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Archive: December 17th, 2025

Discovering the tech stories that shaped the day.

Hui

Hui@huizhudev

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Why I Fired Myself From Writing Unit Tests (And Hired an AI QA Lead)

Min Read2 months Ago

Sanya Kapoor

Sanya Kapoor@sanya_kapoor

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Architecting the Future of Financial Planning: Karan Shah's Pioneering Cutting-Edge SAP EPM Systems

Min Read2 months Ago

Sanya Kapoor

Sanya Kapoor@sanya_kapoor

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Revolutionizing NIH-Funded Research: Dilip Mehendra Sharma's Cloud Platform Research Transformation

Min Read2 months Ago

Sanya Kapoor

Sanya Kapoor@sanya_kapoor

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Manoj Srivastava: Architecting Strategic Transformation Across Industries

Min Read2 months Ago

EVOENZYME

EVOENZYME@evoenzyme

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Meet EvoEnzyme

Min Read2 months Ago

EScholar: Electronic Academic Papers for Scholars

EScholar: Electronic Academic Papers for Scholars@escholar

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Why the Testing Method Developers Prefer Is Rarely Ever the One That Finds the Most Bugs

Min Read2 months Ago

EScholar: Electronic Academic Papers for Scholars

EScholar: Electronic Academic Papers for Scholars@escholar

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A Replication Study on Software Testing Perception vs Effectiveness

Min Read2 months Ago

3 Tech Polls

3 Tech Polls@3techpolls

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Which Company Will Define The Next Decade of Technology?

Min Read2 months Ago

Hack Marketing with HackerNoon for Businesses

Hack Marketing with HackerNoon for Businesses@hackmarketing

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7 Marketing Shifts Redefining Tech Companies in 2026

Min Read2 months Ago

Ishan Pandey

Ishan Pandey@ishanpandey

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How Altitude Finance Turned Bitcoin Into a $26 Million Lending Infrastructure

Min Read2 months Ago

Noonification

Noonification@noonification

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The HackerNoon Newsletter: Stop the Generative AI Arms Race Before It Stops Us (12/17/2025)

Min Read2 months Ago

Instancing

Instancing@instancing

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Data Strategy for MaGGIe: Bridging the Gap in Matting Resources

Min Read2 months Ago

Instancing

Instancing@instancing

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MaGGIe's Coarse Alpha Matte Prediction: Temporal Feature Aggregation

Min Read2 months Ago

Instancing

Instancing@instancing

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MaGGIe Architecture: Efficient Mask-Guided Instance Matting

Min Read2 months Ago

Instancing

Instancing@instancing

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Evolution of Matting: From Traditional Sampling to MaGGIe's Instance Approach

Min Read2 months Ago

Dippu Kumar Singh

Dippu Kumar Singh@dippusingh

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Turning Your Data Swamp into Gold: A Developer’s Guide to NLP on Legacy Logs

Min Read2 months Ago

Code Review

Code Review@codereview

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Inside a Practitioner Survey on Modern Code Review Priorities

Min Read2 months Ago

Instancing

Instancing@instancing

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MaGGIe: Achieving Temporal Consistency in Video Instance Matting

Min Read2 months Ago

Dippu Kumar Singh

Dippu Kumar Singh@dippusingh

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How to Fix 3 Common AWS Serverless Performance Killers (Lambda, S3, SQS)

Min Read2 months Ago

Code Review

Code Review@codereview

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Study Finds Most Code Review Research Lacks Real-World Validation

Min Read2 months Ago

Dippu Kumar Singh

Dippu Kumar Singh@dippusingh

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How to Build Real-World Drone Avatars with WebRTC and Python

Min Read2 months Ago

Code Review

Code Review@codereview

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A Decade of Modern Code Review Research Shows Gaps in Industry Priorities

Min Read2 months Ago

Code Review

Code Review@codereview

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What We Know (and Don’t) About Modern Code Reviews

Min Read2 months Ago

Ishan Pandey

Ishan Pandey@ishanpandey

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How SCOR Plans to Rescue Thousands of Dormant Sports NFTs from Digital Graveyards

Min Read2 months Ago

Techbeat

Techbeat@techbeat

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The TechBeat: Code Review Anti-Patterns: How to Stop Nitpicking Syntax and Start Improving Architecture (12/17/2025)

Min Read2 months Ago

Siddhesh Surve

Siddhesh Surve@siddheshsurve

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RIP Chatbots: Why Claude’s New 'Tasks' Mode is the Agent We’ve Been Waiting For

Min Read2 months Ago

Jon Stojan Journalist

Jon Stojan Journalist@jonstojanjournalist

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NE2NE’s PDFFlex Eliminates Data Paralysis by Automating PDF Extraction

Min Read2 months Ago

Rie | DriftLens team!

Rie | DriftLens team!@riedriftlens

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The Curse of Rumination—and How We Unknowingly Reinforce It

Min Read2 months Ago

Alex Troitsky

Alex Troitsky@alextroitskyai

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Stop Guessing AI Metrics: Regression Explained with MSE, RMSE, MAE, R² & MAPE

Min Read2 months Ago

Nica Furs

Nica Furs@nicafurs

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The Battle for the Borders: How AI and Cyber Intelligence Are Reshaping Statecraft

Min Read2 months Ago

Suhasan Dillibatcha

Suhasan Dillibatcha@suhasanpm

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AEO (Answer Engine Optimization): The New Entry Point of the eCommerce Buying Funnel

Min Read2 months Ago

Lab42AI

Lab42AI@lab42ai

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Production Environment: Where AI Agent Demos Go To Die

Min Read2 months Ago

superorange0707

superorange0707@superorange0707

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Stop Parsing Nightmares: Prompting LLMs to Return Clean, Parseable JSON

Min Read2 months Ago

tyingshoelaces.com

tyingshoelaces.com@tyingshoelaces

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The "Stochastic Parrot" Narrative Is Dead. Physics Killed It.

Min Read2 months Ago

Norm Bond

Norm Bond@normbond

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The Interpretation Gap: Why Capability Is Outpacing Trust, and Valuation Is Paying the Price

Min Read2 months Ago

superorange0707

superorange0707@superorange0707

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Prompting for Safety: How to Stop Your LLM From Leaking Sensitive Data

Min Read2 months Ago

Paolo Perrone

Paolo Perrone@paoloap

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The Realistic Guide to Mastering AI Agents in 2026

Min Read2 months Ago

Nick Talwar

Nick Talwar@hacker68060072

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Ranked on Google, Invisible to AI

Min Read2 months Ago

Alex Cloudstar

Alex Cloudstar@alexcloudstar

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How Astro Made My Portfolio 82% Faster to Build

Min Read2 months Ago

Alex Cloudstar

Alex Cloudstar@alexcloudstar

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No Mouse 30: A Quiet Experiment in Keyboard-First Work

Min Read2 months Ago

Damian Griggs

Damian Griggs@damianwgriggs

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Quantum Oracles Have a Fatal Timing Problem — So I Built a “Parking Brake” for Qubits

Min Read2 months Ago

noon_AT

noon_AT@cm0g4qf5i0000357s7xsi7icm

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Stop the Generative AI Arms Race Before It Stops Us

Min Read2 months Ago

Roderick RH

Roderick RH@rod-is-reelhuman

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Why I Built Witness and How it Works Under the Hood

Min Read2 months Ago

Siddhesh Surve

Siddhesh Surve@siddheshsurve

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Google Just Killed LeetCode: Why AlphaEvolve is the End of the "Algorithm Interview"

Min Read2 months Ago

Atish Kumar Dash

Atish Kumar Dash@atishkdash

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From SaaS to AI Agents: Are We Entering a New Software Era?

Min Read2 months Ago

Konstantin Zamotaev

Konstantin Zamotaev@qanstantin

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Ethical QA Engineer: A New Profession for the Era of Autonomous AI

Min Read2 months Ago

Bobby K

Bobby K@bobbywkittleberger

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My 5 Favorite Lightweight TXT File Tools

Min Read2 months Ago

Siddhesh Surve

Siddhesh Surve@siddheshsurve

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The Goldfish Era is Over: How Google’s ‘Titans’ Gave AI Infinite Memory

Min Read2 months Ago

Yuliia Harkusha

Yuliia Harkusha@yuliiaharkusha

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The Hidden Cost of AI: Why It’s Making Workers Smarter, but Organisations Dumber

Min Read2 months Ago

Manish

Manish@mjhere

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Parallel Thinking & Sequential Answering: AI Breakthrough That Can Change The Way We Work With LLMs

Min Read2 months Ago

Konstantin Nikolaev

Konstantin Nikolaev@konstantinnikolaev

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Zero-Touch EDI: Automating Retail’s Digital Pulse for Next-Gen E-Commerce

Min Read2 months Ago

Damian Griggs

Damian Griggs@damianwgriggs

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The Quantum Gavel: Engineering Incorruptible Justice as a Blind Architect

Min Read2 months Ago

Rejin Jose K

Rejin Jose K@rejinjosek

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A Complete Guide to GenAI Native Architecture and Reliable System Design

Min Read2 months Ago

Hunter Thomas

Hunter Thomas@hunterthomas

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SpaceX Goes Public: The Hidden Question Every Tesla Investor Should Ask

Min Read2 months Ago

Ishan Pandey

Ishan Pandey@ishanpandey

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SMARDEX Becomes Everything: The Single-Contract Protocol That Could Reshape DeFi Architecture

Min Read2 months Ago

Lomit Patel

Lomit Patel@lomitpatel

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Social Commerce: The New Growth Engine for Brands

Min Read2 months Ago

Vinita Bansal

Vinita Bansal@vinitabansal

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Different Ways to Deal With a Toxic Top Performer: A Boss's Guide to Improving Work Culture

Min Read2 months Ago