How many times have you been told? You are not listening to me. Will you let me finish? That’s not what I meant! You may find it hard to listen because as soon as someone starts talking, instead of paying attention to their words, your mind gets activated and already starts constructing the response. What … Read more
1. What are Metrics and Why They’re Important Metrics are numerical measurements collected at regular intervals that provide insights into your application’s behavior, performance, and health. Unlike logs which capture discrete events, metrics track values that change over time, allowing you to observe patterns, trends, and anomalies. 2. Metrics in Prometheus Format and Why Use … Read more
https://open.spotify.com/episode/6pSjV5zdfjV0kshQ7fRNNa?si=9Le4xI0BQpmGEhPlFPXidg&embedable=true Your bookshelf is full of half-read self-help books. Your phone has six productivity apps you downloaded and abandoned. Your notes are filled with morning routines you followed for exactly 9 days. I get it. I’ve been there – spending thousands on courses promising transformation while feeling like I was sprinting on a treadmill going … Read more
Swift’s structured concurrency has transformed the way we write asynchronous code. With async/await, expressing complex logic becomes cleaner and more linear. However, to fully leverage Swift’s concurrency, you need a solid grasp of how tasks are created and managed — particularly Task, .task, and their variations. Task: Entering an Async Context from Sync Code The … Read more
Hard lessons from real-world deployments, and how to avoid the most expensive mistakes. Docker is amazing — until it’s not. You write a Dockerfile, run it locally, and it works like magic. But the moment you try to scale it, secure it, or run it reliably in production, reality hits hard. From bloated images to … Read more
Every year, over 4.5 billion SIM cards are produced globally, generating approximately 20,000 tons of plastic waste and significant carbon emissions. These impacts arise from the materials used in production, the energy-intensive distribution process, and their eventual disposal. Despite their small size, traditional SIM cards can, therefore, contribute heavily to environmental degradation. With the growing … Read more
If you are like me, a developer who often has to balance productivity and curiosity in the workplace, then you are always on the lookout for tools that actually make life easier. So, when Amazon came up with Amazon Q Developer, a new AI-powered coding companion that can be embedded in popular IDEs like Visual … Read more
When analyzing how businesses perceive PR, imagine a scale: on the right side, you have brand recognition, audience loyalty, product awareness, lead generation, and post-sale customer support. On the left, there’s the business’s fear of publicity, negative feedback, and even outright hate. Plus, the cost of PR, with results that seem impossible to measure. In … Read more
Because that’s apparently the only place React wasn’t being used… until now, or actually a few years ago. I am late to the party, but I saw the dependency inside OpenAI’s Codex repo and had to play around with it. Look, we’ve all been there. You’re building a CLI tool that spits out text like … Read more
:::tip The code for all the part in this series is available @ Github ::: I’ve spent the last three articles exposing the uncomfortable truth about embedding models – they hallucinate by design. We’ve seen how these models misunderstand language, contain silent flaws, and why blindly trusting vectors without testing them leads to disaster. Today, … Read more
How one pitch turned into a rabbit hole of fake VCs, emotional manipulation, and FBI threats. A survival guide for women navigating investor landmine territory. I didn’t mean to go viral on LinkedIn because of a stalker. As the founder of Imii – an AI-powered support platform for immigrants – I was hoping for buzz … Read more
Go developers who have written benchmarks using the testing package might have encountered some of its various pitfalls. Go 1.24 introduces a new way to write benchmarks that’s just as easy to use, but at the same time far more robust: testing.B.Loop. Traditionally, Go benchmarks are written using a loop from 0 to b.N: func … Read more
Prompts are basically our requests or inputs to AI models. Prompt engineering, as the name suggests, is about going a little deeper than basic prompts by creating specialized inputs that (more) effectively guide AI models to produce near-perfect outputs. You don’t necessarily have to use a programming language or an IDE for this, as most … Read more
You’ve probably played around with AI tools—ChatGPT, image generators, maybe even some automation stuff. Cool, right? But here’s the thing most people haven’t realized yet: We’re moving from AI that responds… to AI that acts. This shift is what agentic AI is all about. And yeah, that sounds techy—but by the end of this article, … Read more
Unleash object behavior beyond data access TL;DR: Remove or replace getters with behavior-rich methods that perform operations instead of exposing internal state. Problems Addressed 😔 Anemic objects Excessive coupling Lost encapsulation Essence Mutation Law of Demeter violations Information leakage Exposed internals Primitive Obsession Related Code Smells 💨 https://hackernoon.com/how-to-find-the-stinky-parts-of-your-code-part-xiv https://hackernoon.com/how-to-find-the-stinky-parts-of-your-code-part-i-xqz3evd https://hackernoon.com/how-to-find-the-stinky-parts-of-your-code-part-xiii https://hackernoon.com/how-to-find-the-stinky-parts-of-your-code-part-xiv https://hackernoon.com/how-to-find-the-stinky-parts-of-your-code-part-xxix https://hackernoon.com/how-to-find-the-stinky-parts-of-your-code-part-xiv https://hackernoon.com/how-to-find-the-stinky-parts-of-your-code-part-xiii https://hackernoon.com/how-to-find-the-stinky-parts-of-your-code-part-i-xqz3evd … Read more
How are you, hacker? 🪐 What’s happening in tech today, April 20, 2025? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, we present you with these top quality stories. From Escape Prompt Hell With These 8 Must-have Open-source Tools to How Clapper is Revolutionizing the Creator Economy, let’s dive … Read more
Got spammed with fake newsletter signups? Learn how to protect your forms using double opt-in, CAPTCHA, and Cloudflare. Backstory I woke up to 200 new subscribers on the newsletter of my site, videiro.com. Had it finally happened? Did my site finally go viral? Sadly no. After checking the new subscribers, I noticed that none had … Read more
The power grid is slowly approaching the end of its expected lifespan. Even if it were brand-new, much of it is outdated. The world is entering an age of electric vehicles, data centers, and smart technology, so grid modernization is necessary. However, with digitalization comes cyber threats. A robust security posture is vital for success. … Read more
Board games you might enjoy Playing board games can reduce stress and draw you into an imaginary world. Included is a list of some board games you can try. We may not have autonomy over many things, but we have the choice to dream. I am spending a lot of time dreaming now. One of … 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. ## Embeddings 101: Unlocking Semantic Relationships in Text By @riteshmodi [ 14 Min read ] Text embeddings power AI language understanding. Learn … Read more
Table of Links Abstract and 1 Introduction 2 Related Work 3 Method and 3.1 Phase 1: Taxonomy Generation 3.2 Phase 2: LLM-Augmented Text Classification 4 Evaluation Suite and 4.1 Phase 1 Evaluation Strategies 4.2 Phase 2 Evaluation Strategies 5 Experiments and 5.1 Data 5.2 Taxonomy Generation 5.3 LLM-Augmented Text Classification 5.4 Summary of Findings and … Read more
There are more AI models than what you see in the news and on social media. There are hundreds, including open-source models, private ones, and the tech giant’s own: Gemini, Claude, OpenAI, Grok, Deepseek. What is a model really? Is it just a block box of data? Almost! You can think of it as a … Read more
Read this zine with images. We used this blog post as a guide to writing a transcript that would make this comic more accessible. Cover Cover illustration featuring panels of rough pencil sketches of illustrations that The Markup has published. The center of the cover has the header text “How We Illustrate Text (and AI) … Read more
https://open.spotify.com/episode/0OLwHIsdTh8kdAKBe6H1fV?si=4XoqoxeSRO-VGElzOBexog&embedable=true Most people live as if the world is fixed. They accept circumstances as “just the way things are.” They assume industries can’t be disrupted. They believe systems are too entrenched to change. They see barriers as permanent rather than temporary. This mindset isn’t just wrong. It’s the single biggest limitation keeping you from creating … Read more
How are you, hacker? 🪐 What’s happening in tech today, April 19, 2025? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, we present you with these top quality stories. Where Were You When the World Shut Down? I Was on BreachForums. By @blackheart [ 6 Min read ] It … Read more
The day BreachForums went down, I was logged in. It was just another scroll through the usual: freshly dumped data, stolen credentials, drama between low-tier skids and ego-filled “veterans,” and whispers of big leaks coming soon. The forum had become a weird digital blend of marketplace, flex zone, and intelligence source. But underneath all the … Read more
Table of Links Abstract and 1 Introduction 2 Related Work 3 Method and 3.1 Phase 1: Taxonomy Generation 3.2 Phase 2: LLM-Augmented Text Classification 4 Evaluation Suite and 4.1 Phase 1 Evaluation Strategies 4.2 Phase 2 Evaluation Strategies 5 Experiments and 5.1 Data 5.2 Taxonomy Generation 5.3 LLM-Augmented Text Classification 5.4 Summary of Findings and … Read more
Some of you may remember a newsletter I sent out a month ago, saying how a startup in China has released a new AI agent that is getting raving reviews. Following that, the startup Monica gave me early access to Manus AI with plenty of free credits to play around with the AI agent. Now … 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. ## I Blew €400 on Cursor — Here’s What I Learned So You Don’t Have To By @techbyadam [ 3 Min read … Read more
Hello World is a weekly newsletter—delivered every Saturday morning—that goes deep into our original reporting and the questions we put to big thinkers in the field. Browse the archive here. What’s up, world? 🤓 I’m Ese Olumhense, one of the latest hires at The Markup. I’ll be reporting on government here: the ways federal, state, and … Read more