When Villains Owned Their Own Planet

:::info Astounding Stories of Super-Science March, 1932, by Astounding Stories is part of HackerNoon’s Book Blog Post series. You can jump to any chapter in this book here. The Affair of the Brains – Chapter IV: Soil Astounding Stories of Super-Science March 1932: The Affair of the Brains – Chapter IV Soil By Anthony Gilmore ::: Hawk … Read more

How to Build a Real-Time Database Activity Stream Pipeline

In modern cloud environments, databases are no longer silent back-end components instead they are active participants in every critical business transaction. As organizations scale globally, the challenge is no longer storing data, but understanding how that data is accessed, changed, and protected in real time. This is where a Database Activity Stream Pipeline becomes essential. … Read more

How ShareChat Scaled their ML Feature Store 1000X without Scaling the Database

How ShareChat engineers rebuilt a low-latency ML feature store on ScyllaDB after an initial scalability failure — and what they learned along the way The demand for low-latency machine learning feature stores is higher than ever, but actually implementing one at scale remains a challenge. That became clear when ShareChat engineers Ivan Burmistrov and Andrei … Read more

Why Sales IT Data Analysts Are Becoming Critical to Hospitality Revenue in 2026

In the fast-evolving hospitality landscape of 2026, a new specialist is quietly driving outsized results: the Sales IT Data Analyst. This hybrid professional bridges sales strategy, robust IT infrastructure, and advanced data analytics to optimize revenue streams across hotels, resorts, restaurants, and event venues. Unlike traditional revenue managers or general data analysts, these experts specialize … Read more

Essential Due Diligence Steps for U.S. Citizens Selecting Portugal Golden Visa Investment Funds

The path to a European residency and a more diversified portfolio is attracting a growing wave of U.S. citizens to Portugal’s Golden Visa investment funds. For American investors, the opportunity seems compelling: residency rights in Portugal, visa-free access to the Schengen zone, and exposure to promising sectors within a stable EU economy. Yet, this journey … Read more

How FollowSpy Restores Visibility Into Instagram Following Behavior

Instagram exposes activity but hides sequence. Following lists refresh, reorder, and quietly blur timing. People notice movement yet struggle to place it in time, which turns observation into interpretation. That gap matters because timing changes meaning. A follow from yesterday carries a different weight than one from months ago, but the interface rarely helps you … Read more

Ignacio Brasca on Building Systems That Last

Systems don’t fail because they are poorly written; they fail because they cannot keep up with the complex and ever-changing needs of a business. When speaking with Ignacio Brasca, who is a staff software engineer with several years of experience building complex data systems, he emphasized that software behaves much like a biological system—and that … Read more

From Legacy Data Centers to Cloud-Native Platforms: Insights from Large-Scale Enterprise Migrations

Across the financial technology sector, large institutions are facing a hard reality. Systems that were built decades ago for stability and control are now under pressure to deliver flexibility, cost efficiency, and faster change. Banks and market infrastructure firms continue to depend on legacy data centers to process sensitive trade data, where outages and errors … Read more

SnapPoint: A Hard Reset for Your Dev Machine

Most developer machines are not clean. They just look clean. At some point, every dev laptop turns into a dumping ground. You install tools to follow a blog post. You try a framework for a weekend. You switch jobs and inherit a new stack. You uninstall things, but only halfway. Binaries stick around. Config files … Read more

5+ Crypto ‘Firsts’ You Should Know: From the First Exchange to the First DAG

The crypto industry is now worth trillions, but Rome wasn’t built in a day. Over the years, many developers, enthusiasts, and users of all kinds and places have put their own blocks to raise this bright skyscraper. We’ve crossed some huge milestones, sometimes through careful planning, sometimes through happy accidents, and often through bold experiments. … Read more

Probabilistic Learning on Spheres: von Mises-Fisher, Spherical Cauchy, and Bingham Distributions

Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction Some recent trends in theoretical ML 2.1 Deep Learning via continuous-time controlled dynamical system 2.2 Probabilistic modeling and inference in DL 2.3 Deep Learning in non-Euclidean spaces 2.4 Physics Informed ML Kuramoto model 3.1 Kuramoto models from the geometric point of view 3.2 Hyperbolic geometry of Kuramoto ensembles … Read more

The AI Arms Race (Offense vs Defense)

Check Point’s Cyber Security Report 2026 shows 70% increase in cyber attacks since 2023. 60% of executives reported their organizations faced AI-powered attacks, but only 7% had deployed AI defenses at scale. Moody’s 2026 cyber outlook warns that AI-related threats will “become more prevalent and pronounced”

The HTML Partial Trap: Why HTMX is Only Half the Story

Introduction: The Hypermedia Renaissance We are living in the middle of a hypermedia renaissance. Frameworks like HTMX have correctly identified that the “Single Page Application” (SPA) model often introduces unnecessary complexity, pushing developers to manage state in two places and build expensive APIs for what should be simple UI updates. The core premise of HTMX … Read more

Minimum Incident Lineage (MIL): A Run-Level Evidence Standard for Reproducible Data Incidents

A revenue dashboard drops 18% overnight. The pipeline is ‘green.’ The lineage graph looks right. Query history shows the job ran successfully. Yet you still can’t answer the only question leadership cares about: what changed—and can we prove it? Traditional lineage is built for discovery: it shows what depends on what. Incidents demand evidence: what … Read more

5 Key Causes of Employee Burnout and How To Take Action​

The World Health Organization (WHO) says that employee burnout is an “occupational phenomenon”. It goes beyond being tired, having time off, or missing a deadline; it’s a state of ongoing mental and physical exhaustion caused by a range of workplace factors. Employees who are experiencing burnout often feel exhausted, disconnected from their work, struggle to … Read more