What makes a product truly useful? It’s not the number of features or sleek design, but its ability to solve real user problems. And to understand those problems, dashboards alone won’t cut it—you need to talk to people, observe their actions, and see where the interface helps and where it hinders. That’s why we use … Read more
TLDR; This article explores the surprising creative potential of AI hallucinations in generative AI models like DALL·E. While typically viewed as flaws in deep learning, these “errors” can produce unexpected artistic brilliance. By comparing human imagination with AI’s pattern-based logic, the piece questions whether AI’s falsehoods might actually be a new kind of creativity. It challenges how we define truth, … Read more
Remote work has created many wonderful avenues for employers to expand their talent search and find more candidates with the right skills and experience. It has made the hiring process more flexible and accessible. However, remote work has also opened the floodgates to fraudulent applicants. These individuals waste significant time and resources, while real job … Read more
If you’ve spent enough time developing web applications, you’ve certainly come across this error: Access to fetch at ‘https://api.example.com’ from origin ‘https://app.yoursaas.com’ has been blocked by CORS Sound familiar? Most likely, you’ve encountered it when your backend and frontend are hosted on separate servers, and the frontend tries to communicate with the backend. This error … Read more
Hey there, GPU enthusiasts! Today, as the tech ecosystem changes rapidly, GPU programming has quickly become the powerhouse behind important structures from cutting-edge AI and machine learning to high-performance computing and stunning graphics. As we look toward the future of computing, two key factors are reshaping this landscape: diversity in programming approaches and the growing … Read more
In past episodes of The Lab series on The Web Scraping Club, we used Firecrawl to scrape the content of this newsletter, a vector DB like Pinecone to store the articles’ markdown, and the OpenAI API to retrieve information and append the context to our prompt to get better answers. This approach has limitations. The context window size (the amount of information … Read more
We can manage, update, restart, and scale each Docker container separately. That’s the beauty of containerization. Each container should have a single responsibility. PHP, Java, NodeJS — each of those does one obvious thing. Creating containers that include multiple services is considered an anti-pattern. The Single Responsibility Principle doesn’t apply only to our codebase. But … Read more
A “bit” is a tiny toggle that can be set to either 0 (off) or 1 (one). Bits are the foundation of our information technology and digital society. In the future, we will have quantum computers that rely instead on “qubits,” which exist in 0 and 1 states simultaneously, theoretically allowing quantum computers to explore … Read more
The most dangerous advice comes from people who survived something you’ve never experienced. Advice is just other people’s trauma dressed up as wisdom. I spent years collecting other people’s rules like they were universal laws. “Don’t put all your eggs in one basket.” “Always have a backup plan.” “Don’t trust people too quickly.” “Be realistic … Read more
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. ## Coinzilla Delivers 75M+ Impressions, Powering Bitget’s 120% Growth in One Month By @coinzilla [ 3 Min read ] The results demonstrate … Read more
Let’s be real… if you told a crypto fan six months ago that Bitcoin would go through its halving (which usually kicks off a major price run), get the green light on those shiny new ETFs (so big investors can pile in easily), and STILL be moving sideways in price, they’d probably look at you … Read more
A photo of Amir Taaki lying on a couch with a laptop on top of him is around the Internet. Perhaps a typical programmer image. Another photo of him in military uniform, holding a Kalashnikov assault rifle, is also around. This is the cypherpunk who went to Syria to fight the Islamic State. He’s also … Read more
Legal Code Without Interpretation? A Preview In legal theory, we often assume that laws must be interpreted to be enforced. But what if interpretation were no longer a requirement? What if a legal norm could be executed directly, like a line of code? This is the central premise behind Compiled Norms: Towards a Formal Typology … Read more
“If software is the brain of a product, embedded software is its nervous system constantly sensing, reacting, and orchestrating control over the physical world.” Embedded software runs silently under the hood of our most critical devices cars, medical systems, industrial machinery, and IoT devices. Unlike desktop or web development, embedded systems are deeply coupled with … Read more
At Tesco Technology, designing a complex internal simulation platform for high-stakes decisions made one thing clear: even the most advanced AI tools can be misleading if they are not intuitive, user-friendly, and not designed to work for the humans using them. This raised a fundamental question: how can we make advanced data-driven tools truly user-centric? … Read more
Try to imagine a completely new color – one that isn’t just a mix of the colors we already know. Or think of a love story that no one has ever sung about or written a poem about yet. Or picture a form of life that sci-fi writers haven’t dreamed up already. Or what it … Read more
The balancing of product-investor relations is a crucial exercise in the running of a successful company. While many believe that the product is the ultimate end goal of any effective firm, the truth is that without effective investor support, capital can dry up, and with it, the confidence in the working and long-term effectiveness of … Read more
Hello JavaScript Enthusiasts! Welcome to a new edition of “This Week in JavaScript“! This week, Grok 4 steps up as a coding assistant for web developers, PlanetScale launches its blazing‑fast Postgres platform, Vercel welcomes NuxtLabs into the fold, and TypeScript 5.9 Beta brings deferred module evaluation, and more. Plus, we’ve got some powerful new+updated tools for your … Read more
Hello AI Enthusiasts! Welcome to the Twenty-Seventh edition of “This Week in AI Engineering”! This week, Elon Musk’s xAI released GROK 4 and GROK 4 Heavy, Google Research surprised us with T5Gemma, DeepMind open-sourced GenAI Processors, Mistral AI rolled out two new Devstral coding models, and Hugging Face delivered SmolLM3. As always, we’ll wrap things … Read more
Human imagination is a tricky thing. Hey, “If you can dream it, you can do it,” right? Well, sci-fi writers and visionaries have been imagining this for decades, and here we are. Somewhat confused children, not really sure if the Santa in front of us is real. His beard looks white, the belly’s there, the … Read more
From speculation to daily use—SenturoPay sets a new standard for what crypto can do in the hands of everyday users. The crypto industry has no shortage of innovation—but few platforms have focused on one of its most pressing gaps: utility. Today, SenturoPay officially launches to change that, introducing a platform that turns digital assets into … Read more
Every day, crypto investors and enthusiasts worldwide execute currency trades totaling hundreds of billions of dollars in value. All these trades occur across numerous platforms, which maintain prices in sync through little more than arbitrage. That’s the strategy of purchasing an asset for a discounted price on one platform and selling it on another for … Read more
A continuation of the Alpha Engineer’s Journey – where the struggle through rejection, persistence, perseverance, and determination revealed that virtue is the only true success.* After years of chasing achievement and external validation, I’ve discovered that true success lies not in what you accomplish, but in who you become. The four cardinal virtues i.e. Courage, … Read more
Rework accounts for 5% of construction spending in the US, and although this may not initially appear like much, that equates to over $65 billion annually. Whether issues arise from poor communication within a team, outdated processes, or poor quality assurance measures, the time and money that is required for rework can put a huge … Read more
Hey Hackers! This is a little different from what I normally post on HN, so I hope you all give it a chance. I’ve been writing a post-apocalyptic zombie novel titled Remnants for many years. I’d like to start posting chapters here to get feedback and see what you all think about it. Hopefully, one … Read more
Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction Basic premises for our models 2.1. How LLMs are charged 2.2 An anedotal model from industry 2.3 Choice of Costs in the Model 2.4 Why multiple scenarios A Decision Theoretic Model 3.1 How to model success A Model for Commercial Operations Based on a Single Transaction 4.1 Example … Read more
Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction Basic premises for our models 2.1. How LLMs are charged 2.2 An anedotal model from industry 2.3 Choice of Costs in the Model 2.4 Why multiple scenarios A Decision Theoretic Model 3.1 How to model success A Model for Commercial Operations Based on a Single Transaction 4.1 Example … Read more
AI models are great at writing poems, summarizing emails, or pretending to be philosophers. But can they extract a due date from an invoice? Can they understand a broken table with merged cells and half-missing headers? That’s what I wanted to find out. So I tested 5 popular AI models—from cloud APIs to bleeding-edge LLMs—on … Read more
How are you, hacker? 🪐 What’s happening in tech today, July 13, 2025? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, New York City Loses Power in 1977, John F. Kennedy Nominated for Presidency in 1960, Live Aid Concert Organized in 1985, and we present you with these top … Read more
Bypassing anti-bots is one of the major pain points a professional web scraper faces during their career. Luckily enough, the market offers several solutions for bypassing them, but delegating the heavy-duty work always comes with a price tag attached, which is not for every pocket. As the saying goes, ‘If you want something done right, … Read more