AI Native Data Pipeline – What Do We Need?

There’s more need for open data infrastructure for AI than ever. In this article, we would love to share our learnings from the past, what has changed, what is broken, and why we decided to work on CocoIndex (https://github.com/cocoindex-io/cocoindex) – a next-generation data pipeline built for AI-native workloads — designed from the ground up to … Read more

Can Your Startup Boost Its Appeal to Talented Digital Nomads? 5 Ways to Attract Skilled Workers

The United Kingdom’s gig economy is going from strength to strength, and at a time when more businesses are wary of tightening operational budgets, the appeal of freelancers has never been stronger. But how can your startup make itself an attractive prospect for the world’s brightest digital nomad talent? In the wake of the pandemic, … Read more

The Automatic Checking of cfgs: How It Works

The Cargo and Compiler team are delighted to announce that starting with Rust 1.80 (or nightly-2024-05-05) every reachable #[cfg] will be automatically checked that they match the expected config names and values. This can help with verifying that the crate is correctly handling conditional compilation for different target platforms or features. It ensures that the … Read more

The $10 Billion Logic Error: What Happens When Security Moves Faster Than Sanity

The Numbers Don’t Lie. They Scream. Twenty-one instead of twenty. That’s the difference between a functioning global infrastructure and $10 billion in losses. On July 19, 2024, a CrowdStrike Falcon sensor configuration file expected 20 input parameters. It received 21. Within 78 minutes, 8.5 million Windows machines worldwide displayed blue screens. Delta Air Lines alone … Read more

When Even the Cloud Caught a Cold: Inside the AWS and Azure Outages of 2025

In October 2025, the internet reminded us that nothing—absolutely nothing—is immune to failure. n Within just nine days, two of the world’s biggest cloud providers—Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure—suffered massive outages that sent shockwaves through the digital world. Apps froze. n Websites went dark. n Voice assistants stopped responding. n Even enterprise dashboards … Read more

How to Build an AWS Bedrock Supervisor Agent to Automate EC2 and CloudWatch Tasks

Amazon Bedrock Agents are like smart assistants for your AWS infrastructure — they can reason, decide what to do next, and trigger actions using Lambda functions. In this article, I’ll show how I built a Supervisor Agent that orchestrates multiple AWS Lambdas to: List EC2 instances, Fetch their CPU metrics from CloudWatch, Combine both results … Read more

The HackerNoon Newsletter: System Design in a Nutshell (11/2/2025)

How are you, hacker? 🪐 What’s happening in tech today, November 2, 2025? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Was Established in 1938, The BBC Television Services Was Started in 1936, New Zealand Adopted a National Standard Time in 1868, and we present … Read more

Code Smell 313 – “Workslop” in AI-Assisted Programming

When AI Fills the Gaps, You Should Think Through TL;DR: Workslop happens when you accept AI-generated code that looks fine but lacks understanding, structure, or purpose. Problems 😔 Hollow logic Unclear or ambiguous intent Misleading structure Disrespect for human fellows Missing edge-cases Fake productivity Technical debt Solutions 😃 Validate generated logic in real-world scenarios Rewrite … Read more