The HackerNoon Newsletter: What to Do While I Wait for ChatGPT (6/13/2025)

How are you, hacker? đŸȘ What’s happening in tech today, June 13, 2025? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, Pioneer 10 Crossed the Orbit of Neptune in 1983, Leonard Kleinrock Was Born in 1934, Microsoft Partnered With Time-Warner and Tele-Communications to Develop Interactive TV in 1993, Scottish … Read more

Make videos accessible with automated audio descriptions using Amazon Nova

According to the World Health Organization, more than 2.2 billion people globally have vision impairment. For compliance with disability legislation, such as the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) in the United States, media in visual formats like television shows or movies are required to provide accessibility to visually impaired people. This often comes in the … Read more

Training Llama 3.3 Swallow: A Japanese sovereign LLM on Amazon SageMaker HyperPod

This post is based on a technical report written by Kazuki Fujii, who led the Llama 3.3 Swallow model development. The Institute of Science Tokyo has successfully trained Llama 3.3 Swallow, a 70-billion-parameter large language model (LLM) with enhanced Japanese capabilities, using Amazon SageMaker HyperPod. The model demonstrates superior performance in Japanese language tasks, outperforming … Read more

UNI Drops Hard After V-Shaped Rebound Fizzles Amid Mounting Middle East Tension

Uniswap’s UNI UNI token is down 6.36% to $7.3864 over the past 24 hours, as traders absorbed another wave of geopolitical tension following an aggressive new message from President Donald Trump. The token had briefly recovered from a sharp overnight crash—bouncing 9.5% from $6.82 to over $8.40—but has since slipped again as risk sentiment deteriorated. … Read more

America’s Dollar Dominance Depends on GENIUS

We are closer than ever to cementing America’s global leadership in digital asset innovation. Next week, the Senate will hold its final vote on the Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for U.S. Stablecoins Act – the GENIUS Act – bringing this landmark stablecoin legislation one step closer to becoming law. Following Senate passage, the bill … Read more

Positive U.S. Regulatory Environment More Conducive for Crypto Corporate Activity: JPMorgan

Expectations of a more benign regulatory environment in the U.S. is leading to an increase in the number of crypto companies looking to go public and an uplift in venture capital (VC) funding, investment bank JPMorgan (JPM) said in a research report Wednesday. The GENIUS Act’s progress in the Senate has become a “key factor … Read more

AVAX Plunges 13% as Crypto Sinks on Rise in Mideast Tensions

The cryptocurrency market is experiencing significant volatility due to Israel’s strikes on Iran. Avalanche AVAX has been particularly affected, undergoing a substantial 13% correction with high trading volume. Despite the sharp decline, buyers have established strong support in the $18.57-$18.70 range, with recent price action showing signs of stabilization and potential consolidation, according to CoinDesk … Read more

Crypto Plunges, Israel strikes Iran, Gold & Oil Soar

Crypto Plunges, Israel strikes Iran, Gold & Oil Soar FOMO HOUR EP378 Crypto plunges as Israel strikes Iran. $1.1bn liquidations, Wynn liquidated again. GameStop upsizes debt raise to $2.25bn, to buy BTC. 21 companies launched BTC reserve in last 30 days. Sharplink falls 70% after equity re-sale announced. Sharplink acquires $463m ETH. DFDV announces $5bn … Read more

How to Write Custom Training Loops in Keras with GradientTape

Content Overview Setup Introduction Using the GradientTape: a first end-to-end example Low-level handling of metrics Speeding-up your training step with tf.function Low-level handling of losses tracked by the model Summary End-to-end example: a GAN training loop from scratch Setup import tensorflow as tf import keras from keras import layers import numpy as np Introduction Keras … Read more

Code Smell 303 – How to Prevent Breaking Existing Clients When You Make Changes

When you break APIs without warning, you break trust TL;DR: You should version your APIs to prevent breaking existing clients when you make changes. Problems 😔 Client applications crashes Integration failures Least Minimal Surprise Principle violation Downtime Broken Trust Deployment rollbacks needed Development time wasted User experience degradation Solutions 😃 Add semantic versioning Implement backward … Read more

TON Down 8% After Israeli Strikes Against Iran

Telegram’s token TON dipped 8% in 24 hours, dropping from $3.20 to a low of $2.93 with significant selling pressure, according to CoinDesk research’s technical analysis model. TON was hit harder than other cryptocurrencies in the CoinDesk 20: the index (which includes the top 20 coins by market capitalization except for stablecoins, memecoins and stablecoins) … Read more