For a better part of the last decade, American tech companies have tried long and hard to come up with an effective super app. But, despite pouring billions of dollars into these efforts, Telegram did the impossible through the crypto unlock. Even serial innovators like Elon Musk struggled to convert X (formerly Twitter) into a … Read more
We stand at an inflection point in AI, where Large Language Models (LLMs) are scaling rapidly, increasingly integrating into sensitive enterprise applications, and relying on massive, often untrusted, public datasets for their training foundation. For years, the security conversation around LLM data poisoning operated under a fundamental—and now challenged- assumption: that attacking a larger model … Read more
How are you, hacker? 🪐 What’s happening in tech today, October 18, 2025? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, U.S Takes Possession of Alaska in 1867, Thomas Edison dies in 1931, Clean Water Act becomes law in 1972, and we present you with these top quality stories. … Read more
PANAMA CITY, October 17, 2025 — BingX, a leading cryptocurrency exchange and Web3 AI company, today announced that it has officially achieved ISO/IEC 27001 certification, an internationally recognized standard for information security management systems (ISMS). This certification marks another major milestone in BingX’s ongoing commitment to data protection, security, and operational excellence for its global … 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 Are Very Early in Our Work With LLMs,” – Prem Ramaswami, Head of Data Commons at Google By @David [ … Read more
AI coding agents dominated the 2025 SF World’s Fair. From spec-driven dev to cloud agents, here are 7 takeaways shaping AI-native engineering.
Can a Trading Platform Justify Putting All Its Eggs in One Basket? Most protocols operating across multiple chains face a dilemma. Do you spread resources thin to maintain presence everywhere, or concentrate firepower where you already dominate? gTrade, the decentralized perpetual trading platform from Gains Network, has chosen the latter with its “Trick or Trade” … Read more
The Haber–Bosch process looks pretty simple: The idea is, with enough energy, we can turn nitrogen and hydrogen into ammonia. Our plants need ammonia to grow. Without the Haber-Bosch process, we wouldn’t have enough fertilizers to feed 8 billion people on this planet. This invention of this process was probably the largest game-changer that happened … Read more
Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction Current and past basic income experiments Financing a basic income program Finding alternative solutions Conclusion, Acknowledgment, and References 4. Finding alternative solutions From these examples, we can see that the massive expenditure on UBI is neither economically efficient nor socially equitable. More importantly, it does not address the … Read more
Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction Current and past basic income experiments Financing a basic income program Finding alternative solutions Conclusion, Acknowledgment, and References 3. Financing a basic income program In addition to proving ineffective in the mitigation of unemployment, UBI comes at an exorbitant cost to taxpayers. Finnish failed Basic Income Experiment on … Read more
:::info Author: (1) Le Dong Hai Nguyen, School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, 3700 O St NW, Washington, DC 20057 (ln406@georgetown.edu). ::: Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction Current and past basic income experiments Financing a basic income program Finding alternative solutions Conclusion, Acknowledgment, and References Abstract The effects of automation on our economy … Read more
How are you, hacker? 🪐 What’s happening in tech today, October 17, 2025? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, Al Capone Goes to Prison in 1931, The London Beer Flood Occurred in 1814, OPEC Enacts Oil Embargo in 1973, and we present you with these top quality … Read more
Empirics: Participation is long-tailed. The old 90/10 baseline is collapsing toward 99/1. Mechanics: Cumulative advantage and social influence create self-reinforcing feedback loops and a stable equilibrium. Playbook: Map your power user curve, empower keystone contributors, and build growth loops and fair governance to optimize the head’s performance while thickening the tail. n The online worlds … Read more
Marketers have built digital Frankenstacks—collections of brilliant tools that don’t work well together. What began as “using the best tool for the job” has evolved into a tangled web of apps that drain focus, waste money, and multiply inefficiencies. The next frontier in marketing isn’t adding more tools—it’s simplifying systems. True agility means building workflows … Read more
You may have heard that there are hidden messages on the Bitcoin blockchain, and even on the Ethereum blockchain, too. Indeed, the first-ever block of Bitcoin (the genesis block) will forever carry the headline of a newspaper from that day: “The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks.” This was a little … Read more
Can a Compliance Blueprint Save Crypto From Its Own Wild West? What would happen if every crypto exchange operated with the security rigor of a bank? For years, the answer remained theoretical. Now, with one platform holding every major security certification available to the industry, that question becomes testable. The timing matters because FinCEN just … Read more
We don’t even recognize how much AI has become a part of our daily lives. We ask our virtual helpers what the weather will be like. Apps tell us the quickest way to go to work. We look through suggestions on streaming services that seem to know just what we want to see next. It’s … Read more
Using Boolean variables as flags introduces accidental implementation complexity and pollutes the code with Ifs. TL;DR: avoid Boolean variables, they lead to conditional logic and force you to write Ifs. Create polymorphic states instead. Problems 😔 Extensibility Comparison in some languages Missed polymorphism Limited semantics Primitive obsession Solutions 😃 If Boolean maps to a real-world … 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 Complete Guide to Mega Productivity With Perplexity Comet (100 Shortcuts + 40 Prompts) By @sidsaladi [ 19 Min read ] … Read more
Managing multiple Azure resources with custom domains can quickly become messy. Instead of creating separate CNAME records for each service, Azure Front Door offers a cleaner, more centralized approach. In this post, I’ll walk you through setting up Azure Front Door to manage multiple custom domains from a single endpoint. What We’re Building I recently … Read more
When building applications with Docker, managing environment variables across different environments can be tricky. Here’s a clean, practical approach we’ll demonstrate with a real FastAPI application that keeps development smooth while ensuring production deployments are secure. The Problem We’re Solving Most developers start with a simple setup that works locally but creates problems in production: … Read more
When I first considered moving abroad, Canada seemed like the obvious choice. Smooth immigration, predictable life. But I ended up choosing the UK. Why? Partly for education — the UK’s recognition is stronger globally, but mostly for the city. I wanted energy. Movement. A place that pushes you without asking. Brighton was my starting point, … Read more
A SaaS company I consulted for had a junior designer who’d been staring at a modal redesign for three hours. Simple stuff—move the CTA, tighten the copy. Should take thirty minutes. I watched her open Figma. Try a layout. Delete it. Try another. Delete it. Finally, she Slacked the senior designer: “Can you look at … Read more
Imagine opening your career profile and seeing something that looks less like a résumé and more like a skill tree. Each branch represents a challenge you have completed. Each level reflects what you have learned, not what you were called. Instead of a title, you have a trajectory. Titles once made sense. They were the … Read more
Learn the Model Context Protocol hands-on by building a simple Story Manager that Claude can interact with no prior experience needed Why I Built This (And Why You Should Care) When Anthropic released the Model Context Protocol (MCP) , I was intrigued but confused. The documentation was great, but I learn best by doing. So … Read more
The Problem with AI-Generated LinkedIn Content If you’ve tried using ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini to write LinkedIn articles, you’ve probably noticed something: the output feels… off. The AI gives you generic advice, corporate jargon, and content that screams “I was written by a robot.” Why? Because most people just type “write a LinkedIn article about … Read more
Let’s be honest: higher education has been broken for a while. The price tags are wallet melting. The ROI is sometimes murky. And for anyone trying to keep up with the pace of AI innovation, traditional universities move slower than a dot-matrix printer. That’s why we decided to hack the system. This week, Udacity (in … Read more
Remote Agents in Augment Code now run autonomously from VS Code, handling parallel tasks like bug fixes and PRs—boosting dev workflows even while you’re offline
:::info Authors: (1) Daniele Capone, SecSI srl, Napoli, Italy (daniele.capone@secsi.io); (2) Francesco Caturano, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Information, Technology University of Napoli Federico II, Napoli, Italy (francesco.caturano@unina.i) (3) Angelo Delicato, SecSI srl, Napoli, Italy (angelo.delicato@secsi.io); (4) Gaetano Perrone, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, University of Napoli Federico II, Napoli, Italy (gaetano.perrone@unina.it) (5) … Read more
TL;DR In the age of generative AI, PR metrics like “impressions” and “media hits” don’t tell the full story. AI models refresh their understanding of the web every few weeks, which means if your brand isn’t publishing consistently, you’re effectively vanishing from digital consciousness every 28 days. The Great Rewrite: How AI Engines Changed the … Read more