HackerNoon Tech Stories: 2026/1/29

January 2026

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Archive: January 29th, 2026

Discovering the tech stories that shaped the day.

Alex Vakulov@alexcybersmith

Why Most LLM Jailbreaks Are Actually Empty

4 Min Read9 days Ago

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aimodels44@aimodels44

Meet Qwen-Image-Layered: The “Photoshop Layers” Trick That Makes AI Editing Finally Behave

2 Min Read9 days Ago

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Matt Trifiro@mtrifiro

It Turns Out I Didn’t Have a Productivity Problem: I Had a Transition Problem Instead

6 Min Read9 days Ago

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Azeez Ibrahim@azeez

Debugging Time: How My Date Picker Traveled to the Future (Thanks, GMT+7!)

2 Min Read9 days Ago

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aimodels44@aimodels44

The Image Editor That Finally Stops “Face Drift”: Inside Qwen-Image-Edit-2511

2 Min Read9 days Ago

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aimodels44@aimodels44

Kling v2.6 Motion Control: The “Do Exactly This” Text-to-Video Model

3 Min Read9 days Ago

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Damian Griggs@damianwgriggs

The Price of Freedom Pt. 3 (Final)

4 Min Read9 days Ago

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Blockman PR and Marketing@blockman

MEXC Launches Limited-Time Zero-Cost Borrowing Event To Help Users Unlock Capital Flexibility

2 Min Read9 days Ago

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Praise J.J.@praisejamesx

The Hidden Cost of “Being Thorough”

9 Min Read9 days Ago

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Mahipal Nehra@mahipal.nehra

Zero-Trust Security in 2026: A Complete Implementation Roadmap for CTOs

11 Min Read9 days Ago

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Kamila Selig@kamilaselig

AI Is Lowering the Entrance Fee to Imagination

6 Min Read9 days Ago

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ProgrammingCentral@programmingcentral

The Streamable-UI Pattern: Turn Chat Into a Live, Clickable React Dashboard

7 Min Read9 days Ago

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Tyler Dane@tylerdane

Why Google Calendar Sync Is Hard (and What Tokens Have to Do With It)

8 Min Read9 days Ago

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Daniel, Andrei-Daniel Petrica@danielpetrica

No More Slow Search: LaraPlugins Just Went Sub-Second

3 Min Read9 days Ago

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Kartik Jha@gamedev90

The “Syntax Repair” That Turned My Algorithm Into a Liar

5 Min Read9 days Ago

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Thanh Truong@thanhtruong

The Recommendation Engine Behind Your Cart: Design, Build, Maintain

4 Min Read9 days Ago

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Joachim Zeelmaekers@joachimz

Five Years Later: Clean Code Is Still Right (But Not Always Useful)

3 Min Read9 days Ago

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Thomas Cherickal@thomascherickal

Never Write a Prompt Again: Introducing Recursive Prompting

17 Min Read9 days Ago

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Simon Y. Blackwell@anywhichway

Building with Hypermedia: HTMX's Purity and Lightview's Flexibility.

14 Min Read9 days Ago

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Damian Griggs@damianwgriggs

I Connected a Quantum Random Number Generator to Llama 3 to Summon a Demon (Here’s What Happened)

4 Min Read9 days Ago

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aimodels44@aimodels44

The Missing Layer in Image Editing Pipelines: Structured Instructions

2 Min Read9 days Ago

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Techbeat@techbeat

The TechBeat: Benchmarking 1B Vectors with Low Latency and High Throughput (1/29/2026)

2 Min Read9 days Ago

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aimodels44@aimodels44

Researchers Train Computer-Using AI Agents Without Human Examples

5 Min Read9 days Ago

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aimodels44@aimodels44

Qwen3-TTS and the Case for Token-Based Speech Synthesis

5 Min Read9 days Ago

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aimodels44@aimodels44

New AI Training Method Balances Reasoning Power and Computational Cost

4 Min Read9 days Ago

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DataOps.live@dataops

AI Exposes the Fragility of "Good Enough" Data Operations

3 Min Read9 days Ago

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M-Media@mexcmedia

MEXC 2025 Report: Zero-Fee Strategy Delivers $1.1B in User Savings, Capturing Leading Market Share

2 Min Read9 days Ago

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M-Media@mexcmedia

MEXC Achieves 20X Growth in GOLD Futures, Captures Up to 47% Market Share with Zero-Fee Strategy

2 Min Read9 days Ago

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Jon Stojan Journalist@jonstojanjournalist

How Roblox Turns Play Into Learning

2 Min Read9 days Ago

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aimodels44@aimodels44

HERMES Rewrites the Rules of Video Streaming for Multimodal AI

7 Min Read9 days Ago

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ScyllaDB@scylladb

Cache vs. Database: Comparing Memcached and ScyllaDB

11 Min Read9 days Ago

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Igor Shadurin@igorshadurin

How I Cut AI Video Generation Costs by 8x

3 Min Read9 days Ago

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David Iyanuoluwa Jonathan@davidiyanu

RAG is a Data Problem Pretending to Be AI

17 Min Read9 days Ago

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Ievgenii Markadanov@eugene7773

Neuromorphic Computing Explained: How Brain-Inspired Systems Could Shape AI’s Future

4 Min Read9 days Ago

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Timur Kaziev@trkaziev

12 Behavioral Psychology Biases That Shape Consumer Decisions Across Digital Products

7 Min Read9 days Ago

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aimodels44@aimodels44

Notes on Agentic Reasoning for Large Language Models

5 Min Read9 days Ago

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AnotherOne@usa-to-usb

The AI Control Plane: Observability, Cost Governance, and Policy for LLM Applications

7 Min Read9 days Ago

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Noda@noda

The SEPA Instant Deadlines Have Passed. But Did Europe Really Go Instant?

4 Min Read9 days Ago

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unusual-writer@unusualwriter

The Algorithmic Blind Spot: Why AI Search Can’t See Your Tech Brand

4 Min Read8 days Ago

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Ishan Pandey@ishanpandey

Flare's $252 Million Token Program Concludes as Network Enters Real Utility Era

3 Min Read8 days Ago

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Sanya Kapoor@sanya_kapoor

As Banks Hit the Limits of Legacy Tech, Uttam Kotadiya Builds the Backbone of Real-Time Finance

4 Min Read8 days Ago

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rhortx@rhortx

Humanity's Last Game Of Musical Chairs Has Begun

7 Min Read8 days Ago

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michaelcharming@michaelcharming

Charmpay Earns a 53 Proof of Usefulness Score by Building Secure Escrow-Based Payments for Online Transactions

5 Min Read8 days Ago

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Startups Of The Week@startupsoftheweek

The “Proof Library” Trick That Gets Founders Covered in an AI-Saturated Year

4 Min Read8 days Ago

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Sanya Kapoor@sanya_kapoor

From Forecasting to BI: Inside Shravanthi Ashwin Kumar’s Data-Driven Finance Playbook

5 Min Read8 days Ago

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Sanya Kapoor@sanya_kapoor

How Venkata Kalyan Pasupuleti Builds iOS Apps Millions Rely On When It Matters Most

4 Min Read8 days Ago

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Noonification@noonification

The HackerNoon Newsletter: AI Is Lowering the Entrance Fee to Imagination (1/29/2026)

2 Min Read8 days Ago

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Interoperability in Software Publication@interoperability

Researchers Push Real-Time AI Game Simulation Beyond Traditional Engines

4 Min Read8 days Ago

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Interoperability in Software Publication@interoperability

GameNGen Turns a Classic Shooter Into a Neural Network

8 Min Read8 days Ago

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BTCWire@btcwire

Mutuum Finance (MUTM) Just Reached 2 Major Roadmap Milestones, Over 19,000 Investors Watch Closely

4 Min Read8 days Ago

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Blockman PR and Marketing@blockman

MEXC Launches Limited-Time USAT Flexible Savings Event Offering Up to 300% APR

2 Min Read8 days Ago

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January 2026

51

Archive: January 29th, 2026

Why Most LLM Jailbreaks Are Actually Empty

Meet Qwen-Image-Layered: The “Photoshop Layers” Trick That Makes AI Editing Finally Behave

It Turns Out I Didn’t Have a Productivity Problem: I Had a Transition Problem Instead

Debugging Time: How My Date Picker Traveled to the Future (Thanks, GMT+7!)

The Image Editor That Finally Stops “Face Drift”: Inside Qwen-Image-Edit-2511

Kling v2.6 Motion Control: The “Do Exactly This” Text-to-Video Model

The Price of Freedom Pt. 3 (Final)

MEXC Launches Limited-Time Zero-Cost Borrowing Event To Help Users Unlock Capital Flexibility

The Hidden Cost of “Being Thorough”

Zero-Trust Security in 2026: A Complete Implementation Roadmap for CTOs

AI Is Lowering the Entrance Fee to Imagination

The Streamable-UI Pattern: Turn Chat Into a Live, Clickable React Dashboard

Why Google Calendar Sync Is Hard (and What Tokens Have to Do With It)

No More Slow Search: LaraPlugins Just Went Sub-Second

The “Syntax Repair” That Turned My Algorithm Into a Liar

The Recommendation Engine Behind Your Cart: Design, Build, Maintain

Five Years Later: Clean Code Is Still Right (But Not Always Useful)

Never Write a Prompt Again: Introducing Recursive Prompting

Building with Hypermedia: HTMX's Purity and Lightview's Flexibility.

I Connected a Quantum Random Number Generator to Llama 3 to Summon a Demon (Here’s What Happened)

The Missing Layer in Image Editing Pipelines: Structured Instructions

The TechBeat: Benchmarking 1B Vectors with Low Latency and High Throughput (1/29/2026)

Researchers Train Computer-Using AI Agents Without Human Examples

Qwen3-TTS and the Case for Token-Based Speech Synthesis

New AI Training Method Balances Reasoning Power and Computational Cost

AI Exposes the Fragility of "Good Enough" Data Operations

MEXC 2025 Report: Zero-Fee Strategy Delivers $1.1B in User Savings, Capturing Leading Market Share

MEXC Achieves 20X Growth in GOLD Futures, Captures Up to 47% Market Share with Zero-Fee Strategy

How Roblox Turns Play Into Learning

HERMES Rewrites the Rules of Video Streaming for Multimodal AI

Cache vs. Database: Comparing Memcached and ScyllaDB

How I Cut AI Video Generation Costs by 8x

RAG is a Data Problem Pretending to Be AI

Neuromorphic Computing Explained: How Brain-Inspired Systems Could Shape AI’s Future

12 Behavioral Psychology Biases That Shape Consumer Decisions Across Digital Products

Notes on Agentic Reasoning for Large Language Models

The AI Control Plane: Observability, Cost Governance, and Policy for LLM Applications

The SEPA Instant Deadlines Have Passed. But Did Europe Really Go Instant?

The Algorithmic Blind Spot: Why AI Search Can’t See Your Tech Brand

Flare's $252 Million Token Program Concludes as Network Enters Real Utility Era

As Banks Hit the Limits of Legacy Tech, Uttam Kotadiya Builds the Backbone of Real-Time Finance

Humanity's Last Game Of Musical Chairs Has Begun

Charmpay Earns a 53 Proof of Usefulness Score by Building Secure Escrow-Based Payments for Online Transactions

The “Proof Library” Trick That Gets Founders Covered in an AI-Saturated Year

From Forecasting to BI: Inside Shravanthi Ashwin Kumar’s Data-Driven Finance Playbook

How Venkata Kalyan Pasupuleti Builds iOS Apps Millions Rely On When It Matters Most

The HackerNoon Newsletter: AI Is Lowering the Entrance Fee to Imagination (1/29/2026)

Researchers Push Real-Time AI Game Simulation Beyond Traditional Engines

GameNGen Turns a Classic Shooter Into a Neural Network

Mutuum Finance (MUTM) Just Reached 2 Major Roadmap Milestones, Over 19,000 Investors Watch Closely

MEXC Launches Limited-Time USAT Flexible Savings Event Offering Up to 300% APR

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