The TechBeat: From Screens to Streets: How Field UX Research in Morocco Helped Redesign Intercity Booking (7/21/2025)

How are you, hacker? đŸȘ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. ## From Screens to Streets: How Field UX Research in Morocco Helped Redesign Intercity Booking By @indrivetech [ 6 Min read ] … Read more

Friction May Be Your Last Job Security in an AI-Driven World

Over the past few years, the increasing adoption of artificial intelligence by corporations has led to a growing discomfort in the workforce. Many (most?) white-collar workers are anxious, carrying a dull, constant and ever-heavy fear that their job might be the one automated next. Meanwhile, new workers worry they may never find a role in a quickly evolving … Read more

“I Believed in the Team Before the Product”: Ruslan Madinov on Investing in Underwater Robotics

Intro Robotics is one of the key technological trends today: according to Boston Consulting Group Research, the global robotics market will reach $160-260 billion by 2030, with the most dynamic growth expected in the segments of professional services robots including underwater solutions for inspection and rescue operations as one of the most promising areas at … Read more

Moonshot’s Kimi K2 Is a Hefty Contender to Claude, GPT-4 & Even Gemini

Hello JavaScript Enthusiasts! Welcome to a new edition of “This Week in JavaScript“! This week, Moonshot AI’s Kimi K2 arrives as a powerful open-weight coding model, Next.js 15.4 makes Turbopack production-ready, Vue 3.6 alpha introduces Vapor Mode for high-performance apps, and Nuxt 4.0 brings big improvements to the developer experience, and more. n Kimi K2 … Read more

OpenAI FINALLY Releases the ChatGPT Agent The Internet Has Been Asking For

Hello AI Enthusiasts! Welcome to the Twenty-Eighth edition of “This Week in AI Engineering”! This week, OpenAI launched the revolutionary ChatGPT Agent, Moonshot AI’s Kimi K2 beats Opus4 being 90% cheaper, Mistral released worlds #1 speech recognition models, Perplexity unveiled their smartest AI browser, and Cursor;s CEO had to apologise publicly . As always, we’ll also … Read more

Why Trump “Snapped” Stephen Colbert?

My favorite English teacher got fired. It was during the pre-Late-Show era that Colbert helped me polish my English. The Colbert Report used to be my top torrent priority for years. You’d be surprised what people all over the world liked to watch, play, and read before streaming and light speed browsing. Where there’s a … Read more

Remnants: Chapter 3 – Warm Body

This is Chapter 3 of a post-apocalyptic zombie novel. Please see here for Chapter 1 (should probably read that first!). View my profile for all the chapters. Santana I don’t know how long It’s been, must be weeks now. Frank has barely spoken since then. I don’t blame him. We’d been holed up in the apartment for days. I … Read more

Educational Byte: Centralized Vs. Decentralized Coins – or Your USDT Can Be Frozen

Did you know that not all “crypto” is created equal? A lot of people assume that once they buy a cryptocurrency, it’s theirs —safe from interference. But here’s the catch: some coins are built in a way that allows companies or even governments to freeze or seize your funds, no matter how strong your password … Read more

Why Sapien.io Could Be the Scale.AI of Crypto

Can Crypto Find Its Scale.AI Moment? Meta just invested $14.8 billion for a 49% stake in Scale AI, one of the largest bets on AI infrastructure to date. The company’s data-labeling infrastructure powers everything from autonomous vehicles to AI copilots. But what if crypto had its own version of Scale.AI? Enter Sapien.io. The Web3-native data … Read more

Exploring Alternative Architectures for Multi-Token LLM Prediction

Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction 2. Method 3. Experiments on real data 4. Ablations on synthetic data 5. Why does it work? Some speculation 6. Related work 7. Conclusion, Impact statement, Environmental impact, Acknowledgements and References A. Additional results on self-speculative decoding B. Alternative architectures C. Training speeds D. Finetuning E. Additional results … Read more

Unleashing LLM Speed: Multi-Token Self-Speculative Decoding Redefines Inference

Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction 2. Method 3. Experiments on real data 4. Ablations on synthetic data 5. Why does it work? Some speculation 6. Related work 7. Conclusion, Impact statement, Environmental impact, Acknowledgements and References A. Additional results on self-speculative decoding B. Alternative architectures C. Training speeds D. Finetuning E. Additional results … Read more

Walking You Through WASI Support in Go

Go 1.21 adds a new port targeting the WASI preview 1 syscall API through the new GOOS value wasip1. This port builds on the existing WebAssembly port introduced in Go 1.11. What is WebAssembly? WebAssembly (Wasm) is a binary instruction format originally designed for the web. It represents a standard that allows developers to run … Read more

Your One-Stop Guide to All the Type Promotion Changes in TensorFlow 2.15

Content Overview Overview Setup Enabling the new type promotion Two modes: ALL mode vs SAFE mode Dtypes Example of precision losing operations Example of bit-widening operations A System Based on a Lattice Type Promotion Lattice Type Promotion Table Advantages of The New Type Promotion WeakTensor Overview WeakTensor construction Overview There are 4 options for type … Read more

Optimizing Machine Learning Models with Precise Gradient Management in TensorFlow

Content Overview Setup Controlling gradient recording Stop recording Reset/start recording from scratch Stop gradient flow with precision Custom gradients Custom gradients in SavedModel Multiple tapes Higher-order gradients Jacobians Scalar source Tensor source Batch Jacobian The Introduction to gradients and automatic differentiation guide includes everything required to calculate gradients in TensorFlow. This guide focuses on deeper, less common … Read more

Tips for Writing Clean Code in TensorFlow 2

Content Overview Overview Setup Recommendations for idiomatic TensorFlow 2 Refactor your code into smaller modules Adjust the default learning rate for some tf.keras.optimizers Use tf.Modules and Keras layers to manage variables Combine tf.data.Datasets and tf.function Use Keras training loops Customize training and write your own loop Take advantage of tf.function with Python control flow New-style … Read more

5 Collaboration Strategies Every Workplace Needs

One of the most powerful forces at work is teamwork. When team members learn to collaborate well, greater things are achieved—projects are completed on time without compromising on quality, business targets are met which makes the stakeholders happy and the joy and satisfaction from doing impactful work motivates the team to go after bigger and … Read more

CVE-2024-43402: What You Need to Know

On April 9th, 2024, the Rust Security Response WG disclosed CVE-2024-24576, where std::process::Command incorrectly escaped arguments when invoking batch files on Windows. We were notified that our fix for the vulnerability was incomplete, and it was possible to bypass the fix when the batch file name had trailing whitespace or periods (which are ignored and … Read more

Godot 4.4 Beta 2: The Highlights and Changelog

We’ve been keeping busy these past two weeks squashing the bugs that cropped up in 4.4 beta 1. Despite how much the previous snapshot added, it bears repeating that we have entered the 4.4 feature freeze, so our energy has been focused on addressing any new regressions or the aforementioned bugs. We’re still aiming for … Read more

How to Block Tracking and Ads

The Gentle January series shares one practical privacy tip a day from a Markup staffer who actually uses the advice in their own life. I’ve been blocking ads on the internet for as long as I can remember. As a teenager, I started doing so because ads were ugly and I learned that browser extensions … Read more

The TechBeat: What Losing a 125K-Member Reddit Community Taught Me! The Digital Wake-Up Call I Didn’t See Coming (7/19/2025)

How are you, hacker? đŸȘ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. ## From Screens to Streets: How Field UX Research in Morocco Helped Redesign Intercity Booking By @indrivetech [ 6 Min read ] … Read more

Unlocking Generative Power: Multi-Token Prediction for Next-Gen LLMs

Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction 2. Method 3. Experiments on real data 4. Ablations on synthetic data 5. Why does it work? Some speculation 6. Related work 7. Conclusion, Impact statement, Environmental impact, Acknowledgements and References A. Additional results on self-speculative decoding B. Alternative architectures C. Training speeds D. Finetuning E. Additional results … Read more