Month: August 2025
How to Leave Substack
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Base Takes Solana’s Crown in Token Creation as Coinbase’s ‘SocialFi’ Ignites Zora Boom
Base, the Ethereum Layer 2 network backed by Coinbase, has overtaken Solana (known for its memecoin support) in daily token issuances, Dune analytics data shows. The change is in large part driven by Zora, a burgeoning rising on-chain social network where every post becomes a financial asset. It comes on the heels of Coinbase’s July … Read more
Bourdain, My Camera, and Me (2021)
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Time Theft at the Terminal
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SAP is acquiring SmartRecruiters
SAP has reached an agreement to acquire SmartRecruiters, with SmartRecruiters’ software complementing SAP’s existing HR tools.
The Biggest Games Releasing in August 2025
From Mafia and Madden to Metal Gear and Shinobi, this month is a full-on revival tour for some of gaming’s greatest franchises.
Iconic Satoshi Nakamoto statue recovered by Lugano municipality
The iconic statue of pseudonymous Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto has become a textbook symbol of the global Bitcoin movement.
Palantir: The Most Evil Company
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The HackerNoon Newsletter: 9 Things Hollywood Gets Wrong About Hacking (8/3/2025)
How are you, hacker? 🪐 What’s happening in tech today, August 3, 2025? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, Radio Shack Announced TRS-80 Computer in 1977, Mozilla Corporation was founded in 2005, Christopher Columbus set sail in 1492, and we present you with these top quality stories. … Read more
Mobile AI with ONNX Runtime: How to Build Real-Time Noise Suppression That Works
Your phone is more powerful than a desktop computer from five years ago. The latest flagship Android devices pack neural processing units, multi-core CPUs that would make 2019 laptops jealous, and RAM configurations that seemed impossible just a few years back. So why does it feel like we’re barely scratching the surface of what’s possible … Read more
The Real Reason Most Indie Games Flop (It Has Nothing To Do With Gameplay)
High-Quality Games Are Getting Lost In the past few years, the gaming industry has seen a tidal wave of investment. Tens of billions of dollars have flowed into studios and publishers—more than ten times the historical average. The result is exactly what you’d expect: an explosion of high-quality content. From 2019 to 2023, the number … Read more
Bitcoin dip making ‘perfect bottom,’ says analyst: Will BTC rally to $148K?
BTC price is retesting a key support that previously triggered a 25% rally, potentially signaling a repeat move toward new all-time highs for Bitcoin.
10 Ways AI Is Shaping the Future of Mobile App Development
Artificial Intelligence (AI) in mobile apps was synonymous with chatbots for an extended period. Ask a question and get an answer to the extent of that on many users. This perception would have been long outdated by 2025. Today, AI is not a mere feature; it is fast becoming the invisible force that shapes how … Read more
Solving Coding Puzzles: The Evolution of Programmer Assistance Tools
Table of Links Abstract and 1 Introduction 2. Prior conceptualisations of intelligent assistance for programmers 3. A brief overview of large language models for code generation 4. Commercial programming tools that use large language models 5. Reliability, safety, and security implications of code-generating AI models 6. Usability and design studies of AI-assisted programming 7. Experience … Read more
The Hidden Cost of Performance: How High-Load Specialization Warps Engineering Intuition
In high-performance software engineering, it’s easy to become so focused on optimization that you lose sight of broader business needs. This article shares lessons from my 20+ years building real-time, high-load systems across finance, telecom, and advertising. I explain how engineering intuition—shaped by edge-case systems—can become a liability when applied blindly. The goal: help engineering … Read more
Automerge 3.0
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