governance, human-driven data operations no longer hold up. This article argues that AI must move upstream into DataOps, where it can automate enforcement, detect anomalies, maintain documentation, and evaluate readiness continuously. AI-augmented Da...

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Hacker Noon2 min

How Light Broke the Human Mind

Chapter V of The Affair of the Brains plunges readers into a chilling 1932 sci-fi experiment where color, light, and pain are weaponized to break the human mind. Dr. Ku Sui’s “Color-Storm” anticipates modern ideas of psychological manipulation and sensory overload.

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Hacker Noon2 min

The Next Generation of Cybersecurity Protection for Healthcare

Mohammed Nayeem transforms healthcare cybersecurity, developing AI anomaly detection platforms and hospital-specific security frameworks that reduce response times from hours to minutes, secure medical devices, and protect patient data. His proactive approach integrates security into clinical workfl...

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Hacker Noon2 min

Ghulam Murtaza: From Rural Pakistan To Amazon Automation

Ghulam Murtaza, from rural Khairpur, Pakistan, became a self-taught tech prodigy and now leads Amazon’s industrial automation efforts. From creating the Parts Lookup App to real-time sensor monitoring and AI-driven process optimization, his tools save millions in labor and downtime. His journey high...

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Hacker Noon2 min

The $30 Trillion Economy That Doesn't Need Humans

Autonomous AI agents are emerging as independent economic actors, requiring payment systems that work without human identity or approval. Blockchain, stablecoins, and AI-native payment protocols like x402, Visa Trusted Agent Protocol, and PayPal’s Agentic Commerce are laying the foundation for a mac...

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Hacker Noon2 min

Build a Tool-Backed Market Brief Copilot (Not a Chat Demo)

In a fintech or wealthtech product, people constantly need quick market context. Turn a stock question into a short, repeatable market brief. In Part 1, we’ll build the engine in copilot.py. A small set of EODHD-backed tools, an agent with strict rules, and a few demo runs. In part 2, we'll wrap it...

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Hacker Noon2 min

OpenClaw: An AI Lobster That Gets Work Done

OpenClaw is an open‑source AI assistant you run on your own machine. It works inside the chat apps you use and can learn your habits. Unlike typical chatbots, OpenClaw isn’t confined to a browser tab. It runs as a service on your computer.

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Hacker Noon2 min

Designing a Multi-Seller Platform With Stripe Connect Express

Stripe Connect Express makes it easy to launch a multi-seller platform, but real complexity shows up after go-live. Seller accounts and capabilities change over time, and payment flows that rely on static assumptions eventually break. This article walks through a practical approach to designing a St...

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Hacker Noon2 min

The 89% Rule: What Most SEO Content Gets Wrong

Only 11% of content reaches page one. The rest fails because writers create content they want to publish, not what searchers need. This SEO Content Strategist prompt forces alignment between your writing and search intent—ensuring your content ranks because it deserves to rank.

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Hacker Noon2 min

Stop Torturing Your Data: How to Automate Rigor With AI

Improvisation in data analysis leads to bias and "p-hacking." This article introduces a "Data Analysis Strategist" AI prompt that forces researchers to pre-commit to a rigorous roadmap. It acts as a flight plan, ensuring validity, checking assumptions, and preventing the "Garden of Forking Paths" ef...

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Hacker Noon2 min

This Humanoid Robot From CES 2026 is the Most Promising

HackerNoon’s latest Tech Poll asked readers to rank the most promising humanoid robots from CES 2026. Boston Dynamics’ Atlas won decisively, praised for being production-ready rather than experimental. The results show a clear shift toward practical deployment over flashy demos, echoed by prediction...

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Hacker Noon2 min

When Villains Owned Their Own Planet

In Soil, a 1932 chapter from Astounding Stories of Super-Science, readers encounter a chilling sci-fi concept: a self-contained asteroid base drifting through space. Dr. Ku Sui’s mobile world blends megastructure engineering, secrecy, and psychological dominance—anticipating later space-station and...

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Hacker Noon2 min

How to Build a Real-Time Database Activity Stream Pipeline

In modern cloud environments, databases are no longer silent back-end components instead they are active participants in every critical business transaction. As organizations scale globally, the challenge is no longer storing data, but understanding how that data is accessed, changed, and protected...

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Hacker Noon2 min

How Modular Architecture Fixes Scaling Problems in Large iOS Apps

Large iOS apps break down without strict modular boundaries. This article shows how splitting features into Interface, Implementation, and Tests with Swift Package Manager dramatically reduces build times, simplifies refactoring, and keeps dependencies under control—without over-modularizing the cod...

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Hacker Noon2 min

How FollowSpy Restores Visibility Into Instagram Following Behavior

Instagram hides the order and timing of follows, making observation guesswork. FollowSpy restores chronological sequence, letting users track new follows and changes over time calmly. By providing clarity without suggesting intent, it reduces emotional noise, supports creators and personal insights,...

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Hacker Noon2 min

Ignacio Brasca on Building Systems That Last

Staff software engineer Ignacio Brasca shares how durable systems are built by embracing determinism, resisting over-engineering, and designing for change. He argues that maintainability, clarity under failure, and strong developer tooling—not clever abstractions—determine whether software survives...

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Hacker Noon2 min

The AI Arms Race (Offense vs Defense)

Check Point's Cyber Security Report 2026 shows 70% increase in cyber attacks since 2023. 60% of executives reported their organizations faced AI-powered attacks, but only 7% had deployed AI defenses at scale. Moody's 2026 cyber outlook warns that AI-related threats will "become more prevalent and pr...

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Hacker Noon2 min

The HTML Partial Trap: Why HTMX is Only Half the Story

While HTMX has successfully revived the HATEOAS (Hypermedia as the Engine of Application State) model, its insistence that the wire format must be HTML is a limitation. Performance: Benchmarks show that structured JSON (like oDOM or vDOM) can be parsed and rendered by the browser as fast as, or even...

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Hacker Noon2 min

How Senior Developers Turn Cursor Into a Production-Grade AI Agent

This guide transforms your Cursor workflow from simple chatting to advanced orchestration. You will learn how to: - Structure project intelligence using modular .mdc Rules. - Replace deprecated Custom Modes with powerful Slash Commands. - Delegate complex architectural tasks to Subagents and Skills....

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Hacker Noon2 min

179 Super Compelling HackerNoon Headlines

HackerNoon has curated 179 of its most valuable articles into a single, high-signal reading list. Spanning AI, Web3, coding interviews, security, cloud infrastructure, gaming, startups, and philosophy, this guide saves months of searching. Sourced from HackerNoon.cv, it’s built for developers and te...

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Hacker Noon2 min

Ethan’s Savior

Jake Harlan spent two years hauling ice and rare metals between the Jovian trojans and the inner markets. He had not pinged ahead. Wanted to surprise Lena. Two years was a long stretch, even for freight dogs.

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Hacker Noon2 min

Security Doesn’t Start With CVE Disclosure

Security doesn’t begin when a CVE is published. In the Tomcat CVE-2025-24813 case, the fix shipped quietly weeks before disclosure, meaning teams that routinely applied maintenance updates were already safe—while others were exposed despite fast reactions later. CVE scores, scanners, and compliance...

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Hacker Noon2 min

Meet Deepgram: HackerNoon Company of the Week

HackerNoon features Deepgram - a voice AI platform providing speech-to-text, text-to-speech, and voice agent APIs for developers. Founded in 2015 by particle physicists, Deepgram has raised $130M in Series C funding at a $1.3B valuation and serves 200,000+ developers including NASA, Spotify, and Cit...

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Hacker Noon2 min

When Genius Became a Weapon

Published in 1932, The Wave of a Handkerchief captures pulp sci-fi’s fascination with intellect as ultimate power. Dr. Ku Sui’s calm psychological dominance over armed opponents explores early ideas of mind control, sensory manipulation, and intelligence warfare in space. Republished as part of Hack...

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Hacker Noon2 min

Fine-Tuning LLMs: A Comprehensive Tutorial

Training an LLM from scratch is expensive and usually unnecessary. This hands-on tutorial shows how to fine-tune pre-trained models using SFT, DPO, and RLHF, with a full Python pipeline built on Hugging Face Transformers. Learn how to prepare data, tune hyperparameters, avoid overfitting, and turn b...

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Hacker Noon2 min

How to Find and Use Restore Points in Windows 11

restore points are the snapshots of Windows’ system files, drivers and registry settings. They don’t touch your personal files but they let you rewind the system configuration to a moment that worked. Windows will automatically create restore points at some “significant” events (like certain updates...

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Hacker Noon2 min

AI Is Not the Bottleneck - Your Program Design Is

When AI “fails,” it usually isn’t because the model is incapable. It’s because the program around it assumes a level of stability that AI systems simply don’t have. Impact comes from changing decisions and workflows, not from generating better predictions.

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Hacker Noon2 min

Code, No-Code, or AI Prompt? Exploring the New Debate

Coding is not a prerequisite for a successful career in UX design. Coding can build a sturdier bridge between you and the developers who bring your designs to life. The goal isn't to become a full-time coder, it's to be an indispensable collaborator in the age of AI.

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Hacker Noon2 min

I Built a Go-Based ngrok Alternative With Zero Dependencies

Built a complete ngrok-like tunnel service in Go in one evening (~3.5 hours of focused coding time). Includes both client CLI and backend server. Total code: ~800 lines. Works with Cloudflare Tunnels for free, secure HTTPS tunnels from localhost to the internet. Tech Stack: Go, Cloudflare Tunnels, C...

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Hacker Noon2 min

Legacy Code Deserves More Respect Than We Give It

Software engineers tend to judge older code without understanding its context. Code is only the visible part of the story, but not the context in which decisions were made. Deadlines, team size, available tools, business pressure, and technical limitations rarely survive in repository.

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Hacker Noon2 min

What If Your Enemy Couldn’t Be Seen?

First published in 1932, The Coming of Ku Sui explores themes of invisibility, radio surveillance, and dimensional mystery decades before modern tech debates. This chapter from Astounding Stories of Super-Science captures pulp sci-fi’s fascination with unseen enemies and space paranoia. Republished...

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Hacker Noon2 min

Generic interfaces: When to Use Them

As interfaces are types themselves, they too can have type parameters. This idea proves to be surprisingly powerful when it comes to expressing constraints on generic functions and types. In this post, we’ll demonstrate the use of interfaces with type parameters in a couple of common scenarios.

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Hacker Noon2 min

Check Out What We've Been Into Recently

This week, we round up the best things we’ve been reading, watching and listening to in the newsroom. From a deep dive into the role that bots played in the Johnny Depp v. Amber Heard trials to a look at the ways spammers skirt content moderation, there's plenty to keep you entertained.

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Hacker Noon2 min

Off to the Rendezvous

Chapter I of The Affair of the Brains introduces Hawk Carse, a legendary space adventurer, as he risks everything to confront his greatest enemy, Dr. Ku Sui. First published in Astounding Stories of Super-Science in 1932, this public-domain sci-fi tale captures the raw imagination, danger, and ambit...

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Hacker Noon3 min

Astounding Stories of Super-Science, March, 1932 - Table of Links

Astounding Stories of Super-Science, March 1932 is a landmark collection from the early days of science fiction. Featuring tales like Off to the Rendezvous and The Color-Storm, it captures how writers of the 1930s imagined technology, discovery, and the unknown. This public-domain edition is part of...

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Hacker Noon2 min

The Crypto Sellout

Jamie Dimon, head of JPMorgan, called crypto a “fraud … worse than tulips” The bank’s token, The JPM Coin, facilitates over $1B in interbank payments each month. In the Global South, Bitcoin adoption exploded.

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Hacker Noon2 min

Workit Health Sets National Standard in Telehealth Addiction Care

Workit Health has transformed telehealth addiction treatment from a temporary fix into a national benchmark. With industry-leading retention, near-perfect medication adherence, and peer-reviewed research shaping policy, the company delivers whole-person virtual care that reaches rural, urban, and ho...

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Hacker Noon2 min

Will Media Over Quic Replace WebRTC?

Media over Quic is a new media streaming protocol that could replace WebRTC in theory, but as of Jan 2026 is not mature enough for widespread adoption. It does have concrete advantages for certain use cases though, which will likely drive early adoption.

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Hacker Noon2 min

RAG is a Data Problem Pretending to Be AI

Retrieval-Augmented Generation fails most often not because LLMs “hallucinate,” but because retrieval pipelines return incomplete, stale, or irrelevant context—due to weak chunking, naive ranking, missing metadata/ACLs, and lack of evaluation—so reliable RAG requires treating it like search + ETL wi...

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Hacker Noon2 min

Cache vs. Database: Comparing Memcached and ScyllaDB

ScyllaDB and Memcached take different paths to low-latency performance, yet benchmarks show they can converge under real workloads. Memcached excels at lightweight, pipelined key-value access, while ScyllaDB trades higher per-item overhead for persistence, richer data models, and predictable scaling...

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Hacker Noon2 min

How Roblox Turns Play Into Learning

Roblox is redefining how young people learn by turning play into participation. Through its Learning Hub and creator-built worlds, students learn coding, systems thinking, and collaboration by building and experimenting in real time. Rather than digitizing lessons, Roblox enables experiential learni...

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Hacker Noon2 min

AI Exposes the Fragility of "Good Enough" Data Operations

AI doesn’t tolerate the loose, manual data operations that analytics once allowed. As models consume data continuously, small inconsistencies become production failures. Most AI breakdowns aren’t model problems—they’re operational ones. To succeed, organizations must treat data trust as a discipline...

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Hacker Noon2 min

Never Write a Prompt Again: Introducing Recursive Prompting

Manual prompt engineering suffers from fundamental inefficiencies: cognitive bottlenecks, information loss through language compression, and lack of access to LLM internal representations. LLMs can write superior prompts for themselves because they understand their own token prediction dynamics, att...

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Hacker Noon2 min

Stop Proving and Start Improving: Here's How

When you flaunt your achievements or try to show off your work, you come across as an egoist and a self-centered person. Others try to avoid you instead of leveraging your knowledge and experience. Instead of boasting, showcase your value by asking meaningful questions and helping others arrive at t...

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Hacker Noon3 min

How to Grow Your Reach and Authority as a Writer

Visibility isn’t just about great writing anymore—it’s about strategy. To stand out in today’s content-saturated world, treat your blog like a product. Define your vision, build reader personas, map their journey, plan your content, and optimize for both humans and AI. By combining SEO with intentio...

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Hacker Noon3 min

Bitget Wallet Shifts Toward an Everyday Finance App

Bitget Wallet has made a strategic shift into an all-in-one everyday finance app. The update is built around utility-first usage and a simplified approach to onchain finance. The move follows the wallet surpassing 90 million users globally.

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Hacker Noon3 min

Why Today’s Video AI Models Fail Robots in the Real World

Most video generation models are trained to look realistic, not to understand cause and effect. This paper argues that embodied AI needs action-conditioned world models and new benchmarks that measure whether predictions actually help robots learn to act in the real world.

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Hacker Noon2 min

Bcon Global Launches Non-Custodial Crypto Payment Gateway

Bcon Global has announced the launch of its non-custodial crypto payment gateway. The platform enables cryptocurrency payments without custody, KYC, or access to private keys, providing full control over funds. The service provides infrastructure for accepting crypto payments without intermediaries,...

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Hacker Noon2 min

Your AI Model Isn’t Broken. Your Data Is

Most AI failures come from bad data, not bad models. This article shows how clean, verified data improves accuracy and how simple it is to fix using modern data quality APIs. Want a slightly more product-forward version too?

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Hacker Noon2 min

What Really Determines the Speed of Your PyTorch Code?

PyTorch GPU kernels launch asynchronously, so naïve Python timing measures CPU scheduling—not GPU work. This guide shows how to benchmark correctly using CUDA events, synchronization, warmups, and (optionally) L2 cache flushing, plus Triton’s do_bench and CUDA graphs to reduce CPU overhead. It also...

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Hacker Noon2 min

The Third Culture: Blending Teams With Different Management Models

Blending two different teams carries one major risk: most blending problems are invisible until metrics start to drop. In fact, 44% of failed integrations are directly linked to “cultural incompatibility” and friction between teams. So what is the best way to avoid these mistakes? Build a third cult...

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Hacker Noon2 min

The AI Revolution Is Putting Flutter and React Native at Risk

Cross-platform frameworks like Flutter exist because native development is expensive. But AI is changing that equation. According to Stack Overflow's 2025 survey, 84% of developers now use AI tools, with 51% using them daily. If AI can generate high-quality native Swift and Kotlin from specification...

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Hacker Noon2 min

How to Measure Product Team ROI

Product teams are one of the most expensive parts of a startup, yet they’re rarely held to clear ROI standards. This article argues for treating product work like an investment portfolio—using a north star metric, cost-impact analysis, and disciplined allocation across big bets, technical debt, and...

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Hacker Noon2 min

How Problem-Centric Personas Drive LTV, Retention, and Growth

Most companies don’t plateau at $2–10M ARR because of product or marketing. They plateau because they’re building for “everyone who might buy,” instead of a crystal-clear someone. This typically involves developing “personas”, “ideal customer profiles (ICPS)” or “jobs to be done”

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Hacker Noon2 min

Best Financial APIs for 2026

The best financial APIs in 2026 empower developers, analysts, and fintech startups with real-time and historical data for stocks, forex, crypto, and commodities. From Marketstack’s global market coverage to Intrinio’s financial statements, these APIs streamline trading, portfolio tracking, and AI-po...

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Hacker Noon2 min

Researchers Rethink Masking in Diffusion-Based Text Generation

Diffusion language models waste useful probability information by forcing tokens into binary masked or fixed states. This paper shows how letting tokens evolve through soft distributions—supervised at every refinement step—improves accuracy, revisability, and efficiency across tasks.

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Hacker Noon2 min

The Price of Freedom Pt. 2

Kael stood in the Garden of Hydroponics. He was alone. He looked at the man's face. The skin on the left side of the man’s face wasn't skin. It was a roadmap of melted wax.

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Hacker Noon2 min

India's AQI Crisis: Can AI Be Used to Solve It?

India’s AQI crisis sees no signs of abating. The farmers who ensure food security for this vast nation cause a great deal of pollution by stubble burning projects. The ongoing massive infrastructure development projects necessary for taking the economy to the next level also exacerbate the air pollu...

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Hacker Noon2 min

Meet Beldex: HackerNoon Company of the Week

Beldex, HackerNoon's company of the week, is building a privacy-by-default Web3 ecosystem, combining anonymous transactions, encrypted messaging, and decentralized networking to let users operate online without constant data exposure.

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Hacker Noon2 min

MongoDB vs ScyllaDB: Architecture Comparison

MongoDB and ScyllaDB solve similar NoSQL problems using fundamentally different architectures. MongoDB relies on replica sets and sharded clusters that increase operational complexity as workloads scale. ScyllaDB uses a multi-primary, shard-per-core design that delivers predictable low latency, high...

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Hacker Noon2 min

Android OS Architecture, Part 5: The Zygote Process

This article explains how Android manages application processes using the Zygote process. It covers Linux process hierarchies, why Zygote exists, how Android starts app processes efficiently, and how the system maintains control over performance and resources.

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Hacker Noon2 min

Your Release Process Is a Projection of Fear

Your release process isn't neutral. It reflects what you're most afraid of: breaking production or building something nobody wants. Pre-PMF startups should fear irrelevance, not instability. Heavy processes like GitFlow, staging environments, and release trains optimize for the wrong risk. They slow...

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Hacker Noon2 min

Data Pipeline Testing: The 3 Levels Most Teams Miss

Most data teams test code but not data. That’s why dashboards don’t represent actual state, models degrade unnoticed, and incidents show up as “weird numbers” instead of errors. This article breaks down **three levels of data testing** — schema, business logic, and contracts — and shows how to integ...

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Hacker Noon2 min

The Report Was Perfect. The Decision Cost Us Millions.

A self-serve dashboard built on a shared data model showed a sales decline that triggered inventory cuts. The data was correct but the metric’s meaning had drifted. The result: stockouts, missed revenue, and a hard lesson on why semantic governance and clear metric definitions are essential, even wh...

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Hacker Noon2 min

The Price of Freedom Pt. 1

Kael walked through the Market Sector with his head down, clutching a plastic jug against his chest. The jug was empty. Around him, the "Market" was a cacophony of arguments.

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Hacker Noon2 min

How to Run Claude Code With Local Models Using Ollama

Claude Code is Anthropic’s agentic coding tool. It can read and modify files, run tests, fix bugs, and even handle merge conflicts across your entire code base. It uses large language models to act as a pair of autonomous hands in your terminal. To use Claude Code with local models, you need **Ollam...

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Hacker Noon2 min

With CBDCs, Central Banks Are Making the Same Mistake Kodak Made

Central banks’ embrace of CBDCs mirrors Kodak’s failed attempt to control digital photography: a technically impressive response that preserves obsolete power structures while ignoring a true paradigm shift. Bitcoin doesn’t just digitize money—it removes the need for centralized control entirely, an...

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Hacker Noon2 min

Does Trust Require Legitimacy?

Digital systems have become remarkably good at generating trust without legitimacy. Legitimacy is not a prerequisite for trust or governance, rather the condition that decides their limits. Digital platforms no longer merely mediate interaction. They allocate visibility, enforce rules, resolve dispu...

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Hacker Noon2 min

How You Can Test Your Kids' Smart Toys For Privacy

The Markup is looking into what other toys collect private data on your children. A Wi-Fi-enabled toy will likely communicate with your wireless router. A Bluetooth toy will send data to another smart device, such as a smartphone. We’re here to help.

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Hacker Noon2 min

Fluent AI Output Is Straining Human Verification Systems

Generative AI has collapsed the cost of producing authoritative-sounding documents, but institutions still rely on appearance as a proxy for diligence. The West Midlands police case shows how fluent text can enter high-stakes decisions without real verification. As production becomes abundant and ch...

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Hacker Noon2 min

Why Traditional Software Testing Breaks Down for AI Agents

Traditional software testing playbook of integration tests, end to end tests with known inputs and expected outputs fundamentally breaks down for agentic AI systems. Traditional testing assumes deterministic state machines, however, agents are non-deterministic. The answer is to stop testing executi...

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Hacker Noon2 min

RAG Systems in Five Levels of Difficulty (With Full Code Examples)

Most RAG systems fail in production because “semantic similarity” isn’t the same as relevance, and retrieval breaks under real queries. This article outlines five escalating levels—naive RAG, smarter chunking with overlap and metadata, hybrid semantic + BM25 retrieval, cross-encoder reranking, and p...

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Hacker Noon2 min

Small Language Models are Closing the Gap on Large Models

A fine-tuned 3B model outperformed a 70B baseline in production. This isn't an edge case—it's a pattern. Phi-4 beats GPT-4o on math. Llama 3.2 runs on smartphones. Inference costs dropped 1000x since 2021. The shift: careful data curation and architectural efficiency now substitute for raw scale. Fo...

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Hacker Noon2 min

How I Turned Instagram Growth Into Brand Deals Using Path Social

After stalling at 3,200 followers, I tested Path Social’s AI-powered Instagram growth for 90 days. The result: 3,480 new followers, higher engagement, better reach, and inbound brand deals. By pairing targeted discovery with consistent content, Path Social helped attract the right audience—not just...

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Hacker Noon2 min

Why I started a Bitcoin Education Website

Alex Hormozi says he who asks the questions closes the deal. I invite you to do BitcoinHighSchool.com questions so we can close the deal and get you a proof-of-understanding as we share our proof-of-usefulness.

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Hacker Noon2 min

AlphaTON Launches Claude Connector Powered By TON And Telegram

AlphaTON Claude Connector is a groundbreaking platform that combines Anthropic's Claude artificial intelligence with TON blockchain technology. The solution enables users to manage digital assets, execute transactions, and interact with blockchain services using natural language conversation.

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Hacker Noon2 min

Why Expected Value Is Not Enough in Production Trading Systems

Expected value optimization fails in production because it ignores the path to profitability—our system had positive EV but bled capital through occasional wins followed by persistent small losses. We fixed it by implementing CVaR constraints, fractional Kelly position sizing (25% of theoretical), a...

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Hacker Noon2 min

How to Advertise Your Startup the Right Way

There are ways to advertise to millions of people without annoying anyone. Choose a platform that fits your target audience correctly. Be clear about what you’re selling and don’t be cryptic and mysterious.

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Hacker Noon2 min

Math in the Age of Machine Proof

As AI autoproving matures, papers will abstract away proofs, formalization will become the new frontier skill, and Lean will be the lingua franca of mathematical discovery.

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Hacker Noon2 min

A Step-by-Step Framework for Stress-Testing Trading Strategies

This article shows how to use retrospective simulation to test a trading strategy. We will also use simulated price paths via a non-parametric Brownian bridge. This method generates multiple paths capturing key statistical features. Testing the strategy across these paths helps us understand its per...

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Hacker Noon2 min

Why 70% of Developers Don’t Trust Plugins—and How I Built a Fix

Do you suffer from 'Dependency Anxiety'? 60% of Laravel developers spend up to 30 minutes just vetting a single package. Learn how I built Laraplugins.io—a high-performance tool running on Laravel Octane and FrankenPHP—to automate health checks and help you choose the right dependencies instantly.

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Hacker Noon2 min

5 Risks You Have To Take as a Leader

Leaders need to have a high appetite for taking risks, says Seth Godin. The biggest risk as a leader is playing safe and not taking any risks, he says. Leadership is scarce because few people are willing to go through the discomfort required to lead.

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Hacker Noon2 min

AI Hype vs Reality in Cybersecurity Explained

Artificial intelligence (AI) is often talked about as the cure-all for an increasingly hostile threat landscape. But research reveals a gap between expectation and execution. In practice, AI tools perform best when automating narrow, well-defined tasks.

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Hacker Noon2 min

Benchmarking 1B Vectors with Low Latency and High Throughput

ScyllaDB Vector Search is now GA and delivers real-time similarity search at massive scale. Benchmarks on the yandex-deep_1b dataset show p99 latency as low as 1.7ms and throughput up to 252K QPS across 1 billion vectors. By unifying structured data and embeddings in one system, ScyllaDB eliminates...

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Hacker Noon2 min

The Silent AI Breach: How Data Escapes in Fragments

AI-driven data loss rarely looks like a breach. Sensitive information escapes in fragments—copied into prompts, screenshots, exports, and fine-tuning flows across endpoints, SaaS, and cloud systems. Legacy DLP and DSPM see isolated events, not the pattern. Tracking full data lineage across its entir...

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Hacker Noon2 min

BingX Lists SKR, The Native Token of Solana Mobile

BingX, a leading crypto exchange and Web3-AI company, today announced the listing of SKR, the native asset of the Solana Mobile ecosystem. The token powers governance and incentivization within the platform, distributing control while fostering collaboration among builders, users, and hardware partn...

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Hacker Noon2 min

BingX TradFi 24-Hour Trading Volume Surpasses $1 Billion

BingX announces a 24-hour trading volume exceeding $1 billion. BingX TradFi Gold contributed over $500 million, showcasing strong user interest and active engagement. TradFi Copy Trading also accelerated, with a single-day peak of $51.84 million in 15 days.

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Hacker Noon3 min

How to Write Great Articles That People Will Read

HackerNoon has an endless list of templates that writers can use to structure, fill, and improve their articles. When it comes to your headline, you want it to be eye-catching but not clickbait. The HackerNoon Fellowship is an online course designed to help aspiring bloggers transform into full-fled...

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Hacker Noon2 min

Tracing Personal Data Through APIs

This article outlines a dependency-aware approach to identifying privacy-relevant API methods, introducing GDPR-aligned labels to improve accuracy and focus in privacy code reviews.

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Hacker Noon2 min

JWT vs Sessions Is the Wrong Debate

Every tutorial forces you to pick one, then spends 2000 words explaining why the other one is terrible. There's a third option that gives you the best of both, and honestly, it's simpler than either approach on its own.

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Hacker Noon2 min

Brand Community Platforms: The Secret to Customer Retention

Brand community platforms can be your most powerful tool for growing your business. People stick around for the connections they’ve made and the value they receive beyond the product itself. It creates a protective barrier for your brand, making it more resilient to market shifts and competition.

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Hacker Noon2 min

Run Claude Code Anywhere With a Single Command

One cdk deploy gives you a persistent EC2 instance running code-server + Claude Code CLI, accessible via HTTPS from anywhere. ARM64 for cost, SSM for secure password storage, optional SSH for mobile terminal apps. Total cost ~$18/month.

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Hacker Noon2 min

Building an Active-Active AWS Architecture for $47 a Month

Built active-active cross-region architecture for $47/month total: DynamoDB Global Tables ($18) + Aurora Serverless read replicas ($23) + S3 replication ($4) + CloudFront ($8). 90-second failover. Zero data loss. 8 months in production. Survived two AWS regional failures. Not truly active-active for...

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Hacker Noon2 min

Why Agent Skills Could Be the Most Practical Leap in Everyday AI

- **Agent Skills** are *modular capability packs* for Claude: metadata + instructions + resources/scripts that Claude can load **only when relevant**. - The killer feature is **progressive disclosure**: Claude initially reads just `name` + `description`, then loads full instructions only after the u...

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Hacker Noon2 min

Yuri Misnik, CTO at InDrive, on Architecting an AI-First Super App

We’re excited to welcome Yuri Misnik, Chief Technology Officer at inDrive, for a conversation on scaling technology, AI innovation, and building a lean and strong engineering organization. Yuri brings decades of global leadership experience across major technology and financial services organization...

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Hacker Noon2 min

How to Build a Status Monitoring Service in Go

This tutorial walks through building StatusD, a self-hosted monitoring service in Go that reads monitored endpoints from JSON, probes them on schedules via a worker pool, records events and incidents in Postgres, sends Teams/Slack alerts, and exposes Prometheus metrics for Grafana dashboards—fully r...

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Hacker Noon2 min

AWS Serverless is the Boring Choice that Keeps Working

While "boring" tech doesn't win awards for novelty, AWS Serverless provides the pragmatic foundation most companies actually need. By offloading the "undifferentiated heavy lifting" of infrastructure to AWS, teams can focus on shipping features rather than managing clusters.

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Hacker Noon2 min

The AI Agent Revolution: How to Build the Workforce of Tomorrow

AI agents aren’t just chatbots — they’re autonomous digital workers that plan, act, and execute complex workflows on their own. This guide explains what AI agents are, why they matter now, and how you can build them. It includes frameworks, real-world examples, and code to help you join the emerging...

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Hacker Noon2 min

The Tech Community's Efforts to Dethrone OpenAI

OpenAI has made tech waves in the recent years with the remanent of LLMs as search engine reindexing algorithms. The biggest issue, however, is that OpenAI is extremely centralized and has a business model that is based off of incentivizing data harvesting. This led me to build AI systems based on o...

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Hacker Noon2 min

How to Analyze Call Sentiment With Open-Source NLP Libraries

Call sentiment analysis uses natural language processing (NLP) to surface those signals at scale. Sentiment signals often fall into three broad categories: polarity, intensity and temporal shifts. When applied across large call volumes, sentiment metrics reveal systemic trends that individual call r...

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Hacker Noon2 min

The Zero-Day Deduction

While testing a tax software API for a bug bounty, I discovered a critical Insecure Direct Object Reference (IDOR). By changing a single integer in the URL, I bypassed authentication and accessed a stranger's full tax return. I realized I was one script away from downloading the entire country's fin...

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Hacker Noon2 min

In Code Reviews, Security Risks Hide Behind Technical Language

Developers seldom label vulnerabilities outright in code reviews, but they frequently highlight underlying coding weaknesses. By using semantic similarity—especially word embeddings—security-related review comments can be identified more effectively than with keyword searches, enabling scalable and...

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Hacker Noon2 min

The Silicon Trojan

When a shipment of 10,000 microcontrollers arrived for our drone guidance project, I pulled one for a routine stress test. The results were impossible: the chip ran 20% faster than the spec sheet allowed. I realized too late that these weren't counterfeits—they were advanced hardware trojans designe...

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Hacker Noon2 min

Community Commerce Is Replacing Paid Ads in 2026

In 2026, community is no longer a side channel or brand experiment; it is the core system that drives discovery, conversion, and retention. The strongest companies will empower customers to advocate publicly and design growth loops around conversations, not impressions.

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Hacker Noon3 min

Chinedu Okafor on Human-Centric Customer Success

As AI reshapes customer engagement, Chinedu Okafor advocates a human-centric approach to customer success. Drawing on experience across multinationals and startups, he shows how empathy, structured feedback, and thoughtful automation can improve retention, build trust, and turn customer friction int...

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Hacker Noon2 min

The Ghost in the Playlist

An unknown artist suddenly hit the Top 50 Global charts on our streaming platform. When I investigated the data, I found 50,000 "users" listening to the same 31-second track in perfect synchronization. I wasn't looking at a viral hit; I was looking at a bot farm draining the royalty pool of legitima...

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Hacker Noon2 min

When Improving Processes Makes System Worse

Most delivery failures do not happen suddenly. They emerge through small, reasonable decisions that slowly change how systems behave under pressure. Understanding delivery behaviour over time helps teams see risk before incidents force attention.

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Hacker Noon2 min

The Hidden Bottlenecks of 3D Data Labeling

3D labeling unlocks powerful capabilities for autonomous systems across various industries, including automotive, robotics, construction, and healthcare. Point-cloud data is inherently unstable: reflections from glass or wet surfaces, weather-induced noise, and constantly moving objects can distort...

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Hacker Noon2 min

The Misreads That Compound Risk in Fast-Moving Systems

In fast-moving systems, risk compounds not because of speed itself, but because teams misinterpret early success, capability and alignment as certainty. This leads to four key misreads: 1. Speed becomes certainty (confusing execution with validation). 2. Capability becomes authority (relying on syst...

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Hacker Noon2 min

CI/CD Is Dead. Agentic DevOps is Taking Over

Traditional CI/CD pipelines are collapsing under tool sprawl, static logic, and coordination overhead. Agentic DevOps replaces brittle scripts with AI systems that adapt, automate toil, and reshape how software ships—at a cost.

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Hacker Noon2 min

Android OS Architecture, Part 3: Inside the Linux Kernel Layer

Android is built on the Linux kernel, which handles power management, hardware control, and secure communication between apps and system services. While most developers never touch it directly, understanding the kernel explains many core Android behaviors and system-level interactions.

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Hacker Noon2 min

AI Workstations vs Data Centers: Can Local Compute Compete at Scale?

AI workstations are becoming powerful enough to handle many local training and inference tasks, offering lower latency, better data control, and predictable costs. Data centers still win at massive scale, collaboration, and elasticity. The future isn’t either/or—it’s a hybrid model where local compu...

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Hacker Noon2 min

How to Tell Reviewer #2 They're Wrong (Without Getting Rejected)

Received a "Major Revision" decision? Don't panic. This guide provides a specialized AI system prompt that acts as your "Chief Diplomatic Officer." Learn how to turn defensive reactions into professional, persuasive responses that satisfy even the toughest reviewers (yes, even Reviewer #2) and secur...

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Hacker Noon2 min

Third-Party Risks in 2026: Outlook and Security Strategies

Most companies rely on external services to keep their operations running smoothly, leaving lots of openings for third-party breaches. To create a resilient TPRM program in 2026, companies should embrace automation and AI, foster a culture of security, adopt a zero-trust approach, and more.

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Hacker Noon2 min

How AI Is Being Used For Border Surveillance

U.S. Customs and Border Protection is trying to build AI-powered border surveillance systems. The goal is to automate the process of scanning people trying to cross into the U.S., an effort that experts say could push migrants to take more perilous routes. The Markup is the first to report on the de...

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Hacker Noon2 min

Why Pepeto Tops the List of Meme Coins for January 2026

Meme coins are regaining momentum in January 2026 as sector capitalization tops $52B. Among the top five, Pepeto leads with real infrastructure, including zero-fee swaps, cross-chain bridges, staking rewards, and a verified exchange with 850+ listing applicants. Dogecoin offers legacy appeal, Shiba...

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Hacker Noon2 min

The Nation-State Is Old Software. What Happens When We Rewrite It?

Most of the world still runs on a legacy “Governance OS” built for empires and nation-states—slow to update, hard to exit, and costly to maintain. This article reframes governance as technical architecture, argues for a refactor into “Governance OS 3.0,” and outlines composable modules—sovereign ide...

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Hacker Noon2 min

How Browsers Turn Web Requests Into Pixels on Your Screen

What the web browsers do when a user requests a page is quite a remarkable journey. My goodness, the process behind the curtains reflects such a diligent effort by the folks who work on browsers. So far, I find it very interesting to navigate through the steps that have been taken to draw pixels on...

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Hacker Noon2 min

Meet the Writer: Norm Bond on AI, Incentives, and the Cost of Noise

Norm Bond, a systems and market interpreter, helps founders and creators navigate accelerating environments by focusing on the intersection of tech, markets, and meaning. His latest HackerNoon story, *Slop Isn’t the Problem. It’s the Symptom.*, explores how low-quality AI content reflects deeper sys...

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Hacker Noon2 min

Nurturing a Culture of Documentation

Documentation culture is about behavioral traits that technical writers practice every day based on set of beliefs and organizational values. The defining characteristic of such a culture is that writing is not an individual responsibility, but a collective one.

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Hacker Noon2 min

What is Linear Algebra?

Discover the basics of linear algebra for machine learning with practical examples using Python and Manim for visualizing concepts effectively.

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Hacker Noon2 min

The Floating Point Error

While reconciling year-end logs, I discovered a floating-point rounding error leaking fractions of a cent per transaction. When I ran a git blame to find the culprit, I discovered the code wasn't a rookie mistake, it was a deliberate backdoor added by the founder to skim revenue. Now I have to decid...

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Hacker Noon2 min

How Automation Makes DataOps Work in Real Enterprise Environments

DataOps promises disciplined, reliable data delivery, but many teams struggle when its principles rely on manual effort. This article explains why DataOps breaks down in practice and how automation turns standards, testing, observability, and governance into enforceable system behaviors. Automation...

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Hacker Noon2 min

The Hidden Cost of Downtime: A FinOps and Insurance Perspective

Downtime costs extend far beyond lost revenue, combining cloud spend spikes, engineering disruption, customer trust erosion, and contractual fallout. This article breaks downtime into four cost buckets and explains how FinOps data, incident windows, and insurance-backed preparedness—especially for g...

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Hacker Noon2 min

Your Django Site Can Get Banned for Ad Fraud You Didn’t Commit

Ad networks don’t investigate intent — they react to patterns. This article describes a real incident where a Django-based content site nearly faced an ad network ban due to abnormal ad impression behavior that resembled invalid traffic. Instead of blocking users or traffic, the solution was to temp...

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Hacker Noon2 min

Taste Is the New Moat

In an age where AI can generate infinite content, “taste” becomes the real differentiator. But taste is not always an innate gift reserved for the privileged few; it is also a skill that is developed through obsessive exposure, pattern recognition, and deliberate consumption. Slop is not defined les...

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Hacker Noon2 min

Busy Isn’t Progress: The Trap of Reactive Leadership

You’re a reactive leader if you spend most of your time reacting to the things in your environment—customer complaints, production issues, delivery delays, last minute change requests and market shifts—instead of proactively planning and shaping the future.

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Hacker Noon2 min

Philosophical Foundations of Digital Trust

Trust is no longer just interpersonal - it is infrastructural. Digital trust is not something we add to systems once they scale. It is something we must design into the digital social order itself. Digital platforms act as private sovereigns.

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Hacker Noon2 min

Implementing Zero Trust Cybersecurity Architecture in the Age of AI

Agentic AI systems act autonomously across enterprise environments, making traditional perimeter-based security ineffective. Zero Trust treats AI agents as independent actors with identities, enforcing continuous verification, least-privilege access, and contextual controls across APIs, systems, and...

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Hacker Noon2 min

Choosing Growth Over Titles

In tech, a managerial offer is often treated as the ultimate promotion. For some people, refusing the chance to grow hierarchically sounds strange, even irrational. But for me, there was more to consider than hierarchy.

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Hacker Noon2 min

Agentic Commerce: When Your Storefront Becomes an API

We are entering the "Agentic Infrastructure Arms Race," where the traditional e-commerce interface is dissolving and merchants must stop optimizing for human eyeballs and start optimizing for machines. This article argues that we are shifting from a web of "aggregated traffic" to one of "aggregated...

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Hacker Noon2 min

What Makes Data AI-ready? 3 Must-Have Features for 2026

Most raw data is not AI-ready. Freshly scraped data is often cluttered with irrelevant fields, duplicates, outdated records, or formatting issues. Incomplete or inconsistent data slows development, reduces model performance, and leads to poor decisions. That is why AI-ready data is crucial for stayi...

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Hacker Noon2 min

Healthcare Disaster Recovery: What You Need to Know

Healthcare systems face growing threats from disasters, cyberattacks, and infrastructure failures. This article examines effective disaster recovery design principles (affordance, complexity, risk factors informed by cybernetics and interaction, plus management strategies like alternative power grid...

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Hacker Noon2 min

Safe And Ethena Partner To Boost USDe on Multisig Wallets

Safe Foundation, steward of the industry-leading multisig-based smart account platform securing over $60 billion in digital assets, and Ethena Labs, the protocol behind the third-largest tokenized dollar, USDe, announce a strategic partnership. The collaboration signals a broader strategic initiativ...

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Hacker Noon2 min

When Proper Database Design Kills Startups

Senior engineers kill startups by applying enterprise database practices to Complex domains. Traditional normalization assumes stable requirements and migration infrastructure, but startups have neither. Instead of spreading domains across dozens of tables, use aggregate thinking: model business ent...

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Hacker Noon2 min

Are Antivirus Software Still a Thing?

HackerNoon asked readers if they still use antivirus software on their PCs. 41% said they let Windows handle it, 32% saidthey go out of their way to install third-party antivirus. 27% said that they want nothing to do with antivirus Software at all.

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Hacker Noon2 min

Happiness = Variables - Frictions: The Source Code

Happiness is usually treated as a vague, ethereal concept that "just happens" If life is a system, then Happiness is the output. To fix it, I realized I needed to stop treating happiness like magic and start treating it like math. I developed a simple mental model called the **Happiness Formula** an...

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Hacker Noon2 min

From RxJS to Signals: The Future of State Management in Angular

Angular Signals are not a replacement for RxJS or NgRx. Use Signals for local, synchronous UI state, RxJS for async and time-based workflows, and NgRx for shared, long-lived domain state. Migrate incrementally by moving component-level BehaviorSubject stores to Signals while keeping HTTP, debouncing...

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Hacker Noon2 min

How to Build and Deploy a Blog-to-Audio Service Using OpenAI

Learn how to build a clean service that takes a blog URL or pasted text and produces a natural-sounding audio file. You will learn how to fetch blog content, send it to OpenAI’s audio API, save the output as an MP3 file, and serve everything through a small [FastAPI ](https://fastapi.tiangolo.com/)a...

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Hacker Noon2 min

Are Top Stablecoins Fallible? - They’ve Crashed in the Past

Stablecoins are digital assets created to have a stable value (typically $1) and mimic the price of a real-world asset, often the U.S. dollar. They have proven in the past that they can definitely be disrupted through catastrophic events such as price crashes, depegs, and liquidity challenges.

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Hacker Noon2 min

A Deeper Look at the Runtime War

The nation-state doesn't need to ban Bitcoin or arrest DAO founders, writes Ray Svitla. The revolution's biggest enemy isn't oppression—it's comfort and convenience, he says.

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Hacker Noon2 min

The Ultimate Developer's Guide to Jira Success

Developers often resist Jira because they don’t see the “why.” This article shares a simple, project-specific Jira guide I created to explain purpose, expectations, and best practices—especially for distributed and outsourced development. The presentation can be used as an onboarding document or as...

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Hacker Noon2 min

AI-Powered Credit Scoring for the Thin File and Informal Economy

The decision to credit someone is being transformed by AI-driven credit scoring. This could be life-changing for thin-file borrowers and those who are in the informal economy. Traditional credit ratings assume that an individual has a bank account, formal financial products and has borrowed a loan o...

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Hacker Noon2 min

Why Data Quality Is Becoming a Core Developer Experience Metric

In API-first systems, poor data quality (invalid emails, duplicate records, etc.) creates unpredictable bugs, forces defensive coding, and makes releases feel risky. This "hidden tax" consumes time and mental energy that should go to building features. The fix? Treat data quality as core infrastruct...

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Hacker Noon2 min

The Mortality Engine: Why I Built a DApp Designed to Die

The Mortality Engine is a digital archive where every piece of data is born with a terminal illness. Every hour, an entropy script runs introducing noise to the data. If the community ignores a post for 24 hours, the entropy reaches critical mass, and the data is overwritten with zeros. To save a me...

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Hacker Noon2 min

We're Building AI Wrong, and the Indie Developers Will Prove It

The AI arms race is a trillion-dollar game of follow-the-leader, and everyone's running in the wrong direction. Big AI will keep chasing AGI and benchmarks, while indie developers will be optimizing for humans. The future of AI isn't one model to rule them all. It's ten thousand specialized tools bu...

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Hacker Noon2 min

What You Need to Know About Godot SDK Integrations

Godot Engine Community SDK Integrations GitHub organization. The Godot Foundation has established an official centralized GitHub organization for hosting SDK integrations. The organization eases the burden on developers who create their own SDK bindings.

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Hacker Noon2 min

Looking Back on 2025: A Retrospective

The world is spiraling deeper and deeper into chaos. The U.S. has abandoned its ally Ukraine. The DevRel state is intrinsically bound to the world state. Despite the bleak context, I still have a couple of personal wins.

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Hacker Noon2 min

Will AI Agents Pump Up Our Profits?

What is Agentic AI? And will its implementation lead to price appreciation and delivery some juicy profits for us? Technological advancement never fails us, but there are key takeaways to consider.

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Hacker Noon2 min

Two of The Markup's Investigations Nominated for NIHCM Award

Two investigations in The Markup’s [Pixel Hunt] series are finalists for the [2024 National Institute for Health Care Management Foundation Data-Driven Storytelling Award. Each reporting effort resulted in tangible impact, from lawsuits to companies removing the pixel after we alerted them.

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Hacker Noon2 min

Go: The Testing/Synctest Package Explained

Go 1.25 introduces the `testing/synctest` package. This package can significantly simplify writing tests for concurrent, asynchronous code. In Go 1.24, the package was an experimental package. Now it is general availability.

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Hacker Noon2 min

How Better Daily Routines Can Improve Art Production by 70%

After optimizing our art pipeline, we still hit major delays at implementation and testing — where art first meets other departments. We ran a “live-like” version with balanced scope and found only 10% of near-final skins reached master after three sprints. By improving daily routines and cross-team...

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Hacker Noon2 min

Redefining ‘A’ in VGA Mode 03h

In the 8086-era DOS environment, text display typically relied on the BIOS and the graphics adapter’s built-in character generator. The fonts were firmly tied to specific text modes implemented by adapters such as CGA, EGA, or VGA. One of the most common modes was text mode 03h, which presented an 8...

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Hacker Noon2 min

Rust's WASI Targets: What's Changing?

Rust 1.78 will introduce new `wasm32-wasip1` (tier 2) and `wasms32- wasip2' (tier 3) targets. Users of WASI 0.1 are encouraged to begin migrating to the new** 'wasm 32-wasi' target. The existing `wask32-unknown-unknown' and 'wassam32-emscripten' targets are unaffected by this post.

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Hacker Noon2 min

Stop Trying to Write Your Thesis - Build It Instead

Thesis Structure System Prompt stops you from writing a single word until you know exactly where it belongs. It forces Large Language Models to act as a strict Academic Advisor, ensuring your argument stands up before you lay the first brick.

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Hacker Noon2 min

Using ChatGPT as a Reporting Assistant: What Went Wrong?

ChatGPT is an artificial intelligence tool that can be used to help journalists with workflows and summarize dense documents. At Investigative Reporters & Editors’ annual data journalism conference in Baltimore last week, 14 of the 200 plus sessions were related to AI.

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Hacker Noon2 min

Beyond TPC-H: Scaling IA2 for Real-World Database Optimization

This study introduces the Instance-Aware Index Advisor (IA2), employing the TD3-TD-SWAR model for efficient index selection in databases. Demonstrated through TPC-H benchmarks, IA2 achieves superior efficiency. Future iterations of this work will aim to expand the discussion on the index choices acr...

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Hacker Noon2 min

Antimemetics: An Essential Field Guide

Memes spread by virality, but antimemes survive by resisting attention. In Antimemetics, Nadia Asparouhova explains why some of the most important ideas are hard to notice, remember, or share, and how attention, social friction, and cognitive difficulty shape what rises to the surface or disappears...

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Hacker Noon3 min

Meet Saaniya Chugh - HackerNoon Writing Course Guest Speaker

👋 I’m Saaniya Chugh, and in this interview, I share my journey as a Senior Technical Consultant, tech author, and HackerNoon contributor, what sparked my love for writing, and how I blend ITSM, AI, and storytelling in my work. I talk about defining moments in both consulting and writing, the evolvi...

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Hacker Noon2 min

How a PM Can Transform Art Production: A Case Study in AAA Gaming

Project Manager of a AAA game reveals how he optimized art production by a factor of 3.3. He explains how he built a Cosmetics department from scratch on an AAA project and ultimately optimized it. He also explains how to avoid the confusion at the top level of the project that led to high-level con...

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Hacker Noon2 min

Zero Downtime: Engineering the IoT-Oracle eAM Integration

A pioneering IoT–Oracle eAM integration transformed manufacturing maintenance from reactive to predictive. By combining real-time sensor data, automated work orders, and intelligent scheduling, the platform eliminated unplanned downtime, cut MTTR by 60%, improved MTBF by 45%, and delivered $2.5M in...

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Hacker Noon2 min

Sunday Scares and Data Leadership: The Pattern That Breaks Us

Sunday panic attacks are the hidden reality for many data leaders. This story explores the "savior complex," the cycle of burnout, and why we struggle to find rhythm. It challenges the idea that better tools can fix personal patterns and asks the hard question: Can we do transformational work withou...

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Hacker Noon2 min

CSS is Only Hard Because You’re Doing Too Much

Start with markup, not styles. Write only the CSS you actually need. Design for mobile first, not as a fix later. Let layouts adapt before reaching for breakpoints. Use the cascade instead of fighting it. Keep specificity low so overrides stay cheap.

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Hacker Noon2 min

Not Everything Should Be Automated

A few years ago, a budgeting app that tagged every purchase was smart, almost too smart. But after a few months, something strange happened. The act of writing it down made me more thoughtful.

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Hacker Noon2 min

The Silent Trauma of Cleaning Up Other People's Security Mistakes

The "Cleanup Cost," a multi-layered tax paid in stress, burnout, and moral injury, is rarely accounted for in corporate budgets or security strategies. Research indicates that a staggering 68% of breaches in 2024 involved human error. Nearly half of UK cybersecurity professionals report experiencing...

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Hacker Noon2 min

Rural Banking stack-3 Or The Magic of Conversations

Natural language(NL) enables a lay person to communicate in writing with a machine. Allowances are made for creole language(if that is widely used), multiple languages can be leveraged, spelling and grammatical mistakes are not hurdles and slangs are ok. This allows a potential borrower to have a co...

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Hacker Noon3 min

Make Q1 Marketing Count: Focus, Execute, Deliver

Skip the overcomplicated Q1 marketing plans. Focus on what actually moves the needle: own one channel, fix one conversion problem, and remove one internal bottleneck. Allocate budgets to proven channels, test one experiment, and keep a small buffer. Use tools like HackerNoon to publish consistently...

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Hacker Noon3 min

How to Find Your “Voice” and Ideal Writing Workflow

Every writer has a unique voice—it’s not invented but uncovered through practice, experimentation, and self-awareness. This guide explains how to write like you speak, play with tone, and recognize the recurring patterns that define your authentic style. Plus, learn how the HackerNoon Blogging Cours...

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Hacker Noon2 min

I Saw a Phishing Site That Traps Security Bots

A phishing kit had a hidden form field with no visible counterpart. It wasn't part of the UI. The victim would never see it. So why was it there? Because it wasn't designed to catch victims. It was designed to catch us.

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Hacker Noon2 min

Symfony 7.4: How to Master Multi-Step Forms

Symfony 7.4 introduces the “Form of Forms” component. It manages the lifecycle of the entire process, handling navigation (Next, Previous, Skip), validation groups, and data persistence automatically. In this article, we are going to build a production-ready User Onboarding Wizard using Symfony7.4.

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Hacker Noon2 min

Back to Basics: Database Design as Storytelling

Database design is more than schemas and tables—it’s storytelling. This piece reframes relational modeling as narrative construction, showing how clear predicates create meaning, why ignoring foundational rules leads to poor performance, and why AI can’t fix broken data structures. Strong databases...

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Hacker Noon2 min

Inside Cloud-Scale Systems: A Discussion with Abhinav Sharma

Abhinav Sharma’s career traces the evolution of cloud-scale engineering, from building global networking test frameworks at Microsoft Azure to shaping enterprise search and security platforms, and now architecting AI-powered document intelligence at Docusign. His journey highlights how designing for...

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Hacker Noon2 min

Comments, Naming, and Abstractions in the AI Era

AI hasn't killed "Clean Code," but it has changed the audience. You are no longer just writing code for human maintainers; you are writing it for LLM Context Windows. Naming is now about semantic predictability, comments are now prompt engineering, and premature abstraction is more dangerous than ev...

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Hacker Noon2 min

System Design in the Age of AI: What Still Requires Human Judgment

AI is a powerful accelerator for writing code and optimizing queries, but it lacks the contextual understanding to make high-stakes architectural trade-offs. Recent research shows that even advanced agents require human-designed "guardrails" and rule engines to function reliably in production. The f...

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Hacker Noon2 min

Wrapping up Trends in MacOS Malware of 2025

macOS is no longer a low-risk target. In 2025, attackers combined stealers, backdoors, and AI-driven phishing into long-running attacks — making user awareness and third-party protection more important than ever. The Mac threat landscape now closely resembles what Windows users have faced for years.

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Hacker Noon3 min

Anyone Can Be a Victim to a Phishing Scam. Here’s My Story.

I received a call from 888-373-1969 claiming to be the Chase fraud department shortly after a real bank transaction. The caller used believable security questions and publicly available information to build trust, but a quick Google search revealed reports of similar phishing attempts. The takeaway...

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Hacker Noon2 min

Driving Business with Nilesh Charankar

Nilesh Charankar is a seasoned technology leader with over 20 years of experience delivering AI- and cloud-powered B2B solutions across banking, healthcare, and finance. His work has driven over $150M in revenue, improved operational efficiency by up to 30%, and enabled secure, compliant systems for...

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Hacker Noon2 min

AI Retrieval Systems: What's The Missing Layer?

Most AI retrieval systems try to infer which documents matter through better algorithms. But users often already know, they just can't tell the system. There are two kinds of knowledge: what's in documents, and which documents matter. The second kind can't always be inferred, it has to be provided....

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Hacker Noon2 min

Did Bitcoin Live Up to 'Digital Gold' Narrative in 2025?

Bitcoin had a mixed record as a store of value in 2025, which can be best described as an emerging store of value instead. Gold provided much better downside risk during shock events of 2025 than Bitcoin but the longer term picture for Bitcoin is still positive as part of a diversified portfolio to...

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Hacker Noon2 min

Meet Mezo: HackerNoon Company of the Week

HackerNoon's Company of the Week is Mezo, a company that transforms Bitcoin from a passive asset into a productive economic engine, allowing users to unlock liquidity through loans or earn yield without selling their holdings.

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