On This Day in Tech History

Stories Published|November 15|Throughout History

Historic Tech Events

China Launched its First Manned Spaceflight

China Launched its First Manned Spaceflight

2003

On October 15, 2003, Shenzhou 5 carried the first Chinese astronaut, pilot Yang Liwei, on a 21-hour spaceflight. China thus became the third country after Russia and the United States to launch a crewed spacecraft.

Paul Allen, Microsoft cofounder, passed away

Paul Allen, Microsoft cofounder, passed away

2018

American investor and philanthropist Paul Allen, who co-founded Microsoft, passed away. Allen was a pioneer in the tech industry and a major contributor to various philanthropic causes

Dancer and spy Mata Hari is executed

Dancer and spy Mata Hari is executed

1917

Dancer, courtesan and alleged spy Mata Hari is executed for espionage by a French firing squad at Vincennes outside of Paris.

Stories Published in 2025

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MCPTotal Launches to Power Secure Enterprise MCP Workflows

October 15, 2025

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#MOBILE-SECURITY

How Dockerized Android Performs Across Different Operating Systems

October 15, 2025

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xMoney Launches $XMN on Sui, Expands Listings Across Global Exchanges

October 15, 2025

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#MOBILE-SECURITY

Dockerized Android Architecture

October 15, 2025

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#AI-CODE-GENERATION

Trusting AI With Your Code? Read This First

October 15, 2025

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#SD-WAN-AUTOMATION

SDWAN: Need for E2E Automation for Faster Rollout

October 15, 2025

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#DATA-ACCESS-MANAGEMENT

Cracking the Code on Data Access: Independent Research and Innovations by Dinesh Thangaraju

October 15, 2025

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#BTZO-CRYPTO-EXCHANGE

Mississauga Masters Confirm BTZO as Non-Lead Arm Jersey Sponsor for Canada Super 60 2025 Season

October 15, 2025

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#AI-CLOUD-SECURITY

How Next-Gen Cloud Architectures are Setting New Security Standards by Siva Kumar Mamillapalli

October 15, 2025

Stories Published in 2024

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#HACKERNOON-NEWSLETTER

The HackerNoon Newsletter: Dear Startup Founders: Beware of Your Minions! (10/15/2024)

October 15, 2024

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Innovating Service Excellence: Leveraging AI and Machine Learning

Jon Stojan Media

Jon Stojan Media

October 15, 2024

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Material10: The Startup That’s Breaking All the Rules in Gaming

Jon Stojan Media

Jon Stojan Media

October 15, 2024

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Periods - Do Women Really Need Them?

the frog society

the frog society

October 15, 2024

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MEXC Exchange Leads In Global Memecoin Listings With Over 240 Pairs

October 15, 2024

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Startups of the Year 2024: YellowMay - Innovating the Insurance Industry

October 15, 2024

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The Best User Agent for Web Scraping

October 15, 2024

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#TECH-COMPANIES

BG Remove Review: Exploring How This AI Background Remover Stands Out

October 15, 2024

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#TECH-COMPANIES

Tad AI Review: Make High-Quality, Royalty-Free Music with AI

October 15, 2024

Stories Published in 2023

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How to Find the Stinky Parts of Your Code [Part XLV]

Maximiliano Contieri

Maximiliano Contieri

October 15, 2023

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#DATA-ENGINEERING

What the heck is Apache SeaTunnel?

October 15, 2023

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Operating Against a Flank

Carl Von Clausewitz

Carl Von Clausewitz

October 15, 2023

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U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and His Powerful Billionaire Friends

October 15, 2023

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Microsoft Completes $69 Billion Acquisition of Activision Blizzard Amid Regulatory Hurdles

October 15, 2023

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Unleashing Human Potential: Be So Good, AI Won’t Replace You

October 15, 2023

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The Market Remains Resilient Amidst Geopolitical Tensions

October 15, 2023

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CATS AND CANDY

October 15, 2023

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The Noonification: Go and Protocol Buffers (Quick Tutorial) (10/15/2023)

October 15, 2023

Stories Published in 2022

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Gaussian Co-Ordinates

Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein

October 15, 2022

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The Noonification: The Lord of Space (10/15/2022)

October 15, 2022

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Employing a Competitor

John D. Rockefeller

John D. Rockefeller

October 15, 2022

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#SCIENCE-FICTION

The Lord of Space

Astounding Stories

Astounding Stories

October 15, 2022

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#HACKERNOON-BOOKS

The Workings of Capillary Glands and Membranes

October 15, 2022

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#HACKERNOON-BOOKS

Crystal Detectors and Telephonic Speech

A. Frederick Collins

A. Frederick Collins

October 15, 2022

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#HACKERNOON-COMMUNITY

Who is Going to Win the CPU War Between AMD and Intel?

Tech Story Templates by HackerNoon Editors

Tech Story Templates by HackerNoon Editors

October 15, 2022

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The Palmer Method of Business Writing: Lesson 39, 40, 41, 42, AND 43

October 15, 2022

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The Island of Doctor Moreau: IV. AT THE SCHOONER’S RAIL

October 15, 2022

Stories Published in 2021

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Beyond coding: a list of Java Developer’s typical tasks on a project

October 15, 2021

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What was your favorite childhood video game?

Slogging (Slack Blogging)

Slogging (Slack Blogging)

October 15, 2021

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Building a To-do List App with Python: Data Access Layer with SQLAlchemy

October 15, 2021

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#FUTURE-OF-WORK

Hybrid Work: What Is the Future of the Corporate Meeting Room?

Francesca M. Nichols

Francesca M. Nichols

October 15, 2021

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How to Copy Files From One Directory to Another Using the Java 7 NIO 2 API

October 15, 2021

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#CRYPTOCURRENCY

Forget Shark Tank, The Killer Whale Pod is Here to Support Your Blockchain Projects

October 15, 2021

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Decentralization Will Force Institutions to Conform or Die: Brandon Burgason, CEO of Mobie Labs

October 15, 2021

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4 Women-led Crypto Projects That Are Driving the Blockchain Industry

October 15, 2021

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4 Enterprise Cybersecurity Trends in 2021

October 15, 2021

Stories Published in 2020

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#FINTECH-STARTUPS

"Assume You Don’t Know and Test Everything"

October 15, 2020

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"Powered by": An Acquisition Channel That Drove Initial Growth for 43 SaaS Companies (My Analysis)

October 15, 2020

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#SOFTWARE-DEVELOPMENT

Improving Software Development Productivity

October 15, 2020

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#MACHINE-LEARNING

A Beginners Guide to the Gradient Descent Algorithm

Ashwin Sharma P

Ashwin Sharma P

October 15, 2020

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#ARTIFICIAL-INTELLIGENCE

How the Quest for AI Could Make Us More Human

Richard Okyere Mensah

Richard Okyere Mensah

October 15, 2020

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#MACHINE-LEARNING

The Simplest Way to do Exploratory Data Analysis(EDA) using Python Code

October 15, 2020

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#PRODUCT-MANAGEMENT

Dear Product Manager, Never Get Attached to Anything in Life!

October 15, 2020

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#PYTHON-PROGRAMMING

Using A Switch Statement in Python

October 15, 2020

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Solaris Offworld Combat Could be the Future of VR Esports

Limarc Ambalina

Limarc Ambalina

October 15, 2020

Stories Published in 2019

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Talking to a Developer [Part 1]

October 15, 2019

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How to Prevent Code Reviews from Wasting Everyone’s Time

October 15, 2019

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#ARTIFICIAL-INTELLINGENCE

Assessing the Impact of AI on Fine Art: Threat or Opportunity

October 15, 2019

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How to Reset Password with Node.js and Angular [Part 2]

October 15, 2019

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How to Reset Password with Node.js and Angular [Part 1]

October 15, 2019

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#MACHINE-LEARNING-ALGORITHMS

The Full Story behind Convolutional Neural Networks and the Math Behind it

Joel Barmettler

Joel Barmettler

October 15, 2019

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#ARTIFICIAL-INTELLINGENCE

A Full Time ML Role, 1 Million Blog Views, 10k Podcast Downloads: A Community Taught ML Engineer

October 15, 2019

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How I Got Myself FIRED as a Software Developer and How You Can Do It Too

October 15, 2019

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#FACIAL-RECOGNITION-TECH

How Technology is Promoting Individual Democracy

Giorgi Mikhelidze

Giorgi Mikhelidze

October 15, 2019

Stories Published in 2018

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#SOFTWARE-DEVELOPMENT

Top 12 Things That Destroy Developer Productivity

October 15, 2018

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#CYBERSECURITY-THREAT

9 Myths of Security Implementation

October 15, 2018

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A Hodler’s Tale

Shingai Thornton

Shingai Thornton

October 15, 2018

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Vim: How to use Multiple Clipboards to do Copy and Paste on Steroids

October 15, 2018

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Stablecoins: What you need to know

October 15, 2018

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#HACKERNOON-LETTER

Hacker Noon Hires v1Labs Dane Lyons as Interim CTO

October 15, 2018

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#ARTIFICIAL-INTELLIGENCE

Malicious Attacks to Neural Networks

October 15, 2018

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The “Messy Middle” of Big Companies

Founder Collective

Founder Collective

October 15, 2018

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How to Get to The Best Readability Without More Abstraction

Oleksii Fedorov

Oleksii Fedorov

October 15, 2018

Stories Published in 2017

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Gamers Paid for Deep Learning and Self-Driving Cars Research

October 15, 2017

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#SOFTWARE-DEVELOPMENT

Cost-Driven Development

October 15, 2017

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MVC vs. MVVM: How a Website Communicates With Its Data Models

October 15, 2017

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The Cryptocurrency Trading Bible Two: The Seven Deadly Sins of Technical Analysis

Daniel Jeffries

Daniel Jeffries

October 15, 2017

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How do you estimate for teams with different development speeds?

October 15, 2017

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#SILICON-VALLEY

How My Life Was Ruined By A Silicon Valley Startup And Former PayPal & Uber Execs

October 15, 2017

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Marketplaces and pricing

October 15, 2017

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WTH are torrents!? Explained in Layman’s terms.

October 15, 2017

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My Partners Blogging In 2017

October 15, 2017

Stories Published in 2016

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Using Pull Requests and Git Log to Learn a Project

October 15, 2016

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Podcast Saturday — Meet Lindel Eakman

October 15, 2016

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#MACHINE-LEARNING

Word2Vec (Part 1)

October 15, 2016

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Get access to raw profiling results with plugins for Pury

October 15, 2016

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Agile: 3 signs that you may be drinking Unicorn blood

October 15, 2016

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