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🪐 What’s happening in tech today, January 25, 2026?
The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, The World Health Organization's Executive Board was founded in 1949, Soviet Russia conducted the first succesful test of an Intercontinental Ballistic Missile in 1959, Nasa's Opportunity Rover landed on Mars in 2004, and we present you with these top quality stories. From HARmageddon is cancelled: how we taught Playwright to replay HAR with dynamic parameters to Patterns That Work and Pitfalls to Avoid in AI Agent Deployment, let’s dive right in.
The Long Now of the Web: Inside the Internet Archive’s Fight Against Forgetting
By @zbruceli [ 18 Min read ] A deep dive into the Internet Archives custom tech stack. Read More.
AI Doesn’t Mean the End of Work for Us
By @bernard [ 4 Min read ] I believe that AI’s impact and future pathways are overstated because human nature is ignored in such statements. Read More.
Governing and Scaling AI Agents: Operational Excellence and the Road Ahead
By @denisp [ 23 Min read ] Success isnt building the agent; its managing it. From AgentOps to ROI dashboards, here is the operational playbook for scaling Enterprise AI. Read More.
Patterns That Work and Pitfalls to Avoid in AI Agent Deployment
By @denisp [ 17 Min read ] Avoid the AI Slop trap. From runaway costs to memory poisoning, here are the 7 most common failure modes of Agentic AI (and how to fix them). Read More.
The Authorization Gap No One Wants to Talk About: Why Your API Is Probably Leaking Right Now
By @drechimyn [ 7 Min read ] Broken Object Level Authorization (BOLA) is eating the API economy from the inside out. Read More.
Why Data Quality Is Becoming a Core Developer Experience Metric
By @melissaindia [ 4 Min read ] Bad data secretly slows development. Learn why data quality APIs are becoming core DX infrastructure in API-first systems and how they accelerate teams. Read More.
How Automation Makes DataOps Work in Real Enterprise Environments
By @dataops [ 4 Min read ] DataOps provides the blueprint, but automation makes it scalable. Learn how enforced CI/CD, observability, and governance turn theory into reality. Read More.
HARmageddon is cancelled: how we taught Playwright to replay HAR with dynamic parameters
By @socialdiscoverygroup [ 19 Min read ] We taught Playwright to find the correct HAR entry even when query/body values change and prevented reusing entities with dynamic identifiers. Read More.
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