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When territory became infrastructure There is something rather misleading about the word “cloud”. It sounds weightless. Something floating somewhere above us. Abstract, distributed, almost placeless. Of course, it isn’t. The cloud is made of buildings, cables, chips, electricity, cooling systems, people, contracts, companies and laws. Lots of laws. And all of those things have a … Read more

Let’s learn about 2020 via these 89 free blog posts. They are ordered by HackerNoon reader engagement data. Visit the Learn Repo or LearnRepo.com to find the most read blog posts about any technology. We don’t talk about 2020 1. How to Stop Your Office Chair from Constantly Sinking, Much Like This Year Have you … Read more

A while ago, on a bus, I watched a man try to tell the conductor where he needed to go. He pointed. He gestured. The conductor got impatient, the people behind him got impatient, and the man got smaller and smaller in his seat. I leaned over to help, and that’s when I realised he … Read more

I’m building an Android app for my mother. She lives in a village; the rest of us live in cities, and I wanted a way for her to tell us how she’s feeling without typing a word. The app is called CareVocal (internally, CareBridge). It has three big buttons: green for “feeling good”, yellow for … Read more

This timeline tracks the moments when tech and AI companies restricted, revoked, paywalled or blocked each other’s APIs, data, crawlers, apps or agents, plus the lawsuits, reversals and licensing deals that settled those fights. The “access layer” has moved three times: first APIs (who gets the firehose), then crawlers (who gets to train), now agents … Read more

The numbers first, as of September 22: six subscribers, about $13 in revenue. That is not a success. But last year the number was zero, because I never got in-app purchases working. Last year https://x.com/Perk_sh/status/1959185010944246238?s=20&embedable=true August 23, 2025: “In-app purchases are hard. Four hours in and I’m back where I started. If anyone is confident … Read more

Compose · Sam · 8:14 AM Can we move Thurs demo to Fri Finance numbers won’t be ready lmk if that works Enhance ✨ Professional · Warm Hi Priya, I hope you’re doing well. I wanted to reach out regarding Thursday’s product demo. Since the updated finance numbers may not be available in time, would … Read more

Greece is a small domestic market, but digital distribution allows a Greek game studio to sell almost anywhere. The harder problem is not reaching the world; it is giving people around the world a reason to care. When you start a game studio in Greece, it is easy to assume that the country’s relatively small … Read more

I’m Abdulbasit, 19, from Rawalpindi. For the last month, I’ve been building Paceball, an Android app that measures how fast a cricket ball is bowled using nothing but a phone video. No radar, no sensors, no hardware. You film a delivery side-on, mark a known length in the frame (usually the two sets of stumps, … Read more

DISCLAIMER: Of course I used AI to write this, but I did edit it like a good reviewer does. I also recognize that this lives in a grey area and so I will not be providing direct links to the properties I am talking about. Just trust me, bro. Over the past year, I have … 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. ## Where AI-Generated Design Breaks UX Laws By @derzhaiev [ 7 Min read ] AI design generators rarely produce that code, and … Read more

Let’s learn about Windows via these 110 free blog posts. They are ordered by HackerNoon reader engagement data. Visit the Learn Repo or LearnRepo.com to find the most read blog posts about any technology. Windows is Microsoft’s ubiquitous family of graphical operating systems for personal computers. Windows is critical as it serves as the primary … Read more

Maximor, the New York autonomous finance company founded in 2024, has rebranded as Hyphenate after reporting 86x revenue growth over the past twelve months. The new name reflects a product that now spans five areas of the finance function instead of the single part of finance that the old name had come to represent because … Read more

Stablecoins now hold more than $300 billion in supply after reaching a record $322.4 billion in May 2026 and the US GENIUS Act will take effect no later than January 2027 with a requirement that issuers have their reserves examined by a registered accounting firm every month, which makes the proof of what stands behind … Read more

Welcome to HackerNoon’s Writing Prompts! Would you like to take a stab at answering some of these questions? The link for the template is HERE. 1. What is your company in 2–5 words? AI visibility that connects to revenue pipeline. 2. Why is now the time for your company to exist? Buyers stopped typing keywords into … Read more

My favorite little feature of Tailscale for personal users is the one that helps me avoid feeling like a dummy. It is a subtly powerful thing, lacking the flash of a Taildrop transfer or Taildrive hack, or the broad benefit of “All my stuff is securely connected.” But it is still worth telling people about, … Read more

Five years of architecture school teach you to resolve a drawing before you show it to anyone. Production design rewards the opposite instinct. Getting an idea in front of the team while it is still rough is worth more than the time spent perfecting it. Learning where each approach belongs took time, and the digital … Read more

The person researching your developer tool may encounter an AI-generated summary of your content before they read a sentence on your website. Consider a developer looking for an error-monitoring tool. They might browse comparison articles, ask colleagues, or have an AI assistant put together a shortlist. Your content needs to explain where your product fits … Read more

I used to think Digital Rights Management (DRM) was an unbreakable vault for live video. Wrap a stream in encryption, lock the front door with login tokens, and you are totally safe- or so I thought. Then I saw how quickly high-value live sports streams bypass DRM. All an illegal restreamer needs is an HDMI … Read more

Buildhorn is finally live! Get it on the App Store to receive failure alerts from your CI builds. Eight weeks into Shipaton, this week covers more tips for working through the App Review process, launching the Buildhorn website, and testing the app on the iPhone Duo simulator. Note: This is the 8th post about my … Read more

One of the principles that has stuck with me ever since I read The Systems Bible by John Gall is: The problem isn’t the problem, coping is the problem. This principle encourages designing systems that continue functioning even when a component of the system fails. By way of example, let’s consider HTTP requests. When an … Read more

HackerNoon editorial team has launched this interview series with women in tech to celebrate their achievements and share their struggles. We need more women in technology, and by sharing stories, we can encourage many girls to follow their dreams. Share your story today! Tell us about yourself! I’m Sai Joshitha Kathari, and I work as … Read more

Welcome to HackerNoon’s Meet the Writer Interview series, where we learn a bit more about the contributors that have written some of our favorite stories. So let’s start! Tell us a bit about yourself. For example, name, profession, and personal interests. My name is Vladimir Sinitsyn. I am an SEO practitioner, researcher, and entrepreneur. I … Read more

This week’s Prediction Frontier letter turns to sports. They accounted for $299.3 million, more than half of Polymarket’s on-chain trading, from September 14–20. Esports added another $77.4 million. That much trading needs someone willing to take the other side of each order. Flutter, FanDuel’s parent, sees a business there: the company expects about $50 million … Read more

This list features podcast-only awards focused on specific industries and subject areas, including sports, health, politics, marketing, comedy, and higher education. Active Awards 1. Sports Podcast Awards An international awards program for sports podcasts, combining an industry jury with a fan vote. Categories: 22 categories including: Best Combat Sports Podcast Best Motorsports Podcast Best Olympic … Read more

Mutsamudu, Comoros, September 30, 2026 – MEXC, a pioneer in 0-fee digital asset trading, today announced the addition of another 1,000 BTC to its Guardian Fund, marking the second major BTC allocation to the fund this year. The latest addition follows MEXC’s May commitment to expand the Guardian Fund from $100 million to $500 million … Read more

In standards literature, ‘quantum-resistant’ and ‘quantum-safe’ are often used interchangeably. But for protocol engineers, there is a useful distinction worth making: a cryptographic primitive can resist known quantum attacks while the wider system that deploys it can still contain quantum-vulnerable components. Understanding this terminology is not an exercise in semantic pedantry. It directly affects how … Read more

In 2023 I wrote about my first steps in cybersecurity. It was a course summary: network topologies, Red Team vs Blue Team, PTES. It was useful, but it was missing something: building something. So I built three tools. None of them tries to be huge. Each one answers a simple question that every team should … Read more

Advertising has moved into almost every part of our digital lives. It appears across social feeds, search results, podcasts, streaming platforms, apps, and increasingly, the entertainment we already pay to access. Netflix’s advertising business now reaches more than 250 million global monthly active viewers through its ad-supported offering. Microsoft is also testing an ad-supported version … Read more

There are still some fundamental truths that won’t change. LLMs are making it dramatically easier to build software, so yes, we’re going to have more applications, more agents, more workloads, and more data. But here’s one thing that won’t change: developers want to build on trusted foundations. They don’t want to stitch together fragile, Rube … Read more