Heyo Hacker, very excited to announce that Hacker Noon has joined the Google Cloud for Startups program, which provides high growth companies cloud credits (up to $100K), technical support, and access to an engaging startup community.
“Google Cloud Platform and Firebase give Hacker Noon the flexibility to craft a custom publishing platform optimized for technologists,” said Hacker Noon Interim CTO Dane Lyons. “Our serverless infrastructure will generate static content and pipe it into the low latency, low-cost Google Cloud CDN. We’re excited to focus on important product details and worry less about devops and cost optimizations.”
As a startup working to free ourselves from platform dependency, it’s humbling to have Google support our own infrastructure. These resources make our future more secure, our monthly burn rate more manageable, and ultimately provide a stronger partner for serving high volumes of traffic in the long-term. We’re very excited about launching the next iteration of Hacker Noon with Google Cloud Platform and Firebase!
In honor of Google’s support, we’ve dug into the Hacker Noon library, and would like to share 50 stories about Google*:
Android
Deploy A Backend App As An Android Engineer (& Part 2) by Adam Hurwitz
Android App Architectures: Example of MVP with Kotlin by Rohit Surwase
Artificial Intelligence
Can Google’s AI Make Better AI Than the Googlers? by The Next Web
Google’s AI Based AutoDraw Turns Your Rough Scribbles Into Beautiful Icons For Free by Vinoth George
Chrome Extensions
Chrome Extension Development: Lessons Learned by Sam Jarman
Cloud Vision API
Optical Character Recognition With Google Cloud Vision API by Evelyn Chan
Compute Engine
Launch a GPU-backed Google Compute Engine instance and setup Tensorflow, Keras and Jupyter by Steve Domin
Details of Search
Google Search Analysis: Rich Search Results and Structured Data by Garrett Vorce
The Art of Searching something on the Internet. by Vikas Yadav
Easter Eggs
Building Google’s Art and Culture Portrait Matcher by Grant Holtes
Fighting Fake News
70% of People Worry About Fake News — And How Google Combats It by Chhavi Shrivastava
Firebase
Getting Started with Firebase ML for iOS by Mohammad Azam
Firebase to the Rescue: Dynamic Routing via Hosting + Functions Integration by Peter LoBue
How to Build a Product Loved by Millions and Get Acquired by Google: The Firebase Story by Founder Collective
Infinite Scrolling In Firebase by Linas M
Introduction to Firebase by GeekyAnts
Prototyping with Firebase by David Kerr
Flutter
Flutter — 5 reasons why you may love it by Paulina Szklarska
I love you Flutter by Shalom Yerushalmy
Google Cloud Platform
What are the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Services? by Reto Meier
Getting Google-y
An actionable checklist to being a Google Summer of Code student by Chhavi Shrivastava
My (slightly unconventional) path to a Google Internship by Abhimanyu
This Student Talked His Way Into The Googleplex Through Courageous Networking by John Greathouse
Google X
Deep Reinforcement Learning in Robotics using Vision by SAGAR SHARMA
Job Interview Insights
Acing Your Product Manager Interview by David E. Weekly
Interview Questions Deconstructed: The Knight’s Dialer by Alex Golec
History of Search
Google Search — How A Master’s Thesis Became An Idea Worth $70 Billion by Soundarya Balasubramani
Revisiting How Serge and Larry Saw Advertising in 1998 by Gennaro Cuofano
Home
Build a Google Home App with PubNub Functions by Kaushik Ravikumar
How I set up room-cleaning automation with Google Home, Home-Assistant and Xiaomi vacuum cleaner by Muh Hon Cheng
Internet History
“This Is Going to Be Huge”: Google Founders Collection Comes to Computer History Museum by Computer History Museum
Machine Learning
Google + Machine Learning + Getting Started = Awesomeness, and Good Cucumbers by BeeHyve
Instance Segmentation in Google Colab with Custom Dataset by RomRoc
Train Your Machine Learning Models on Google’s GPUs for Free — Forever by Nick Bourdakos
Maps
Implement Google Maps in ReactJs by Mohammed Chisti
Let’s make Reusable Web Components: Google Maps by Just Chris
Pixelbook
Contributing to Golang using Google’s Pixelbook by Daniela Petruzalek
Getting Started with Go Development in the new Google Pixelbook by Daniela Petruzalek
Quantum Programming
Google Cirq and the New World of Quantum Programming by Jesus Rodriguez
Sheets
Building an automated dashboard with Google Sheets (with example) by Nick Boyce
Google Sheets As Your Database by Just Chris
Web Scraping With Google Sheets by SeattleDataGuy
TensorFlow
A Recommendation Engine Framework in TensorFlow by James Kirk
Building a Facial Recognition Pipeline with Deep Learning in Tensorflow by Cole Murray
Creating insanely fast image classifiers with MobileNet in TensorFlow by Matt Harvey
9 Things You Should Know About TensorFlow by Cassie Kozyrkov
Query a custom AutoML model with Cloud Functions and Firebase by Sara Robinson
Youtube!
Meeting The YouTube CEO by Felix Josemon
Thanks Google! For giving startups a chance** at independence and prosperity.
Onwards!
David Smooke
*We decided to leave some of our more critical articles of Google, like How Google Will Collapse, off this particular list. But rest assured, this grant won’t impact our editorial line. Whatever tech or company you are in favor or not in favor of, there is always a place for well written stories by tech professionals on Hacker Noon. Contribute today.
**If you are a rapidly growing startup thinking about building on Google Cloud Platform, you can apply for credits yourself! Apply here.