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Yesterday, OpenAI announced GPT-4.1, featuring a staggering 1M-token context window and perfect needle-in-a-haystack accuracy. Gemini 2.5 now matches that 1M-token benchmark, with up to 10M tokens available in research settings. As the founder of a RAG-as-a-service startup, my inbox quickly filled with messages claiming this was the end of Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)—suggesting it was time … Read more

When the AI toy box trend exploded online, the results were everywhere :  pastel packaging, floating laptops, pixel-perfect bios. Fun, yes. Trendy? Absolutely. But most of what I saw was prompted for vibes not engineered for meaning. So I decided to do something different. This wasn’t going to be just another image. I was going to … Read more

So for the Slack bot – we’re a car rental company, so we run into operational issues quite a bit. This involves vehicles getting too far away from the home location or vehicles being low on charge. For example, a few weeks ago, we had a user drive from California all the way to the … Read more

Quality education is now costlier than it used to be. But this expense isn’t about price; it’s about access. In 2019, the World Bank recorded that 53% of children who suffer from learning poverty, with 55% in lower-middle-income countries and 90% in low-income countries. They can’t read proficiently. A 2024 press release from UNESCO estimates … Read more

Imagine signing up for a streaming service’s free trial, only to be auto-charged after a month with minimal notice—one that many users miss. Or struggling to cancel a gym subscription buried behind endless confirmation pages. These tactics, long favored by subscription businesses to enhance recurring revenue, are now under regulatory fire worldwide. For example, a … Read more

Engineering teams building high-throughput systems know that scaling infrastructure is never just about speed, it’s about resilience. At extreme volumes, even widely adopted tools can become bottlenecks. That’s exactly what we ran into while developing a high-volume surveillance platform designed to handle sudden spikes of over 300,000 requests per second. Our team was developing a … Read more

With the recent boom in AI, the footprint of AI workloads and AI supported hardware servers deployed in Cloud Data Centers has grown exponentially. This growth is spread across multiple regions worldwide over various data centers. To support this growth and to ensure leadership over various Cloud Competitors (like Azure, AWS, and GCP) have started … Read more

Hi, my name is Andrew! I oversee a large-scale online service where our queues (Kafka or similar) process millions of events each day. We have to spot anomalies quickly, track key metrics, and notify the team about critical issues—all in real time. Because data streams in from various systems, it’s never as simple as using … Read more

The success of startups often relies not only on the originality of the idea but also on the team’s ability to swiftly adapt to changes, make efficient use of limited resources, and bring innovative solutions to the market. However, when choosing technologies, early-stage founders frequently encounter a variety of challenges. According to a CB Insights … Read more

Arrow functions, introduced in PHP 7.4, provide a shorter syntax for anonymous functions. These functions allow for cleaner, more concise code when you need simple callback functions. Understand How Arrow Functions Work in PHP Arrow functions make code easier to read and write. They reduce boilerplate, especially for small, one-line functions. They automatically capture variables … Read more

Every programmer knows that moment when something suddenly makes sense. For me, it happened when functional programming finally clicked. At first, I didn’t get it. The concepts seemed backwards. Why avoid changing variables? Why make everything into functions? It felt like trying to write with my left hand when I was right-handed. But I kept … Read more

The discourse around building accessible websites tends to focus on physical disabilities – visual impairments (alt tags, screen reader compatibility), deafness (captions), color blindness (nothing should be signified by changes in color alone). However, mental health conditions such as PTSD, ADHD, autism, and depression are also considered disabilities under the American with Disabilities Act (ADA), … Read more

For centuries, mass production has shaped the world. The industrial age gave us egalitarian products. Products became equal for everyone. Whether you’re Elon Musk or an average Joe, you’re streaming the same Netflix, wearing mass-produced clothing, and using the same iPhone. That’s the hallmark of the commodity economy: when everything is the same, the cheapest … Read more

Finsai Bull, the popular Tap and Earn game hosted on Telegram’s Mini App platform, has officially launched its much-anticipated in-game referral program, opening up exciting new earning opportunities for its growing global player base. This new feature introduces a month-long referral contest designed to reward the most active and engaged users in the Finsai Bull … Read more

The volume of cypherpunks’ “creation,” and the nature of those creations, varies. As privacy activists through cryptography, many cypherpunks have written different types of code; sometimes just one piece, sometimes several. Others have written books, shared websites, or founded companies and organizations. A few others have done all of these. Bruce Schneier is 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. ## Claude Desktop + MCP Quietly Transformed my Product Thinking By @asitsahoo [ 3 Min read ] Discover how Claude Desktop with … Read more

For a chance to win from a $2,000 prize pool, the #blockchain Writing Contest welcomes writers, developers, and industry experts to discuss how decentralized technologies—#decentralized-ai, #decentralized-cloud, and #dePIN—are transforming tech scaling, user interactions, and data management. :::info Below is a list of questions to help you get started on your draft. You can answer them HERE. ::: How Does Aleph … 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

:::info 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? Denis Alaev: EODHD APIs is a top-rated financial data provider. 2. Why is now the time for your company to exist? … Read more

DAYS360 Function: A Brief The DAYS360 function in Excel is used to calculate the number of days between two dates based on a 360-day year. This function is especially useful in financial analysis, where 12 months of 30 days each (360 days total) are used instead of the actual calendar days. Note: DAYS360 function will … Read more

Can Encrypted Trading Finally Become Accessible to Everyone? Trading platforms in crypto have long battled with a trade-off: choose between speed and security, or accessibility and professionalism. Most users settle for interfaces that feel like legacy finance or worse, rely on opaque, centralized models. EnclaveX, launched on April 16, 2025, attempts to challenge that norm … Read more

How to Build a Mobile Crypto App and Ensure Its Stability Modern crypto traders are increasingly choosing smartphones as their primary tool — according to industry data, over 60% of trades are made via mobile devices. This demands that developers create not just visually appealing apps, but fully functional, secure, and high-speed trading platforms, where … Read more

Palo Alto, California, April 16th, 2025/CyberNewsWire/–SquareX researchers Jeswin Mathai and Audrey Adeline will be disclosing a new class of data exfiltration techniques at BSides San Francisco 2025. Titled “Data Splicing Attacks: Breaking Enterprise DLP from the Inside Out”, the talk will demonstrate multiple data splicing techniques that will allow attackers to exfiltrate any sensitive file … Read more

Raleigh, United States, April 16th, 2025/Chainwire/–Film Finance Group International(FFGI), a North Carolina-based film finance innovator, has officially unveiled its upcoming ERC-20 utility token: FFG Token ($FFG). Built to power a transparent, milestone-based film funding ecosystem, FFG Token is an asset-backed token that bridges real-world production workflows with secure, blockchain-based infrastructure. FFG Token is scheduled to … Read more

Singapore, Singapore, April 16th, 2025/Chainwire/–Today, AB DAO officially announced the launch of a dual reward campaign in collaboration with Bitget (bitget.com), the world’s second-largest digital asset trading platform. In celebration of AB’s Token Generation Event (TGE), the campaign will distribute a total of 213,307,000 $AB, valued at approximately $2.6 million USD, to users worldwide—aiming to … Read more

The online casino industry continues to grow at an exceptional pace, with projections estimating a market value of $133.59 billion by 2029. As competition intensifies, having a solid online presence is key to attracting and retaining players, which is where specialized casino SEO agencies come in. These agencies help casinos improve visibility and drive targeted … Read more

How are you, hacker? 🪐 What’s happening in tech today, April 16, 2025? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, Charlie Chaplin is born in 1889, Apollo 16 launched in 1972, and we present you with these top quality stories. From This Illegal Android Hack Will Make You … Read more

Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction Key Concepts 2.1 Append-Only Log and 2.2 Virtual Machine State 2.3 Transactions As Curried Functions 2.4 Natural Names of State 2.5 Ground Truth 2.6 Efficient Representations of State 2.7 Checkpoints 2.8 Execution Parameters: callData 2.9 Execution Ordering 2.10 Deciding on the Correct State Ideal Layer 2 Design 3.1 … Read more

:::info Authors: (1) Corby Rosset, Microsoft Research and Correspondence to corbyrosset@microsoft.com; (2) Ching-An Cheng, Microsoft Research; (3) Arindam Mitra, Microsoft Research; (4) Michael Santacroce, Microsoft Research; (5) Ahmed Awadallah, Microsoft Research and Correspondence to hassanam@microsoft.com; (6) Tengyang Xie, Microsoft Research and Correspondence to tengyangxie@microsoft.com. ::: Table of Links Abstract and 1 Introduction 2 Preliminaries 2.1 … Read more

Hey Hackers, In developing HackerNoon to be the best platform for writers on the net, we learned that the best ideas and insights come directly from the community. You, our readers, writers, and customers are the voices that shaped this platform. By sharing valuable insights that can’t be found anywhere else, your feedback isn’t just helpful, … Read more