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

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

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