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Archive: August 20th, 2025

Discovering the tech stories that shaped the day.

Vinita Bansal

Vinita Bansal@vinitabansal

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Challenges You Will Face as Leader and How to Overcome Them

Min Read6 months Ago

@hacker57469165

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Bridging Software and Hardware: Lessons From Automating Test Systems With C#

Min Read6 months Ago

Lidia Siniagowska

Lidia Siniagowska@hackerfofo

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Why Cloud File Management Still Feels Broken (And What IT Pros Actually Do About It)

Min Read6 months Ago

IO.NET

IO.NET@ionet

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Why DePINs Are the Best Way to Organise Global Compute

Min Read6 months Ago

Kashvi Pandey

Kashvi Pandey@kashvipandey

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Top Crypto Presale 2025: Why BlockchainFX ($BFX) Is Better Than Missing Out on Stellar (XLM) ICO

Min Read6 months Ago

Chainwire

Chainwire@chainwire

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MetaWin Announces $1.3 Million NFT Holder Exclusive Giveaway

Min Read6 months Ago

Kashvi Pandey

Kashvi Pandey@kashvipandey

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Best Crypto to Buy Now: Why BlockchainFX’s $0.019 Presale Could Outpace SEI and PENGU

Min Read6 months Ago

Chainwire

Chainwire@chainwire

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Inspired by Pepe - Ethereum L2 Layer Brett Hits $700K In Presale

Min Read6 months Ago

Kashvi Pandey

Kashvi Pandey@kashvipandey

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5 Best Crypto Presales of 2025: Why BlockchainFX Is Set to Outshine Them All

Min Read6 months Ago

Kashvi Pandey

Kashvi Pandey@kashvipandey

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Little Pepe vs Ethereum vs Solana: Which Coin Has the Fastest Path to Gains in 2025?

Min Read6 months Ago

IPinfo – IP Data Provider

IPinfo – IP Data Provider@ipinfo

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IP Data, Engineered for Google Cloud: IPinfo Expands Presence with New Datasets for BigQuery

Min Read6 months Ago

Confluent

Confluent@confluent

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What you need to know about the latest updates to Apache Flink’s SQL and Table APIs

Min Read6 months Ago

Ishan Pandey

Ishan Pandey@ishanpandey

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Why Web3 Gamers Are Rushing To Moondrop, Moonbeam’s GLMillionaire With 1,000,000 GLMR On The Line

Min Read6 months Ago

Chainwire

Chainwire@chainwire

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Cointel Raises $7.4M In Strategic Round Led By Avalanche And Sugafam Inc.

Min Read6 months Ago

Chainwire

Chainwire@chainwire

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Buyback And Burn Of $MBG Unveiled As MultiBank Group Posts $209M H1 Revenue

Min Read6 months Ago

Chainwire

Chainwire@chainwire

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QF Network Confirms Q4 2025 Mainnet Launch To Redefine Layer-1 Blockchain Performance

Min Read6 months Ago

Chainwire

Chainwire@chainwire

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Ethereum-Based Project Pepeto Surpasses $6.3M In Presale s Ecosystem Development Advances

Min Read6 months Ago

Ishan Pandey

Ishan Pandey@ishanpandey

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How Nexo’s AI Changes Crypto Account Management With Built-In Native Intelligence

Min Read6 months Ago

BTCWire

BTCWire@btcwire

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BingX ChainSpot 2.0 Goes Live With 15,000 USDT Reward Event

Min Read6 months Ago

BTCWire

BTCWire@btcwire

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Pepeto Presale vs Shiba Inu Price Prediction: Which Meme Coin Has The Bigger Upside In 2025?

Min Read6 months Ago

Noonification

Noonification@noonification

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The HackerNoon Newsletter: Two Hours With Cursor Changed How I See AI Coding (8/20/2025)

Min Read6 months Ago

Pair Programming AI Agent

Pair Programming AI Agent@pairprogramming

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Solo vs. Pair Programming: A Data-Driven Comparison

Min Read6 months Ago

Pair Programming AI Agent

Pair Programming AI Agent@pairprogramming

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Is Pair Programming Faster? An ANOVA Analysis

Min Read6 months Ago

Pair Programming AI Agent

Pair Programming AI Agent@pairprogramming

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Understanding ANOVA for Pair Programming Experiments

Min Read6 months Ago

Maximiliano Contieri

Maximiliano Contieri@mcsee

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Code Smell 03: Functions Are Too Long - Here's How to Fix That

Min Read6 months Ago

Yuliia Harkusha

Yuliia Harkusha@hacker53037367

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The Only Marketers Who Should Fear AI Are the Lazy Ones

Min Read6 months Ago

Ishan Pandey

Ishan Pandey@ishanpandey

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Can AI Agents Fix The Internet’s Trust Problem?

Min Read6 months Ago

BTCWire

BTCWire@btcwire

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Pepeto Presale Price at $0.000000147 Positions It as The Next Millionaire-Maker After PEPE

Min Read6 months Ago

EAK Wire

EAK Wire@eakwire

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DTEC Expands Its Smart Mobility Ecosystem with Global Automotive and Technology Leaders

Min Read6 months Ago

Web Fonts

Web Fonts@webfonts

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Key Challenges in OCR Research and Future Directions

Min Read6 months Ago

ReBlonde

ReBlonde@reblonde

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What’s Next for Crypto? Web3 VC founder James Wo on the Future of Digital Finance

Min Read6 months Ago

Konstantin Tarkus

Konstantin Tarkus@koistya_4mg8qog

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How to Capture OAuth Callbacks in CLI and Desktop Apps with Localhost Servers

Min Read6 months Ago

Raj Katakam

Raj Katakam@rajkatakam

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The Hidden Flaw in Real-Time Fraud Detection (and the Hybrid Solution That Works)

Min Read6 months Ago

Maddox Schmidlkofer

Maddox Schmidlkofer@maddox05

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Getting Customer Calls on a $0 Budget: Lessons From a Tutoring Startup

Min Read6 months Ago

Leela Krishna Kumar

Leela Krishna Kumar@leelakrishnakumar

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The Maintenance Algorithm: A Life Principle We Often Overlook

Min Read6 months Ago

Web Fonts

Web Fonts@webfonts

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Training Tesseract for Low-Resource Languages

Min Read6 months Ago

@hacker36783430

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Value Today Means Moving Faster Than the Plan

Min Read6 months Ago

askara

askara@askarajr

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What I’d Buy If I Could Only Invest $1,000 in Crypto

Min Read6 months Ago

Nick Talwar

Nick Talwar@hacker68060072

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AI’s Silent Failures vs. Graph Thinking’s Loud Wins

Min Read6 months Ago

Sébastien Castiel

Sébastien Castiel@scastiel

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Two Hours With Cursor Changed How I See AI Coding

Min Read6 months Ago

Gabor Koos

Gabor Koos@hacker5295744

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Go Concurrency Face-Off: Channels vs Mutexes

Min Read6 months Ago

Paul Towers

Paul Towers@paultowers

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No More ‘Ship and Pray’: Testing SaaS Billing Systems with Playwright & Stripe Test Clocks

Min Read6 months Ago

Anya Markitanova

Anya Markitanova@anyamarkitanova

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Tokenised Private Credit Demonstrates the Real Use Case of Tokenisation

Min Read6 months Ago

Karan Ashok Luniya

Karan Ashok Luniya@karanluniya

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The Unseen Battleground: An Architect’s Retro on Streaming 1 Billion Minutes of Live Sports

Min Read6 months Ago

unusual-writer

unusual-writer@olaoluwajohn

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BlackRock's Fink Joins World Economic Forum as Co-Chair—Is Global Crypto Integration Next?

Min Read6 months Ago

Roman Medvedev

Roman Medvedev@romavm

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I Tried Amazon's Kiro.dev For 5 Days—It's a Below mid-level Dev

Min Read6 months Ago

@hacker26698539

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How AI Agents Become Digital Employees of a Business

Min Read6 months Ago

@surabhi413

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The AI Building Block You’ve Never Heard Of (But Use Every Day)

Min Read6 months Ago

unusual-writer

unusual-writer@olaoluwajohn

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Trump Delays China Tariff by 90 Days- Is Xi Jinping Disregarding American Pressure?

Min Read6 months Ago

Isaac Joshua

Isaac Joshua @isaac-joshua

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Most Web3 Startups Flop at Fundraising—Here's How to Beat the Odds

Min Read6 months Ago

Remi Zeitoun

Remi Zeitoun@remizeitoun

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Separating State and Money: Bitcoin as the New Wall Between Power and Freedom

Min Read6 months Ago

Tosin Onikosi

Tosin Onikosi @tosinonikosi

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Web3’s Real Problem Isn’t Tech. It’s Distribution.

Min Read6 months Ago

Techbeat

Techbeat@techbeat

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The TechBeat: The Ultimate Guide to Multi-cloud (Plus 5 Key Success Factors) (8/20/2025)

Min Read6 months Ago

Anna Kovalova

Anna Kovalova@annakovalova

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Revolutionizing QA: My Journey to Creating a Unique Audit That Cuts Costs and Boosts Efficiency

Min Read6 months Ago

tedyfox

tedyfox@hackercly9a7qiw00003b6qvamd8504

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Designing for Mental Health: Why Psychological Disabilities Matter in Inclusive UX

Min Read6 months Ago

Agustin V. Startari

Agustin V. Startari@hacker91808649

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ChatGPT’s Secret Priority: Keeping You Hooked Over Being Right

Min Read6 months Ago

Queen Badass

Queen Badass@vicloskutova

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Everything I Learned (the Hard Way) as a First-Time AI SaaS Founder

Min Read6 months Ago

Web Fonts

Web Fonts@webfonts

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Why OCR Struggles With Multi-Column Pages

Min Read6 months Ago

Paolo Perrone

Paolo Perrone@paoloap

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5 AI Agent Workflows for Repeatable Success (Code Included)

Min Read6 months Ago

Matthew - Technology News Australia

Matthew - Technology News Australia@technologynews

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Copyright Trolls Demanding Ridiculous Sums For Low-Value Images

Min Read6 months Ago

Vladimir Gorbunov

Vladimir Gorbunov@vladimirgorbunov

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Is the Ban of Crypto ATMs Really About Protecting People—Or Protecting Banks?

Min Read6 months Ago

Miss Investigate

Miss Investigate@missinvestigate

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The End of Generic Annotation in Healthcare: Cardiac Imaging Shows Why

Min Read6 months Ago

Praise J.J.

Praise J.J.@praisejames

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The Wealth Trap: Stop Saving and Start Using the Secret of the Rich

Min Read6 months Ago

Pair Programming AI Agent

Pair Programming AI Agent@pairprogramming

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Homogeneity and Normality: How to Test Your Experimental Data

Min Read6 months Ago

Obyte

Obyte@obyte

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The Problem of UX in Crypto, or How to Make It Look More User-Friendly

Min Read6 months Ago

Christopher Wells

Christopher Wells@christopherwells

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How Gen Z Made Crypto Their Second Language?

Min Read6 months Ago