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🪐 What’s happening in tech today, March 23, 2026?

The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, Mir Falls From the Sky in 2001, and we present you with these top quality stories. From Zero-Downtime Splunk Migration at inDrive: From Bare Metal to AWS SmartStore to People Are Handing Their Agents the Keys to Everything: Heres What Happening, let’s dive right in.

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programming

Zero-Downtime Splunk Migration at inDrive: From Bare Metal to AWS SmartStore

TL;DR How to migrate Splunk to AWS SmartStore with zero downtime using hybrid architecture, S3 storage, and multi-cluster search.

By @indrivetech [ 12 Min read ]

Hi, I'm Ivan Saakov, Engineering Manager at the inDrive Security Operations Center.

To keep this article focused, I intentionally omit the basic Splunk Enterprise installation and configuration steps and instead concentrate on the migration-specific settings that matter most.

Key achievement of the approach I used: Zero Downtime:

Mitigation:

Architecture:..

machine-learning

Why AI Agents Must Discover New Sources, Not Just Rely on Cached Search

TL;DR Cached retrieval misses new and long-tail sources. Agents need link discovery on the live web to stay accurate and up to date. Learn the model.

By @brightdata2 [ 7 Min read ]

The solution? Equip AI agents with tools to discover fresh, contextual sources from the web (🤫 Spoiler: that’s where a Discover API comes in!)

In this article, you’ll see why live web discovery is pivotal for AI agents and how to achieve it with practical insights. Let’s jump into it!..

machine-learning

Is AI.com Already DOA?

TL;DR AI.com, launched with a splashy Super Bowl ad, was supposed to make agentic AI a household reality. Weeks after its launch, its future is murky.

By @davidjdeal [ 5 Min read ]

Whatever happened to AI.com, the site that was supposed to make agentic AI popular for the masses following a splashy Super Bowl ad? At GTC 2026, NVIDIA may have helped answer that question.

Before AI.com’s Super Bowl ad even aired, the competitive landscape had already moved against it...

writing

From Idea to Amazon KDP: A Realistic Guide to Writing Your First Book

TL;DR From idea to Amazon KDP: a realistic guide to writing, publishing, and marketing your first book based on real experience.

By @thebojda [ 10 Min read ]

I must have been around thirteen when I decided I was going to write a book about the nature of reality and the simulation hypothesis. That was roughly 30 years ago (yes, I’m old).

I was very wrong.

The answer depends entirely on the topic.

It’s not...

machine-learning

People Are Handing Their Agents the Keys to Everything: Heres What Happening

TL;DR Autonomous agents can do some remarkable things, but they need guardrails. The people who skip the safety layer are learning an expensive lesson.

By @noelle [ 7 Min read ]

Everyone's racing to deploy autonomous agents. The people who skipped the safety layer are learning an expensive lesson.

I've been thinking about that moment ever since because the incidents started piling up pretty quickly after that.

Here are four recent examples of what that costs...

On This Day

Mir Falls From the Sky

The Russian space station Mir burns up in the Earth’s atmosphere after fifteen years in orbit. The debris that isn’t burned up falls safely into the Pacific ocean between Chile and New Zealand, in a region from which governments had routed planes and ships away. The station, which was launched...