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Archive: December 31st, 2025

Discovering the tech stories that shaped the day.

Noonification

Noonification@noonification

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The HackerNoon Newsletter: When Wallets Lie - Measuring Real Users in a Bot-Driven Web3 (12/31/2025)

Min Read2 months Ago

Chidambaram Subbapillai

Chidambaram Subbapillai@chidambaram-subbapil

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SAP S/4HANA Revenue Accounting and the Future of Compliant Enterprise Finance

Min Read2 months Ago

Daniel Mercer

Daniel Mercer@daniel-mercer

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Engineering at Scale: From Search Systems to AI-Native Platforms and Data Products

Min Read2 months Ago

Krithika Muralidaran

Krithika Muralidaran@krithika-muralidaran

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Managing AI Risk in Regulatory Compliance for Modern Technology Enterprises

Min Read2 months Ago

Proof of Usefulness

Proof of Usefulness@proofofusefulness

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Proof of Usefulness Hackathon by HackerNoon: Become an Official Ecosystem Partner

Min Read2 months Ago

Techbeat

Techbeat@techbeat

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The TechBeat: How Supercell Powers its Massive Social Network with ScyllaDB (12/31/2025)

Min Read2 months Ago

akiradoko666

akiradoko666@akiradoko

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The 1980s Code Powering Modern Reliability—and the Mistakes It Still Makes

Min Read2 months Ago

MattLeads

MattLeads@mattleads

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Symfony 7.4’s Request Cleanup Closes a Classic Parameter Pollution Trap

Min Read2 months Ago

Thomas Cherickal

Thomas Cherickal@thomascherickal

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I Quit Chrome for Edge and Firefox—and I’m Not Going Back

Min Read2 months Ago

Amit Surana

Amit Surana@amitsurana

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The MCP Hype Train: A Protocol’s Promise vs. Production Reality

Min Read2 months Ago

Erel Cohen

Erel Cohen@erelcohen

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Agent-specificity is the New Accuracy

Min Read2 months Ago

James Caron

James Caron@jamescaron

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Designing API Contracts for Legacy System Modernization

Min Read2 months Ago

Sowjanya Pandruju

Sowjanya Pandruju@@spandruju

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Who’s in Charge When AI Acts on Its Own? The Agentic AI Governance Gap

Min Read2 months Ago

Chinedu Otutu

Chinedu Otutu@tutumantutu

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Building a Three-Tier Architecture on AWS: When it Makes Sense (and When it Doesn't)

Min Read2 months Ago

Scott Eggimann

Scott Eggimann@wicked-racing

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How Heart Rate Data in Sim Racing Reveales the Ultimate Immersion

Min Read2 months Ago

Rostislav Dugin

Rostislav Dugin@rostislavdugin

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Databasus Became the Most Popular PostgreSQL Backup Tool in 2025

Min Read2 months Ago

Rie | DriftLens team!

Rie | DriftLens team!@riedriftlens

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The Brain Built for Control—and the Obsession Required to Break It

Min Read2 months Ago

Surya Kalipattapu

Surya Kalipattapu@suryakalipattapu

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Stop Building AI Features Without Doing This First

Min Read2 months Ago

Damian Griggs

Damian Griggs@damianwgriggs

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The Chronicle of the Genesis Engine: How I Spoke Worlds into Being

Min Read2 months Ago

Damian Griggs

Damian Griggs@damianwgriggs

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Blind Strokes and Digital Horizons: How AI Helps Me Remaster My Reality

Min Read2 months Ago

Nikita Kothari

Nikita Kothari@nikitakothari

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Prompt Engineering for Architects: Using LLMs to Validate System Design Constraints

Min Read2 months Ago

Nikita Kothari

Nikita Kothari@nikitakothari

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From Copilot to Coworker: Moving Beyond "Autocomplete" to "Autonomous Agents" in the IDE

Min Read2 months Ago

Christophe Normand

Christophe Normand@chris127

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How Crypto Can Protect People from Currency Wars

Min Read2 months Ago

Dippu Kumar Singh

Dippu Kumar Singh@dippusingh

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Building a Graph-Based Lineage AI Tool with Python

Min Read2 months Ago

Matvii Diadkov

Matvii Diadkov@diadkov

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When Wallets Lie - Measuring Real Users in a Bot-Driven Web3

Min Read2 months Ago

Audrey Nesbitt

Audrey Nesbitt@audreynesbitt

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From Experimental to Infrastructure: Why 2025 Changed On-Chain Finance for Good

Min Read2 months Ago

susie liu

susie liu@bigmao

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Ahead of CES 2026: Cameras and Maker Tools May Be Turning Into Software Businesses

Min Read2 months Ago

superorange0707

superorange0707@superorange0707

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Instruction Tuning and Custom Instruction Libraries: Your Model’s Real ‘Operating Manual

Min Read2 months Ago

Thomas Cherickal

Thomas Cherickal@thomascherickal

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Quantum Computing Fundamentals Part II: 10 Not-So Easy Pieces

Min Read2 months Ago

Lomit Patel

Lomit Patel@lomitpatel

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Why Lovable Is a Case Study in Compounding AI Product Growth

Min Read2 months Ago