What It Takes to Train a Versatile Speech AI System

Table of Links Abstract and 1 Introduction 2 Approach 2.1 Architecture 2.2 Multimodal Instruction Finetuning 2.3 Curriculum Learning with Parameter Efficient Finetuning 3 Experiments 4 Results 4.1 Evaluation of SpeechVerse models 4.2 Generalization Across Instructions 4.3 Strategies for Improving Performance 5 Related Work 6 Conclusion, Limitations, Ethics Statement, and References A Appendix A.1 Audio Encoder … Read more

Shrinidhi Kota Shreeshapuranik’s Breakthroughs in DevOps and Site Reliability Engineering

Shrinidhi Kota Shreeshapuranik revolutionized DevOps with zero-downtime DB changes via Sqitch in Snowflake and led a secure cloud migration boosting uptime and revenue. His AI-driven vision for site reliability sets new industry standards in automation, observability, and resilience, influencing best practices across infrastructure engineering.

The HackerNoon Newsletter: Fortunate Son From Our Neighborhood (6/19/2025)

How are you, hacker? 🪐 What’s happening in tech today, June 19, 2025? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, Michael Pupin Patented Long-Distance Telephony in 1900, The First Commercial Photoelectric Cell Was Installed in 1931, Blaise Pascal Was Born in 1623, First Woman Cartoonist Debuted in 1940, … Read more

How Bubblemaps is Bringing Transparency to TON, and Why It Matters

Does true transparency exist in the fast-paced, often opaque world of blockchain, particularly within burgeoning ecosystems like The Open Network (TON)? Bubblemaps, an InfoFi analytics company, has announced its integration with TON, aiming to provide real-time visual analytics for one of the most rapidly expanding Web3 networks. TON, or The Open Network, has grown significantly, … Read more

How 1inch and Sonic are Uniting for Faster, Smarter DeFi Trading

How can decentralized finance, or DeFi, combine the quest for optimal trading rates with the demand for rapid transaction speeds? 1inch, a prominent DeFi aggregator, has announced its expansion to the Sonic network from Sonic Labs. This integration aims to merge 1inch’s capability to find competitive rates across various decentralized exchanges with Sonic’s focus on … Read more

Decoding the Global Healthcare Gap: What GCC Markets Are Getting Right

We’re entering an era where the boundaries between healthcare, genetics, and AI are dissolving. What used to exist in silos — AI-driven diagnostics, genomic sequencing, disease treatments — is now converging into something far more powerful: a unified, adaptive model of healthcare. One where treatment not only leverages advanced technologies but is also personalized to … Read more

How I Recovered Deleted Telegram Messages and Media (and You Can Too)

Losing years of Telegram history by mistake felt like a nightmare. Here’s how I reverse-engineered Telegram’s Admin Log to bring it all back. ⚠️ Heads-up: This method only works for group chats and channels — not for one-on-one private conversations. The Accident That Started It All On September 23, 2024, I made a catastrophic mistake. I accidentally deleted all messages and media from a … Read more

The Kill Switch: A Coder’s Act of Revenge

In the age of code dominance, where billions of dollars are controlled by lines of code, a frustrated coder took the boundary between protest and cybercrime. What began as a grudge became an organized act of sabotage, one that now could land him 10 years in federal prison. Recently, a contract programmer was fired by … Read more

All Token Launches Should be Decentralized

Crypto’s revolution began with a radical promise: financial systems run on code for communities, not corporations. Yet in a few years, token launches morphed from grassroots movements to corporate pageantry. VCs became the new investment banks and centralized exchange listings the new IPOs. Now, the pendulum is swinging back. It’s time for crypto to rediscover … Read more

Tech Made in Ukraine: The People Behind the Platforms We Use Every Day

Ukrainian developers and entrepreneurs have long proven their ability to build and scale companies that redefine global markets. Behind the success of international tech giants like GitLab, Revolut, Grammarly, Wise, and Moss are Ukrainians who play a crucial role in shaping the future of technology. Vlad Yatsenko — Co-founder of Revolut Vlad Yatsenko is one … Read more

Liquid Dreams: The Rise of Immersion Cooling and Underwater Data Centers

As demand for data keeps rising driven by generative AI, real-time analytics, 8K streaming, and edge computing data centers are facing an escalating dilemma: how to maintain performance without getting too hot. Traditional air-cooled server rooms that were once large enough for straightforward web hosting and storage are being stretched to their thermal extremes by … Read more

How to Use Customer Service as a Growth Strategy

In markets where complex decision-making dominates and buyers face an overload of options, companies need more than a good product to win. Leveraging customer service as a well-structured system can become your competitive advantage. Customer-obsessed businesses understand that people do not just buy features; they invest in partnerships that deliver trust and consistent support.  You … Read more

Al Agents Will Vote: How DAO + Al Is Changing the Economics of Decision-Making

Imagine a company where multi-million-dollar decisions are made not by humans, but by autonomous programs. This is not a sci-fi movie scene — it’s the reality emerging at the intersection of blockchain and artificial intelligence. Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs) are increasingly integrating Al agents to automate governance, strategy, and resource allocation. One of Nouns DAO’s … Read more

Meet SiteSkite, 👑 Winner of Startups of The Year 2024 in Delaware

The web is building faster than ever, but who’s ensuring it runs flawlessly? SiteSkite is the essential platform for the new era of WordPress, shifting the focus from just building to ensuring every site performs, secures, and scales seamlessly. https://hackernoon.com/startups/north-america/north-america-delaware-ca-usa?embedable=true&stup=6723cafefb65f51b0f7487fd Tell us about you. Hi! I’m Muhammad Abdullah Khan, and I’ve been building in the … Read more