HackerNoon Tech Stories: 2025/05/19

May 2025

52

Stories Published

Archive: May 19th, 2025

Discovering the tech stories that shaped the day.

Obyte@obyte

Ian Goldberg, the Cypherpunk Who Hacked Netscape for Fun

6 Min Read8 months Ago

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Maximiliano Contieri@mcsee

Replace Sequential IDs in Your Models With UUIDs to Prevent IDOR Vulnerabilities or Scraping

4 Min Read8 months Ago

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Thomas Cherickal@thomascherickal

AlphaEvolve: DeepMind’s Evolutionary Leap in Scientific Algorithmic Discovery

11 Min Read8 months Ago

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Dan Stein@danstein

The ZIGChain Summit Lays Down Roadmap For Web3’s Wealth Creation Narrative

4 Min Read8 months Ago

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Shanglun Wang@shanglun

This AI Reads SEC Filings, Searches Google, and Does the Math—All Without a Human in the Loop

24 Min Read8 months Ago

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This Week in AI Engineering@thisweekinaieng

Alibaba Qwen 3 Could Be a Web Developer's Dream

5 Min Read8 months Ago

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This Week in JavaScript@thisweekinjavascript

OpenAI Unveils Codex—An AI Dev Assistant Built for JavaScript and React

4 Min Read8 months Ago

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Ritesh Modi@riteshmodi

Model Context Protocol Is the Kind of AI Future All Of Us Should Want to See

10 Min Read8 months Ago

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Techbeat@techbeat

The TechBeat: Good Programmers Always Be Refactoring (5/19/2025)

2 Min Read8 months Ago

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Android Insights@arttttt

SimpleMVI Nails Domain Driven Design So Well, You’ll Wish You Used It Sooner

18 Min Read8 months Ago

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Andrew Maksimchenko@maximchenko

Yes, Your Browser is Snitching: JavaScript Can Detect VPNs and Incognito Mode

14 Min Read8 months Ago

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Maxim Egorov@element

What Swift’s Playground Won’t Tell You About Concurrency

5 Min Read8 months Ago

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Sanjay Mood@moodsanjay

AI Can Draft the Work—But Can It Ask the Right Questions?

2 Min Read8 months Ago

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Oleksii Bondar@oleksiijko

These 5 Unexpected Use Cases Prove WebRTC Has Outgrown Its Roots as "Just" a Video-calling Tool

3 Min Read8 months Ago

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Rey Dayola@dayologic

Most Tech Jobs Are Just Fancy Data Entry (And That's OK!)

4 Min Read8 months Ago

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Nikita Bragin@brnikita

Sketches, Sensors, and Servo Hacks: The Making of Robonine’s Segway-Inspired Robot

3 Min Read8 months Ago

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Suneeta Modekurty@sumo2o

Guidance, Not Just Data: Redefining Survivor Recovery with AI

6 Min Read8 months Ago

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Pantelis Kassotis@panteliskassotis

They Stole My Name: How I Fought Back Against Online Impersonation as a Developer

4 Min Read8 months Ago

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Maria Shchur@hacker9075105

Finding THE Product Market Fit: Don’t Just Talk to Your Users

5 Min Read8 months Ago

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GGEZ1@ggezone

Meet GGEZ1, Winner of Startups of The Year 2024 in DeFi AND Decentralization

5 Min Read8 months Ago

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vinaysati@vinaysati

Exploring a Web3 Smart Contract Issue: Gas Exploitation via Unchecked Loops

3 Min Read8 months Ago

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Anton Krylov@avkrl

Over-Engineered Kubernetes Is a Trap

18 Min Read8 months Ago

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Rishab Jolly@hackerjolly

Brewing Observability Insights: What LinkedIn, Netflix, and eBay Taught Me at Monitorama 2024

5 Min Read8 months Ago

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George Ezeri@geo4life

How Our Attention Became the Most Hacked Software of All Time

4 Min Read8 months Ago

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Hidonix@hidonix

Meet Hidonix, Winner of Startups of The Year 2024 in Robotics

5 Min Read8 months Ago

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Bradley Reaper@Mr_Reaper

That Crypto Trading Bot Isn't Always Making Money For You

5 Min Read8 months Ago

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George Ezeri@geo4life

How Mobile Phones Killed Africa’s Internet Cafés, and What We Lost in the Process

4 Min Read8 months Ago

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Kishore Dasaka@kishoredasaka

7 Cap Table Mistakes That Kill Startups

5 Min Read8 months Ago

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Karan Ashok Luniya@karanluniya

Kubernetes Liveness, Readiness, and Startup Probes – Keys to Container Health and Resilience

20 Min Read8 months Ago

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Aditya Vilas Deshpande@adideshpande

Card Declines are a Data Problem (But AI Could Fix That!)

5 Min Read8 months Ago

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Rowsan@rowsan

Understanding React Rendering Without the Buzzwords

4 Min Read8 months Ago

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Pawan Jaiswal@pawanjswal

MCP Servers Still Run Critical Infrastructure—Here’s How to Secure Them

4 Min Read8 months Ago

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Pawan Jaiswal@pawanjswal

IPinfo’s Free IP Geolocation API Is a Must-Have for Cybersecurity Teams

3 Min Read8 months Ago

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Pawan Jaiswal@pawanjswal

Your Next Data Breach Might Start with a Friendly Face

4 Min Read8 months Ago

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Pawan Jaiswal@pawanjswal

The Complete Guide to Crafting Security Headlines That Cut Through the Noise

4 Min Read8 months Ago

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Carlos Aponte@caponte

AI Can Code Your App—Just Don’t Let It Architect It

3 Min Read8 months Ago

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Regularization@regularization

Comparing Chameleon with GPT-4V and Gemini

5 Min Read8 months Ago

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HackerNoon Writers Spotlight@writerspotlight

Meet the HackerNoon Top Writers - Laszlo Fazekas and Kindness In Content Writing

5 Min Read8 months Ago

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Ishan Pandey@ishanpandey

How Aliyyah Koloc Is Using Blockchain to Redefine Racing, Identity, & Global Art Access

0 Min Read8 months Ago

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Ishan Pandey@ishanpandey

Is the Time Ripe for a Meta Blockchain to Rule Them All?

0 Min Read8 months Ago

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Ishan Pandey@ishanpandey

What Sam Altman’s World Network Gets Wrong About Privacy – And What We Can Do Better

0 Min Read8 months Ago

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Tensor Flow - [Technical Documentation]@tensorflow

There’s No TensorFlow Without Tensors

22 Min Read8 months Ago

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Jon Stojan Journalist@jonstojanjournalist

Driving Supply Chain Resilience through AI-Driven Data Synchronization

4 Min Read8 months Ago

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Jon Stojan Journalist@jonstojanjournalist

Karthik Chava Proposes Neuro-Symbolic Platforms for Personalized Healthcare

4 Min Read8 months Ago

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Noonification@noonification

The HackerNoon Newsletter: There’s No TensorFlow Without Tensors (5/19/2025)

2 Min Read8 months Ago

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Company of the Week@companyoftheweek

Meet Noda: HackerNoon Company of the Week

2 Min Read8 months Ago

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Regularization Technology@regularization

How Reliable Are Human Judgments in AI Model Testing?

4 Min Read8 months Ago

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Kacper Michalik@casp3ro

How to Set Up PostgreSQL with NestJS and Docker for Fast Local Development: A Quick Guide

3 Min Read8 months Ago

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Kacper Michalik@casp3ro

Releasing Utilities Package to GitHub Packages: A Guide

3 Min Read8 months Ago

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Bright Data@brightdata

MCP, A2A, AGP, ACP: Making Sense of the New AI Protocols

6 Min Read8 months Ago

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Jurgita Motus@jurgitamotus

Open-Source Data Catalogs: A New Chance to Implement Data Mesh

5 Min Read8 months Ago

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Excel24x7@excel24x7

Avoid Data Loss: Merge Excel Cells with TEXTJOIN & CONCAT Functions!

3 Min Read8 months Ago

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May 2025

52

Archive: May 19th, 2025

Ian Goldberg, the Cypherpunk Who Hacked Netscape for Fun

Replace Sequential IDs in Your Models With UUIDs to Prevent IDOR Vulnerabilities or Scraping

AlphaEvolve: DeepMind’s Evolutionary Leap in Scientific Algorithmic Discovery

The ZIGChain Summit Lays Down Roadmap For Web3’s Wealth Creation Narrative

This AI Reads SEC Filings, Searches Google, and Does the Math—All Without a Human in the Loop

Alibaba Qwen 3 Could Be a Web Developer's Dream

OpenAI Unveils Codex—An AI Dev Assistant Built for JavaScript and React

Model Context Protocol Is the Kind of AI Future All Of Us Should Want to See

The TechBeat: Good Programmers Always Be Refactoring (5/19/2025)

SimpleMVI Nails Domain Driven Design So Well, You’ll Wish You Used It Sooner

Yes, Your Browser is Snitching: JavaScript Can Detect VPNs and Incognito Mode

What Swift’s Playground Won’t Tell You About Concurrency

AI Can Draft the Work—But Can It Ask the Right Questions?

These 5 Unexpected Use Cases Prove WebRTC Has Outgrown Its Roots as "Just" a Video-calling Tool

Most Tech Jobs Are Just Fancy Data Entry (And That's OK!)

Sketches, Sensors, and Servo Hacks: The Making of Robonine’s Segway-Inspired Robot

Guidance, Not Just Data: Redefining Survivor Recovery with AI

They Stole My Name: How I Fought Back Against Online Impersonation as a Developer

Finding THE Product Market Fit: Don’t Just Talk to Your Users

Meet GGEZ1, Winner of Startups of The Year 2024 in DeFi AND Decentralization

Exploring a Web3 Smart Contract Issue: Gas Exploitation via Unchecked Loops

Over-Engineered Kubernetes Is a Trap

Brewing Observability Insights: What LinkedIn, Netflix, and eBay Taught Me at Monitorama 2024

How Our Attention Became the Most Hacked Software of All Time

Meet Hidonix, Winner of Startups of The Year 2024 in Robotics

That Crypto Trading Bot Isn't Always Making Money For You

How Mobile Phones Killed Africa’s Internet Cafés, and What We Lost in the Process

7 Cap Table Mistakes That Kill Startups

Kubernetes Liveness, Readiness, and Startup Probes – Keys to Container Health and Resilience

Card Declines are a Data Problem (But AI Could Fix That!)

Understanding React Rendering Without the Buzzwords

MCP Servers Still Run Critical Infrastructure—Here’s How to Secure Them

IPinfo’s Free IP Geolocation API Is a Must-Have for Cybersecurity Teams

Your Next Data Breach Might Start with a Friendly Face

The Complete Guide to Crafting Security Headlines That Cut Through the Noise

AI Can Code Your App—Just Don’t Let It Architect It

Comparing Chameleon with GPT-4V and Gemini

Meet the HackerNoon Top Writers - Laszlo Fazekas and Kindness In Content Writing

How Aliyyah Koloc Is Using Blockchain to Redefine Racing, Identity, & Global Art Access

Is the Time Ripe for a Meta Blockchain to Rule Them All?

What Sam Altman’s World Network Gets Wrong About Privacy – And What We Can Do Better

There’s No TensorFlow Without Tensors

Driving Supply Chain Resilience through AI-Driven Data Synchronization

Karthik Chava Proposes Neuro-Symbolic Platforms for Personalized Healthcare

The HackerNoon Newsletter: There’s No TensorFlow Without Tensors (5/19/2025)

Meet Noda: HackerNoon Company of the Week

How Reliable Are Human Judgments in AI Model Testing?

How to Set Up PostgreSQL with NestJS and Docker for Fast Local Development: A Quick Guide

Releasing Utilities Package to GitHub Packages: A Guide

MCP, A2A, AGP, ACP: Making Sense of the New AI Protocols

Open-Source Data Catalogs: A New Chance to Implement Data Mesh

Avoid Data Loss: Merge Excel Cells with TEXTJOIN & CONCAT Functions!

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