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🪐 What’s happening in tech today, December 20, 2024?

The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, The US Invaded Panama in 1989, East Germany Opened the Berlin Wall For the First Time in 1963, Elvis Presley Was Drafted to the US Army in 1957, and we present you with these top quality stories. From EIP-1559: Separating Mechanisms From Memes to Does Google’s Willow Quantum Chip Put Bitcoin’s Cryptography at Risk? , let’s dive right in.

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programming

How to Automatically Publish Your NPM Package Using GitHub Actions

TL;DR Learn how to set up a CI/CD pipeline with GitHub Actions to automatically test, version, and publish your npm package. Streamline your workflow, ensure quality,

By @kingflamez [ 9 Min read ]

Manual npm publishing can be time-consuming and error-prone, particularly as your project grows and gains contributors. By automating the process, you can:

Initialize the Project

Testing ensures you don’t publish broken code.

Install Jest

Create a Test File

Run Tests

Push Your Code..

web3

EIP-1559: Separating Mechanisms From Memes

TL;DR EIP-1559 is an important but misunderstood Ethereum upgrade. Learn the facts about EIP-1559, including its design goals, rationale, features, and benefits.

By @2077research [ 25 Min read ]

The objectives of this article are as follows:

Before we get started, let's clarify some common misconceptions about EIP-1559:

Let's describe below the interests of users and block producers:

Users: Timely transaction inclusion at the lowest possible cost.

There are several goals we want to achieve with a TFM:..

futurism

Metaverse Growth Brings New Data Protection Headaches

TL;DR A world of possibilities is coming, but it’s coupled with the biggest security risks of our time. How can we protect ourselves in a data-miner’s paradise?

By @lihisegev [ 4 Min read ]

When we hear the word “metaverse,” we may first picture Zuckerberg’s somewhat cringey, uncanny valley-esque virtual world that many of us don’t take seriously.

There are two main types of security concerns related to an expansion of metaverse activities:

Install parental control tools...

tech-companies

Does Google’s Willow Quantum Chip Put Bitcoin’s Cryptography at Risk?

TL;DR Willow by Google is a quantum computing breakthrough, but it;s not powerful enough to disrupt bitcoins cryptographic algorithm.