HotTakes

Leaving corporate for startups? HotTakes Founders share tidbits on regret, small wins, failure, and why the hardest choice is often the right one.

To Tech Startup or Not to Tech Startup

Saša shared “a smattering of hot takes” about some of the more widely used oracle networks in the space today– including Chainlink, UMA, Tellor, Nest and BAND

Saša Milić Offers Hot-Takes on Chainlink, UMA, Tellor, Nest, and Band Protocol

Not everyone was satisfied with the recent PlayStation State of Play. Here are 7 reasons why Sony is doing right by me, and why you get a little excited.

7 Thoughts After PlayStation’s State of Play: Blake's Hot Takes [Part 1]

Don't repeat 2025's mistakes. Discover 10 year-end marketing moves tech companies need to make now: from content audits to AI search optimization.

10 Marketing Moves Tech Companies Can't Afford to Skip Before 2026

Online writing has become a synthetic echo chamber, flattened by algorithms. The solution is to rebel by writing with an authentic human voice.

The Human Algorithm: Why the Internet Feels Repetitive—And How Real Writers Can Break It

HackerNoon is proud to announce the winners of Startups of The Year 2024 in the Commerce category!

Startups of The Year 2024 Winners: Commerce

HODL 2025, set for 14-15 May 2025 at the Madinat Jumeirah in Dubai, follows the Dubai FinTech Summit and marks a new chapter for Trescon’s flagship event. 

HODL 2025: Blockchain’s Brightest Minds. All in Dubai

Social media in 2025 is a battle between humans and the machines, and we are losing.

The Internet Is Worse Than Ever, But We’re Too Addicted to Leave

HackerNoon bans users who submit brand content from personal profiles. Submit thought-provoking tech stories to increase your chances of publication.

STOP: In the name of the brand police!

Discover essential strategies for content creators to protect their work and communities amidst the growing concerns of de-platforming.

Strategies for Combatting Social Media De-Platforming in 2024

So I’m thrilled to share this Q&A with associate professor of computer science at University of California, Riverside, Shaolei Ren

AI Tech and Its Secret Water Footprint 

Discover the significance of context when considering developer opinions and controversial topics in the tech world. 

You Aren’t Qualified To Have an Opinion on Test-Driven Development Just Yet

Elon Musk keeps trending over the internet because of his hot takes and equally hot aversion to 'wokeism'.

You Can Thank Twitter for Brazil

A million pompous Tweets, a thousand pontifical TedX videos and hundreds of unnecessary hot takes don’t lie: Artificial Intelligence (AI) is here, and it’s here to stay. Ok. Good. What now? Well, before AI can truly be called a democratised technology, we have to go beyond Silicon Valley startups and implement it within small/medium businesses and governments to reap the rewards promised by the technology.

3 First Principles to Assist AI Project Managers in Company-Wide Adoption

The Backstory about the Internet’s most community-focused awards:

Adrien Book : The Beautiful Humans Of Hacker Noon (Noonies Winner for Best AI Writer, 2019)  

Alright, douchebag! You think you can go on the Internet — the house that I built — and talk smack about me? You thought I wouldn't know every time you and your hipster buddies on r/programming traded upvotes at my expense? What did you think you were using when typing out your little tweet about "Javascript Fatigue"? Yeah, that's right... me! 

I'm Javascript: And I'm Done Taking Your Shit

The media calamity of “The Corona” is disturbing and dismal, but even still, many are buzzed. It’s so titillating that we just can’t help but… participate ourselves.

Corona Porn: The Arousal of a Pandemic

Shouldn't feedback be one of the easiest things we do as designers or developers? Just look at Who Wants to Be A Millionaire. When you get stuck, just phone-a-friend and make a million dollars. Easy right?

The Feedback Fairy 🧚‍♀️

With crypto winter finally over, I’ve turned my heart to the green shoots of spring. But my thoughts are not warm in this first article in the Dreams of Crypto Spring series. I break down the most talked about digital currency in history, Facebook’s Libra, and the dark shadow it casts over the&nbsp;future.

Libra, a Cyberpunk Nightmare in the Midst of Crypto Spring

We used to believe many things to be true. We believed the sun orbited the earth. We believed the plague was a punishment from the gods. We believed that Model-View-Controller architectures and two-way data binding were the best ways to structure user interface programs on the web.

The Present Future of User Interface Development

By <a href="https://twitter.com/josephflaherty" target="_blank">Joseph Flaherty</a>

Don’t Smugly Dismiss $100M+ Startups

Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies more generally are topics that can prove to be surprisingly divisive. By ‘divisive’ I’m referring not to the debate about the legitimacy of cryptocurrencies but to the idiotic, at times cult-like behaviour of many of the so-called ‘fanboys’ of the Bitcoin and wider cryptocurrency universe. The <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6iDZspbRMg" target="_blank">Last Week Tonight segment</a> on cryptocurrencies and their potential demonstrates this behaviour perfectly in the form of the possibly fictional but also all-too-real example of ‘Dan’, your office colleague who can’t stop ranting on about how Bitcoin ‘is the future, man’ and how he can’t wait to ‘hodl’ down some Ethereum before the price ‘moons’ and they become a ‘Bitcoin billionaire’ of sorts.

The Humanitarian Side of Bitcoin

Why I Stopped Reading the News: Notes on a News Blackout

Just when you think crypto couldn’t attract more attention, a new project called <a href="https://medium.com/@CryptoKitties" data-anchor-type="2" data-user-id="c8b1419b5d28" data-action-value="c8b1419b5d28" data-action="show-user-card" data-action-type="hover" target="_blank">CryptoKitties</a> is kicking things up a notch. It’s part collectible (every kitty is one-of-a-kind), part game (breed, buy, sell kitties), and all too cuddly.

CryptoKitties & Fun-tier Technologies

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