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From January 4, 2026

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A Developer's Guide to Building Next-Gen Smart Wallets With ERC-4337 — Part 2: Bundlers

Bundlers are the bridge between account abstraction and the execution layer.

@hacker39947670
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Why Verifiability Matters for Security: 12 Key Cloud Application Use Cases

Verifiability is becoming essential for crypto, AI, and cloud apps. Learn why proving how systems run will shape the next...

@michaellewellen
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The Hidden Cost of AI: Why It’s Making Workers Smarter, but Organisations Dumber

AI boosts individual performance but weakens organisational thinking. Why smarter workers and faster tools can leave companies less intelligent than...

@yuliiaharkusha
1,274 new reads
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Secury Wallet Unveils Next-Generation Multichain Crypto Wallet With Chat to Pay, Opens $SEC Presale

The project has opened the $SEC token presale, including early staking opportunities offering up to 100% APY during the presale...

@btcwire
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How Crypto Can Protect People from Currency Wars

When we think of war, we imagine soldiers, weapons, and physical destruction. But there's another type of war that affects...

@chris127
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Should You Trust Your VPN Location?

IPinfo reveals how most VPNs misrepresent locations and why real IP geolocation requires active measurement, not claims.

@ipinfo
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AI - Should we Be Afraid? 3 Years Later

Is AI good or bad? We must decide.

@djcampbell
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10 AI Marketing Strategies for Startups in 2026

Over 90% of companies are either using or exploring the use of AI. How is your business using AI?

@khamisihamisi
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Hiring Didn’t Fail - Evidence Did.

I didn’t break hiring. It broke the evidence. Why CVs and training signals no longer predict capability, and what HR...

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Meet ScyllaDB: HackerNoon Company of the Week

Meet ScyllaDB, the high-performance NoSQL database delivering predictable millisecond latencies for Discord and hundreds more.

@companyoftheweek
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11

Tech's Attempt To Conquer Hollywood

AI has been a major force in seemingly every career field. Now, it seems to have set its eyes somewhere...

@3techpolls
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The 10 Most Interesting C# Bugs We Found in Open Source in 2025

If you'd like to check whether your project has similar issues, now's the time to use a static analyzer.

@akiradoko
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Prompt Chaining: Turn One Prompt Into a Reliable LLM Workflow

Prompt Chaining links prompts into workflows—linear, branching, looping—so LLM outputs are structured, debuggable, and production-ready.

@superorange0707
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Slop Isn’t the Problem. It’s the Symptom.

When teams move fast without shared meaning, quality dissolves quietly. Why slop is a symptom of interpretation lag, not a...

@normbond
318 new reads
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PSA: Keywords, Meta, TL;DR = Expedited Publishing

Want your HackerNoon story published faster? Learn how keywords, meta descriptions, TL;DRs, and featured images speed up editorial review and...

@editingprotocol
317 new reads
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you’re not burned out, you’ve got context obesity

you’re not burned out – you’ve got context obesity. why ai tools and “100 prompts” add chaos, and how to...

@raysvitla
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The Brain at the Edge of Chaos. When Predictive Coding Fails and Randomness Enters

Why creativity and insight emerge when control loosens. An exploration of predictive coding, randomness, and the brain at the edge...

@riedriftlens
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AI Slop, Demo Culture and Market Crashes Are the Same System Failure

When systems scale output faster than understanding, trust erodes quietly. A systems view of AI slop, demo culture, and market...

@normbond
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