Hola Hackers! Now that 2024 has ended, we thought it would be interesting to recap our community’s viewing history. HackerNoon publishes hundreds of articles every week, but what were the Top 10 categories that grabbed more attention than the others? Well, you’re about to find out. The HackerNoon community had a total reading time of 44 YEARS, 6 MONTHS, AND 18 DAYS, but the one category that caught our community's attention more than the others was… Programming! Category

Number of Years Read



Programming

9.32



Tech-stories

6.75



Machine-learning

5.32



Product-management

3.69



Web3

3.14



Cloud

2.54



Gaming

2.01



Finance

1.69



Cybersecurity

1.60



Data-science

1.59 With over 9.3 years of reading time, HackerNoon readers kept coming back and back for what the Programming category had in store. Well, no surprises there! HackerNoon is home to some of the most in-depth guides and tutorials you’ll find on the internet on, quite frankly, any programming language you can think of! But it’s not all just code; the Tech-stories category also caught our community’s attention, underscoring the prominence of thought leadership and other news-worthy items that our readers care about. Artificial intelligence also continued to grab our community’s attention as the category had a reading time of over five years! Ok, so what about the most-read stories in each of the categories? Well, friends, we have the data for that too! Here are the Top 3 stories in the most-read categories of 2024. Programming How to Deal With Complexity When Designing Software Systems by Aleksei
Using Firebase Authentication with the Latest Next.js Features by Amadeusz Winogrodzki
Architectural Foundations for Startups: Translating Business Into Tech by Pavel Grishin Tech-Stories The Evolution of Data Center Cooling: From Air-Based Methods to Free Cooling by Egor Karitskii
Optimizing Data Center Efficiency: A Deep Dive into Freecooling Techniques by Egor Karitskii
How To Choose A Server Stack At Product Launch by Grigorii Novikov (Wow, a double whammy for Egor Karitskii! Congrats!) Artificial Intelligence Portfolio Management: All The Ways AI Is Transforming Modern Asset Strategies by Andrey Kustarev
Open-Source: The Next Step in AI Revolution by MinIO
Starting Simple: The Strategic Advantage of Baseline Models in Machine Learning by Andrey Kustarev (This time, Andrey Kustarev occupied the top slots! Congrats!) Product Management From Pre-Seed to Series A: Navigating the Key Stages of Product Development by Denis Edemskiy
Product Hypothesis Validation: Best Practices & Examples by Anastasia Faizulenova
5 Steps To Achieving Product Market Fit And The 40% Rule by Julia Kordinova Web3 Financial Nihilism and Bitcoin Explained by Darragh Grove-White
What's Inside Play to Earn by Andrey Logunov
Unlocking 2024/25: The Ultimate Guide to Top RWA Crypto Projects by Mickey Maler Cloud How to Earn $1 Million With AWS in One Year by Gianpi Colonna


Everything You Need to Know to Implement Generative AI for Your Enterprise by MinIO


Smooth Sailing: Transitioning from Docker to Localhost by MinIO (Congrats to MinIO for dominating this one!) Gaming How Fortnite Creative and UEFN Is The Next Big Creative Moneymaker and Why by Goldie Chan
Nintendo Breaks Its Silence On Palworld by Player Auctions
Stardew Valley 1.6 on Switch: For the Console, The Wait Continues ("As Soon as Possible") by Avni Savaliya Finance The High-Frequency Trading Developer’s Guide: Six Key Components for Low Latency and Scalability by Pavel Grishin
Checklist for FinTech Product Growth: Channels, Trends, and Tools by Denis Edemskiy
Protect People From Themselves: Reducing Default Risks in P2P Lending by Alexander Koptelov Cybersecurity Unmasking VEILDrive: Threat Actors Exploit Microsoft Services for Command & Control by Hunters
Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) Vulnerabilities: Testing Strategies and Examples by Konstantin Sakhchinskiy
Intro to Digital Fingerprints: Understanding, Manipulating, and Defending Against Online Tracking by Konstantin Sakhchinskiy (Pretty impressive, Konstantin Sakhchinskiy!) Data Science Outlier Detection: What You Need to Know by Natalia Ogneva
QA Checks for Big Datasets With Deequ & Statistical Methods by Akshay Jain
Data Science for Portfolio Optimization: Markowitz Mean-Variance Theory by Andrey Kustarev And that’s a wrap! What did you think? Any surprises here? Let us know, and see y’all throughout 2025! Read More About HackerNoon’s (and the HackerNoon Community’s) 2024: HackerNoon Decoded: How Users Searched in 2024
HackerNoon Decoded: The Polls that Defined 2024
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Welcome to HackerNoon Decoded: The Best of 2024 Hola Hackers! Now that 2024 has ended, we thought it would be interesting to recap our community’s viewing history. HackerNoon publishes hundreds of articles every week, but what were the Top 10 categories that grabbed more attention than the others? Well, you’re about to find out. Top 10 The HackerNoon community had a total reading time of 44 YEARS, 6 MONTHS, AND 18 DAYS , but the one category that caught our community's attention more than the others was… Programming ! 44 YEARS, 6 MONTHS, AND 18 DAYS Programming Programming Category

Number of Years Read



Programming

9.32



Tech-stories

6.75



Machine-learning

5.32



Product-management

3.69



Web3

3.14



Cloud

2.54



Gaming

2.01



Finance

1.69



Cybersecurity

1.60



Data-science

1.59 Category

Number of Years Read



Programming

9.32



Tech-stories

6.75



Machine-learning

5.32



Product-management

3.69



Web3

3.14



Cloud

2.54



Gaming

2.01



Finance

1.69



Cybersecurity

1.60



Data-science

1.59 Category

Number of Years Read Programming

9.32 Tech-stories

6.75 Machine-learning

5.32 Product-management

3.69 Web3

3.14 Cloud

2.54 Gaming

2.01 Finance

1.69 Cybersecurity

1.60 Data-science

1.59 Category Number of Years Read Category Category Category Number of Years Read Number of Years Read Number of Years Read Programming 9.32 Programming Programming Programming Programming 9.32 9.32 Tech-stories 6.75 Tech-stories Tech-stories Tech-stories Tech-stories 6.75 6.75 Machine-learning 5.32 Machine-learning Machine-learning Machine-learning Machine-learning 5.32 5.32 Product-management 3.69 Product-management Product-management Product-management Product-management 3.69 3.69 Web3 3.14 Web3 Web3 Web3 Web3 3.14 3.14 Cloud 2.54 Cloud Cloud Cloud Cloud 2.54 2.54 Gaming 2.01 Gaming Gaming Gaming Gaming 2.01 2.01 Finance 1.69 Finance Finance Finance Finance 1.69 1.69 Cybersecurity 1.60 Cybersecurity Cybersecurity Cybersecurity Cybersecurity 1.60 1.60 Data-science 1.59 Data-science Data-science Data-science Data-science 1.59 1.59 With over 9.3 years of reading time, HackerNoon readers kept coming back and back for what the Programming category had in store. Programming Programming Well, no surprises there! HackerNoon is home to some of the most in-depth guides and tutorials you’ll find on the internet on, quite frankly, any programming language you can think of! is But it’s not all just code; the Tech-stories category also caught our community’s attention, underscoring the prominence of thought leadership and other news-worthy items that our readers care about. Tech-stories category Tech-stories category Artificial intelligence also continued to grab our community’s attention as the category had a reading time of over five years ! Artificial intelligence five years Ok, so what about the most-read stories in each of the categories? Well, friends, we have the data for that too! Here are the Top 3 stories in the most-read categories of 2024. Top 3 stories Programming Programming How to Deal With Complexity When Designing Software Systems by Aleksei Using Firebase Authentication with the Latest Next.js Features by Amadeusz Winogrodzki Architectural Foundations for Startups: Translating Business Into Tech by Pavel Grishin How to Deal With Complexity When Designing Software Systems by Aleksei How to Deal With Complexity When Designing Software Systems How to Deal With Complexity When Designing Software Systems Aleksei Aleksei Using Firebase Authentication with the Latest Next.js Features by Amadeusz Winogrodzki Using Firebase Authentication with the Latest Next.js Features Amadeusz Winogrodzki Architectural Foundations for Startups: Translating Business Into Tech by Pavel Grishin Architectural Foundations for Startups: Translating Business Into Tech Pavel Grishin Tech-Stories Tech-Stories The Evolution of Data Center Cooling: From Air-Based Methods to Free Cooling by Egor Karitskii Optimizing Data Center Efficiency: A Deep Dive into Freecooling Techniques by Egor Karitskii How To Choose A Server Stack At Product Launch by Grigorii Novikov The Evolution of Data Center Cooling: From Air-Based Methods to Free Cooling by Egor Karitskii The Evolution of Data Center Cooling: From Air-Based Methods to Free Cooling Egor Karitskii Optimizing Data Center Efficiency: A Deep Dive into Freecooling Techniques by Egor Karitskii Optimizing Data Center Efficiency: A Deep Dive into Freecooling Techniques Egor Karitskii How To Choose A Server Stack At Product Launch by Grigorii Novikov How To Choose A Server Stack At Product Launch Grigorii Novikov (Wow, a double whammy for Egor Karitskii ! Congrats!) Egor Karitskii Artificial Intelligence Artificial Intelligence Portfolio Management: All The Ways AI Is Transforming Modern Asset Strategies by Andrey Kustarev Open-Source: The Next Step in AI Revolution by MinIO Starting Simple: The Strategic Advantage of Baseline Models in Machine Learning by Andrey Kustarev Portfolio Management: All The Ways AI Is Transforming Modern Asset Strategies by Andrey Kustarev Portfolio Management: All The Ways AI Is Transforming Modern Asset Strategies Andrey Kustarev Open-Source: The Next Step in AI Revolution by MinIO Open-Source: The Next Step in AI Revolution MinIO Starting Simple: The Strategic Advantage of Baseline Models in Machine Learning by Andrey Kustarev Starting Simple: The Strategic Advantage of Baseline Models in Machine Learning Andrey Kustarev (This time, Andrey Kustarev occupied the top slots! Congrats!) Andrey Kustarev Product Management Product Management From Pre-Seed to Series A: Navigating the Key Stages of Product Development by Denis Edemskiy Product Hypothesis Validation: Best Practices & Examples by Anastasia Faizulenova 5 Steps To Achieving Product Market Fit And The 40% Rule by Julia Kordinova From Pre-Seed to Series A: Navigating the Key Stages of Product Development by Denis Edemskiy From Pre-Seed to Series A: Navigating the Key Stages of Product Development Denis Edemskiy Product Hypothesis Validation: Best Practices & Examples by Anastasia Faizulenova Product Hypothesis Validation: Best Practices & Examples Anastasia Faizulenova 5 Steps To Achieving Product Market Fit And The 40% Rule by Julia Kordinova 5 Steps To Achieving Product Market Fit And The 40% Rule Julia Kordinova Web3 Web3 Financial Nihilism and Bitcoin Explained by Darragh Grove-White What's Inside Play to Earn by Andrey Logunov Unlocking 2024/25: The Ultimate Guide to Top RWA Crypto Projects by Mickey Maler Financial Nihilism and Bitcoin Explained by Darragh Grove-White Financial Nihilism and Bitcoin Explained Darragh Grove-White What's Inside Play to Earn by Andrey Logunov What's Inside Play to Earn Andrey Logunov Unlocking 2024/25: The Ultimate Guide to Top RWA Crypto Projects by Mickey Maler Unlocking 2024/25: The Ultimate Guide to Top RWA Crypto Projects Mickey Maler Cloud Cloud How to Earn $1 Million With AWS in One Year by Gianpi Colonna Everything You Need to Know to Implement Generative AI for Your Enterprise by MinIO Smooth Sailing: Transitioning from Docker to Localhost by MinIO How to Earn $1 Million With AWS in One Year by Gianpi Colonna How to Earn $1 Million With AWS in One Year by Gianpi Colonna How to Earn $1 Million With AWS in One Year Gianpi Colonna Everything You Need to Know to Implement Generative AI for Your Enterprise by MinIO Everything You Need to Know to Implement Generative AI for Your Enterprise by MinIO Everything You Need to Know to Implement Generative AI for Your Enterprise MinIO Smooth Sailing: Transitioning from Docker to Localhost by MinIO Smooth Sailing: Transitioning from Docker to Localhost by MinIO Smooth Sailing: Transitioning from Docker to Localhost MinIO (Congrats to MinIO for dominating this one!) MinIO Gaming Gaming How Fortnite Creative and UEFN Is The Next Big Creative Moneymaker and Why by Goldie Chan Nintendo Breaks Its Silence On Palworld by Player Auctions Stardew Valley 1.6 on Switch: For the Console, The Wait Continues ("As Soon as Possible") by Avni Savaliya How Fortnite Creative and UEFN Is The Next Big Creative Moneymaker and Why by Goldie Chan How Fortnite Creative and UEFN Is The Next Big Creative Moneymaker and Why Goldie Chan Nintendo Breaks Its Silence On Palworld by Player Auctions Nintendo Breaks Its Silence On Palworld Player Auctions Stardew Valley 1.6 on Switch: For the Console, The Wait Continues ("As Soon as Possible") by Avni Savaliya Stardew Valley 1.6 on Switch: For the Console, The Wait Continues ("As Soon as Possible") Avni Savaliya Finance Finance The High-Frequency Trading Developer’s Guide: Six Key Components for Low Latency and Scalability by Pavel Grishin Checklist for FinTech Product Growth: Channels, Trends, and Tools by Denis Edemskiy Protect People From Themselves: Reducing Default Risks in P2P Lending by Alexander Koptelov The High-Frequency Trading Developer’s Guide: Six Key Components for Low Latency and Scalability by Pavel Grishin The High-Frequency Trading Developer’s Guide: Six Key Components for Low Latency and Scalability Pavel Grishin Checklist for FinTech Product Growth: Channels, Trends, and Tools by Denis Edemskiy Checklist for FinTech Product Growth: Channels, Trends, and Tools Denis Edemskiy Protect People From Themselves: Reducing Default Risks in P2P Lending by Alexander Koptelov Protect People From Themselves: Reducing Default Risks in P2P Lending Alexander Koptelov Cybersecurity Cybersecurity Unmasking VEILDrive: Threat Actors Exploit Microsoft Services for Command & Control by Hunters Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) Vulnerabilities: Testing Strategies and Examples by Konstantin Sakhchinskiy Intro to Digital Fingerprints: Understanding, Manipulating, and Defending Against Online Tracking by Konstantin Sakhchinskiy Unmasking VEILDrive: Threat Actors Exploit Microsoft Services for Command & Control by Hunters Unmasking VEILDrive: Threat Actors Exploit Microsoft Services for Command & Control Hunters Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) Vulnerabilities: Testing Strategies and Examples by Konstantin Sakhchinskiy Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) Vulnerabilities: Testing Strategies and Examples Konstantin Sakhchinskiy Intro to Digital Fingerprints: Understanding, Manipulating, and Defending Against Online Tracking by Konstantin Sakhchinskiy Intro to Digital Fingerprints: Understanding, Manipulating, and Defending Against Online Tracking Konstantin Sakhchinskiy (Pretty impressive, Konstantin Sakhchinskiy !) Konstantin Sakhchinskiy Data Science Data Science Outlier Detection: What You Need to Know by Natalia Ogneva QA Checks for Big Datasets With Deequ & Statistical Methods by Akshay Jain Data Science for Portfolio Optimization: Markowitz Mean-Variance Theory by Andrey Kustarev Outlier Detection: What You Need to Know by Natalia Ogneva Outlier Detection: What You Need to Know Natalia Ogneva QA Checks for Big Datasets With Deequ & Statistical Methods by Akshay Jain QA Checks for Big Datasets With Deequ & Statistical Methods Akshay Jain Data Science for Portfolio Optimization: Markowitz Mean-Variance Theory by Andrey Kustarev Data Science for Portfolio Optimization: Markowitz Mean-Variance Theory Andrey Kustarev And that’s a wrap! What did you think? Any surprises here? Let us know, and see y’all throughout 2025! Read More About HackerNoon’s (and the HackerNoon Community’s) 2024: HackerNoon Decoded: How Users Searched in 2024 HackerNoon Decoded: The Polls that Defined 2024 HackerNoon Coded: The Top 10 Countries Where HackerNoon Is the Most Active HackerNoon Partnerships, Decoded! Welcome to HackerNoon Decoded: The Best of 2024 HackerNoon Decoded: How Users Searched in 2024 HackerNoon Decoded: How Users Searched in 2024 HackerNoon Decoded: The Polls that Defined 2024 HackerNoon Decoded: The Polls that Defined 2024 HackerNoon Coded: The Top 10 Countries Where HackerNoon Is the Most Active HackerNoon Coded: The Top 10 Countries Where HackerNoon Is the Most Active HackerNoon Partnerships, Decoded! HackerNoon Partnerships, Decoded! Welcome to HackerNoon Decoded: The Best of 2024 Welcome to HackerNoon Decoded: The Best of 2024

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