The HackerNoon Newsletter: Lessons I’ve Learned as a UX/UI Designer in a Failed Startup (3/13/2025)

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🪐 What’s happening in tech today, March 13, 2025?

The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, Microsoft Goes Public in 1986, and we present you with these top quality stories. From Using Mavens Dependency Analyzer to Get Rid of Unused Dependencies is Dangerous Advice Today to Man Who Lost $775 Million in Bitcoin Now Wants to Buy the Entire Landfill, let’s dive right in.

Why AI Needs to Lose (a Little) to Recognize Your Face Better

By @evansky [ 13 Min read ] A review of Face Recognition loss functions, exploring advancements from ArcFace to modern adaptive and prototype-based methods for improved accuracy. Read More.

MCP: The Universal Standard Making AI Systems Talk (And Why Big Tech Is Betting Everything On It)

By @jay9thakur [ 8 Min read ] The Model Context Protocol has emerged as the universal translator for artificial intelligence, and its redefining what integrated AI systems can achieve. Read More.

Using Mavens Dependency Analyzer to Get Rid of Unused Dependencies is Dangerous Advice Today

By @nfrankel [ 4 Min read ] The current state of the Maven analyzer doesnt offer any benefit to modern Spring Boot projects. Read More.

Lessons I’ve Learned as a UX/UI Designer in a Failed Startup

By @kristinazima [ 8 Min read ] Lessons from a failed website builder startup fro UI/UX designers and developers Read More.

Man Who Lost $775 Million in Bitcoin Now Wants to Buy the Entire Landfill

By @jonstojanjournalist [ 2 Min read ] James Howells, who lost 8,000 Bitcoins in a landfill, now plans to buy the entire site in a last-ditch effort to recover his $775M fortune. Will it work? Read More.

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