On This Day in Tech History

Stories Published|November 17|Throughout History

Historic Tech Events

Al Capone Goes to Prison

Al Capone Goes to Prison

1931

On October 17, 1931, gangster Al Capone is convicted of tax evasion, signaling the downfall of one of the most notorious criminals of the 1920s and 1930s. He was later sentenced to 11 years in federal prison and fined $50,000.

The London Beer Flood Occurred

The London Beer Flood Occurred

1814

The London Beer Flood was an accident at Meux & Co's Horse Shoe Brewery, London, on 17 October 1814. It took place when one of the 22-foot-tall wooden vats of fermenting porter burst.

OPEC Enacts Oil Embargo

OPEC Enacts Oil Embargo

1973

The Arab-dominated Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) announced a decision to cut oil exports to the United States and other nations that provided military aid to Israel in the Yom Kippur War of October 1973.

Stories Published in 2025

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How gTrade Plans to Consolidate $113 Billion in Volume on Arbitrum With a $400,000 Trading Contest

October 17, 2025

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#AI-ENERGY-DEMAND

Why I'm Excited About the AI Bubble and Why You Should Be Too

Oleksandr Kaleniuk

Oleksandr Kaleniuk

October 17, 2025

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#UNIVERSAL-BASIC-INCOME

Why Education Beats Universal Basic Income in the Age of Automation

EScholar: Electronic Academic Papers for Scholars

EScholar: Electronic Academic Papers for Scholars

October 17, 2025

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#UNIVERSAL-BASIC-INCOME

Where Would the Money for Universal Basic Income Come From?

EScholar: Electronic Academic Papers for Scholars

EScholar: Electronic Academic Papers for Scholars

October 17, 2025

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#UNIVERSAL-BASIC-INCOME

A Critical Review of Universal Basic Income as a Response to Technological Unemployment

EScholar: Electronic Academic Papers for Scholars

EScholar: Electronic Academic Papers for Scholars

October 17, 2025

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#HACKERNOON-NEWSLETTER

The HackerNoon Newsletter: Is the 90/10 Rule Dead? How the 1% Drives 99% of Community Growth (10/17/2025)

October 17, 2025

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#COMMUNITY-GROWTH

Is the 90/10 Rule Dead? How the 1% Drives 99% of Community Growth

October 17, 2025

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#MARKETING-STACK

The Frankenstack Problem: When Too Many ‘Best Tools’ Break Your Growth Engine

October 17, 2025

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#CRYPTO-TRANSACTIONS

Educational Byte: How to Send a Message with a Crypto Transaction

October 17, 2025

Stories Published in 2024

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#CRYPTO-REGULATION

Indonesia, Turkiye, Nigeria and Other Emerging Crypto Markets in 2024

October 17, 2024

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#STABLE-DIFFUSION

Image Generation: Using Diffusion Networks Explained

October 17, 2024

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The Paradox of Scaling Through Inaction: Smart People Choose to Build Systems - Here's Why

October 17, 2024

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Boba Network And Thrive Protocol Launch Thrive Boba Ecosystem Grants To Support Web3 Innovation

October 17, 2024

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What You Need to Know About Vaadin - The Battery-Included Server-Side AJAX Framework

Nicolas Fränkel

Nicolas Fränkel

October 17, 2024

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MetaWin Integrates $DYDX, Launches New Prize Draw with 5,000 DYDX Tokens For Eligible Participants

October 17, 2024

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Aleph Zero Launches Subsecond Shielding on Testnet, Delivering Client-Side ZK Privacy For DeFi

October 17, 2024

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#WEB-DEVELOPMENT

The Top React Datagrids

October 17, 2024

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"Our approach has been disrupting traditional financial service models." says Boldin CEO/Founder

October 17, 2024

Stories Published in 2023

What Is BIMI: Your Verified Brand Logo Next to Your Email in The Inbox

October 17, 2023

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Arming the Nation

Carl Von Clausewitz

Carl Von Clausewitz

October 17, 2023

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#MOBILE-APP-DEVELOPMENT

From Figma to Mobile: Unveiling No-Code Platforms for Seamless App Creation

October 17, 2023

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Installing FFmpeg: How to Compile and Fine-Tune for Optimal Performance

October 17, 2023

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Does Your Boss Regret Asking You to Come Back to the Office?

October 17, 2023

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Making Web3 Resilient & User-Friendly With Mayur Relekar

October 17, 2023

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Pair-Programming With AI: A Tale of Man and Machine

October 17, 2023

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Digital Discourse and The Future of HackerNoon with Creator and CEO David Smooke

October 17, 2023

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#FOUNDER-STORIES

From SEO Expert to Founder: The Journey of Kevin Miller and The Word Counter

Jon Stojan Media

Jon Stojan Media

October 17, 2023

Stories Published in 2022

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An Introduction to the Origin of Species 1st Edition

October 17, 2022

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On the Origin of Species 1st Edition by Charles Darwin - Table of Links

Best Public Domain Books For Learning Technology, via HackerNoon

Best Public Domain Books For Learning Technology, via HackerNoon

October 17, 2022

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#HOW-TO-USE-VIM

The Vim Editor Cookbook

Girish Venkatachalam

Girish Venkatachalam

October 17, 2022

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The Space-Time Continuum of Relativity Is Not Euclidean Continuum

Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein

October 17, 2022

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4 Reasons Why Artists Should Create Art NFTs

October 17, 2022

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What Is Kusama and Why Is It the Canary Network to Polkadot?

October 17, 2022

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Everything You Need to Know About Polkadot

October 17, 2022

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Mighty Jaxx is Building Their MightyVerse With Their Latest NFT Drop Inked Stories: Medusa

October 17, 2022

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What Is the Metaverse?

October 17, 2022

Stories Published in 2021

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Why I Switched to Ghost as My Blogging Platform of Choice

October 17, 2021

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IKEA Partners with Ombori to Eliminate Retail Paper Waste

Andreas Hassellof

Andreas Hassellof

October 17, 2021

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5 Reasons Why Hiring a UX Researcher Can Save You From Bull***t

October 17, 2021

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Decentralized Crowdfunding: A New Way of Funding Seed Stage Startups

October 17, 2021

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Code Faster: 12 VS Code Shortcuts

October 17, 2021

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#VIDEO-EDITING-APPS

Video Editing: A Quick Guide for Newbies

Nick Platonenko

Nick Platonenko

October 17, 2021

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Data Playgrounds are The Cure for Slow and Inefficient DataOps

October 17, 2021

Stories Published in 2020

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#CRYPTOCURRENCY

5 Things Standing in the Way of Crypto Asset Institutionalization — and How to Fix Them

Lihan Hyunwoo Lee

Lihan Hyunwoo Lee

October 17, 2020

/the-ethical-dilemma-of-high-frequency-trading-the-future-of-trading-or-the-race-to-the-bottom-m7i3z93 feature image

The Ethical Implications with Algorithmic Trading

October 17, 2020

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The State of Startups in the Southeast

Mark Flickinger

Mark Flickinger

October 17, 2020

/the-bitcoin-price-in-the-long-run-part-2-fibonacci-ratios-everywhere-udt3z65 feature image

The Bitcoin Price in the Long Run (Part 2 - Fibonacci Ratios Everywhere!)

October 17, 2020

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Kickoff Your Application With js-libp2p

October 17, 2020

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GAS in Ethereum: Everything You Ever Wanted To Know

October 17, 2020

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#NOBEL-PRIZE-WINNERS-2020

Understanding The New Auction Theory And New Auction Formats By Nobel Prize Winners, 2020

October 17, 2020

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Use Google Sheets as a Database, Responsibly: A Step-by-Step Guide

October 17, 2020

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No, No-Code Will NOT Kill Code, Ever. Period.

October 17, 2020

Stories Published in 2019

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#CRYPTOCURRENCY

Booking with AI and blockchain tech: Hotels of the future?

October 17, 2019

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#ARTIFICIAL-INTELLIGENCE-TRENDS

Business perspective in the Future of AI development by 2025

October 17, 2019

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Bit About Blockchain [A Technical Perspective]

October 17, 2019

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Blockchain Interoperability

October 17, 2019

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How Local Governments are Future-Proofing their Urban Centres with Blockchain Technology

October 17, 2019

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The Cryptocurrency Confusion

Christian Kameir

Christian Kameir

October 17, 2019

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Seeking the “Apple” of Hardware Wallets [Interview]

October 17, 2019

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Who is An Intrapreneur

October 17, 2019

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I used my iPad as my Interim Dev Machine while my Mac was down and my Reaction was - "Wow"

Chandra Prakash

Chandra Prakash

October 17, 2019

Stories Published in 2018

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Algorithms and Data Structures Interview Preparation & Walkthrough — Part 2, Array and String

October 17, 2018

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5 Best Programming Languages to Learn for Cyber Security

Dr. Michael J. Garbade

Dr. Michael J. Garbade

October 17, 2018

/company-focus-growth-heres-how-to-focus-your-business-to-win-your-market-fef3d95f048 feature image

Company Focus = Growth: Here’s How to Focus Your Business to Win Your Market

Etienne Garbugli

Etienne Garbugli

October 17, 2018

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#SELF-IMPROVEMENT

Don’t Let Social Media Ruin Your Life and Career

October 17, 2018

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The simplest static site generator

October 17, 2018

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Bringing a Classic Ancient Binary Encoding Back to the Future

October 17, 2018

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#SOFTWARE-ENGINEERING

Thematic Configuration with the Abstract Factory Pattern

October 17, 2018

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🔥 Alphabet of Your Most Visited Sites 🔥

October 17, 2018

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How does tokenization work, anyway?

October 17, 2018

Stories Published in 2017

/why-the-brazilian-and-argentinian-bitcoin-communities-oppose-segwit2x-801edc213af8 feature image

Why the Brazilian and Argentinian Bitcoin communities oppose SegWit2x

Fernando Ulrich

Fernando Ulrich

October 17, 2017

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The ‘singular-focus’ vs ‘designer-in-chief’ Company Leader

Rama Veeraragoo

Rama Veeraragoo

October 17, 2017

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The Use of Machine Translation in eDiscovery

October 17, 2017

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Leave Your Ego At The Door And Study Empathetic Leadership

October 17, 2017

/how-to-automatically-deleted-slack-direct-messages-that-contain-certain-keywords-f335fe9819c4 feature image

How to automatically deleted Slack Direct Messages that contain certain keywords

October 17, 2017

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#INFRASTRUCTURE-AS-CODE

Alexa skill development done right: Basic setup

Fabian Dietenberger

Fabian Dietenberger

October 17, 2017

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Kubernetes Dockerized !

October 17, 2017

/a-useful-wrapper-for-mobx-and-firebase-cloud-firestore-3d9f3310ed23 feature image

A Useful Wrapper for MobX and Firebase Cloud Firestore

William Candillon

William Candillon

October 17, 2017

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HTTPretty now supports asyncio!

Giorgio Salluzzo

Giorgio Salluzzo

October 17, 2017

Stories Published in 2016

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Continuous Integration: A War Story

October 17, 2016

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Inside The Bulb: Adventures in Reverse Engineering Smart Bulb Firmware

October 17, 2016

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Why You Shouldn’t Use ‘var’ Anymore

October 17, 2016

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#WEB-DEVELOPMENT

How to choose a framework

Christian Varisco

Christian Varisco

October 17, 2016

/how-to-avoid-latency-spikes-and-memory-consumption-spikes-during-snapshotting-in-an-in-memory-40e82abde51d feature image

How to avoid latency spikes and memory consumption spikes during snapshotting in an in-memory…

October 17, 2016

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Life of a Smartphone

Samantha Rosenthal

Samantha Rosenthal

October 17, 2016

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#GAME-DEVELOPMENT

JavaScript: Do you like games? (part 2)

October 17, 2016

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Open Source Ideas Initiative

October 17, 2016

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Slave to Software Architecture Trends?

October 17, 2016

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