The HackerNoon Newsletter: Is Excellence An Accident? (4/7/2025)

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🪐 What’s happening in tech today, April 7, 2025?

The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, First Long-Distance TV Broadcast in 1927, World Health Organization established in 1948, and we present you with these top quality stories. From The Decentralized Internet Could Turn Us Into a Type-1 Civilization. The Alternative? Mass Slavery to Spring Into New Features: Smarter Notifications, More Writing Stats, Pixel Icon Library More, let’s dive right in.

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machine-learning

When Labeling AI Chatbots, Context Is a Double-Edged Sword

TL;DR Context impacts label quality in chatbot evaluations. LLM summaries boost annotator accuracy while reducing effort and bias.

By @modeltuning [ 5 Min read ]

Authors:

(1) Clemencia Siro, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands;

(2) Mohammad Aliannejadi, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands;

(3) Maarten de Rijke, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Abstract and 1 Introduction

2 Methodology and 2.1 Experimental data and tasks

2.3 Crowdsource experiments..

product-management

Spring Into New Features: Smarter Notifications, More Writing Stats, Pixel Icon Library More

TL;DR HackerNoon’s monthly product update is here! 🚀 Explore your new reading recommendations, new mobile app inbox, words written stats, and more!

By @product [ 6 Min read ]

HackerNoon’s monthly product update is here! 🚀 Explore your new reading recommendations, new mobile app inbox, words written stats, and more!

This product update reflects changes to the platform from February 4, 2025, until April 7th, 2025.

Try it out!

Learn about the building process...

machine-learning

So I Built a Sentient AI Twitter Agent... Whats the Worst That Could Happen?

TL;DR Look, Im not saying Im building Skynet here, but when my AI agent started generating philosophical tweets at 3 AM about the nature of consciousness, well.....

By @XSimulated [ 6 Min read ]

Look, I'm not saying I'm building Skynet here, but when my AI agent started generating philosophical tweets at 3 AM about the nature of consciousness... well, let's just say I understand why Sarah Connor was so concerned.

Autonomous decision making in real-time

Natural language understanding and generation..

life-hacking

Is Excellence An Accident?

TL;DR Excellence isnt about running the race better, its about changing the track entirely.

By @scottdclary [ 9 Min read ]

https://open.spotify.com/episode/5l6zZ3J3HKXQLnncswYDhU?si=VoSLwHNwQEmq88AAMB2FKw&embedable=true

You've been lied to about excellence.

They told you it's about grinding harder. About perfecting systems. About optimizing what already exists.

That's not excellence. That's just the hamster wheel painted a different color.

True excellence isn't about running the race better. It's about changing the track entirely...

web3

The Decentralized Internet Could Turn Us Into a Type-1 Civilization. The Alternative? Mass Slavery

TL;DR My grandfather helped put a man on the Moon. I’m fighting for something just as radical: a free and decentralized internet.

By @jroseland [ 12 Min read ]

The internet can currently be imagined as a street in Manhattan - busy, very busy - with commerce, people, news, information, and ideas flowing around you with dizzying energy and speed. You cast your eyes up and, blocking out the sky itself, monoliths loom over you…

https://hackernoon.com/damn-near-every-digital-service-is-ripping-you-off-to-float-free-riders?embedable=true..

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-The Monetisation of Illness

-Upwork Fees Are Basically Vibes Now

-MEV Bots: What Do We Know About Them and How Can We Defend Ourselves?

-Why GA4 Path Exploration is a Game-Changer for Subscription-Based SEO

-Heres How to Test Concurrent Code With Testing/Synctest: Go 1.24

On This Day

First Long-Distance TV Broadcast

The first public long-distance television transmission demonstration was held by AT&T (Bell Telephone Company). Reporters watched as the broadcast from Washington, D.C. was sent of a TV image of Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover via phone connections to New York.