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Archive: January 8th, 2026

Discovering the tech stories that shaped the day.

Alex Lashkov

Alex Lashkov@alexlash

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Anti-Notion: How to Manage a U.S. Relocation, a Startup, and a Divorce from a Single Google Doc

Min Read2 months Ago

Sanya Kapoor

Sanya Kapoor@sanya_kapoor

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Zero Downtime: Engineering the IoT-Oracle eAM Integration

Min Read2 months Ago

Proof of Usefulness

Proof of Usefulness@proofofusefulness

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Everything You Need to Know About HackerNoon’s Proof of Usefulness Hackathon

Min Read2 months Ago

ayokunle adeniyi

ayokunle adeniyi@ayokunle

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Compression in Big Data: Types and Techniques

Min Read2 months Ago

Ishan Pandey

Ishan Pandey@ishanpandey

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Why Ledger's Latest Data Breach Exposes the Hidden Risks of Third-Party Dependencies

Min Read2 months Ago

Tokenwire

Tokenwire@tokenwire

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How To Buy Pepeto ($PEPETO) Before It Becomes The Next Pepecoin (PEPE)

Min Read2 months Ago

Startups Of The Week

Startups Of The Week@startupsoftheweek

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Why The "Missing Middle" Is The Biggest Untapped Opportunity in 2026

Min Read2 months Ago

Ishan Pandey

Ishan Pandey@ishanpandey

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How Orbs Is Bringing Professional Perpetuals Trading to Monad Without Custom Infrastructure

Min Read2 months Ago

Noonification

Noonification@noonification

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The HackerNoon Newsletter: CSS is Only Hard Because You’re Doing Too Much (1/8/2026)

Min Read2 months Ago

BTCWire

BTCWire@btcwire

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Missed Ethereum (ETH) at $100? Analysts See 750% Upside in This New Crypto

Min Read2 months Ago

Tokenwire

Tokenwire@tokenwire

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Why Pepeto Outshines Trump Coin: Meme Coin Winners and Losers in 2026

Min Read2 months Ago

Vinita Bansal

Vinita Bansal@vinitabansal

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How to Fix Dysfunctional Leadership Teams and Why It's Important to Do So

Min Read2 months Ago

ZEX MEDIA

ZEX MEDIA@zexprwire

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MS Marks Significant Milestone as ADGM-Licensed Company Service Provider

Min Read2 months Ago

Jon Stojan Journalist

Jon Stojan Journalist@jonstojanjournalist

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This 30-Year-Old Entrepreneur Wants To Build Southeast Asia's Answer To Hims & Hers

Min Read2 months Ago

Damian Griggs

Damian Griggs@damianwgriggs

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Damian AI: A Digital Persona Built From My Work (and a Lot of Pivots)

Min Read2 months Ago

Damian Griggs

Damian Griggs@damianwgriggs

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I Built an On-Chain Video Game in the Time It Takes to Watch Netflix

Min Read2 months Ago

Gabor Koos

Gabor Koos@hacker5295744

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“Everything’s Async” Until Your RAM Explodes: The JavaScript Backpressure Problem

Min Read2 months Ago

Alvin Lee

Alvin Lee@alvinslee

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Why Regulated Enterprises Can’t Just “Use Kafka” — and What to Run Instead

Min Read2 months Ago

Anshul Pathak

Anshul Pathak@anshulpathak

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Beyond SQL Parsing: Extracting Lineage from Python ETL by Splitting the Job Across Three LLM Agents

Min Read2 months Ago

Padmanabham Venkiteela

Padmanabham Venkiteela@padmanabhamv

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Beyond the Hype: Four Surprising Truths About AI ROI in 2025

Min Read2 months Ago

Lior Barak

Lior Barak@liorb

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Sunday Scares and Data Leadership: The Pattern That Breaks Us

Min Read2 months Ago

Dmitry

Dmitry@dmtrmrv

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CSS is Only Hard Because You’re Doing Too Much

Min Read2 months Ago

Saqib Khan

Saqib Khan@saqib25k

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Navigating Technology advancements mid-way through your career

Min Read2 months Ago

Amit Sharma

Amit Sharma@amitpsharma

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The Discovery Gap: Why ChatGPT Knows Your Startup But Won't Recommend It

Min Read2 months Ago

Igor Ryazancev

Igor Ryazancev@i9orxd

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AI Is Not Just an API Call: What iOS Engineers Learn the Hard Way in Production

Min Read2 months Ago

Obyte

Obyte@obyte

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5 Open-Source Fashion Projects to Use for Free —and Support with Kivach

Min Read2 months Ago

Thomas Perrier

Thomas Perrier@thomasperrier

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When Machines Think: A Modern Candide on AI, AGI, and Human Meaning

Min Read2 months Ago

SignalYves

SignalYves@signalyves

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Why Markets Struggle to Read Signals in a World of Quiet Constraints

Min Read2 months Ago

Matjaž Gazvoda

Matjaž Gazvoda@matjazo

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Not Everything Should Be Automated

Min Read2 months Ago

Santhosh Adiga

Santhosh Adiga@shadowbytex

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The Silent Trauma of Cleaning Up Other People's Security Mistakes

Min Read2 months Ago

Kaustuv Ghosh

Kaustuv Ghosh@nxtgencode

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Rural Banking stack-3 Or The Magic of Conversations

Min Read2 months Ago

Padmanabham Venkiteela

Padmanabham Venkiteela@padmanabhamv

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From Experiment to Enterprise: Governing AI Agents for Measurable ROI

Min Read2 months Ago

Karthik Reddy Kachana

Karthik Reddy Kachana@karthikmedtech

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Beyond the Hype: Why a “Trust Gap” Forced My Custom Voice AI Architecture

Min Read2 months Ago

Kaustuv Ghosh

Kaustuv Ghosh@nxtgencode

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SME Lending at Point Of Sale

Min Read2 months Ago

Manaliben Amin

Manaliben Amin@mamin

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When Validation Writes Itself: How AI and Low-Code Are Reprogramming Compliance

Min Read2 months Ago

Techbeat

Techbeat@techbeat

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The TechBeat: Designing API Contracts for Legacy System Modernization (1/8/2026)

Min Read2 months Ago

Alex Cloudstar

Alex Cloudstar@alexcloudstar

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From "Bad Period" to #1 on Product Hunt: How I Built PH Wrapped in 24 Hours

Min Read2 months Ago

rohan s

rohan s@rohanz

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The Dangerous Comfort of “Shared Responsibility” in the Cloud

Min Read2 months Ago

Dinesh Kumar Elumalai

Dinesh Kumar Elumalai@dineshelumalai

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We Replaced 3 Senior Devs with AI Agents: One Year Later

Min Read2 months Ago

Farida

Farida@farida

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Overconfidence: The Thief of Joy

Min Read2 months Ago

Damian Griggs

Damian Griggs@damianwgriggs

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Python is a Love Language: My First Date With 'The Seducer'

Min Read2 months Ago

Christophe Normand

Christophe Normand@chris127

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Should We Be Worried About Losing Jobs? Or Just Adapt Our Civilization to New Reality?

Min Read2 months Ago

GlobalHawk

GlobalHawk@knightbat2040

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Beyond 85%: Why Your AI Project is Stuck in the Messy Middle

Min Read2 months Ago

Bruce Li

Bruce Li@zbruceli

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Gran Turismo 2026: The Great AI Showdown for Autonomous Driving

Min Read2 months Ago

The Scratchy Cat

The Scratchy Cat@thescratchycat

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If AI is Centralized Today, Is It A Law of Nature? No, It's Not

Min Read2 months Ago

Birudeghi

Birudeghi@owenkosman

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Hard Problems Need to be Solved by LLMs

Min Read2 months Ago

Vipin Labroo

Vipin Labroo@vlabroo

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Perfect Side Gigs for Indians Aged 60 and Above

Min Read2 months Ago

Tigran Bayburtsyan

Tigran Bayburtsyan@tigranbs

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Multitasking with Vibe Coding drains your attention span | Tigran.tech

Min Read2 months Ago

onlyG

onlyG@onlyg

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Introducing the Secret Weapon You've Needed All Along for Sustainable SaaS Growth: Growth Loops

Min Read2 months Ago