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The TechBeat comes as an ode to our oldest allegiance: the HackerNoon community. This new page turns ranks HackerNoon’s most trending tech stories based on a variety of metrics: pageviews, engagement, and comments.

Let’s take a look at how it works!

What’s the Tech Beat?

You spoke; we listened! To promote the stories our readers love the most, we created a Trending Technology Stories page where users can find the top 20 stories over the last 24 hours!

Now live on the homepage (next to Trending Companies), on the top nav, and as a newsletter, this ranking uses specific data points on how our community engages with stories on the website and allows users to sort the list by reads, engagement, comments, and latest stories.

Because Reading is Fundamental

Want to find the most-read stories on HackerNoon in the past 24 hours? Select the "Reads" option to find 20 stories with the most *new* reads, alongside the title, author, and TL:DR for easy skimming.

If you want to go in a different direction, you can sort your list by reactions, which are a great visual tool through which users express their appreciation for the post. This option will show you the top 20 stories ordered by the most number of reactions.

Additionally, you can sort your ranking by comments or the latest published: comments-based list will show you the top 20 stories ordered by those that received the most comments in the past 24 hours, while the latter allows you to search through the latest published stories on HackerNoon.

Let’s Take a Look at The Top 5 Trending Stories in the Last 24 Hours (as of the writing of this article)

Stealing the coveted first place, @astoundingstories takes the cake with over 8K readings and counting.

The second runner-up is not to be overlooked. @geekonrecord is grabbing a lot of attention with its take on foldable phones.

In third place, Johnny Simpson’s story (@smpnjn) dives into the fetch function and its uses, particularly with APIs.

Fourth on our list is Berk Hakbilen (@berkhakbilen) and his story on Support Vector Machine (SVM), another simple algorithm that performs fairly good with less computational cost.

Lastly, Inshaullah Zia (@inshanity) with his take on GameFi, a new set of games that emerged into mainstream adoption during the NFT boom last year, is changing both the gaming industry and traditional finance.

What our writers are saying about this feature

HackerNoon writers are pretty excited about this new feature! But don’t just take our word for it…

Pragat Vyawahare said it best:

I'm on cloud nine. Since my article is trending on HackerNoon. I just felt like writing what I learned from my research on web3 a few days back. So I crafted an article on "why web3 is failing?" And people really loved it. The reason I'm so ecstatic is because HackerNoon has 2.5million+ monthly visitors. And it's one of the biggest crypto publications out there. It might not be a great deal for many but for me, this is true happiness. Thank you HackerNoon for choosing me.

Followed by Denise Holt:

My last article on The Era of AI and the Spatial Web is trending on Hackernoon and is #6 on their Daily Tech Beat with over 5000 reads! 😱😭🥰🥰
Apparently from the email they sent me, this means it’s close to going viral. 😱

And API3:

Trending #2 on HackerNoon: Vansh Wassan walks us through getting data from a REST API to a solidity smart contract on Polygon Technology's Mumbai Testnet with Airnode and ChainAPI.

And corroborated by Zen Chan:

Wow Trending no.1!? #cybersecurity #privacy #apple https://lnkd.in/gwFBsTFz Do you find the #iOS #Facebook #app and #instagram app slow? Yes, it is because it does much more than what they display. Felix Krause, a former Google engineer who studies privacy, said in a blog post on the 10th that Facebook and Instagram apps track users' browsing behavior on third-party websites without consent. Thanks HackerNoon and all hackers!