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Stop Building Your Product for Yourself: Why Most Early-Stage Startups Fail at Marketing
By @manukovska [ 10 Min read ] I've watched 50 startups burn cash on marketing before talking to customers. Here's what actually works: The Mum Test, founder brand building, and hiring doers Read More.
The Boredom Paradox: How Risk-Averse Engineering Built the Internet's Most Resilient Companies
By @drechimyn [ 6 Min read ] This article argues that true engineering excellence lies not in adopting new frameworks or rewriting systems but in sustaining resilient, boring infrastructure Read More.
How Search Engines Actually Answer Your Questions
By @superorange0707 [ 12 Min read ] Modern search Q&A explained: how knowledge graphs, DeepQA, and MRC turn messy web pages into direct, trustworthy answers. Read More.
How to Build a Winning Proposal for a Data Quality Project
By @melissaindia [ 5 Min read ] Build a winning data quality project proposal with clear goals, strong justification, and proven strategies that secure leadership approval and drive success. Read More.
7 of the Best SOC 2 Compliance Software Platforms in 2025
By @stevebeyatte [ 8 Min read ] A 2025 guide to the best SOC 2 compliance software, comparing automation, integrations, usability, and pricing across seven leading platforms. Read More.
Why AI Coding Agents Suck At Product Integrations And How Membrane Fixes This
By @membrane [ 5 Min read ] AI coding agents excel at building features but fail at production integrations. The issue isn't AI capabilityâit's lack of integration-specific infrastructure. Read More.
ROI Canât Save Us: Why Todayâs Money Fails at Humanityâs Biggest Problems
By @chris127 [ 4 Min read ] Why the economy underfunds planet cleanup, and how programmable money could support large-scale air, water, and soil remediation. Read More.
Can ChatGPT Outperform the Market? Week 17
By @nathanbsmith729 [ 6 Min read ] New max drawdown... Read More.
Why the HackerNoon Blogging Course Is the Writing Upgrade Youâve Been Waiting For
By @editingprotocol [ 4 Min read ] Learn how to write and get read online with HackerNoonâs Blogging Courseâeditor-led training on clarity, distribution, AI, and building a tech audience. Read More.
Google Unveils Antigravity IDE, an AI-Driven Coding Environment Powered by Gemini 3
By @proflead [ 2 Min read ] Googleâs new Antigravity IDE uses Gemini 3 to plan, code, and test applications automatically, offering developers a fast, AI-powered coding experience. Read More.
I Was Sick of the Crypto Off-Ramp Pain. So I Built My Own Crypto Card
By @MichaelJerlis [ 4 Min read ] A firsthand look at why crypto off-ramps are painful â and how the EMCD Payment Card turns spending USDT into a simple, instant, real-world experience. Read More.
The Evolving Role of Technical Leadership in the Age of AI: Rise of the Hybrid Leader
By @sanya_kapoor [ 4 Min read ] Mitesh Sinhaâs research shows the rise of hybrid leaders who blend strategy, tech fluency, and human insight for modern enterprises. Read More.
Inside My $1,000 Homelab: How I Rebuilt Big Tech Services in a Tiny Rack
By @morpheuslord [ 15 Min read ] A hands-on walkthrough of my homelab journeyâfrom Pi-hole to a $1,000 mini rackâcovering hardware, software, networking, and real-world ROI. Read More.
Important Caching Strategies: How to Create Resilient Caching in Symfony
By @mattleads [ 14 Min read ] This article explores important caching strategies that solve expensive architectural problems: latency, concurrency (thundering herds), and security (GDPR) Read More.
BIP-360: Bitcoinâs Quantum Wild West
By @orphiceye [ 5 Min read ] Bitcoin's BIP-360 is both genius and cursed, and in whatever state it is at any time, it might become the only sane option weâll have. Read More.
The Architectâs Handbook to Open Table Formats and Object Storage
By @minio [ 9 Min read ] Learn how Apache Iceberg, Delta Lake, and Apache Hudi pair with object storage to build scalable, open, high-performance data lakehouse architectures. Read More.
Escaping AWS S3: How One Cybersecurity Firm Cut Costs With AIStor
By @minio [ 5 Min read ] A cybersecurity company slashed cloud costs and boosted performance by moving from AWS S3 to MinIO AIStor, gaining speed, resiliency, & scalable on-prem control Read More.
Google & Yale Turned Biology Into a Language Here's Why That's a Game-Changer for Devs
By @knightbat2040 [ 6 Min read ] The team built a 27B parameter model that didn't just analyze biological dataâit made a novel, wet-lab-validated scientific discovery Read More.
The Fatal Math Error Killing Every AI Architecture - Including The New Ones
By @josecrespophd [ 10 Min read ] AI's Fatal Flaw: Why JEPA, LLMs & Transformers Can't Escape the Flatland, until Toroidal Math Read More.
How To Run an Open-Source LLM on Your Personal Computer
By @manishmshiva [ 6 Min read ] Learn how to install and run open-source large language models (LLMs) locally on Windowsâââwith or without the command line. Read More. đ§âđť What happened in your world this week? It's been said that writing can help consolidate technical knowledge, establish credibility, and contribute to emerging community standards. Feeling stuck? We got you covered âŹď¸âŹď¸âŹď¸ ANSWER THESE GREATEST INTERVIEW QUESTIONS OF ALL TIME We hope you enjoy this worth of free reading material. Feel free to forward this email to a nerdy friend who'll love you for it. See you on Planet Internet! With love, The HackerNoon Team âď¸