On This Day in Tech History

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Historic Tech Events

Zuck launched Facebook in his Harvard dorm room

Zuck launched Facebook in his Harvard dorm room

2004

he social networking site Facebook was launched by Mark Zuckerberg, initially for Harvard students before expanding to other universities and eventually becoming available to the general public.

World's largest and deepest tunnel was opened

World's largest and deepest tunnel was opened

2010

The world's largest and deepest tunnel, the Gotthard Base Tunnel in Switzerland, was opened for service after 17 years of construction.

"Great Society" program aimed to eliminate poverty was launch

"Great Society" program aimed to eliminate poverty was launch

1965

United States President Lyndon B. Johnson announces his "Great Society" program during his State of the Union address, aiming to eliminate poverty and racial injustice.

Stories Published in 2025

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Why Is JavaScript Benchmarking a Mess?

January 4, 2025

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PagedAttention and vLLM Explained: What Are They?

Writings, Papers and Blogs on Text Models

Writings, Papers and Blogs on Text Models

January 4, 2025

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General Model Serving Systems and Memory Optimizations Explained

Writings, Papers and Blogs on Text Models

Writings, Papers and Blogs on Text Models

January 4, 2025

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Applying the Virtual Memory and Paging Technique: A Discussion

Writings, Papers and Blogs on Text Models

Writings, Papers and Blogs on Text Models

January 4, 2025

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Evaluating vLLM's Design Choices With Ablation Experiments

Writings, Papers and Blogs on Text Models

Writings, Papers and Blogs on Text Models

January 4, 2025

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How We Implemented a Chatbot Into Our LLM

Writings, Papers and Blogs on Text Models

Writings, Papers and Blogs on Text Models

January 4, 2025

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#HACKERNOON-NEWSLETTER

The HackerNoon Newsletter: Adaptive Lighting - An Example of HACS (1/4/2025)

January 4, 2025

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How Effective is vLLM When a Prefix Is Thrown Into the Mix?

Writings, Papers and Blogs on Text Models

Writings, Papers and Blogs on Text Models

January 4, 2025

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The TechBeat: The Crypto Industry is Overlooking a Critical Factor in Ensuring Its Success (1/4/2025)

January 4, 2025

Stories Published in 2024

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#SOFTWARE-DEVELOPMENT

10 Productivity Strategies for Developers

January 4, 2024

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#STARTUP-ADVICE

How to Increase Marketplace Commission: A Real Story

Arseniy Maximov

Arseniy Maximov

January 4, 2024

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#CRYPTO-TRADING

The Next Crypto Bull Market May Come in 2024: 13 Reasons Why

Ines S. Tavares

Ines S. Tavares

January 4, 2024

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100 Days of AI Day 3: Leveraging AI for Prompt Engineering and Inference

January 4, 2024

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100 Days of AI Day 2: Enhancing Prompt Engineering for ChatGPT

January 4, 2024

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100 Days of AI Day 1: From Newsletter to Podcast, Leveraging AI for Audio Transformation

January 4, 2024

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Bridging the IT Skills Gap: Effective Training Strategies

January 4, 2024

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5 Startups Using Funny Marketing to Stand Out

January 4, 2024

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Web3 Product-Market Fit and Marketing Strategy For Blockchain Startups in 2024

January 4, 2024

Stories Published in 2023

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You Need to Know What's Going on In North Birmingham

January 4, 2023

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This App Is Tracking 250,000 Immigrants in the U.S.A.

January 4, 2023

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#ARTIFICIAL-INTELLIGENCE

Hinge Loss - A Steadfast Loss Evaluation Function for the SVM Classification Models in AI & ML

January 4, 2023

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#CRYPTOCURRENCY

Crypto Market Making Explained: The Secret Keystone To A Token Project's Success

January 4, 2023

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The Noonification: Metas Oops Moment (1/4/2023)

January 4, 2023

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#TRENDING-TECH-COMPANIES

Meta's "Oops" Moment

January 4, 2023

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#Noonies2022 Awards: The List of Winners in the Gaming Category

January 4, 2023

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How San Francisco Was Nearly Policed by Armed Robots

January 4, 2023

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The Palmer Method of Business Writing: Lesson 120

January 4, 2023

Stories Published in 2022

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Digital Assets: Are We Still Early?

January 4, 2022

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How Sandbox Technology Could Revolutionize The Gaming Market

January 4, 2022

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Empowering Creators with Tealfeed Co-founder Sourabh Kaushik

January 4, 2022

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Social Media Taboo: Twitter Followers vs. Following Ratio

Nebojsa "Nesha" Todorovic

Nebojsa "Nesha" Todorovic

January 4, 2022

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#DECENTRALIZED-INTERNET

#Decentralized-Internet Writing Competition 2021: November Results Announced!

HackerNoon Writing Contests Announcements

HackerNoon Writing Contests Announcements

January 4, 2022

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#DECENTRALIZED-INTERNET

Web3 and Beyond: Decentralizing the Internet Can Increase Your Productivity

January 4, 2022

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#HYBRID-WORKPLACES

The Future of Work: On-site Work vs Remote Work vs Hybrid Work

January 4, 2022

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#WRITING-PROMPTS

Blockchain Gaming Developers Can Build Products with Lasting Ownership in the Metaverse

January 4, 2022

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#MACHINE-LEARNING

Multicollinearity and Its Importance in Machine Learning

January 4, 2022

Stories Published in 2021

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#SOFTWARE-ENGINEERING

Top Open Source Vulnerabilities to Watch Out

January 4, 2021

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What is Salesforce AppExchange: Complete Overview

January 4, 2021

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How To Pick The Best Tech Stack for your SaaS Startup

Helder Vasconcelos

Helder Vasconcelos

January 4, 2021

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Is The Future Of Encryption On The Line?

January 4, 2021

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#DATA-STRUCTURES

How to Prepare Yourself For Data Structures and Algorithms Interviews at FAANG

January 4, 2021

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Time Value of Money: A Financial Management System for Developers

Ilona | Dev Invests 📊

Ilona | Dev Invests 📊

January 4, 2021

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It is Time To Have A Quality Control For WordPress plugins

January 4, 2021

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Winning At Web Accessibility in 2021 With These Tools for Developers

January 4, 2021

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Patenting your Tech: What to Expect and Tips for a Positive Experience

January 4, 2021

Stories Published in 2020

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Smart Toilet: Artificial Intelligence In Your Bathroom

January 4, 2020

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How To Design Web and Mobile Apps for Inclusivity

January 4, 2020

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How To Build WordPress App with React Native Part #16: Adding Dark Mode

January 4, 2020

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How To Build WordPress App with React Native Part#15: Forwarding Message to Inbox

January 4, 2020

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How To Build WordPress Client App with React Native Part #14: Implementing Settings Screen

January 4, 2020

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How To Build WordPress Client App with React Native Part #13: Configuring Firebase Database

January 4, 2020

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How To Build WordPress Client App with React Native Part #12: Creating Categories Screen

January 4, 2020

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How To Build WordPress Client App with React Native Part #11: Remove Bookmark Feature

January 4, 2020

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How to Get Your First Job as a Video Game Designer

January 4, 2020

Stories Published in 2019

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Investment Memo: 8 Reasons 8 Decimal Invested in SendFriend

8 Decimal Capital

8 Decimal Capital

January 4, 2019

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👨‍🔧️ The 7 Pro Tips To Get Productive With Angular CLI & Schematics 💪

January 4, 2019

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3 Common Mistakes To Avoid When Building Your First Shopify App

January 4, 2019

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#GOOGLE-CLOUD-PLATFORM

Hosting a Free Static Website on Google Cloud Storage

Mohamed Labouardy

Mohamed Labouardy

January 4, 2019

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Thousands of users on day 1, prototype to production in the Javascript world

January 4, 2019

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6 Lessons self-taught developers can learn from J.D. Salinger

January 4, 2019

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Is the Malta ICO regulation crypto-friendly?

January 4, 2019

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What Will You Do Tomorrow?

Erik P.M. Vermeulen

Erik P.M. Vermeulen

January 4, 2019

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Anyone Can be a Servant-Leader

January 4, 2019

Stories Published in 2018

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Events As First-Class Citizens

January 4, 2018

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#SOFTWARE-DEVELOPMENT

Future-Proofing Considered Harmful

January 4, 2018

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#PRODUCT-MANAGEMENT

Shit Product Managers Say, Translated

Stephen Cognetta

Stephen Cognetta

January 4, 2018

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Ethereum’s Biggest Need In 2018: Interview with Fabian Vogelsteller

January 4, 2018

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Bitcoin Sucks, But Don’t Underestimate Bitcoin 2.0 (Lightning Network)

January 4, 2018

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#SOFTWARE-DEVELOPMENT

14 ways to improve standup

Leo Kyrpychenko

Leo Kyrpychenko

January 4, 2018

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Front-end framework attack

January 4, 2018

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XRP: The Dichotomy of Ripple

Christopher Brookins

Christopher Brookins

January 4, 2018

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TRON For Dummies

January 4, 2018

Stories Published in 2017

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NOW HIRING: Complete This MVP to Help Writers Get Sponsored (Rails App)

January 4, 2017

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What is Data Engineering?

January 4, 2017

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#INTERNET-OF-THINGS

What the Internet of Things Has to Learn from Snapchat

January 4, 2017

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Migrating 140,000 commits from Mercurial to Git

January 4, 2017

/why-dataproc-googles-managed-hadoop-and-spark-offering-is-a-game-changer-9f0ed183fda3 feature image

#CLOUD-COMPUTING

Why Dataproc — Google’s managed Hadoop and Spark offering is a game changer.

January 4, 2017

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#GROWTH-HACKING

These High School Dropouts Crushed It With Some Simple Growth Hacks

John Greathouse

John Greathouse

January 4, 2017

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Project #7: Color-block Font for Writing

January 4, 2017

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GraphQL and DDD: the Missing Link

January 4, 2017

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5 things to watch in Go programming in 2017

January 4, 2017

Stories Published in 2016

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Top 10 Performance Optimisations

January 4, 2016

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Building Periscope fast rewind control for iOS

Danil Gontovnik

Danil Gontovnik

January 4, 2016

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Hey Movie Recommenders, We Need To Focus On The User’s Experience.

January 4, 2016

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#ENTREPRENEURSHIP

The Worst Of You

January 4, 2016

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#ENTREPRENEURSHIP

Pick One

January 4, 2016

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5 reasons why I choose “Google search” before doctor

January 4, 2016

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