HackerNoon Tech Stories: 2025/10/20

October 2025

32

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Archive: October 20th, 2025

Discovering the tech stories that shaped the day.

AI Native Dev@ainativedev

The ‘Rules File’ Problem Is the New XML Hell for AI Developers

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Uju@ujutheanalyst

ChatGPT Is Not Just a Tool; It's a Mirror for How You Think

3 Min Read3 months Ago

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Igboanugo David Ugochukwu@drechimyn

The Human Algorithm: Why the Internet Feels Repetitive—And How Real Writers Can Break It

6 Min Read3 months Ago

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Oleg Efimov@efimovov_5guqm5

Navigating MySQL Data Types: Strings

4 Min Read3 months Ago

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Maximiliano Contieri@mcsee

Code Smell 311 - Never Store or Compare Plain-text Passwords

3 Min Read3 months Ago

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Alfredo de Candia@alfredodecandia

Decoding the Matrix: How Blockchain and NFTs Went From Geek Fantasy to Mainstream Revolution

12 Min Read3 months Ago

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Tereza Bízková@terezabizkova

Argentina Will Show What Ethereum Looks Like in the Real World, Says Devconnect’s Candu Fazzano

5 Min Read3 months Ago

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Agustin V. Startari@hacker91808649

Quantifying the Right-Context Boundary of Authority in Language Models

5 Min Read3 months Ago

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Hadrian Stone | NoFaceToolsAI@nofacetoolsai

The Machiavellian Marketing Framework (MMF): How to Engineer Inevitability in the Algorithmic Age

4 Min Read3 months Ago

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Ronnie Huss@ronnie_huss

🧠 The Incel Singularity II: Why Your AI Waifu Might Be Cheating on You (& How to Reclaim the Code)

4 Min Read3 months Ago

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Techbeat@techbeat

The TechBeat: Who's Used One Trillion Plus OpenAI Tokens? Salesforce, Shopify, Canva, Hubspot, & 26 More Companies (10/20/2025)

2 Min Read3 months Ago

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Chainwire@chainwire

Billionaire Tim Draper Leads $3.2M Seed Round for Ryder to Replace Seed Phrases With TapSafe

3 Min Read3 months Ago

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MattLeads@mattleads

How I Turned a ‘Simple Hydrator’ into a Full Data Mapping Framework in Symfony

9 Min Read3 months Ago

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Ishan Pandey@ishanpandey

What COTI's Hydrogen Upgrade Reveals About Blockchain Privacy and Enterprise Adoption

10 Min Read3 months Ago

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BTCWire@btcwire

DeFi Protocol Mutuum Finance (MUTM) Sets Stage for Q4 2025 V1 Launch With Over $17.6M Raised

4 Min Read3 months Ago

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A.I. Controls Stock Account@nathanbsmith729

Can ChatGPT Outperform the Market? Week 10

4 Min Read3 months Ago

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Ishan Pandey@ishanpandey

Neo and SpoonOS Offer $100K to Solve the Problem Centralized AI Cannot Fix

10 Min Read3 months Ago

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Noonification@noonification

The HackerNoon Newsletter: Can ChatGPT Outperform the Market? Week 10 (10/20/2025)

2 Min Read3 months Ago

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Chainwire@chainwire

Jupiter Launches Ultra V3 – The Ultimate Trading Engine for Solana

4 Min Read3 months Ago

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Chainwire@chainwire

Whale.io Introduces Crock Dentist Game And Exclusive RWA NFT Collection

3 Min Read3 months Ago

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Chainwire@chainwire

Limitless Prediction Market Closes $10M Seed Round Ahead Of LMTS Token Launch

2 Min Read3 months Ago

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Anthony Laneau@hacker-Antho

From Cloud to Desk: 3 Signs the AI Revolution is Going Local

4 Min Read3 months Ago

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Paul Quickenden@paulquickenden

“Not My Keys, Not My Crypto?” Maybe It’s Time For an Upgrade?

5 Min Read3 months Ago

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William Guo@williamguo

Synchronizing Data from MySQL to PostgreSQL Using Apache SeaTunnel

4 Min Read3 months Ago

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Indie designer - Harish Pillai@id

AI Bubble and the Free Market

5 Min Read3 months Ago

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GlobalHawk@knightbat2040

Python Script to Read and Judge 1,500 Legal Cases

5 Min Read3 months Ago

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Onder A.@hacker76882811

What Quantum Machine Learning Means for the Future of AI

4 Min Read3 months Ago

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Hui@huizhudev

A Twitter Thread Prompt That Actually Works

5 Min Read3 months Ago

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Vipin Labroo@vlabroo

Pre-Liberalization Cars in India: A Love Affair

4 Min Read3 months Ago

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Rocky Essel@rockyessel

Gated-Source: Rethinking How Open Source Developers Get Paid

11 Min Read3 months Ago

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Jacob Landry@jacoblandry

A Guide to Effective Pull Request Reviews - Part 2

7 Min Read3 months Ago

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Rahul Choudhary@nomadfounder

How I Built CandidateList.live With Vibe Coding To Solve India’s Messy Election Info Problem

3 Min Read3 months Ago

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October 2025

32

Archive: October 20th, 2025

The ‘Rules File’ Problem Is the New XML Hell for AI Developers

ChatGPT Is Not Just a Tool; It's a Mirror for How You Think

The Human Algorithm: Why the Internet Feels Repetitive—And How Real Writers Can Break It

Navigating MySQL Data Types: Strings

Code Smell 311 - Never Store or Compare Plain-text Passwords

Decoding the Matrix: How Blockchain and NFTs Went From Geek Fantasy to Mainstream Revolution

Argentina Will Show What Ethereum Looks Like in the Real World, Says Devconnect’s Candu Fazzano

Quantifying the Right-Context Boundary of Authority in Language Models

The Machiavellian Marketing Framework (MMF): How to Engineer Inevitability in the Algorithmic Age

🧠 The Incel Singularity II: Why Your AI Waifu Might Be Cheating on You (& How to Reclaim the Code)

The TechBeat: Who's Used One Trillion Plus OpenAI Tokens? Salesforce, Shopify, Canva, Hubspot, & 26 More Companies (10/20/2025)

Billionaire Tim Draper Leads $3.2M Seed Round for Ryder to Replace Seed Phrases With TapSafe

How I Turned a ‘Simple Hydrator’ into a Full Data Mapping Framework in Symfony

What COTI's Hydrogen Upgrade Reveals About Blockchain Privacy and Enterprise Adoption

DeFi Protocol Mutuum Finance (MUTM) Sets Stage for Q4 2025 V1 Launch With Over $17.6M Raised

Can ChatGPT Outperform the Market? Week 10

Neo and SpoonOS Offer $100K to Solve the Problem Centralized AI Cannot Fix

The HackerNoon Newsletter: Can ChatGPT Outperform the Market? Week 10 (10/20/2025)

Jupiter Launches Ultra V3 – The Ultimate Trading Engine for Solana

Whale.io Introduces Crock Dentist Game And Exclusive RWA NFT Collection

Limitless Prediction Market Closes $10M Seed Round Ahead Of LMTS Token Launch

From Cloud to Desk: 3 Signs the AI Revolution is Going Local

“Not My Keys, Not My Crypto?” Maybe It’s Time For an Upgrade?

Synchronizing Data from MySQL to PostgreSQL Using Apache SeaTunnel

AI Bubble and the Free Market

Python Script to Read and Judge 1,500 Legal Cases

What Quantum Machine Learning Means for the Future of AI

A Twitter Thread Prompt That Actually Works

Pre-Liberalization Cars in India: A Love Affair

Gated-Source: Rethinking How Open Source Developers Get Paid

A Guide to Effective Pull Request Reviews - Part 2

How I Built CandidateList.live With Vibe Coding To Solve India’s Messy Election Info Problem

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