Blackstone buys $1M worth of Bitcoin ETF in first crypto bet

Blackstone, which bills itself as the “the world’s largest alternative asset manager,” disclosed its first-ever crypto-related purchase, buying shares in BlackRock’s spot Bitcoin exchange-traded fund. However, Blackstone’s investment, reported in a May 20 filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, only totaled around $1.08 million — a fraction of the asset manager’s $1.2 trillion … Read more

Rethinking Your Git Strategy? Trunk-Based Development May Be the Answer

In large development teams, managing feature branches and core reviews can become a bottleneck, especially when pull requests grow large and require approval from multiple reviewers or development teams. This often leads to delayed integrations, increased changes of merge conflicts, and longer feedback loop. Trunk-based development (TBD) enabling faster feedback, better collaboration, and a more … Read more

This One Command Lets You Live-Edit UIKit Apps Like It’s SwiftUI

When working on UIKit-based iOS projects, making quick UI adjustments while the app is running can be time-consuming. Constant recompiling and relaunching to test minor changes not only interrupts your workflow but also slows down your development process. In contrast, SwiftUI has real-time previews that make UI updates a breeze. In this article, I’ll show … Read more

Meet Jackson Square Company, Winner of HackerNoon’s Momentum 10 in Miami, Florida

Congratulations on being a part of the Momentum 10, the elite top 10 startups who demonstrated truly exceptional drive and progress in the year 2024. The Momentum 10 Interview Series will delve into the unique journeys and powerful foundations propelling your startups to the top in the 2024 Startups of The Year campaign! https://hackernoon.com/startups/north-america/north-america-miami-fl-usa?stup=66f321476ea4677e23df7617&embedable=true Tell us … Read more

Step-by-Step: Fine-Tuning Whisper Tiny for Multilingual Clinical Conversations

In this post, I will walk you through the process of fine-tuning a translation model for code-switched Bengali-English speech, specifically focusing on clinical conversations. By leveraging the Whisper Tiny model and FastAPI, I’ll demonstrate how to fine-tune a model for a specific task, such as translating speech from multiple languages into a single language. We’ll … Read more

Meet AI Verse, Winner of Startups of The Year 2024 in Provence Alpes Côte d’Azur, France

https://hackernoon.com/startups/europe/europe-provence-alpes-cote-d-azur-france?stup=66f3161c6ea4677e23d79b84&embedable=true Tell us about you. AI Verse is a deep tech startup that creates high-fidelity synthetic image datasets to train computer vision models with high accuracy. Our mission is to accelerate the development of safe and efficient AI systems by solving one of the industry’s biggest bottlenecks: access to high-quality, diverse, and scalable training data. … Read more

Memecoins are Culture Stress Tests — and That’s Why They Matter

Crypto was built for resilience, but memecoins stress-test that resilience harder than anything else. Not builders, not miners, not even infrastructure providers like us were supposed to take memecoins seriously. And yet — here we are. Frogs, dogs, and pixelated clowns are outperforming startups with funding, teams, and years of product planning. It’s absurd. It’s … Read more

Nvidia’s Mega-Machine Crushes ALL of 2024’s Internet Traffic – And It’s Spawning an AI Gold Rush!

Nvidia’s NVLink Spine Just Outran the Internet – and It’s Rewriting the Rules of AI x Web3 What if one machine could outstrip the entire internet? At Computex 2025, Nvidia’s Jensen Huang dropped a bombshell: the NVLink Spine, a compute beast pumping 130 terabytes per second, eclipsing the internet’s 2024 peak of 112.5 TB/s. This … Read more

Meet Hyperhumans, Estonian Startup of the Year and 2nd Place Worldwide for Mobile Apps!

The special Startups of The Year 2024 Winners Interview series is a celebration of all this year’s Tech Champions. You’ve earned it! The HackerNoon community can’t wait to learn more about your journey! https://hackernoon.com/startups/country/europe-tallinn-estonia?embedable=true Tell us about you. Hyperhumans is an award-winning startup based in Tallinn, Estonia. We’re building ethical software & technology that empowers … Read more

Memory-Optimized Tables in SQL Server: When, Why and How to Implement Them

Introduction After spending 15 years as a SQL Server DBA, I’ve witnessed numerous technological evolutions, but few have offered the performance gains of Memory-Optimized Tables. Introduced in SQL Server 2014 and significantly enhanced in subsequent versions, this technology represents a fundamental shift in how databases store and access data. Unlike traditional disk-based tables that must … Read more