6 Best Platforms Where Gaming Startups Should Publish Their Stories in 2026

Heyo, Hackers! We are back with another HackerNoon Startups of the Week edition. This one is for the gaming startups. The gaming industry has become a crowded ecosystem where discovery, storytelling, and community engagement matter just as much as gameplay mechanics. Indie studios, Web3 gaming startups, and metaverse builders are now competing not only for … Read more

NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra now available on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart

Today, we are excited to announce the day-zero availability of NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart. With this launch, you can now deploy the Nemotron 3 Ultra model using a one-click deployment experience. Nemotron 3 Ultra is an open model built for frontier reasoning and orchestration in long-running autonomous agents, delivering 5x faster … Read more

Fhenix and Monaco Research Are Trying to Build a Dark Pool That Actually Works: Behind DeFi

Every open blockchain is, structurally, a surveillance machine for your counterparty. Fhenix’s FHE infrastructure and Monaco’s institutional-grade trading layer are attempting something most thought impossible: private execution that doesn’t break the trust model of DeFi. There is a problem in DeFi that nobody has properly fixed, and the reason it hasn’t been fixed is that … Read more

Windows is back on the Microsoft menu

I can’t remember the last time Microsoft kicked off a Build keynote with Windows front and center, but that’s exactly what CEO Satya Nadella did this week. Nadella didn’t address the issues Microsoft is trying to fix in Windows 11 but chose to woo the audience with Microsoft’s slick Surface RTX Spark Dev Kit instead, … Read more