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How are you, hacker? 🪐 What’s happening in tech today, June 15, 2025? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, Microsoft’s Internet Explorer Retired After 26 Years in 2022, Russian Spacecraft Vega 2 Landed on Venus in 1985, Charles Goodyear Patented the Process of Vulcanization in 1844, The … Read more

Today the Go team is thrilled to release Go 1.22, which you can get by visiting the download page. Go 1.22 comes with several important new features and improvements. Here are some of the notable changes; for the full list, refer to the release notes. Language changes The long-standing “for” loop gotcha with accidental sharing … Read more

We’ve Hit the Limits of Human-First Growth Every company I’ve ever scaled had the same sales playbook: hire more people, train them faster, scale them harder. Whether it was [Uber](https://Hi there, It looks like your article is mostly AI-generated. Right now, we’re not accepting AI-generated articles as they often lack depth and can affect our … Read more

Table of Links Abstract and I. Introduction II. Approach A. Architectural Design B. Proof of Concept Implementation III. Envisioned Usage Scenarios IV. Experiment Design and Demographics A. Participants B. Target System and Task C. Procedure V. Results and Discussion VI. Related Work VII. Conclusions and Future Work, Acknowledgment, and References A. Participants We invited students … Read more

Table of Links Abstract and I. Introduction II. Approach A. Architectural Design B. Proof of Concept Implementation III. Envisioned Usage Scenarios IV. Experiment Design and Demographics A. Participants B. Target System and Task C. Procedure V. Results and Discussion VI. Related Work VII. Conclusions and Future Work, Acknowledgment, and References III. ENVISIONED USAGE SCENARIOS Besides … Read more

:::info Authors: (1) Alexander Krause-Glau, Software Engineering Group, Kiel University, Kiel, Germany (akr@informatik.uni-kiel.de); (2) Wilhelm Hasselbring, Software Engineering Group, Kiel University, Kiel, Germany (wha@informatik.uni-kiel.de). ::: Table of Links Abstract and I. Introduction II. Approach A. Architectural Design B. Proof of Concept Implementation III. Envisioned Usage Scenarios IV. Experiment Design and Demographics A. Participants B. Target … Read more

Table of Links Abstract and 1 Introduction 2 Terminology 3 Exploring the design space of vision-language models and 3.1 Are all pre-trained backbones equivalent for VLMs? 3.2 How does the fully autoregressive architecture compare to the cross-attention architecture? 3.3 Where are the efficiency gains? 3.4 How can one trade compute for performance? 4 Idefics2 – … Read more

Table of Links Abstract and 1 Introduction 2 Terminology 3 Exploring the design space of vision-language models and 3.1 Are all pre-trained backbones equivalent for VLMs? 3.2 How does the fully autoregressive architecture compare to the cross-attention architecture? 3.3 Where are the efficiency gains? 3.4 How can one trade compute for performance? 4 Idefics2 – … Read more

Table of Links Abstract and 1 Introduction 2 Terminology 3 Exploring the design space of vision-language models and 3.1 Are all pre-trained backbones equivalent for VLMs? 3.2 How does the fully autoregressive architecture compare to the cross-attention architecture? 3.3 Where are the efficiency gains? 3.4 How can one trade compute for performance? 4 Idefics2 – … Read more

Table of Links Abstract and 1 Introduction 2 Terminology 3 Exploring the design space of vision-language models and 3.1 Are all pre-trained backbones equivalent for VLMs? 3.2 How does the fully autoregressive architecture compare to the cross-attention architecture? 3.3 Where are the efficiency gains? 3.4 How can one trade compute for performance? 4 Idefics2 – … Read more

:::info Authors: (1) Hugo Laurençon, Hugging Face and Sorbonne Université, (the order was chosen randomly); (2) Léo Tronchon, Hugging Face (the order was chosen randomly); (3) Matthieu Cord, Sorbonne Université; (4) Victor Sanh, Hugging Face. ::: Table of Links Abstract and 1 Introduction 2 Terminology 3 Exploring the design space of vision-language models and 3.1 … 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. ## We’re At a Fork in the Road for AI Development By @OurAI [ 11 Min read ] As the long rivalry … Read more

I went out this weekend to see a show. I had some time to chat with the security guard at a venue. He was a Gen Z man who explained after some conversation that he was interested in improving himself. He did not think that formal education after high school would be useful. In fact, … Read more

What’s the biggest difference between an AI model and a human brain? Over time, myriad answers have been given—the brain is more energy-efficient, more multifaceted in its media of input, and also chemically enabled in addition to being electrical—yet the human brain’s most important feature is its amazing plasticity. If a patient’s body part (like … Read more

Content Overview Setup Load the data Preprocess the data Logistic regression Logistic regression fundamentals The log loss function The gradient descent update rule Train the model Performance evaluation Save the model Conclusion This guide demonstrates how to use the TensorFlow Core low-level APIs to perform binary classification with logistic regression. It uses the Wisconsin Breast Cancer Dataset for tumor classification. Logistic regression is … Read more

Content Overview Setup Load and preprocess the dataset Build a machine learning model Define a loss function Train and evaluate your model Save and load the model Conclusion This quickstart tutorial demonstrates how you can use the TensorFlow Core low-level APIs to build and train a multiple linear regression model that predicts fuel efficiency. It uses the Auto … Read more

A few weeks ago, OpenAI announced that Codex is available for Plus users, and I didn’t miss a chance to try it. And today, I’m excited to share a guide to OpenAI’s Codex. As a developer, I’ve found it to be a powerful and practical tool. What is OpenAI Codex? OpenAI Codex is an AI … Read more

On June 7, 2025, Japan enacted a series of regulations aimed at enabling stronger consumer protections around cryptocurrency investments, mandating that cryptocurrency exchanges store customer assets in Japan, and enabling stronger anti-money laundering (AML) laws. These regulations also allow individuals to use cryptocurrencies directly in apps, marking a significant step in mainstream digital asset adoption. … Read more

How are you, hacker? 🪐 What’s happening in tech today, June 14, 2025? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, The US Census Dedicated the UNIVAC I Computer in 1956, Mauchly Met Atanasoff in a Historic Meeting in 1941, The Disneyland Monorail Opened in California in 1959, Fischer … Read more

Problem Statement: With Copilot integrated into the organization’s applications, finding rarely used data from files, SharePoint, and other accessible sources has become incredibly easy. I’ve been relying heavily on this Gen AI capability. One day, I needed a summary view of all the features (team’s deliverables for a Quarter in Agile Framework) and their statuses … Read more

Our whole universe was in a hot, dense state n Then nearly fourteen billion years ago, expansion started, wait n The Earth began to cool n The autotrophs began to drool n Neanderthals developed tools n We built a wall (We built the pyramids) n Math, science, history, unraveling the mystery n That all started … Read more

What is Friday the 13th to you? Is it a day to celebrate and appreciate one of the greatest slasher horror franchises in movie history? Or, is it a day to stay at home to avoid something falling on your head? I used to be superstitious, but also curious. Why is that? Why Friday the … Read more

If you’re a developer, writer, or blockchain enthusiast, the Web3 Development Writing Contest invites you to explore how GetBlock simplifies full node hosting and makes blockchain infrastructure more accessible. Use this template to guide your story—for a chance to win from $5,000 in prizes. :::info Note: This template is merely a guide. You may answer the … 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. ## The Case for a Decentralized Cloud: How Vendor Lock-in Broke Cloud Storage By @siafoundation [ 7 Min read ] Cloud storage … Read more

The recent announcement of KubeMQ-Aiway caught my attention not as another AI platform launch, but as validation of a trend I’ve been tracking across the industry. After spending the last two decades building distributed systems and the past three years deep in AI infrastructure consulting, the patterns are becoming unmistakable: we’re at the same inflection point that microservices … Read more

With all the advances in email security, it would be easy to assume that phishing emails are a relic of the past. However, they continue to land in inboxes every day. Hidden among legitimate messages are fake invoices, password reset requests, and urgent warnings that somehow slip through. Phishing has evolved from the old spray-and-pray … Read more

The Rust team is happy to announce a new version of Rust, 1.83.0. Rust is a programming language empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software. If you have a previous version of Rust installed via rustup, you can get 1.83.0 with: $ rustup update stable If you don’t have it already, you can get … Read more

Picture a high school student who wants to go to college, likes to cheer on her school’s football team, and plays in a sport or two herself. One day after school, she signs up for an official ACT account so she can schedule her college entrance exam and see what score she gets after taking … Read more

Microsoft’s DevRel is excited to introduce AI Travel Agents, a sample application demo with enterprise functionality that demonstrates how developers can coordinate multiple AI agents and MCP servers (written in Java, .NET, Python and TypeScript) to explore travel planning scenarios. It’s built with LlamaIndex.TS for agent orchestration, Model Context Protocol (MCP) for structured tool interactions, Azure … Read more

When people think of machine learning, headstones probably don’t come to mind. But in one of the more profound applications of generative AI, we built a system that uses machine learning to design custom memorial products—yes, including gravestones—tailored to personal preferences and cultural sensitivities. This wasn’t just a quirky ML experiment. It was a full-stack … Read more