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Stories Published|February 16|Throughout History

Stories Published in 2026

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#BLOCKCHAIN-DEVELOPMENT

EIP-7702 Infrastructure to Support Account Abstraction for EOAs: Why This Matters

January 16, 2026

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#CONSTITUTIONAL-AI

As AI Systems Become More Capable, We Would Like to Enlist their Help to Supervise Other AIs

January 16, 2026

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Why BTCC's $5.7 Billion Gold Trading Surge Signals a Turning Point for Real-World Assets in Crypto

January 16, 2026

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680 Hours, 4 Rebuilds, and Getting Fired: How I Built Software While Working Warehouse Shifts

Marcin "HCK" Firmuga

Marcin "HCK" Firmuga

January 16, 2026

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#PEPETO-PRESALE-2026

Why Pepeto Tops the List of Meme Coins for January 2026

January 16, 2026

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#HACKERNOON-NEWSLETTER

The HackerNoon Newsletter: The Secret Math Behind Every Creative Breakthrough (1/16/2026)

January 16, 2026

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#HACKERNOON-WRITING-TIPS

Technical Detail Is How You Reach Our Readers in 2026

Editing Protocol

Editing Protocol

January 16, 2026

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AI Will Decide Every B2B Deal by 2030 (And That’s a Conservative Guess)

January 16, 2026

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Building Resilient Financial Systems With Explainable AI and Microservices

Jon Stojan Journalist

Jon Stojan Journalist

January 16, 2026

Historic Tech Events

Prohibition went into effect in the United States

Prohibition went into effect in the United States

1920

Prohibition went into effect in the United States, banning the sale, production, and transportation of alcohol. The ban remained in place until 1933, when it was repealed.

Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated upon re-entry

Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated upon re-entry

2003

The Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated upon re-entry, killing all seven crew members on board. The disaster was caused by damage sustained to the shuttle's heat shield during launch, and led to the suspension of the Space Shuttle program for over two years.

First Youtube video was posted

First Youtube video was posted

2006

The first video was uploaded to YouTube, which has since become one of the most popular websites in the world. The video, titled "Me at the zoo," was uploaded by co-founder Jawed Karim and now has over 160 million views.

Stories Published in 2025

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Will 2025 Be The Turning Point For Passwords: What’s Next For The Passwordless Future?

January 16, 2025

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Lumoz: Decentralized Compute Infrastructure for the Era of AI, ZK, & RaaS

Lumoz (formerly Opside)

Lumoz (formerly Opside)

January 16, 2025

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#REINFORCEMENT-LEARNING

What Makes AI Work? A Breakdown of the Key Proofs

January 16, 2025

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#REINFORCEMENT-LEARNING

Breaking Down Complex Concepts in Reinforcement Learning

January 16, 2025

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#REINFORCEMENT-LEARNING

Unpacking Key Proofs in Reinforcement Learning

January 16, 2025

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#PYTHON-PROGRAMMING

How To Build a Multilingual Text-to-Audio Converter With Python

Ajay Krishnan Prabhakaran

Ajay Krishnan Prabhakaran

January 16, 2025

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Torram’s Pre-Seed Closure Paves The Way For Institutional-Grade DeFi on Bitcoin

January 16, 2025

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Reddio Launches Public Testnet: A New Era Of Parallel EVM Powering Autonomous AI

January 16, 2025

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Company WEEX Announces WXT’s Significant 101% Surge, Breaking $0.339

January 16, 2025

Stories Published in 2024

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#ENTREPRENEURSHIP

Why Every Successful Entrepreneur Needs a Lawyer By Their Side

January 16, 2024

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#USER-GENERATED-CONTENT

The Impact of User-Generated Content on the Modern Market

January 16, 2024

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#DARK-PATTERNS-IN-UX

End-User Empowerment Interventions for Dark Patterns in UX—Appendix

The FeedbackLoop: #1 in PM Education

The FeedbackLoop: #1 in PM Education

January 16, 2024

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#DARK-PATTERNS-IN-UX

A Roadmap for User Empowerment in the Dark Pattern Landscape

The FeedbackLoop: #1 in PM Education

The FeedbackLoop: #1 in PM Education

January 16, 2024

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#DARK-PATTERNS-IN-UX

Limitations and Future Work in Dark Pattern Mitigation

The FeedbackLoop: #1 in PM Education

The FeedbackLoop: #1 in PM Education

January 16, 2024

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#DARK-PATTERNS-IN-UX

Beyond Dark Patterns: A Vision for Future-Proof Strategies in User-Centric Design

The FeedbackLoop: #1 in PM Education

The FeedbackLoop: #1 in PM Education

January 16, 2024

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#DARK-PATTERNS-IN-UX

Redefining Web Interactions in the Fight Against Dark Patterns

The FeedbackLoop: #1 in PM Education

The FeedbackLoop: #1 in PM Education

January 16, 2024

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#DARK-PATTERNS-IN-UX

Technology Probe Study in UX Design Dark Patterns

The FeedbackLoop: #1 in PM Education

The FeedbackLoop: #1 in PM Education

January 16, 2024

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#DARK-PATTERNS-IN-UX

Background and Related Work on Dark Patterns in UX Design

The FeedbackLoop: #1 in PM Education

The FeedbackLoop: #1 in PM Education

January 16, 2024

Stories Published in 2023

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#FoundersConnect: How Kemi Olawoye Is Building BabyMigo, Nigeria's Largest Parenting Community

Peace Itimi | Founders Connect

Peace Itimi | Founders Connect

January 16, 2023

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Here's Why 70% of Americans Are Overweight or Obese

January 16, 2023

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#ASIAN-ENTREPRENEURSHIP

How a Ukrainian Startup CodeGym Managed to Enter a New Market During the War

Alex Yelenevych

Alex Yelenevych

January 16, 2023

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NFX's Gigi Levy-Weiss Talks About Startup Speed, Time Management Tips and Developing a Laser Focus

January 16, 2023

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#CRYPTOCURRENCY

Six Areas to Keep an Eye on While Crypto Recovers - A 2023 Outlook

January 16, 2023

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#WEB-DEVELOPMENT

Using Next.js 13’s Bleeding-Edge Features for Data Fetching

January 16, 2023

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#WEB-DEVELOPMENT

How the 'Browser Wars' Changed the Landscape of the Internet

Shariy Ivan | Content marketer & Copywriter

Shariy Ivan | Content marketer & Copywriter

January 16, 2023

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Array Filter vs Array Reduce vs For Loop

January 16, 2023

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How I Built an Anonymous Voting System on the Ethereum Blockchain Using Zero-Knowledge Proof

January 16, 2023

Stories Published in 2022

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#CRYPTO-TRADING

Interest in Crypto-based Derivatives Decreased, New Data Indicates

January 16, 2022

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OCC the Banking Regulator Says Regulated Stablecoins will Give Holders Confidence

January 16, 2022

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Implementing 3x+1 or Collatz Conjecture In Python

Ajay Singh Rana

Ajay Singh Rana

January 16, 2022

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Automatically Scan Your Project Dependencies for Vulnerabilities Using Docker, Jenkins (Part 2/2)

January 16, 2022

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Top 10 Books to Learn Java

Fedor Yaremenko

Fedor Yaremenko

January 16, 2022

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Build a Workflow that Sends Form Submissions to Discord

Kayode Oluwasegun

Kayode Oluwasegun

January 16, 2022

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Must-have Soft Skills for a DevOps Engineer

Ilia Feoktistov

Ilia Feoktistov

January 16, 2022

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Testing a React App with Jest and react-testing-library

January 16, 2022

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#SOFTWARE-DEVELOPMENT

What Software Development Stack to Build on in 2022?

Evgenia Kuzmenko

Evgenia Kuzmenko

January 16, 2022

Stories Published in 2021

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#CRYPTOCURRENCY

7 Crypto-Predictions for 2021 That Everybody Will Agree With

January 16, 2021

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Manage Your Investment Portfolio Like a Pro: A How-To Guide

Ilona | Dev Invests 📊

Ilona | Dev Invests 📊

January 16, 2021

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#CRYPTOCURRENCY

We Built An Email & SMS Crypto Alerts So That You Don't Miss Out On The Wild Price Movements

January 16, 2021

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5 Simple Strategies To Build Trust in Remote Teams

January 16, 2021

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How to Fix Netgear EX3700 Extender Red LED

January 16, 2021

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CSS FlexBox Cheat Sheets for Web Developers in 2021

January 16, 2021

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Arbitrage as a Shortest-Path Problem

Sasha Kuznetsov

Sasha Kuznetsov

January 16, 2021

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Design a SaaS application on Rails 6.1 with Horizontal Sharding

January 16, 2021

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How To Start Your Tech Career in 2021

Abraham Enyo-one Musa

Abraham Enyo-one Musa

January 16, 2021

Stories Published in 2020

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Creating: Now vs. 30 Years Ago

January 16, 2020

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Business Lessons I Learned in Office Quotes and Facebook Statuses

Linh Dao Smooke

Linh Dao Smooke

January 16, 2020

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Performance at a Bargain: 5 Most Affordable CDN Providers

January 16, 2020

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Overview of the Innovative Features Brought to Financial Markets by Level01

January 16, 2020

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Gene-Modified Babies: Essentials of the Bioethics Subjecting 'Designer-Babies' for Future Parents

Vladimiros Peilivanidis

Vladimiros Peilivanidis

January 16, 2020

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Treating Your Software as a Craft

January 16, 2020

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How SQL Database Engine Work

Vijay Singh Khatri

Vijay Singh Khatri

January 16, 2020

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How To Publish Your Expo Application To The App Stores Using Release Channels

January 16, 2020

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My 2019 Predictions That Came True

Nebojsa "Nesha" Todorovic

Nebojsa "Nesha" Todorovic

January 16, 2020

Stories Published in 2019

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How I filmed my Kickstarter Video By Myself on a Minimal Budget

January 16, 2019

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The Lay of the Land in Blockchain Dispute Resolution and Governance Designs

January 16, 2019

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Pros And Cons of a More Regulated Blockchain Ecosystem

January 16, 2019

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#WEB-DEVELOPMENT

Build a Progressive Web App In VueJs, from Zero to Hero! PART 2— The Service Worker

Fabian Hinsenkamp

Fabian Hinsenkamp

January 16, 2019

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How A World Driven By The Blockchain Might Look Like

Gennaro Cuofano

Gennaro Cuofano

January 16, 2019

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Prospective Job Hunt and Interview Tips for IT Professionals in 2019

Magnolia Potter

Magnolia Potter

January 16, 2019

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What To Learn From Marie Kondo About Software Consulting

January 16, 2019

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How Crypto is Transforming Venture Capital

January 16, 2019

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Building chat with Odi (Node.js)

January 16, 2019

Stories Published in 2018

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Graphcool framework analysis and its use case

January 16, 2018

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Learn how to be production-ready with AWS Lambda with me

January 16, 2018

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How Cryptocurrencies Can Reduce Global Poverty

January 16, 2018

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A C++ Hello World And the Cute Heartless Rainbow

January 16, 2018

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#CUSTOMER-SERVICE

How To Go From Zero Awareness To 97% Customer Service Satisfaction In 2 Years

January 16, 2018

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#GROWTH-HACKING

These High School Dropouts Used Common Sense To Amass Millions

John Greathouse

John Greathouse

January 16, 2018

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Prepare Your Skill Set for Web Developer Interviews — Part 1

January 16, 2018

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#ARTIFICIAL-INTELLIGENCE

Five Ways in Which Artificial Intelligence Changes the Face of Web Accessibility

January 16, 2018

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#VENTURE-CAPITAL

It’s really hard to make money in VC

January 16, 2018

Stories Published in 2017

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#VENTURE-CAPITAL

7 Lessons Learned in My First Year as a Venture Capital Fund Manager

January 16, 2017

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How I Learned To Hack

January 16, 2017

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#MOBILE-APP-DEVELOPMENT

How Growing Your App Is Like McDonald’s Early Years

January 16, 2017

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#NET-NEUTRALITY

The Day The Internet Stood Still

Keep Watch, Stay Free

Keep Watch, Stay Free

January 16, 2017

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Why I like Vue over React

January 16, 2017

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#VENTURE-CAPITAL

What’s Trending in IoT Venture Capital? More Investment in Fewer Companies

January 16, 2017

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Why To-do lists are fundamentally unfit for most things

Robert Tochman-Szewc

Robert Tochman-Szewc

January 16, 2017

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#WEB-DEVELOPMENT

Liberating Digital Agencies by Switching to a CMS API

January 16, 2017

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Making the Future with IoT

January 16, 2017

Stories Published in 2016

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#ENTREPRENEURSHIP

8 Mental Habits the Most Successful People Learn to Break

Sandja Brügmann

Sandja Brügmann

January 16, 2016

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Move well and make things

January 16, 2016

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Where to promote your pre-launch startup

January 16, 2016

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Why CEOs Should Interview Every Candidate

January 16, 2016

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Flash Stock Factory Images on Moto X (2nd Gen)

Chiamaka Nwolisa

Chiamaka Nwolisa

January 16, 2016

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Fishing for Influence

January 16, 2016

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#SELF-IMPROVEMENT

Step By Step Process to Long Lasting Motivation

January 16, 2016

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Stop fking stressing, your guide to surviving the entrepreneurial lifestyle

January 16, 2016

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Highlights of CES 2016

January 16, 2016

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