The HackerNoon Newsletter: Minecraft, Engineering, and The Incremental Mindset (8/26/2025)

How are you, hacker? 🪐 What’s happening in tech today, August 26, 2025? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, Miss Manners Addressed Computer Correspondence in 1984, First German to go into Space in 1978, and we present you with these top quality stories. From Minecraft, Engineering, and … Read more

6000 USDT in Sponsor Tag Prizes Up for Grabs in the Spacecoin Writing Contest

The first two rounds of the Spacecoin Writing Contest saw hundreds of stories published, hours of insightful reading shared, and 6,000 USDT awarded to standout entries in the contest’s primary tags—#decentralized-internet, #spacetech, and #blockchain-use-case. For the final round, we’re raising the stakes with an additional 6,000 USDT up for grabs, bringing the total prize pool … Read more

Dogecoin Jumps to 21-Cents Despite $200M Whale Transfer to Binance

Dogecoin traded through heavy volatility over the August 24–26 window, swinging within a $0.013 range before consolidating near $0.21. A sharp drop from $0.218 to $0.208 on August 25 came amid massive 1.57 billion volume, while broader pressure was tied to a 900 million DOGE transfer to Binance that unsettled traders. Despite near-term caution, whales … Read more

Unlock Peak Mobile Performance: A Deep Dive into PowerInfer-2’s Neuron-Aware Runtime

Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction Background and Motivation PowerInfer-2 Overview Neuron-Aware Runtime Inference Execution Plan Generation Implementation Evaluation Related Work Conclusion and References 4 Neuron-Aware Runtime Inference 4.1 Polymorphic Neuron Engine PowerInfer-2 introduces a polymorphic neuron engine that dynamically combines neurons into neuron clusters to take advantage of distinct computational characteristics of LLM … Read more

The Conductor in Your Pocket: How PowerInfer-2 Orchestrates Smartphone Hardware for LLM Inference

Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction Background and Motivation PowerInfer-2 Overview Neuron-Aware Runtime Inference Execution Plan Generation Implementation Evaluation Related Work Conclusion and References 3 PowerInfer-2 Overview Traditional LLM inference typically depends on matrix computations as the basic unit of inference, a method that introduces significant computational and I/O overhead in the heterogeneous hardware … Read more