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Archive: February 6th, 2026

Discovering the tech stories that shaped the day.

Lomit Patel

Lomit Patel@lomitpatel

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Community Commerce Is the Most Underrated Growth Strategy in Modern Marketing

Min Read19 days Ago

Johannes Turunen

Johannes Turunen@JohannesTurunen

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You Can’t Farm the Farmers… Or Can You? Post-Saturation Life in SaaS & Info Space

Min Read19 days Ago

Manish Shivanandhan

Manish Shivanandhan@manishmshiva

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How to Dockerize Your Application and Deploy It to Sevalla

Min Read19 days Ago

Anastasiia Chuprina

Anastasiia Chuprina@alatariel

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Bridging the Gap: Optimizing Developer-BA Collaboration for Faster Delivery

Min Read19 days Ago

Jon Stojan Journalist

Jon Stojan Journalist@jonstojanjournalist

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How Families Are Turning Plans Into Action With One Shared System

Min Read19 days Ago

Proof of Usefulness

Proof of Usefulness@proofofusefulness

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HackerNoon Projects of the Week: Pantry Pilot, RecomendeMe & Charmpay

Min Read19 days Ago

Jon Stojan Journalist

Jon Stojan Journalist@jonstojanjournalist

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How Parents Are Using Nori AI Families Assistant to Reduce Mental Load — Not Run Their Lives

Min Read19 days Ago

BTCWire

BTCWire@btcwire

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Crypto Market is Down $2T in 5 Months While This Cheap Altcoin is Surging

Min Read19 days Ago

Noonification

Noonification@noonification

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The HackerNoon Newsletter: The Weather-Report Lie: AI Isn’t Fate (2/6/2026)

Min Read19 days Ago

Praise J.J.

Praise J.J.@praisejamesx

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Read This If You Want to Be an Inventor, Not an Imitator

Min Read19 days Ago

Nica Furs

Nica Furs@nicafurs

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From 120 Hours to 2: The Hybrid Validation Shift Behind Faster, Safer Releases

Min Read19 days Ago

@hacker25951554

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CodeXero Earns a 348 Proof of Usefulness Score by Building a Vibe Coding Engine for Web3 dApps

Min Read19 days Ago

Astounding Stories

Astounding Stories@astoundingstories

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The Deadly Arrival of Leithgow

Min Read20 days Ago

@hacker61925504

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Hoppscotch Earns a 133 Proof of Usefulness Score by Building an Open-Source, Lightweight API Development Ecosystem

Min Read20 days Ago

@hacker71100467

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FinSight Earns a 55 Proof of Usefulness Score by Building an AI-Powered Finance System for Small Businesses

Min Read20 days Ago

William Fletcher Gilreath

William Fletcher Gilreath@wilgilr

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Get-Star Earns a 27 Proof of Usefulness Score by Building Client-Side Parallel Search

Min Read20 days Ago

M-Media

M-Media@mexcmedia

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MEXC Launches Commodity Zero-Fee Gala with $1 Million in Trading Rewards

Min Read20 days Ago

M-Media

M-Media@mexcmedia

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MEXC Sees 65% Surge in New Token Volume as AI and DePIN Reshape Crypto

Min Read20 days Ago

alex rai

alex rai@alexrai112

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ComLab Earns a 40 Proof of Usefulness Score by Turning User Feedback into Actionable Tickets

Min Read20 days Ago

@hacker48507274

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Ekstra AI Earns a 46 Proof of Usefulness Score by Building a Privacy-First Intelligence Layer for the Physical World

Min Read20 days Ago

Daniel Bera

Daniel Bera@ohmdan

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The Next Wave of Crypto Adoption Will Be Invisible

Min Read20 days Ago

Stewart Rogers

Stewart Rogers@therealsjr

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Beyond the Hype: The 3 Blockchains Powering Modern Government and Sovereign Infrastructure in 2026

Min Read20 days Ago

Rahul Sanjay

Rahul Sanjay@rs2385

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How AI Is Rewriting Test Automation in Modern QA

Min Read20 days Ago

Techbeat

Techbeat@techbeat

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The TechBeat: OpenClaw: An AI Lobster That Gets Work Done (2/6/2026)

Min Read20 days Ago

Mikhail Fedorov

Mikhail Fedorov@teopa

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Why AI Optimization Is a Dead End for the Economy

Min Read20 days Ago

Hussein Hallak

Hussein Hallak@husseinhallak

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The Weather-Report Lie: AI Isn’t Fate

Min Read20 days Ago

Thomas Houssin

Thomas Houssin@thomashoussin

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My 2-Cents to improve Opus Plans

Min Read20 days Ago

Juxtathinka

Juxtathinka@juxtathinka

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Embodied AI, Explained: When Robots Leave the Chatbox and Hit the Real World

Min Read20 days Ago

Robert Esentals

Robert Esentals @voidrun

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QuantumLayer Earns a 118 Proof of Usefulness Score by Building a Developer-Facing Risk Intelligence Engine

Min Read20 days Ago

Mashraf Aiman

Mashraf Aiman@mashrafaiman

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Olio AI Earns a 43 Proof of Usefulness Score by Building Production-Ready Product Visuals

Min Read20 days Ago

@hacker91868764

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Formonger Earns a 41 Proof of Usefulness Score for Building an API-First Form Backend for Developers

Min Read20 days Ago

Tuesay Singh

Tuesay Singh@tuesaysingh

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I Spent 15 Years Building Geospatial Threat Detection Systems. Here's Everything I Learned.

Min Read20 days Ago

David Iyanuoluwa Jonathan

David Iyanuoluwa Jonathan@davidiyanu

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The Telemetry Trap: Why Developer Metrics Corrode the Systems They Claim to Measure

Min Read20 days Ago

Kristopher Kosner

Kristopher Kosner@kristopher

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Secure-by-Design Architecture: Open Source as the First Line of Defense

Min Read20 days Ago

Neel Chauhan

Neel Chauhan@sourcoffee

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AI Ate the RAM: How HBM Is Pricing Small VPS Hosts Out of the Market

Min Read20 days Ago

Sandeep Bharadwaj Mannapur

Sandeep Bharadwaj Mannapur@bharadwaj

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Your LLM Doesn't Need Another Dashboard. It Needs Real Observability.

Min Read20 days Ago

NAMRATA THAKKAR

NAMRATA THAKKAR@trendsetters

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The Architecture of Stagnation - Why Smart Tech Teams Prefer 'Known Failure' Over the Unknown

Min Read20 days Ago

Manish Shivanandhan

Manish Shivanandhan@manishmshiva

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How to Build and Deploy a LogAnalyzer Agent using Langchain and Sevalla

Min Read20 days Ago

Ray Svitla

Ray Svitla@raysvitla

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The Case for Less Systems

Min Read20 days Ago

aimodels44

aimodels44@aimodels44

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ERNIE 5.0 Tries to Solve Multimodal AI by Treating Everything Like Text

Min Read20 days Ago

Tirtha Sarker

Tirtha Sarker@tirtha

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Reputation as an Economic Primitive: The Case for ERC-8004

Min Read20 days Ago

Michael Jerlis

Michael Jerlis@MichaelJerlis

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The Evolution of Passive Investing: From ETFs to Crypto Indices

Min Read20 days Ago

Michael Jerlis

Michael Jerlis@MichaelJerlis

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Home Mining vs Hashport: An Honest Comparison of Costs, Risks, Noise, and Real Profitability

Min Read20 days Ago

aimodels44

aimodels44@aimodels44

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Turn Any Photo Into Any Look: flux-2-klein 9B LoRA for Image-to-Image Editing

Min Read20 days Ago

aimodels44

aimodels44@aimodels44

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How to Run Huge Models on Cheap Hardware Without the “Quantization Hangover”

Min Read20 days Ago

aimodels44

aimodels44@aimodels44

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This Model Fixes Noisy Speech Recordings Before Your Transcriber Ever Sees Them

Min Read20 days Ago

Ishan Manjrekar

Ishan Manjrekar@gamedesignbites

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Why Hits Feel Different Now: Mobile Chases TikTok, Console Chases Community

Min Read20 days Ago

aimodels44

aimodels44@aimodels44

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MoE Isn’t the Only Path: Bigger Embeddings Win on Efficiency

Min Read20 days Ago