HackerNoon Tech Stories: 2026/1/20

January 2026

36

Stories Published

Archive: January 20th, 2026

Discovering the tech stories that shaped the day.

Legit@legit

The Zero-Day Deduction

2 Min Read18 days Ago

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Brian Wallace@brianwallace

How to Work With Israel Startups on Public Relations With Shahni Ben-Haim

10 Min Read18 days Ago

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Devin Partida@devinpartida

How to Analyze Call Sentiment With Open-Source NLP Libraries

3 Min Read18 days Ago

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Glaze@glaze

The Infrastructure Bet Behind Crypto’s Invisible Adoption

3 Min Read18 days Ago

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Andrew Magdy Kamal@TheLoneroFoundation

The Tech Community's Efforts to Dethrone OpenAI

2 Min Read18 days Ago

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Scott D. Clary@scottdclary

Stop Trying to Transform Overnight. It’s Ruining Your Brain.

27 Min Read18 days Ago

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Thomas Cherickal@thomascherickal

The AI Agent Revolution: How to Build the Workforce of Tomorrow

39 Min Read18 days Ago

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Techbeat@techbeat

The TechBeat: A Year of AI in My Life as an Engineer (1/20/2026)

2 Min Read18 days Ago

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MattLeads@mattleads

The End of PHP-FPM? FrankenPHP Delivers 3× Throughput for Symfony Apps

8 Min Read18 days Ago

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Vipin Labroo@vlabroo

In Defense of Capitalism, Even After Its Worst Excesses

5 Min Read18 days Ago

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HackerNoon Writers Spotlight@writerspotlight

"Mom, Dad, Get the Camera! I'm A Top Writer!" -Damian Griggs Adaptive Systems Architect

7 Min Read18 days Ago

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Oleg Pustovit@opustovit

AWS Serverless is the Boring Choice that Keeps Working

15 Min Read18 days Ago

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Hephzibah Adejumo@wole

How to Build a Status Monitoring Service in Go

27 Min Read18 days Ago

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NewsByte.Tech@newsbyte

Yuri Misnik, CTO at InDrive, on Architecting an AI-First Super App

7 Min Read18 days Ago

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Meta@metaai

OPT-175B is Comparable to GPT-3 While Requiring Only 1/7th the Carbon Footprint

47 Min Read18 days Ago

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Vigneshwaran Vijayakumar@vigneshwaran

Building a Bootable USB on Windows 11 with Rufus

5 Min Read18 days Ago

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Vigneshwaran Vijayakumar@vigneshwaran

DxDiag on Windows 11: How to Check DirectX, Graphics, and Driver Issues

6 Min Read18 days Ago

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GlobalHawk@knightbat2040

Building AI Pipelines That Know When to Stop and Ask for Help

5 Min Read18 days Ago

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superorange0707@superorange0707

Why Agent Skills Could Be the Most Practical Leap in Everyday AI

5 Min Read18 days Ago

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Ishan Pandey@ishanpandey

What Happens When Sukuk-Backed Stablecoins Meet RWA Infrastructure: The Tharwa and Real Finance Deal

5 Min Read18 days Ago

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Ishan Pandey@ishanpandey

Inside Bybit's Trading Infrastructure: How to Handle Billions in Volume During Market Spikes

5 Min Read18 days Ago

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BTCWire@btcwire

AlphaTON Capital to Launch First Fully Privacy-Preserving AI Agents to Telegram’s Billion Users

5 Min Read18 days Ago

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BTCWire@btcwire

XRP and ETH Whales Add This New Crypto for 2026 Growth, Here's Why

4 Min Read18 days Ago

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Dinesh Kumar Elumalai@dineshelumalai

Building an Active-Active AWS Architecture for $47 a Month

5 Min Read18 days Ago

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David Smooke@David

The Words of Interest Benchmark Test For Matching an LLM to Your Interests

2 Min Read18 days Ago

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Cornelius Renken@corneliusrenken

Why Pure AI Agents Fail in B2B (and How To Build Deterministic Workflows)

6 Min Read18 days Ago

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Thomas Houssin@thomashoussin

Run Claude Code Anywhere With a Single Command

5 Min Read18 days Ago

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Noonification@noonification

The HackerNoon Newsletter: The Tech Communitys Efforts to Dethrone OpenAI (1/20/2026)

2 Min Read18 days Ago

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Fede Begna@sirfederick

I Treated the Human Genome as a Legacy Codebase—Here’s What I Found

4 Min Read18 days Ago

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Ridwan Sassman@ridwansassman

Why Smart Glasses May Be the Biggest Developer Workflow Shift Since Dual Monitors

7 Min Read18 days Ago

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@hacker89770727

How I Built a Churn Prediction System That My Colleagues Actually Used

5 Min Read18 days Ago

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RecomendeMe - Human Discovery Plataform@recomendeme

RecomendeMe Earns a 56 Proof of Usefulness Score by Building a Human-First Recommendation Platform

9 Min Read18 days Ago

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Lomit Patel@lomitpatel

Brand Community Platforms: The Secret to Customer Retention

8 Min Read17 days Ago

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Hui@huizhudev

The Highlighter Is Lying to You: Engineering "Sticky" Knowledge With AI

5 Min Read17 days Ago

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akiradoko666@akiradoko

How We Trained Experts to Become Speakers: No Pressure Included

8 Min Read17 days Ago

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Maxi C@mcsee

Code Smell 14 - God Objects

2 Min Read17 days Ago

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January 2026

36

Archive: January 20th, 2026

The Zero-Day Deduction

How to Work With Israel Startups on Public Relations With Shahni Ben-Haim

How to Analyze Call Sentiment With Open-Source NLP Libraries

The Infrastructure Bet Behind Crypto’s Invisible Adoption

The Tech Community's Efforts to Dethrone OpenAI

Stop Trying to Transform Overnight. It’s Ruining Your Brain.

The AI Agent Revolution: How to Build the Workforce of Tomorrow

The TechBeat: A Year of AI in My Life as an Engineer (1/20/2026)

The End of PHP-FPM? FrankenPHP Delivers 3× Throughput for Symfony Apps

In Defense of Capitalism, Even After Its Worst Excesses

"Mom, Dad, Get the Camera! I'm A Top Writer!" -Damian Griggs Adaptive Systems Architect

AWS Serverless is the Boring Choice that Keeps Working

How to Build a Status Monitoring Service in Go

Yuri Misnik, CTO at InDrive, on Architecting an AI-First Super App

OPT-175B is Comparable to GPT-3 While Requiring Only 1/7th the Carbon Footprint

Building a Bootable USB on Windows 11 with Rufus

DxDiag on Windows 11: How to Check DirectX, Graphics, and Driver Issues

Building AI Pipelines That Know When to Stop and Ask for Help

Why Agent Skills Could Be the Most Practical Leap in Everyday AI

What Happens When Sukuk-Backed Stablecoins Meet RWA Infrastructure: The Tharwa and Real Finance Deal

Inside Bybit's Trading Infrastructure: How to Handle Billions in Volume During Market Spikes

AlphaTON Capital to Launch First Fully Privacy-Preserving AI Agents to Telegram’s Billion Users

XRP and ETH Whales Add This New Crypto for 2026 Growth, Here's Why

Building an Active-Active AWS Architecture for $47 a Month

The Words of Interest Benchmark Test For Matching an LLM to Your Interests

Why Pure AI Agents Fail in B2B (and How To Build Deterministic Workflows)

Run Claude Code Anywhere With a Single Command

The HackerNoon Newsletter: The Tech Communitys Efforts to Dethrone OpenAI (1/20/2026)

I Treated the Human Genome as a Legacy Codebase—Here’s What I Found

Why Smart Glasses May Be the Biggest Developer Workflow Shift Since Dual Monitors

How I Built a Churn Prediction System That My Colleagues Actually Used

RecomendeMe Earns a 56 Proof of Usefulness Score by Building a Human-First Recommendation Platform

Brand Community Platforms: The Secret to Customer Retention

The Highlighter Is Lying to You: Engineering "Sticky" Knowledge With AI

How We Trained Experts to Become Speakers: No Pressure Included

Code Smell 14 - God Objects

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