HackerNoon Tech Stories: 2025/12/18

December 2025

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Archive: December 18th, 2025

Discovering the tech stories that shaped the day.

BTCWire@btcwire

This New Altcoin Surges 250% While Major Altcoins Stall

4 Min Read2 months Ago

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Chainwire@chainwire

Datagram Launches Beta for Datagram VPN, a High-Speed Decentralized Privacy Network

3 Min Read2 months Ago

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Maxi C@mcsee

Code Smell 09 - What Should You Do With Dead Code?

2 Min Read2 months Ago

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AI Native Dev@ainativedev

Google’s Gemini CLI Gets a GUI Makeover for the Terminal Age

3 Min Read2 months Ago

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Obyte@obyte

The Ghosts of Crypto Past, Present, and Future —What’s Next for Crypto?

7 Min Read2 months Ago

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Dippu Kumar Singh@dippusingh

The Missing Piece in Your Text-to-SQL Pipeline: Automated Data Catalog Refinement

4 Min Read2 months Ago

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Techbeat@techbeat

The TechBeat: How a Data Engineer-Turned-Music-Producer Is Revolutionizing Spatial Intelligence (12/18/2025)

2 Min Read2 months Ago

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IPinfo – IP Data Provider@ipinfo

The Hidden Cost of Invalid Traffic: Why IP Data Is the Missing Link

3 Min Read2 months Ago

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Social Discovery Group@socialdiscoverygroup

SDG 2025 Year in Review: A Bold Leap Into the Future of Social Discovery

4 Min Read2 months Ago

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John Vester@johnjvester

Effectively Managing AI Agents for Testing

7 Min Read2 months Ago

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tyingshoelaces.com@tyingshoelaces

Why Teaching LLMs to "Click" is a Futile Abstraction

10 Min Read2 months Ago

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Beldex@beldexcoin

BDX on LayerZero and Stargate: Privacy Meets Cross-Chain Interoperability

3 Min Read2 months Ago

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Damian Griggs@damianwgriggs

A Quantum AI Oracle: Transmuting Subatomic Entropy into Digital Scarcity

3 Min Read2 months Ago

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Marcos Ivanechtchuk@ivmarcos

Local AI-Powered Search Engine Using SLM Embeddings

14 Min Read2 months Ago

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Siddhesh Surve@siddheshsurve

OpenAI Just Hit "Code Red": Inside the New ChatGPT Images Update

4 Min Read2 months Ago

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Luciana Fitarelli@lucianafitarelli

Liquidity Is a Tool of Power, Not a Neutral Market Feature

4 Min Read2 months Ago

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@hacker96553265

Image Generation with Gemini 2.5 Flash (Nano Banana) in Android App

17 Min Read2 months Ago

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Mukhtar Abdussalam@mukhtarpeace

The Art of Remaining Consistent as a Web Developer

9 Min Read2 months Ago

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Yurii Chudinov@chudinovuv

Stop Looking for the "Ideal Architect"

10 Min Read2 months Ago

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Tokarev Artem@tokarevartem

Hands-On With AWS’s New AI “Frontier” Security Reviewer

5 Min Read2 months Ago

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Kevin Webster@kevinwebster

ChatGPT Is Gaslighting You With Math

6 Min Read2 months Ago

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Miguel Angel Romero@hacker8787604

Why Quitting is a UX Problem

4 Min Read2 months Ago

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Siteshwar Pandey@siteshwarpandey

5 Hidden Costs Most Founders Overlook When Launching an NFT Marketplace

4 Min Read2 months Ago

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George Anadiotis@linked_do

Microsoft Fabric IQ Puts Ontology Back on the Map — and Back in the Confusion

14 Min Read2 months Ago

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AI Native Dev@ainativedev

Too Many Agent Chats? Amp’s New Thread Map Shows What Connects to What

2 Min Read2 months Ago

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Siddhesh Surve@siddheshsurve

Stop Blindly Building AI Swarms: The New "Scaling Laws" for Agents Are Here

5 Min Read2 months Ago

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James Caron@jamescaron

How I Modernized a Legacy System Into a Scalable API-First Platform: A Deep Technical Case Study

9 Min Read2 months Ago

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@hacker98718789

My "Serverless" Dream Turned into an IP Ban Nightmare: Why I Moved to Desktop

2 Min Read2 months Ago

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Stanislav Don@donstas

When Models Meet the Real World: Lessons from Production ML

7 Min Read2 months Ago

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Darpan Bhadra@hackstarky

I Got 15K People to Practice SQL by Turning Them Into Detectives

7 Min Read2 months Ago

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SOUVIK DUTTA@theworkflowengineer

The Intoxication—and Limits—of AI-Assisted Development

3 Min Read2 months Ago

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Nicolas Fränkel@nfrankel

I Finally Made It to YOW!

4 Min Read2 months Ago

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Gourav@gouravsingla05

Intelligent Document Processing: A Simple Chunking Strategy for AI Content Generation

5 Min Read2 months Ago

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Vai Viswanathan@vaiviswanathan

Stop Drowning in AI Models: A 3-Pillar Framework for Evaluation

5 Min Read2 months Ago

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NIranjan Kumar Sharma@ai007

Securing LLM Inference Endpoints: Treating AI Models as Untrusted Code

5 Min Read2 months Ago

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Damodhara Palavali@damodhara

Spring AI Capabilities: Effortlessly Integrate Google Gemini with Your Spring Boot Application

4 Min Read2 months Ago

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@hacker73393696

I Asked an AI to "Roast" My Landing Page, and Honestly? I Deserved It.

4 Min Read2 months Ago

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Daniel Okoro@danielochinasa

How I Mastered JavaScript Event Loop and Concurrent Model

2 Min Read2 months Ago

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Steve Beyatte@stevebeyatte

From Launch to Exit in 10 Months: Inside Neri Bluman's Bet on Answer Engine Optimization

3 Min Read2 months Ago

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BTCWire@btcwire

Doma Protocol Launches Names Marketplace on Base to Bring Over 40 Million Domains Onchain

4 Min Read2 months Ago

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Code Review@codereview

Researchers and Developers Aren’t Fully Aligned on Modern Code Review Goals

6 Min Read2 months Ago

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boost@findnewworld

How a Small Next.js Routing Change Boosted My Google AdSense Revenue

3 Min Read2 months Ago

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Jon Stojan Journalist@jonstojanjournalist

When Non‑Coders Can Also Build Apps: A New Paradigm for AI-Native App Creation

3 Min Read2 months Ago

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Ishan Pandey@ishanpandey

Revolut Lists $AURORA as Aurora Unveils Leadership Transition to Drive Mass Adoption

5 Min Read2 months Ago

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Code Review@codereview

What Code Review Research Gets Wrong About Real Development Teams

14 Min Read2 months Ago

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Startups Of The Week@startupsoftheweek

If a Startup Makes a Product in the Forest and No One Is Around to Hear It, Does It Make a Sound?

4 Min Read2 months Ago

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Sanya Kapoor@sanya_kapoor

Why One Lock Isn’t Enough: How Buburuza Designs Multi-Layer Security for AI Banking

3 Min Read2 months Ago

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HackerNoon Courses@hackernoon-courses

Meet Temmarie - HackerNoon Blogging Course Facilitator

4 Min Read2 months Ago

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Code Review@codereview

Inside Modern Code Review Research: Themes, Gaps, and Priorities

38 Min Read2 months Ago

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EScholar: Electronic Academic Papers for Scholars@escholar

Study Finds Developers Misjudge Which Testing Techniques Actually Work

4 Min Read2 months Ago

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EScholar: Electronic Academic Papers for Scholars@escholar

Why Developers’ Confidence in Testing Techniques Doesn’t Always Match Reality

8 Min Read2 months Ago

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Ilyas Seisov@ilyasseisov

From 18 Months of Rejections to a Dream Web Dev Job With Paid Relocation [Case Study]

6 Min Read2 months Ago

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BTCWire@btcwire

When Non‑Coders Can Also Build Apps: A New Paradigm for AI-Native App Creation

4 Min Read2 months Ago

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tyingshoelaces.com@tyingshoelaces

From 322,000 Lines to 43,000: Why Cursor Deleted Their CMS

8 Min Read2 months Ago

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December 2025

54

Archive: December 18th, 2025

This New Altcoin Surges 250% While Major Altcoins Stall

Datagram Launches Beta for Datagram VPN, a High-Speed Decentralized Privacy Network

Code Smell 09 - What Should You Do With Dead Code?

Google’s Gemini CLI Gets a GUI Makeover for the Terminal Age

The Ghosts of Crypto Past, Present, and Future —What’s Next for Crypto?

The Missing Piece in Your Text-to-SQL Pipeline: Automated Data Catalog Refinement

The TechBeat: How a Data Engineer-Turned-Music-Producer Is Revolutionizing Spatial Intelligence (12/18/2025)

The Hidden Cost of Invalid Traffic: Why IP Data Is the Missing Link

SDG 2025 Year in Review: A Bold Leap Into the Future of Social Discovery

Effectively Managing AI Agents for Testing

Why Teaching LLMs to "Click" is a Futile Abstraction

BDX on LayerZero and Stargate: Privacy Meets Cross-Chain Interoperability

A Quantum AI Oracle: Transmuting Subatomic Entropy into Digital Scarcity

Local AI-Powered Search Engine Using SLM Embeddings

OpenAI Just Hit "Code Red": Inside the New ChatGPT Images Update

Liquidity Is a Tool of Power, Not a Neutral Market Feature

Image Generation with Gemini 2.5 Flash (Nano Banana) in Android App

The Art of Remaining Consistent as a Web Developer

Stop Looking for the "Ideal Architect"

Hands-On With AWS’s New AI “Frontier” Security Reviewer

ChatGPT Is Gaslighting You With Math

Why Quitting is a UX Problem

5 Hidden Costs Most Founders Overlook When Launching an NFT Marketplace

Microsoft Fabric IQ Puts Ontology Back on the Map — and Back in the Confusion

Too Many Agent Chats? Amp’s New Thread Map Shows What Connects to What

Stop Blindly Building AI Swarms: The New "Scaling Laws" for Agents Are Here

How I Modernized a Legacy System Into a Scalable API-First Platform: A Deep Technical Case Study

My "Serverless" Dream Turned into an IP Ban Nightmare: Why I Moved to Desktop

When Models Meet the Real World: Lessons from Production ML

I Got 15K People to Practice SQL by Turning Them Into Detectives

The Intoxication—and Limits—of AI-Assisted Development

I Finally Made It to YOW!

Intelligent Document Processing: A Simple Chunking Strategy for AI Content Generation

Stop Drowning in AI Models: A 3-Pillar Framework for Evaluation

Securing LLM Inference Endpoints: Treating AI Models as Untrusted Code

Spring AI Capabilities: Effortlessly Integrate Google Gemini with Your Spring Boot Application

I Asked an AI to "Roast" My Landing Page, and Honestly? I Deserved It.

How I Mastered JavaScript Event Loop and Concurrent Model

From Launch to Exit in 10 Months: Inside Neri Bluman's Bet on Answer Engine Optimization

Doma Protocol Launches Names Marketplace on Base to Bring Over 40 Million Domains Onchain

Researchers and Developers Aren’t Fully Aligned on Modern Code Review Goals

How a Small Next.js Routing Change Boosted My Google AdSense Revenue

When Non‑Coders Can Also Build Apps: A New Paradigm for AI-Native App Creation

Revolut Lists $AURORA as Aurora Unveils Leadership Transition to Drive Mass Adoption

What Code Review Research Gets Wrong About Real Development Teams

If a Startup Makes a Product in the Forest and No One Is Around to Hear It, Does It Make a Sound?

Why One Lock Isn’t Enough: How Buburuza Designs Multi-Layer Security for AI Banking

Meet Temmarie - HackerNoon Blogging Course Facilitator

Inside Modern Code Review Research: Themes, Gaps, and Priorities

Study Finds Developers Misjudge Which Testing Techniques Actually Work

Why Developers’ Confidence in Testing Techniques Doesn’t Always Match Reality

From 18 Months of Rejections to a Dream Web Dev Job With Paid Relocation [Case Study]

When Non‑Coders Can Also Build Apps: A New Paradigm for AI-Native App Creation

From 322,000 Lines to 43,000: Why Cursor Deleted Their CMS

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