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Historic Tech Events

NASA launched Apollo XII

NASA launched Apollo XII

1969

NASA launched Apollo 12, the second crewed mission to the surface of the Moon.

Theodore Maiman was awarded the patent for ruby laser systems

Theodore Maiman was awarded the patent for ruby laser systems

1967

American physicist Theodore Maiman was given a patent for his ruby laser systems, the world's first laser, and paid $300 for it by assignee Hughes Aircraft Company. It turned out to be Hughes' most profitable patent.

The Great Comet of 1680 was discovered

The Great Comet of 1680 was discovered

1680

German astronomer Gottfried Kirch discovered the Great Comet of 1680, the first comet to be discovered by telescope.

Stories Published in 2025

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#HACKERNOON-TOP-STORY

Write Smarter, Reach Wider: Enrollment Is OPEN for HackerNoon’s Inaugural Blogging Course

HackerNoon Courses

HackerNoon Courses

November 14, 2025

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Coinbase Ventures-Backed Supra Offers $1M Bounty to Beat Its Parallel EVM Execution Engine

November 14, 2025

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RISE Evolves Beyond Fastest Layer 2 Into The Home For Global Markets, With RISE MarketCore And RISEx

November 14, 2025

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#AI-PERFORMANCE-TESTING

Why Traditional Load Testing Fails for Modern AI Systems

November 14, 2025

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#SQL-SERVER-AUTOMATION

How Bharat Kumar Dokka Automated SQL Server Patching and Saved 600 Hours

November 14, 2025

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#SAP-TRANSPORTATION-MANAGEMENT

How Bimal Subhakumar Became a Global Leader in SAP Transportation Management

November 14, 2025

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Global Regulators Say Tokenization’s Potential Is Real, but So Are Its Obstacles

November 14, 2025

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#FINANCIAL-CLOUD-MIGRATION

Prasanth Sasidharan's Two-Decade Journey of Analytical Excellence and Technological Leadership

November 14, 2025

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The "Zero to Shipped" Framework for New Developers

Aman Ali Pogaku

Aman Ali Pogaku

November 14, 2025

Stories Published in 2024

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How Zen Principles Can Revolutionize Your Data Strategy

November 14, 2024

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Digital Marketing Retainers Have Dissolved Into Wallet Joke For Agencies

Technology News Australia

Technology News Australia

November 14, 2024

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Odysee Goes Ad-Free: How This Bold Move Challenges the YouTube Empire

November 14, 2024

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What's With All These FREE HD Blockbuster Movies on YouTube?

Nebojsa "Nesha" Todorovic

Nebojsa "Nesha" Todorovic

November 14, 2024

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Playnance Launches PlayBlock:The Future Of Zero-Gas Blockchain For Trading, Gaming And Web3 Adoption

November 14, 2024

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BIT Mining (NYSE: BTCM) Invests In Prosper’s Native Tokens To Support New Focus On Bitcoin Mining

November 14, 2024

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#DATA-AUGMENTATION

ADA's Impact on Out-of-Distribution Robustness

November 14, 2024

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#DATA-AUGMENTATION

ADA Outperforms ERM and Competes with C-Mixup in In-Distribution Generalization Tasks

November 14, 2024

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#DATA-AUGMENTATION

ADA vs C-Mixup: Performance on California and Boston Housing Datasets

November 14, 2024

Stories Published in 2023

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Overcoming Challenges in Software Development With Containerization and Orchestration

November 14, 2023

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Getting Started With Aptible to Deploy Your First Secure Containerized Application

November 14, 2023

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BREAKFAST IN BERKELEY SQUARE.

Anthony Trollope

Anthony Trollope

November 14, 2023

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SCULPTURING MACHINES

Archibald Williams

Archibald Williams

November 14, 2023

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The Travellers Return Home

Anthony Trollope

Anthony Trollope

November 14, 2023

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#MOBILE-APP-TESTING

Mastering Mobile App Testing with Automated Screenshot Testing

November 14, 2023

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#DECENTRALIZED-APPLICATIONS

Rootstock $2.5M Grants Program Enters Wave III

November 14, 2023

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The Noonification: Charting a Path for Global AI Regulation (11/14/2023)

November 14, 2023

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Architecting a Robust Vector Embedding Creation System for PostgreSQL Data

November 14, 2023

Stories Published in 2022

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A Provably Secure Cross-Chain Infrastructure, helping DApps go Omnichain

November 14, 2022

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#GRAPH-DATABASE

Graph Databases: How Do They work?

November 14, 2022

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Javascript Promise Methods With Polyfill Example: A Cheat Sheet for Developers

November 14, 2022

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Is No-Code Testing Actually Possible?

Yassine Zeriouh

Yassine Zeriouh

November 14, 2022

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Who is a Product and UI/UX Designer? What is Their Role and Importance

November 14, 2022

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#ETHEREUM-ZKROLLUP-EXPLAINED

ZK Rollup: The Most Preferred Ethereum Layer 2 Scaling Solution

Wisdom Nwokocha

Wisdom Nwokocha

November 14, 2022

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#DATA-INTEGRATION

Jira Zendesk Integration: Setting up a Two-Way Sync between Jira and Zendesk

November 14, 2022

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Python - Build a Domain Lookup Tool

November 14, 2022

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Coding Helps Develops Resilience - Here's How

November 14, 2022

Stories Published in 2021

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#ENTREPRENEURSHIP

I Founded a Successful Fintech Company at 16 - with Noonies Nominee Arian Adeli

November 14, 2021

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When You Can't Rely on the Prometheus Up Metric

November 14, 2021

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How to Back Up and Restore a MongoDB Database

Alexey Shepelev

Alexey Shepelev

November 14, 2021

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"I don't want anyone to go through what I went through" - with I-Ally Founder Lucinda Koza

November 14, 2021

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From Sustainable Agriculture to Programming - with Noonies Nominee Akis Loumpourdis

Akis Loumpourdis

Akis Loumpourdis

November 14, 2021

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#WRITING-PROMPTS

Physical Proximity Will no Longer be Necessary For Social Interaction with the Metaverse

VerseTech Metaverse

VerseTech Metaverse

November 14, 2021

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How DevOps Killed WAF

Check Point Software

Check Point Software

November 14, 2021

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2021 Noonies Nominee General Interview

November 14, 2021

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How to Encode and Decode JSON with Scala-Circe

November 14, 2021

Stories Published in 2020

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How to Сompress a mysqldump Backup Using Gzip

November 14, 2020

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5 Location-Based Mobile Apps Secrets You Should Know

oleksandra liubytska

oleksandra liubytska

November 14, 2020

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The Programmer's Exam: Nullable Value Types

November 14, 2020

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Satoshi in Bitcoin: Everything You Ever Wanted To Know

November 14, 2020

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#TRADING-PSYCHOLOGY

Two Versions of Your "self" are Ruining your Trading Results

November 14, 2020

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How the Twitter Homepage has Changed in the Past 10 Years

Top Tech Companies

Top Tech Companies

November 14, 2020

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#CRYPTOCURRENCY

How ‘Fractional NFTs’ Can Help Accelerate the Future of Fantasy Sports on the Blockchain

November 14, 2020

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#HACKERNOON-TOP-STORY

A Few Reasons Why Your Software Buddy System isn't Working

[email protected]

November 14, 2020

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An Introduction to AI-Based Visual Inspection for Defect Detection

November 14, 2020

Stories Published in 2019

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Catch Your Hacker: Use Honeypot Tools to Capture Hackers Red Handed

Vivek Sonchhatra

Vivek Sonchhatra

November 14, 2019

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Basic Python features

Nitin Vishwakarma

Nitin Vishwakarma

November 14, 2019

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The Long and Winding Road to Kubernetes

November 14, 2019

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Why Cloudera, Yugabyte, and Chef Went Open Source

November 14, 2019

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China Releases the Kraken Against US Dollar

November 14, 2019

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#TRANSPORTATION

[Interview] How Technology Is Reshaping Transportation: Trends and Challenges

November 14, 2019

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Azure Hack: Use AzCopy on Azure Cloud Shell to Upload Large Files to Storage Accounts

November 14, 2019

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Web3: World Wide Blockchain

Christian Kameir

Christian Kameir

November 14, 2019

/scraping-yahoo-finance-data-using-python-ayu3zyl feature image

How to Scrape Yahoo Finance Data with Python

November 14, 2019

Stories Published in 2018

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Debugging Node Services in Kubernetes With Linkerd 2.0

Thomas Rampelberg

Thomas Rampelberg

November 14, 2018

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What it Takes to Get Certified to Review Code at Google

November 14, 2018

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Seven Habits for a More Toxic Code Review Culture

November 14, 2018

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How To Assert Yourself As A Woman In Tech

November 14, 2018

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The 1 Dangerous Habit That Keeps Most People From Ever Becoming Truly Wealthy:

November 14, 2018

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Serverless & Functions — Not One And The Same

November 14, 2018

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How To Enhance Mobile Apps Using Machine Learning?

Samaira Sandberg

Samaira Sandberg

November 14, 2018

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Why the Price of Bitcoin Doesn’t Matter

November 14, 2018

/bitcoin-drops-below-6-000-as-the-crypto-market-sharply-corrects-ahead-of-the-bitcoin-cash-hard-ec90ae9dbe65 feature image

Bitcoin Drops Below $6,000 as the Crypto Market Sharply Corrects Ahead of the Bitcoin Cash Hard…

Berminal - The Crypto News Platform

Berminal - The Crypto News Platform

November 14, 2018

Stories Published in 2017

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Deploying Flogo apps to Kubernetes

November 14, 2017

/5-ways-to-deal-with-a-micromanaging-boss-and-avoid-ruining-your-career-c8f2cb5e3cd feature image

5 Ways To Deal With A Micromanaging Boss (And Avoid Ruining Your Career)

November 14, 2017

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Three Ways to Value Bitcoin

November 14, 2017

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Instagram’s Billion Dollar Mind Trick: Internal Triggers

November 14, 2017

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Getting Started with Home Automation

November 14, 2017

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#PRODUCT-MANAGEMENT

Let’s talk about the product management and product requirements

November 14, 2017

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Rate of change > status quo

November 14, 2017

/building-chat-of-the-future-what-you-need-and-what-you-really-need-7a470cd02e75 feature image

Building Chat of the Future: What You Need, and What You Really Need

November 14, 2017

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Taming Configuration in C#

November 14, 2017

Stories Published in 2016

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#WEB-DEVELOPMENT

Jekyll on github pages and service workers. Progressive web apps and offline mode for your blog

November 14, 2016

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#ENTREPRENEURSHIP

Aim for the stars, but don’t let it get to your head.

November 14, 2016

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#SOFTWARE-DEVELOPMENT

Patchy Thinking: Software is a series of changes

November 14, 2016

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3 Things You can do to Build a Data Culture Within Your Accelerator

November 14, 2016

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Life Hacks

Thalapathy Krishnamurthy

Thalapathy Krishnamurthy

November 14, 2016

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Software is the Weirding Way.

November 14, 2016

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Why LoopBack Is Better Than ExpressJS?

Yevheniia Korotia

Yevheniia Korotia

November 14, 2016

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Node.js Tip - Minimal Babel with Node v6

November 14, 2016

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