The HackerNoon Newsletter: Heres Why AI Can’t Replace You (9/24/2025)

How are you, hacker? 🪐 What’s happening in tech today, September 24, 2025? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, Judiciary Act Establishes Courts in 1789, USS Enterprise Goes Nuclear in 1960, Peace Treaty of Adrianople in 1829, Honda Motor Company Founded in 1948, and we present you … Read more

Syntactically Valid Code Editing: A Training Methodology for Neural Program Synthesis

Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction Background & Related Work Method 3.1 Sampling Small Mutations 3.2 Policy 3.3 Value Network & Search 3.4 Architecture Experiments 4.1 Environments 4.2 Baselines 4.3 Ablations Conclusion, Acknowledgments and Disclosure of Funding, and References Appendix A. Mutation Algorithm B. Context-Free Grammars C. Sketch Simulation D. Complexity Filtering E. Tree … Read more

Melee Raises $3.5M to Launch ‘Viral Prediction Markets’ Without Gatekeepers

Melee, a new prediction market startup that says speculation and betting should be as open as online discussion, has raised $3.5 million from Variant, DBA and a group of angel investors to roll out what it calls “Viral Markets.” Crypto native companies have witnessed the runaway success of Polymarket, the digital asset betting platform that … Read more

The Web Needs a Better Model

More than ever we are at the mercy of platform-based giants like Google and Amazon, who act as digital landlords. We have become cloud-serfs, giving our data and producing trillions in value for algorithms we will never own. Over 80% of Netflix viewing is dictated by its recommendation algorithm, and Amazon is far from a … Read more

Advancing Private Credit with On-Chain Rails

Private credit, namely asset-backed finance (ABF), is among the fastest-growing corners of global finance. Already a $6.1 trillion market, Apollo Global Management sizes the addressable opportunity at over $20 trillion. Yet despite its scale and growing role in financing businesses and consumers worldwide, the industry still runs on excel sheets. The result? Middle- and back-office … Read more

Bitcoin & Solana Rally, But LILPEPE Under $0.0025 Tops Analysts’ Best Crypto to Buy in September

Bitcoin and Solana are pushing toward record highs, but analysts say the real asymmetric opportunity lies in Little Pepe (LILPEPE). Priced under $0.0025, LILPEPE has raised over $25M, passed a CertiK audit, listed on CoinMarketCap, and offers a meme-focused Layer-2 ecosystem. With projections of $0.50–$3, it’s being called the best crypto to buy in September … Read more

Inverting the Observation Model: How to Generate Code from Any Output

Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction Background & Related Work Method 3.1 Sampling Small Mutations 3.2 Policy 3.3 Value Network & Search 3.4 Architecture Experiments 4.1 Environments 4.2 Baselines 4.3 Ablations Conclusion, Acknowledgments and Disclosure of Funding, and References Appendix A. Mutation Algorithm B. Context-Free Grammars C. Sketch Simulation D. Complexity Filtering E. Tree … Read more

Ether Treasuries Are Going Mainstream: Crypto Investment Firm Bitwise

Bitwise Asset Management says ether (ETH) is rapidly cementing its place as a treasury asset. Digital asset treasuries (DATs), once largely bitcoin-centric, are now allocating to ether at scale, creating structural demand that exceeds net new supply, the firm said in a Monday report. “ETH treasuries are no longer a side story. They are becoming … Read more

The Protocol: Ethereum Developers Target December for Fusaka Hard Fork

Welcome to The Protocol, CoinDesk’s weekly wrap of the most important stories in cryptocurrency tech development. I’m Margaux Nijkerk, a reporter at CoinDesk. In this issue: Ethereum Developers Target December for Fusaka Hard For Plasma to Launch Mainnet Beta Blockchain for Stablecoins XRP Holders Can Now Earn Up to 8% Through New Liquid Staking Token … Read more