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Nazi Germany surrendered & World War II was over

Nazi Germany surrendered & World War II was over

1945

Nazi Germany officially surrendered, marking the end of WWII on May 8, 1945, which is also known as Victory in Europe (VE) Day. The official signing of the instrument of surrender by German representatives took place on May 7, 1945, in Reims, France, but the document was not ratified until May 8, 1945, in Berlin.

Stories Published in 2025

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Godot 4.5 dev 2: The 250 Improvements Ready to Roll

Godot Engine (Technical Documentation)

Godot Engine (Technical Documentation)

May 8, 2025

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wasm32-unknown-unknown - The C ABI Changes That You Need to Know About

Rust (Technical Documentation)

Rust (Technical Documentation)

May 8, 2025

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Go 1.23: The New, Unique Package That Comes With It

Go [Technical Documentation]

Go [Technical Documentation]

May 8, 2025

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If You're an Amazon Ring Owner, You May Be an Accidental Spy

May 8, 2025

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My First Steps With Crossplane: Crossplane 101

Nicolas Fränkel

Nicolas Fränkel

May 8, 2025

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My Remote Reboot on Upwork and Freelancer.com: 96 Months Later

Nebojsa "Nesha" Todorovic

Nebojsa "Nesha" Todorovic

May 8, 2025

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Tesseral Raises $3.3M Seed to Bring Open Source Auth to B2B Software

Seed Funding Announcements

Seed Funding Announcements

May 8, 2025

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#HACKERNOON-NEWSLETTER

The HackerNoon Newsletter: Speechify, ElevenLabs, Hume: Which AI Voice Can Actually Feel Something? (5/8/2025)

May 8, 2025

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IPinfo Launches IPinfo Lite: Unlimited Country-Level Geolocation API & Database Download

May 8, 2025

Stories Published in 2024

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#IP-GEOLOCATION

IP Geo-Location: Local Database vs. Remote API—Finding the Middle Ground With Atlas

Alisina Bahadori

Alisina Bahadori

May 8, 2024

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#STARTUP-LESSONS

What I Learned After Building 30 Startups in 20 Years

May 8, 2024

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#SOFTWARE-ENGINEERING

How Mental Models and Mathematics Help Solve Engineering Problems

May 8, 2024

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Omnity Network's Fully Onchain Hub Announces Bitcoin Staking and Shared Security

HackerNoon Press Releases

HackerNoon Press Releases

May 8, 2024

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A Cinematic Tutorial on How to Work With Artificial Intelligence

May 8, 2024

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TRENDS - To Meme or Game?

May 8, 2024

#HACKERNOON-PRODUCT

Create Your Own Pixelated Avatar With HackerNoon

HackerNoon Product Updates

HackerNoon Product Updates

May 8, 2024

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The Noonification: Do Not Open This Article (5/8/2024)

May 8, 2024

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Weight of AI Expectation Weighs Heavy as iPhone 16 Launch Becomes Pivotal for Apple

May 8, 2024

Stories Published in 2021

Stories Published in 2020

Stories Published in 2018

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How to get widespread adoption: Improve the notoriously bad UI/UX in crypto-investing

Bharat Vishnubhotla

Bharat Vishnubhotla

May 8, 2018

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My Initial Thoughts on Gmail’s “Smart Compose”

Jennifer Greenberg

Jennifer Greenberg

May 8, 2018

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Golem (GNT): A Deep Dive into The AirBnB of Computers

May 8, 2018

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Who’s Afraid of the Big, Bad Smart Contract?

May 8, 2018

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Feedback & Odometry: Coursera’s Control of Mobile Robots with ROS and ROSbots — Part 3

May 8, 2018

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The Incredible Power of Working for Free

May 8, 2018

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#PRODUCT-MANAGEMENT

When Doing Your Best Is The Worst Option

May 8, 2018

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How To Develop An Organic Culture Within A Blockchain Company

Samantha Radocchia

Samantha Radocchia

May 8, 2018

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Practical Technical Analysis for Cryptocurrency in Five Minutes

May 8, 2018

Stories Published in 2016

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What’s left to build?

May 8, 2016

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How to create a Swarm (P2P) CDN for free with WebTorrent

Diego Rodríguez Baquero

Diego Rodríguez Baquero

May 8, 2016

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