HackerNoon Tech Stories: 2026/1/21

January 2026

63

Stories Published

Archive: January 21st, 2026

Discovering the tech stories that shaped the day.

Nikita Kothari@nikitakothari

The New Software Stack of Code, Prompts, and Policies

8 Min Read17 days Ago

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Padmanabham Venkiteela@padmanabhamv

The Secret Language of AI: 4 Surprising Truths About How Agents Actually Communicate

5 Min Read17 days Ago

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Lab42AI@lab42ai

The Illusion of AI Security

6 Min Read17 days Ago

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Rutkat@therutkat

How to Improve Your Brain's Memory

5 Min Read17 days Ago

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Andrew Magdy Kamal@TheLoneroFoundation

An AI Created an Audio and Video Equalizer in C++ for Byte-by-Byte Streaming

5 Min Read17 days Ago

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Damian Griggs@damianwgriggs

The Grandfather Archive: Why I Uploaded My Soul to the Blockchain

3 Min Read17 days Ago

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Abgar Simonean@abgarsimonean

Project Loom Revolution - and How Not to Break Production in the Process

10 Min Read17 days Ago

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Victor Horlenko@victorhorlenko

How Public NuGet Packages Open the Door to Hidden Risks

5 Min Read17 days Ago

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Shaurya Mehta@shauryamehta

Fine-Tuning AI: From General Intelligence to Specialized Applications

3 Min Read17 days Ago

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Motti Peer@reblonde

How AI Could Transform Disaster Response? Insights from Octopus Founder

2 Min Read17 days Ago

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Amit Chaudhary@amit-chaudhary

Why Hosting Determines the Success of Generative AI Agents in Production

5 Min Read17 days Ago

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Legit@legit

The Dead Man's Wallet

2 Min Read17 days Ago

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Arsenii Brazhnyk@arseniibr

The Wild West of Hugging Face: I Audited 2,500 Models and Found 86 Critical Issues

3 Min Read17 days Ago

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Solo Satoshi@opensourcetheworld

Solo Satoshi Becomes Start9’s First US Distributor, Bringing Sovereign Computing Home

3 Min Read17 days Ago

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Anna Witten@fromight

You Don’t Need an API for Everything (Sometimes Scraping Is Enough)

2 Min Read17 days Ago

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Vishal Jaiswal@vishaljaiswal

Why Sounding Smart Is No Longer Proof of Knowing

3 Min Read17 days Ago

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Ben Webb - Project Manager@benwebb

Why “On Time and On Budget” Is the Wrong Goal

4 Min Read17 days Ago

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Preeti Singh@preetisingh

Python for Data Science and Machine Learning, Explained Simply

7 Min Read17 days Ago

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Virat@viratgohil

I Built an LLM Translation Service — and It Changed How I See Language

6 Min Read17 days Ago

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CyberNewswire@cybernewswire

One Identity Unveils Major Upgrade to Identity Manager, Strengthening Enterprise Identity Security

3 Min Read17 days Ago

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Korovamode@korovamode

AI Assistants and the Drift Into Dependency

5 Min Read17 days Ago

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Alessandro Pignati@alepignaxnt

Rethinking LLM Security: Secret Knowledge Defenses

5 Min Read17 days Ago

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Anjali Gopinadhan Nair@anjali002

Ransomware Doesn't Need to Lock Your Files Anymore — Here's Why That's Terrifying

5 Min Read17 days Ago

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George Anadiotis@linked_do

What Comes After the AI Bubble?

12 Min Read17 days Ago

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akiradoko666@akiradoko

C++ Exceptions, Explained from First Principles (and Assembly)

28 Min Read17 days Ago

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Dharmateja Priyadarshi Uddandarao@dharmateja

How to Use Propensity Score Matching to Measure Down Stream Causal Impact of an Event

15 Min Read17 days Ago

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Burve (Burve Story Lab)@burvestorylab

LaTeX Isn’t Just for Academics—It’s a Power Tool for Novelists

6 Min Read17 days Ago

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digitaldπeamer@digitaldrreamer

JWT vs Sessions Is the Wrong Debate

8 Min Read17 days Ago

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Joachim Zeelmaekers@joachimz

The Practical Way for Developers to Learn Algorithms

6 Min Read17 days Ago

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AI Native Dev@ainativedev

Why Specs Beat Vibes: The Next Step in AI-Native Engineering

4 Min Read17 days Ago

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Padmanabham Venkiteela@padmanabhamv

4 Surprising Ways Your API Gateway Can Handle Generative AI

5 Min Read17 days Ago

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Noufal Mohamed Basheer@noufalb

Why My "Spectacular" Churn Model Failed—And How AI Saved It

6 Min Read17 days Ago

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Vaishnavi Ramamoorthy@vaishnaviram

The Design Documentation No One Asks For (But Everyone Needs)

8 Min Read17 days Ago

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Omotayo@omotayojude

Escaping the jQuery Trap: How Django 6 Partials Let You Delete Your Frontend Code

3 Min Read17 days Ago

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CyberNewswire@cybernewswire

Airlock Digital Announces Independent TEI Study Quantifying Measurable ROI & Security Impact

3 Min Read17 days Ago

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Techbeat@techbeat

The TechBeat: Best HR Software For Midsize Companies in 2026 (1/21/2026)

2 Min Read17 days Ago

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Code Review@codereview

Reducing Privacy Code Review Overhead With Privacy-Relevant Methods

4 Min Read17 days Ago

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Code Review@codereview

Automating Privacy Code Reviews by Mapping How Software Handles Personal Data

2 Min Read17 days Ago

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Ishan Pandey@ishanpandey

Dash's 12-year journey: How One Cryptocurrency Outlasted Thousands That Launched Alongside It

4 Min Read17 days Ago

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Code Review@codereview

Tracing Personal Data Through APIs

2 Min Read16 days Ago

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Code Review@codereview

How Static Analysis Can Expose Personal Data Hidden in Source Code

2 Min Read16 days Ago

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3 Tech Polls@3techpolls

Should Companies Have to Label AI-generated Content?

3 Min Read16 days Ago

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Hack Marketing with HackerNoon for Businesses@hackmarketing

The AI Marketing Checklist: Boost Campaigns, Insights & Personalization

3 Min Read16 days Ago

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superorange0707@superorange0707

Prompt Rate Limits & Batching: How to Stop Your LLM API From Melting Down

7 Min Read16 days Ago

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Sanya Kapoor@sanya_kapoor

The Leadership Strategies That Drove Business Growth in LATAM and Dubai

4 Min Read16 days Ago

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HackerNoon Courses@hackernoon-courses

How to Write Great Articles That People Will Read

3 Min Read16 days Ago

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Noonification@noonification

The HackerNoon Newsletter: What Comes After the AI Bubble? (1/21/2026)

2 Min Read16 days Ago

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Nikita Kothari@nikitakothari

The Code is No Longer the Source of Truth: Why Documentation is the New "Source Code"

5 Min Read16 days Ago

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Blockman PR and Marketing@blockman

BingX TradFi 24-Hour Trading Volume Surpasses $1 Billion

2 Min Read16 days Ago

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Hyperbole@hyperbole

Geometric Deep Learning: Swarming Dynamics on Lie Groups and Spheres

5 Min Read16 days Ago

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Microfrontend@microfrontend

Frontend Diffusion Shows What Intent-Based UI Design Looks Like in Practice

2 Min Read16 days Ago

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Blockman PR and Marketing@blockman

BingX Lists SKR, The Native Token of Solana Mobile

2 Min Read16 days Ago

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Hyperbole@hyperbole

Four Key Trends in Theoretical Machine Learning (2026)

2 Min Read16 days Ago

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Microfrontend@microfrontend

An End-to-End System for Generating Frontends from Sketches with LLMs

2 Min Read16 days Ago

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Cyberhaven@cyberhaven

The Silent AI Breach: How Data Escapes in Fragments

8 Min Read16 days Ago

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Microfrontend@microfrontend

Why “Intent-First” Design Could Change How Humans Work With Gen AI

3 Min Read16 days Ago

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Hyperbole@hyperbole

Deep Learning via Continuous-Time Systems: Neural ODEs and Normalizing Flows Explained

3 Min Read16 days Ago

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ScyllaDB@scylladb

Benchmarking 1B Vectors with Low Latency and High Throughput

5 Min Read16 days Ago

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Hyperbole@hyperbole

Probabilistic ML: Natural Gradients and Statistical Manifolds Explained

3 Min Read16 days Ago

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Zac Amos@zacamos

AI Hype vs Reality in Cybersecurity Explained

6 Min Read16 days Ago

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Alejandro Duarte@alejandroduarte

Does MariaDB Depend on MySQL?

4 Min Read16 days Ago

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Vinita Bansal@vinitabansal

5 Risks You Have To Take as a Leader

12 Min Read16 days Ago

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Dan Layfield@dlayf

The Four Horsemen of Churn: Here's How to Stop Your Subscribers From Leaving

6 Min Read16 days Ago

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January 2026

63

Archive: January 21st, 2026

The New Software Stack of Code, Prompts, and Policies

The Secret Language of AI: 4 Surprising Truths About How Agents Actually Communicate

The Illusion of AI Security

How to Improve Your Brain's Memory

An AI Created an Audio and Video Equalizer in C++ for Byte-by-Byte Streaming

The Grandfather Archive: Why I Uploaded My Soul to the Blockchain

Project Loom Revolution - and How Not to Break Production in the Process

How Public NuGet Packages Open the Door to Hidden Risks

Fine-Tuning AI: From General Intelligence to Specialized Applications

How AI Could Transform Disaster Response? Insights from Octopus Founder

Why Hosting Determines the Success of Generative AI Agents in Production

The Dead Man's Wallet

The Wild West of Hugging Face: I Audited 2,500 Models and Found 86 Critical Issues

Solo Satoshi Becomes Start9’s First US Distributor, Bringing Sovereign Computing Home

You Don’t Need an API for Everything (Sometimes Scraping Is Enough)

Why Sounding Smart Is No Longer Proof of Knowing

Why “On Time and On Budget” Is the Wrong Goal

Python for Data Science and Machine Learning, Explained Simply

I Built an LLM Translation Service — and It Changed How I See Language

One Identity Unveils Major Upgrade to Identity Manager, Strengthening Enterprise Identity Security

AI Assistants and the Drift Into Dependency

Rethinking LLM Security: Secret Knowledge Defenses

Ransomware Doesn't Need to Lock Your Files Anymore — Here's Why That's Terrifying

What Comes After the AI Bubble?

C++ Exceptions, Explained from First Principles (and Assembly)

How to Use Propensity Score Matching to Measure Down Stream Causal Impact of an Event

LaTeX Isn’t Just for Academics—It’s a Power Tool for Novelists

JWT vs Sessions Is the Wrong Debate

The Practical Way for Developers to Learn Algorithms

Why Specs Beat Vibes: The Next Step in AI-Native Engineering

4 Surprising Ways Your API Gateway Can Handle Generative AI

Why My "Spectacular" Churn Model Failed—And How AI Saved It

The Design Documentation No One Asks For (But Everyone Needs)

Escaping the jQuery Trap: How Django 6 Partials Let You Delete Your Frontend Code

Airlock Digital Announces Independent TEI Study Quantifying Measurable ROI & Security Impact

The TechBeat: Best HR Software For Midsize Companies in 2026 (1/21/2026)

Reducing Privacy Code Review Overhead With Privacy-Relevant Methods

Automating Privacy Code Reviews by Mapping How Software Handles Personal Data

Dash's 12-year journey: How One Cryptocurrency Outlasted Thousands That Launched Alongside It

Tracing Personal Data Through APIs

How Static Analysis Can Expose Personal Data Hidden in Source Code

Should Companies Have to Label AI-generated Content?

The AI Marketing Checklist: Boost Campaigns, Insights & Personalization

Prompt Rate Limits & Batching: How to Stop Your LLM API From Melting Down

The Leadership Strategies That Drove Business Growth in LATAM and Dubai

How to Write Great Articles That People Will Read

The HackerNoon Newsletter: What Comes After the AI Bubble? (1/21/2026)

The Code is No Longer the Source of Truth: Why Documentation is the New "Source Code"

BingX TradFi 24-Hour Trading Volume Surpasses $1 Billion

Geometric Deep Learning: Swarming Dynamics on Lie Groups and Spheres

Frontend Diffusion Shows What Intent-Based UI Design Looks Like in Practice

BingX Lists SKR, The Native Token of Solana Mobile

Four Key Trends in Theoretical Machine Learning (2026)

An End-to-End System for Generating Frontends from Sketches with LLMs

The Silent AI Breach: How Data Escapes in Fragments

Why “Intent-First” Design Could Change How Humans Work With Gen AI

Deep Learning via Continuous-Time Systems: Neural ODEs and Normalizing Flows Explained

Benchmarking 1B Vectors with Low Latency and High Throughput

Probabilistic ML: Natural Gradients and Statistical Manifolds Explained

AI Hype vs Reality in Cybersecurity Explained

Does MariaDB Depend on MySQL?

5 Risks You Have To Take as a Leader

The Four Horsemen of Churn: Here's How to Stop Your Subscribers From Leaving

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