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Stories Published in 2026

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The Four Horsemen of Churn: Here's How to Stop Your Subscribers From Leaving

January 21, 2026

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5 Risks You Have To Take as a Leader

January 21, 2026

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Does MariaDB Depend on MySQL?

Alejandro Duarte

Alejandro Duarte

January 21, 2026

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#ARTIFICIAL-INTELLIGENCE

AI Hype vs Reality in Cybersecurity Explained

January 21, 2026

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Probabilistic ML: Natural Gradients and Statistical Manifolds Explained

January 21, 2026

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#SCYLLADB-VECTOR-SEARCH

Benchmarking 1B Vectors with Low Latency and High Throughput

January 21, 2026

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Deep Learning via Continuous-Time Systems: Neural ODEs and Normalizing Flows Explained

January 21, 2026

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Why “Intent-First” Design Could Change How Humans Work With Gen AI

January 21, 2026

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#DATA-LINEAGE-SECURITY

The Silent AI Breach: How Data Escapes in Fragments

January 21, 2026

Historic Tech Events

Steve Jobs unveiled the MacBook Air

Steve Jobs unveiled the MacBook Air

2008

Steve Jobs unveiled the MacBook Air, a super-thin and lightweight laptop computer that was marketed as the "world's thinnest notebook." The MacBook Air was praised for its sleek design and portability, and it helped to establish Apple's reputation as a leader in the tech industry

King Louis XVI of France was executed

King Louis XVI of France was executed

1793

King Louis XVI of France was executed by guillotine during the French Revolution. He had been tried and convicted of high treason by the National Convention, which had abolished the monarchy and established a republic in France. Louis' execution marked the end of an era and solidified the power of the revolutionary forces.

The first nuclear-powered submarine was launched

The first nuclear-powered submarine was launched

1954

The first nuclear-powered submarine, the USS Nautilus, was launched in Groton, Connecticut. The Nautilus revolutionized undersea warfare and exploration, setting numerous records for speed and distance traveled. Its success paved the way for the development of other nuclear-powered submarines and ships.

Stories Published in 2025

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#RUST-PROGRAMMING

The Algorithm That Makes Data Dance—and Solve Complex Problems Fast

January 21, 2025

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#RUST-PROGRAMMING

The Case for Rust Programming as a Game-Changer for High-Level Synthesis

January 21, 2025

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#RUST-PROGRAMMING

Scaling Hardware/Software Co-Assurance with Restricted Algorithmic C

January 21, 2025

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#RUST-PROGRAMMING

RRR—Rust, RAR, and RAC: The Trifecta for Co-Design Excellence

January 21, 2025

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Here Are the Frameworks You Need to Build a Real-Time Chat App

January 21, 2025

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ReST: Not a Silver Bullet

January 21, 2025

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NEW JavaScript Framework, Bun Update Fixes 40+ Bugs, and More - This Week in JS

This Week in JavaScript

This Week in JavaScript

January 21, 2025

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Dear Bitcoin Maximalist: Your $TRUMP Rage Just Proved You're The Real Authoritarian

Juan C. Guerrero

Juan C. Guerrero

January 21, 2025

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MemeX By Phemex: Effortless Meme Token Trading On Solana For Everyone

January 21, 2025

Stories Published in 2024

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#COMMUNITY-RESILIENCE

The United States Resilience Science and Technology Grand Pathways Framework - Content Overview

The White House

The White House

January 21, 2024

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#COMMUNITY-RESILIENCE

Aligning Grand Pathways Framework with Essential Government Functions

The White House

The White House

January 21, 2024

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#COMMUNITY-RESILIENCE

Navigating Future Challenges with the Grand Pathways Framework

The White House

The White House

January 21, 2024

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#COMMUNITY-RESILIENCE

The Role of Resilience Science & Technology in Mitigating the Texas Winter Storm Fallout

The White House

The White House

January 21, 2024

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#COMMUNITY-RESILIENCE

Using the Grand Pathways Framework to Identify and Bridge Gaps Post-COVID-19

The White House

The White House

January 21, 2024

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#COMMUNITY-RESILIENCE

A Toolkit for Policymakers and Innovators Using the Grand Pathways Framework

The White House

The White House

January 21, 2024

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#COMMUNITY-RESILIENCE

How to Use the Resilience Grand Pathways Framework

The White House

The White House

January 21, 2024

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#COMMUNITY-RESILIENCE

Hacking Resilient Communities: The Interplay Between Government Functions and Grand Pathways

The White House

The White House

January 21, 2024

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#COMMUNITY-RESILIENCE

Explore the Six Cross-Cutting Enablers in the Grand Pathway Framework

The White House

The White House

January 21, 2024

Stories Published in 2023

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The Noonification: Is the PS5 VR Headset (PSVR 2) Worth it? (1/21/2023)

January 21, 2023

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3 Major Python Problems and How to Solve Them

January 21, 2023

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The History of the Internet: Collaboration, Commerce, and Polarization

January 21, 2023

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#HACKERNOON-TECH-NEWS

Netflix Seeks Higher Revenues by Reaching More Subscribers Despite Ongoing Economic Downturn

Chinecherem Nduka

Chinecherem Nduka

January 21, 2023

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All DC Movies Coming Out in 2023

January 21, 2023

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#STARDEW-VALLEY

The Best Ways to Get Iridium Ore in Stardew Valley

Hacker Noon Gaming

Hacker Noon Gaming

January 21, 2023

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The Rapid Fire Adoption of Smart Home Tech

January 21, 2023

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MEANS OF FERTILISATION

January 21, 2023

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#NON-FICTION-COMIC

LOW SPIRITS, ANXIETY, GRIEF, DEJECTION, DESPAIR

January 21, 2023

Stories Published in 2022

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The Rising Importance of First-Party Oracles

January 21, 2022

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Will Crypto Payments Make The World A Better Place?

January 21, 2022

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Mobile Development Trends Every iOS Developer Should Know in 2022

January 21, 2022

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#INFRASTRUCTURE-AS-CODE

Learn About Infrastructure as Code in 5 Minutes and Why You Should Use It

Webiny Serverless CMS

Webiny Serverless CMS

January 21, 2022

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Who Really Owns Web3

January 21, 2022

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#SATOSHI-NAKAMOTO

Is Satoshi Nakamoto Back?

Alfredo de Candia

Alfredo de Candia

January 21, 2022

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The Deep Work Hypothesis and its Limitations

January 21, 2022

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#COMPANY-CULTURE

Subtle Culture Problems That Often Go Unnoticed

January 21, 2022

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#ROBOTIC-PROCESS-AUTOMATION

Top 13 RPA Challenges and How to Overcome Them

January 21, 2022

Stories Published in 2021

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How to Handle Injection Attacks With JavaScript - Fighting Unauthorized Access

January 21, 2021

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2021 Bitcoin Predictions: A Brief Interview with Justin Sun

January 21, 2021

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#CRYPTOCURRENCY

Path Independence in Cryptocurrency Markets

Vitalik Buterin

Vitalik Buterin

January 21, 2021

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#LOW-CODE-PLATFORM

11 Best Low-Code And No-Code Platforms in 2021

January 21, 2021

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Smart Cities Raise Data Privacy Concerns

January 21, 2021

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#SOFTWARE-DEVELOPMENT

Benefits & Risks of Offshore Software Development Every CEO Should Know

January 21, 2021

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Smart Warehousing Helps Businesses Achieve Operational Excellence

January 21, 2021

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8 Best Python Libraries For Machine Learning in 2021 🛠

January 21, 2021

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White Hat Hackers Defend Hospitals From Rising Cyber Attacks

January 21, 2021

Stories Published in 2020

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#HERE-DEVELOPER-RESOURCES

How To Use HTML Semantics like a HERO

January 21, 2020

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Top 30 Ecommerce Development Companies in 2020

January 21, 2020

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State of Hacker Noon 2019-2020

January 21, 2020

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Outtakes From The First Draft of Hacker Noon's Crowdfunding Campaign

Linh Dao Smooke

Linh Dao Smooke

January 21, 2020

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CSS Layout Basics: HTML5 & CSS3 Elements Positioning

Marios Kanellopoulos

Marios Kanellopoulos

January 21, 2020

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MariaDB + Phpmyadmin + Docker: Running Local Database

January 21, 2020

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Nginx + PHP + Docker: How To Get PHP Page Up With Local Domain Name

January 21, 2020

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The 59 Best Technology Journalism Stories Published in 2019

January 21, 2020

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Using Ethereum’s CREATE2

January 21, 2020

Stories Published in 2019

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How to Hack Time Management with Free iPhone and Mac Apps

José Manuel De Urquidi

José Manuel De Urquidi

January 21, 2019

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#ALEXA-SKILLS-KIT

Top 5 Benefits of the Jargon SDK for Voice Content Management

January 21, 2019

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How to override and customize Devise Mailers with Rails

January 21, 2019

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Exchanges and ICOs can do a lot more to secure users’ data

January 21, 2019

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Python and Finance: How to Level Up Your Spreadsheets

January 21, 2019

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What is Bitcoin? Part 2

January 21, 2019

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Forkonomy Revisited: Where Are They Now?

January 21, 2019

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Adding ElasticSearch To Legacy Application Using Logstash

Shriram Untawale

Shriram Untawale

January 21, 2019

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#MACHINE-LEARNING

RTX 2080Ti Vs GTX 1080Ti: FastAI Mixed Precision training & comparisons on CIFAR-100

January 21, 2019

Stories Published in 2018

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From Building Crypto’s Most Popular Wallet to Starting a Crypto Hedge Fund

January 21, 2018

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Npm globals as local dependencies

January 21, 2018

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Measurement Malpractice

January 21, 2018

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Historicism for Cryptomarkets (updated)

Christopher Brookins

Christopher Brookins

January 21, 2018

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Docker Saves My Life

January 21, 2018

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Chaos vs. Order — The Cryptocurrency Dilemma

January 21, 2018

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#PRODUCT-MANAGEMENT

Shit Product Managers DON’T Say

Stephen Cognetta

Stephen Cognetta

January 21, 2018

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#INFORMATION-SECURITY

Spectre & Meltdown Processor Vulnerabilities: A Technical Introduction

January 21, 2018

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Shit Programmers Say, Translated

Stephen Cognetta

Stephen Cognetta

January 21, 2018

Stories Published in 2017

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An Unusually Well-Disguised Malware Scam on Upwork: How I Almost Got Infected With a Keylogger

Emilie Syverson

Emilie Syverson

January 21, 2017

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Deploy your React & .NET Core Apps on Linux using Nginx and Supervisor

Anil Selim Surmeli

Anil Selim Surmeli

January 21, 2017

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#ENTREPRENEURSHIP

Startup for Dummies

Quentin Guignard

Quentin Guignard

January 21, 2017

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Sketch? I use it every week, but can’t pass indifferently by Affinity Designer

Gregory Wolanski

Gregory Wolanski

January 21, 2017

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From Engineer to Manager: keeping your technical skills

January 21, 2017

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Being a good open source citizen

Mattias Karlsson

Mattias Karlsson

January 21, 2017

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#FUNCTIONAL-PROGRAMMING

Easing Haskell’s Intimidating Glare

January 21, 2017

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Here’s a Quick Way to Solve App Overload

Peter Schroeder 🚀

Peter Schroeder 🚀

January 21, 2017

/how-aws-saas-startups-can-benefit-from-api-gateway-and-aws-marketplace-integration-f4095e8d92ff feature image

How AWS SaaS startups can benefit from API Gateway and AWS Marketplace integration

Febin John James

Febin John James

January 21, 2017

Stories Published in 2016

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Breathing Life into Bizly

January 21, 2016

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Startup Eras

January 21, 2016

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Rumor: Yahoo! to Spin Off, and File S-1 for, the Yahoo! Sign, Its Sole Tangible Asset

January 21, 2016

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#ENTREPRENEURSHIP

How can we support local young people to solve global challenges?

January 21, 2016

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Diversifying the Tech Pipeline: How did I get into Tech? with Yahoo’s Desmond Vehar

January 21, 2016

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#ENTREPRENEURSHIP

15 Non-billable Tasks That Will Grow Your Small Business

January 21, 2016

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My First VC Meeting — A Tale Of Brutal Rejection

January 21, 2016

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How UX is The Right Way to increase sales

Piotr Zaniewicz

Piotr Zaniewicz

January 21, 2016

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Pair Programming: A (Semi-) Definitive Guide

January 21, 2016

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