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Stories Published|February 20|Throughout History

Stories Published in 2026

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Code Smell 14 - God Objects

January 20, 2026

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#PRODUCT-MANAGEMENT

How We Trained Experts to Become Speakers: No Pressure Included

January 20, 2026

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#EDUCATION-TECHNOLOGY

The Highlighter Is Lying to You: Engineering "Sticky" Knowledge With AI

January 20, 2026

Brand Community Platforms: The Secret to Customer Retention

January 20, 2026

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#PROOF-OF-USEFULNESS-HACKATHON

RecomendeMe Earns a 56 Proof of Usefulness Score by Building a Human-First Recommendation Platform

RecomendeMe - Human Discovery Plataform

RecomendeMe - Human Discovery Plataform

January 20, 2026

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#CHURN-MODELING

How I Built a Churn Prediction System That My Colleagues Actually Used

@hacker89770727

January 20, 2026

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#AUGMENTED-DEVELOPMENT

Why Smart Glasses May Be the Biggest Developer Workflow Shift Since Dual Monitors

January 20, 2026

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#BIOINFORMATICS

I Treated the Human Genome as a Legacy Codebase—Here’s What I Found

January 20, 2026

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#HACKERNOON-NEWSLETTER

The HackerNoon Newsletter: The Tech Communitys Efforts to Dethrone OpenAI (1/20/2026)

January 20, 2026

Historic Tech Events

Donald Trump was inaugurated as the 45th President of the United States

Donald Trump was inaugurated as the 45th President of the United States

2017

Donald Trump was inaugurated as the 45th President of the United States, after winning a contentious and controversial election against Hillary Clinton. Trump's presidency has been marked by numerous controversies and divisive policies, including his immigration policies, handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, and relationship with other world leaders.

ThinkPad laptop computer was announced

ThinkPad laptop computer was announced

1992

IBM announced the release of its ThinkPad laptop computer, which became one of the most popular and influential laptop models of all time. The ThinkPad was known for its high-quality design, durability, and innovative features, such as the TrackPoint pointing device and the "clamshell" design.

Franklin D. Roosevelt was inaugurated for his second term as POTUS

Franklin D. Roosevelt was inaugurated for his second term as POTUS

1937

Franklin D. Roosevelt was inaugurated for his second term as the President of the United States. Roosevelt is known for his leadership during the Great Depression and World War II, as well as his implementation of numerous social and economic reforms through his New Deal programs.

Stories Published in 2025

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#ETHEREUM-MERGE

EIP-7002: A Better Way To Stake On Ethereum

January 20, 2025

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Pacific Nations Struggle With Debt as Regional Fees Siphon Vital Funds

January 20, 2025

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An Unplanned Path Led me Right Where I Belonged

January 20, 2025

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Pocket-Sized Gadgets Are Changing How Pacific Islanders Manage Utilities

January 20, 2025

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A.R.T. Digital Partners With Forced Physics To Transform Bitcoin Mining Cooling Technology

January 20, 2025

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#SOLANA-BLOCKCHAIN

Lumoz Launches SVM as a Service, Supporting the Integration of ZK and TEE Multi-Proof for SVM L2

Lumoz (formerly Opside)

Lumoz (formerly Opside)

January 20, 2025

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Roam Ambassador Program Now Live—Earn Rewards and Build the Future of Connectivity

January 20, 2025

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Cloudbet Allows Users To Bet On Canada's Next Prime Minister With $TRUMP Memecoin

January 20, 2025

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$CHIRP Token Goes Live On Kucoin, Gate.io And MEXC

January 20, 2025

Stories Published in 2024

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How I Grew My Side Project to 20k Users Then Sold It for Six Figures

January 20, 2024

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The Noonification: Whats Up With AI Regulations? (1/20/2024)

January 20, 2024

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A Beginner's Guide to Understanding SQL Window Functions - Part 2

January 20, 2024

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46 Stories To Learn About Insurance

January 20, 2024

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363 Stories To Learn About Investing

January 20, 2024

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178 Stories To Learn About Investment

January 20, 2024

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#GLOBAL-AI-REGULATIONS

What's Up With AI Regulations?

January 20, 2024

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#STARTUP-MARKETING

Here's What They Don't Tell You About Launching on Product Hunt

Aleksandr Drobushevskiy

Aleksandr Drobushevskiy

January 20, 2024

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The TechBeat: Investigating Internet Freedom: Unseen Aspects of Our Online Existence (1/20/2024)

January 20, 2024

Stories Published in 2023

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The 10 Best GitHub Repositories for Data Science Learners

January 20, 2023

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What Tech Stack do Healthcare Companies Use?

January 20, 2023

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#CRYPTOCURRENCY

Nikita Chashchinskii Is Unifying the Cryptocurrency Industry With Drivechain

January 20, 2023

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#WEB-DEVELOPMENT

Everything You Need to Know About Promises, Thenables, & Lazy-Evaluation

January 20, 2023

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7 Ways to Effectively Onboard Yourself in Your New Job

January 20, 2023

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Building Enterprise-Grade Security Solutions For Web3

January 20, 2023

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#ARTIFICIAL-INTELLIGENCE

Traditional vs. Enhanced eCommerce Search: Unlocking New Text Features

January 20, 2023

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How Stock Markets and Fed Policy Affect Cryptocurrencies

Vladyslav Zadorozhnyi

Vladyslav Zadorozhnyi

January 20, 2023

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Crypto Telegram Detox: The Only 7 Telegram Channels You Need in 2023

January 20, 2023

Stories Published in 2022

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#SOFTWARE-DEVELOPMENT

How has HR Handled the Dev Retention Rate in 2021?

Giorgi Mikhelidze

Giorgi Mikhelidze

January 20, 2022

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AI/ML in 2022: More Real-World Deployments, Focus On AI Ethics and Blockchain Hopes

Julius Černiauskas

Julius Černiauskas

January 20, 2022

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#SOFTWARE-DEVELOPMENT

What Career Path Should Software Engineers Take: Startup vs. Big Company

January 20, 2022

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15+ Rocking Trends Web Designers Should Know in 2022🤩

January 20, 2022

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How to Protect React Native Apps With Jscrambler

January 20, 2022

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Building an AWS EKS Fargate Cluster with Terraform

January 20, 2022

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Authentication using the Amazon Cognito to an Angular application

January 20, 2022

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How to Solve the Second Task of the Ethernaut Game

January 20, 2022

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DevOps + Data: DevOps for Data Management

January 20, 2022

Stories Published in 2021

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Kubernetes Explained Simply: Data Extraction With JSON Path [Part 8]

January 20, 2021

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Kubernetes Explained Simply: Data Extraction With JSON Path [Part 8]

January 20, 2021

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How to Cultivate a Collaborative DevOps Culture

January 20, 2021

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How and Why We Choose to Clone all Data on Github

January 20, 2021

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#CRYPTOCURRENCY

Crypto Thought Leaders Webinar Series: The Legal Frameworks of Tokenization

January 20, 2021

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Don't Get Bitten by Hidden Bugs: Test Driven Development (TDD) and AAA Testing via xUnit

January 20, 2021

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#ARTIFICIAL-INTELLIGENCE

AI Rewind: A Year of Amazing Machine Learning Papers

January 20, 2021

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How to Make $40K Per Month in Your 20's: Building a Side-Business

January 20, 2021

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Hello, World of WebAssembly!

January 20, 2021

Stories Published in 2020

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The Rising Buying on Demand Economy in 2020

January 20, 2020

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Understanding Flexbox By Small Steps

January 20, 2020

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5 Reasons For Investors To Consider Tokenized Assets in 2020

January 20, 2020

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Nginx + Docker: How to Get Html Page Up With Local Domain Name

January 20, 2020

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Here's Why Journalists Won't Write About Your Startup

January 20, 2020

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#MUTLIPOTENTIALITY

The Hacker in the Second Renaissance

José Fernández-Caminero

José Fernández-Caminero

January 20, 2020

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Production-Ready Serverless Composition and Orchestration

January 20, 2020

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7 Years In Tech Leadership: What I've Learned

January 20, 2020

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5 Benefits of Learning to Code That Transfer To Other Segments Of Your Life

January 20, 2020

Stories Published in 2019

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#ENTREPRENEURSHIP

How I Went from Selling Weed at 15 to Founding a Startup at 42

January 20, 2019

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How to File Cryptocurrency Taxes with TurboTax

January 20, 2019

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Meet the IFTTT of Blockchain Technology

Michiel Mulders

Michiel Mulders

January 20, 2019

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Reaching Everyone, Pt. I: The Need For Sound Money Outside of the Wealthiest Territories

January 20, 2019

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The Manager Stew

January 20, 2019

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Quick Snippets — Grabbing input data with React

January 20, 2019

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How to Hide Annoying Cookie Usage Permission Requests [Browser Extensions]

January 20, 2019

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React.js QR code scanner with WebWorker in background

Tigran Bayburtsyan

Tigran Bayburtsyan

January 20, 2019

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Blocked by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

UnicornLaunching

UnicornLaunching

January 20, 2019

Stories Published in 2018

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THE WORLD’S FIRST AGRITECH AND FOOD SCIENCE BLOCKCHAIN PROJECT

Bright dhykseen

Bright dhykseen

January 20, 2018

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The Future of Cloud Services is Borderless

January 20, 2018

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I would recommend always closing tags.

January 20, 2018

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Potion Owl Wants To Disrupt Healthcare Services Challenges Using Blockchain Technology.

January 20, 2018

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Introducing react-graceful-image

January 20, 2018

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Blockchain Platforms Will Make Us Happier

Erik P.M. Vermeulen

Erik P.M. Vermeulen

January 20, 2018

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Why are so many upstart brands in love with subscriptions

January 20, 2018

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Blockchain and the Journey Toward a New Internet Architecture

January 20, 2018

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Beginners Guide To Crypto Currencies — A community effort

January 20, 2018

Stories Published in 2017

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How to Go From Newb to Developing a Mobile Application on the Back of Your Own RESTful Javascript…

Lincoln W Daniel

Lincoln W Daniel

January 20, 2017

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#SELF-IMPROVEMENT

What We Need Now Is a Little Civility

Grand Central Publishing

Grand Central Publishing

January 20, 2017

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What your product can learn from dating

January 20, 2017

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Universal JavaScript Console for Browser, Electron, NW.js, Node.js and Windows

January 20, 2017

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7 Articles for Indie Devs to Start Shipping

January 20, 2017

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Encrypted Instant Messaging Recommendations January 2017

Marcel Ackermann

Marcel Ackermann

January 20, 2017

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Announcing Techstars AngelList Funds for Mentors and Alumni

January 20, 2017

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10 Apps Essential to my Productivity

Michael Karnjanaprakorn

Michael Karnjanaprakorn

January 20, 2017

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Create a strong, secure and memorable password

January 20, 2017

Stories Published in 2016

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#VIRTUAL-REALITY

A Note From GNG’s Director of Virtual Reality.

Global Nomads Group

Global Nomads Group

January 20, 2016

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#ENTREPRENEURSHIP

A Year Of No, Is Knowing Edition

January 20, 2016

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What Is Intelligence?

January 20, 2016

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#ENTREPRENEURSHIP

What the Babes Did For Me

January 20, 2016

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Recipe for Yet Another Training Webinar Thing for Coaches

January 20, 2016

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Apple and Spotify up the ante with new services in the streaming music market

Miguel Díez Ferreira

Miguel Díez Ferreira

January 20, 2016

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#ENTREPRENEURSHIP

Do you Have what it Takes to be a Successful Entrepreneur ?

Fabienne Raphael

Fabienne Raphael

January 20, 2016

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#DIVERSITY-IN-TECH

1995 Source Awards/Diversity in Tech

Laramie Mergerson

Laramie Mergerson

January 20, 2016

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AXA Strategic Ventures (ASV) invests in deep machine learning technology poised to transform the…

AXA Venture Partners

AXA Venture Partners

January 20, 2016

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