Base Power raises another $1B to save the grid using backyard batteries
Base Power’s $1 billion round will help the startup ramp production of its home batteries.
Month: August 2026
Kenya moves 30 million academic credentials onto Avalanche blockchain
A new digital verification platform aims to reduce forged certificates by allowing employers and universities to authenticate academic records onchain.
Congress’s favorite AI tool? ChatGPT
House spending records show OpenAI’s ChatGPT dominates paid AI use on Capitol Hill, with congressional offices relying on the chatbot to draft memos, summarize legislation, and assist constituent communications.
Decentralize AI, Tech Categories, Fresh Business Hub, and More: Inside the New HackerNoon Upgrades
We’re doubling down on what matters! From the Decentralize AI Hackathon to a massive tech category streamline, a brand-new “Published Recently” homepage section, refreshed partner portals, and our newly released Pixel Icon Library Figma plugin, there’s a lot to explore. Whether you’re a writer, reader, or tech enthusiast, here’s everything new across our platform. Compete … Read more
Microsoft is bringing Xbox 360 games to PC
Building on its recently announced plans to bring original Xbox games to PC, Microsoft is also planning to let developers bring their Xbox 360 games to PC as well, according to a leaked document, seen by The Verge, that was sent to developers recently. Xbox 360 games will be able to run on the next-gen … Read more
Automated Reasoning policy refinement in Amazon Bedrock
Refining an Automated Reasoning policy in Amazon Bedrock has been a manual cycle of diagnose, hand-edit, retest, and repeat. Today, we are announcing automatic policy refinement, which automates the diagnose-and-fix work in that cycle. The refinement engine diagnoses failing tests and proposes formal-logic fixes. You approve every change before it takes effect. Automated Reasoning checks … Read more
Meet Arweave: HackerNoon Company of the Week
We are back with another Company of the Week feature! Every week, we share an awesome tech brand from our tech company database, making their evergreen mark on the internet. This unique HackerNoon database ranks S&P 500 companies and top startups of the year alike. This week, we are proud to present Arweave, a decentralized data-storage network designed … Read more
Wispr Flow is preparing to launch a meeting notetaker, updated terms suggest
Wispr Flow’s new terms of service indicate it will introduce a notetaker that generates meeting summaries and action items.
Trump Family’s American Bitcoin Tops 8,000 BTC After Record Mining Quarter
The Hut 8 subsidiary increased its Bitcoin holdings by 14% in the second quarter even as Bitcoin’s price fell.
How to Build an AI Pipeline for Customer Feedback
A customer rarely writes: Feature request: Add CSV export to the analytics dashboard. They are more likely to write: We prepare our monthly report in Excel, so right now I have to copy each number manually. Is there an easier way? A human product manager immediately understands the underlying request. The customer wants an export … Read more
BlackRock launches tokenized money market funds for stablecoin reserves
The asset manager introduced two blockchain-based money market funds designed to qualify as stablecoin reserve assets under the US GENIUS Act.
Meet the Hackathon Winner: Packworks on the Future of Phygital Retail and Building With Bright Data
Welcome to HackerNoon’s Meet the Hackathon Winner interview series, where we peel back the layers of winning projects across our hackathons for a peek at the technical and operational decisions that propelled them to our winners’ podium. Meet Packworks: Proof of Usefulness Hackathon Winner in the Bright Data Category Packworks was one of four projects … Read more
Tom Lee’s Bitmine Buys More Ethereum, Adds to Stock Buyback
The crypto treasury company says it added another 10,399 ETH last week, bringing its holdings to nearly 5.8 million ETH as it pushes toward its goal of owning 5% of Ethereum’s circulating supply.
Trump-linked American Bitcoin president Matt Prusak departs for Giga Energy
The executive is leaving the Eric Trump-backed miner to join an AI power infrastructure firm, highlighting the shift toward energy and data center buildout.
Hashdex to shut smallest Bitcoin ETF after more than two years
The spot price Bitcoin exchange-traded fund, which was never able to attract more than $18 million in net assets, will pay out investors and sell its 225 BTC in the coming weeks.
Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2026)
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Bluesky’s new CEO wants a big tent, not a bubble
Today, I’m talking with Toni Schneider, who is the brand new CEO of the social platform Bluesky — he formally took over after a short stint as interim CEO. This is one of my favorite kinds of interviews to do on Decoder, because a couple years ago, we had Bluesky’s prior CEO, Jay Graber, on … Read more
Palworld’s expanding to mobile with a new MMORPG
After its 1.0 launch last month, Palworld is coming to iOS and Android with a new open-world MMORPG launching later this year, Polygon reports. Garena, the developer behind the new game, says in its announcement that Palworld Online “reimagines the depth, freedom, and scale of the original PC survival creature-collecting title for mobile.” The core … Read more
U.S.-Japan intervention revives yen carry trade fears for bitcoin
Coordinated action sent the yen sharply higher, but bitcoin’s recent correlation suggests U.S. dollar strength, rather than the carry trade, may be the bigger risk.
Spider-Man and The Odyssey are splitting up IMAX screens after a record-breaking weekend
Spider-Man: Brand New Day is joining The Odyssey in IMAX theaters after both movies led the biggest weekend in box office history. On Monday, IMAX announced that Spider-Man: Brand New Day will be available in select digital IMAX locations across North America starting Thursday, August 6th. The news comes as The Odyssey‘s exclusive three-weekend run … Read more
Samsung’s 2TB 9100 Pro SSD is actually somewhat reasonably priced
Next to buying RAM, finding a fast, high-capacity NVMe SSD at a reasonable price has been a challenge during RAMageddon. I don’t want to say it’s getting easier, but one of Samsung’s latest SSDs is cheaper than it has sold for since February 2026. That’s something, right? Amazon has the heatsink-less version of the Samsung … Read more
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US hints at more yen intervention: Five things to know in Bitcoin this week
The US and Japan coordinate on the yen for the first time since 2011 as Bitcoin traders brace for a historically rough August.
Probably Provenance? You Can’t Just Slap a Sticker on It
We aren’t talking apples in a supermarket here; Provenance can’t just be a sticker we slap on. C2PA got the instinct right — and made two structural choices that break exactly when provenance starts to matter. “When it matters” now has a date on the calendar.* In a world where anything can be generated, “what … Read more
The TechBeat: Stop Writing Incident Reports, Start Writing Case Law: Gaps from OpenAI and Hugging Face Disclosure (8/3/2026)
How are you, hacker? 🪐Want to know what’s trending right now?: The Techbeat by HackerNoon has got you covered with fresh content from our trending stories of the day! Set email preference here. ## The Everything Chain’s Still Missing Supply: How to Attract Capital to Solana By @sodax [ 5 Min read ] Solana’s growth … Read more
159 Blog Posts To Learn About Functional Programming
Let’s learn about Functional Programming via these 159 free blog posts. They are ordered by HackerNoon reader engagement data. Visit the Learn Repo or LearnRepo.com to find the most read blog posts about any technology. Dig Recursion? Welcome to functional programming 1. Real-world Use Cases of Dynamic Programming Applications of dynamic programming 2. Function Composition … Read more