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Archive: January 22nd, 2026

Discovering the tech stories that shaped the day.

The Markup

The Markup@TheMarkup

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Instagram Creators Should Check If Their Posts Are Being Deemed Political

Min Reada month Ago

Nicolas Fränkel

Nicolas Fränkel@nfrankel

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How to Make Your Legacy Exception-Throwing Code Compatible With Lambdas

Min Reada month Ago

BTCWire

BTCWire@btcwire

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AlphaTON Launches Claude Connector Powered By TON And Telegram

Min Reada month Ago

Rodrigo Kamada

Rodrigo Kamada@rodrigokamada

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How to Add the AWS WAF CAPTCHA to an Angular Application

Min Reada month Ago

Obyte

Obyte@obyte

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Educational Byte: What Are Fed Rates and Why Do They Affect Crypto Prices?

Min Reada month Ago

Noonification

Noonification@noonification

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The HackerNoon Newsletter: 5 Risks You Have To Take as a Leader (1/22/2026)

Min Reada month Ago

Ilia Nagovitsyn

Ilia Nagovitsyn@nnilia

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Why Expected Value Is Not Enough in Production Trading Systems

Min Reada month Ago

Startups of The Year

Startups of The Year @startups

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How to Advertise Your Startup the Right Way

Min Reada month Ago

Vaishnavi Ramamoorthy

Vaishnavi Ramamoorthy@vaishnaviram

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Why “It Works” Is Often the Most Dangerous Phrase in Product Design

Min Reada month Ago

jdoula

jdoula@jdoula

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The Problem With Perfect AI Is That Mathematics Won’t Allow It

Min Reada month Ago

Abbas Rizvi

Abbas Rizvi@abbasrizvi

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Optimization Log: How I Pushed a 2,750-Word Guide to 97/100 PageSpeed for AI Search

Min Reada month Ago

Code Review

Code Review@codereview

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How Static and Hybrid Analysis Can Cut Privacy Review Effort by 95%

Min Reada month Ago

Code Review

Code Review@codereview

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What 100 GitHub Projects Reveal About Personal Data in Modern Software

Min Reada month Ago

Nitin Pareek

Nitin Pareek@authornitin

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Agentic AI Is Forcing Organizations to Rethink How Work Is Designed

Min Reada month Ago

Code Review

Code Review@codereview

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Data-Driven Ranking Reveals Where Privacy Risks Actually Live in Java and JavaScript Code

Min Reada month Ago

Jon Stojan Journalist

Jon Stojan Journalist@jonstojanjournalist

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From Written Off to Tech Lead: How Gowtham Reddy Kunduru Built Engineering Leadership

Min Reada month Ago

Techbeat

Techbeat@techbeat

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The TechBeat: CodeRabbit vs Code Reviews in Kilo: Which One Is Best For You in 2026 (1/22/2026)

Min Reada month Ago

CyberNewswire

CyberNewswire@cybernewswire

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New Research Shows 64% of Third-Party Applications Access Sensitive Data Without Authorization

Min Reada month Ago

aimodels44

aimodels44@aimodels44

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Turns Out 30% of Your AI Model Is Just Wasted Space

Min Reada month Ago

Paolo Perrone

Paolo Perrone@paoloap

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The NVIDIA Nemotron Stack For Production Agents

Min Reada month Ago

Adis

Adis@adiis

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Rent or Own? How the "Rug Pull" Era is Pushing Developers Toward Source-Available Software

Min Reada month Ago

aimodels44

aimodels44@aimodels44

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Can Large Language Models Develop Gambling Addiction?

Min Reada month Ago

ANUP Moncy

ANUP Moncy@anupmoncy

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Navigating Architectural Trade-offs at Scale to Meet AI Goals in 2026

Min Reada month Ago

Daniel, Andrei-Daniel Petrica

Daniel, Andrei-Daniel Petrica@danielpetrica

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The FrankenPHP Version Trap: Why Your Laravel Octane Stack Isn’t Using PHP 8.5

Min Reada month Ago

YASH PAL

YASH PAL@setudeora

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Essential Cybersecurity Measures Every Modern Business Should Take

Min Reada month Ago

Leon Revill

Leon Revill@leonrevill

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How to Start a Career as a Junior Developer in 2026

Min Reada month Ago

franzhusch

franzhusch@franzhusch

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Math in the Age of Machine Proof

Min Reada month Ago

Nikhil Adithyan

Nikhil Adithyan@nikhiladithyan

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A Step-by-Step Framework for Stress-Testing Trading Strategies

Min Reada month Ago

ProgrammingCentral

ProgrammingCentral@programmingcentral

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Your First Interactive Plot in Python: A Hands-On Plotly Guide

Min Reada month Ago

Valentin Vasilevsky

Valentin Vasilevsky@valentin-vasilevsky

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AI in the Workplace: A Threat to Managers or a Tool for Better Leadership?

Min Reada month Ago

Joachim Zeelmaekers

Joachim Zeelmaekers@joachimz

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Scale Is Not a Goal: Why Most Software Architectures Are Overbuilt

Min Reada month Ago

AI Native Dev

AI Native Dev@ainativedev

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Google's Jules Starts Surfacing Work on Its Own, Signaling a Shift in AI Coding Assistants

Min Reada month Ago

Ruam

Ruam@behruamm

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How I Built an Engine That Turns Architecture Sketches Into Animations

Min Reada month Ago

Daniel, Andrei-Daniel Petrica

Daniel, Andrei-Daniel Petrica@danielpetrica

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Why 70% of Developers Don’t Trust Plugins—and How I Built a Fix

Min Reada month Ago

Ivan Kuznetsov

Ivan Kuznetsov@capk

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If AI Writes the Code, Tests Decide What’s Correct

Min Reada month Ago

Leon Revill

Leon Revill@leonrevill

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A Leader’s Playbook for Collective Responsibility

Min Reada month Ago

AI Native Dev

AI Native Dev@ainativedev

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‘Are We Cooked?’ AI Forces a Rethink of What It Means to Be an Engineer

Min Reada month Ago

Burve (Burve Story Lab)

Burve (Burve Story Lab)@burvestorylab

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What Happens When Novelists Write Like Developers

Min Reada month Ago

Aman Vaths

Aman Vaths@amanvaths

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Building Your First MEV Bot: A Developer's Deep Dive into Mempool Analysis

Min Reada month Ago

Quincy Labro

Quincy Labro@labro

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Building a DIY Image-Based Part Inspection System: No Expensive Hardware Needed

Min Reada month Ago

Oleg Ekhlakov

Oleg Ekhlakov@xolegator

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From Production to Dev: Safe Database Copies with MaskDump

Min Reada month Ago

Manish Sharma

Manish Sharma@manishsharma

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Productivity Tools I Use Across Design, Dev, and Marketing

Min Reada month Ago

Giovanni Coletta

Giovanni Coletta@giovannicoletta

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What School Violence Reveals About Education – and How AI Could Help

Min Reada month Ago

Praveen Kumar Myakala

Praveen Kumar Myakala@praveenmyakala

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The Hidden Problem With Group Rewards in Multi-Agent AI

Min Reada month Ago

Ashly Joseph

Ashly Joseph@ashly-joseph

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Start with 3 Workflows, Not "AI Transformation"

Min Reada month Ago

Kislay

Kislay@kislay

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How to Explain Legacy Code to a New hire

Min Reada month Ago

Dharmateja Priyadarshi Uddandarao

Dharmateja Priyadarshi Uddandarao@dharmateja

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Will AI Take Your Job? The Data Tells a Very Different Story

Min Reada month Ago

Kilo

Kilo@kilocode

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Convert Your Slack Threads Into Code with AI: Meet Kilo for Slack

Min Reada month Ago

Erel Cohen

Erel Cohen@erelcohen

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When the Words Change but the Meaning Shouldn’t: Paraphrases as Stress Loads

Min Reada month Ago