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TIMEVALUE Function: A Brief The TIMEVALUE function in Excel is used to convert a time string into a decimal number that Excel recognizes as a time value. This decimal can then be formatted as a time or used in calculations. This is especially useful when your time is in text format and you want to … Read more

1. email forwarding This one is my fav 🧡Cloudflare forwards all incoming emails from any of my domain inbox to a single gmail. E.g. you can email me at alex(@)isora.me or dsa123(@)isora.me and i will receive those. 2. CDN I was too lazy to set up an S3 image storage for startupswiki.org and got charged … Read more

As enterprise systems shift from deterministic software to probabilistic AI, forward-thinking organizations leverage proactive quality assessment to maximize value, minimize risk and ensure regulatory compliance In today’s rapidly evolving technological landscape, ensuring the quality of both traditional software and AI systems has become more critical than ever. Organizations are increasingly relying on complex digital systems … Read more

Chances are, you have seen them a lot lately. AI just did something that would make Hayao Miyazaki roll his eyes harder than his son’s works: it recreated the magic of Studio Ghibli’s animation style—without a single human hand involved. Over the past month, AI-generated images in the iconic Ghibli aesthetic have flooded social media, … Read more

The Noise That Never Stops Inflation, interest rates, trade disputes, economic sanctions, global markets: these words don’t just fill our inboxes and headlines — they echo in our heads as we try to sleep. But while headlines scream, business owners keep doing what we always do: staying low to the ground, like ants building our … Read more

In every enterprise environment, Active Directory (AD) group memberships play a pivotal role in access control and security. Unauthorized modifications to privileged groups like “Domain Admins” or “Enterprise Admins” can expose your organization to risk. Enter ADHawk: a simple but powerful PowerShell script that watches over your AD group memberships like a hawk—hence the name. … Read more

Spoiler alert: AI isn’t coming for your job. But if you’re still manually resetting passwords in 2025, then maybe it should! 😀 The AI Hype Train: Get Aboard or Get Left Behind? 🚂💨 Remember when we all laughed at Clippy, our very own old-school “AI assistant”? I know that while it’s a difficult trace for … Read more

The Death of Whimsy? Or the Birth of a New Storytelling Era? Not long ago, ChatGPT’s image feed was practically a mood board for Studio Ghibli fans. Prompt after prompt delivered serene villages, floating forests, and sun-drenched scenes that looked like they belonged in Spirited Away or My Neighbor Totoro. If you use social media, … Read more

It’s quite literally a universal misconception that “having it all” in life is equivalent to working 12-hour shifts, compromising on life necessities including sleep and hobbies, just to have higher earnings by going up the corporate ladder. However, by experiencing my fair share of burn outs in life, that too before crossing my sweet 30’s, … Read more

An indexing pipeline builds indexes derived from source data. The index should always be converging to the current version of source data. In other words, once a new version of source data is processed by the pipeline, all data derived from previous versions should no longer exist in the target index storage. This is called … Read more

1 System.Linq.Dynamic.Core library I am using EF8 in my NET8/C#/ASP.NET8 project. There is another library that is useful for back-end processing in my application, which is System.Linq.Dynamic.Core library [12]-[14]. There is a nice tutorial available at [14]. 2 How to do SQL LIKE – code samples from the Internet would not work I wanted to … Read more

In the rapidly evolving digital landscape, the need for innovative solutions to fix our fragmented internet has never been more apparent. On April 5th, I published a forward thinking article on Hackernoon titled “This Island Network thinks it can fix the internet – it might be right”, which outlined our pioneering approach to reimagining internet … Read more

:::tip Crypto gets a bad rep. In the heat of innovation and rapid expansion, we get caught up ahead of our skis and lose the plot. Crypto is so much more than an industry of digital tokens; it is a paradigm shift in how society operates. A transformation of industry processes and individual freedoms. A … Read more

Malware is any malicious software designed to infiltrate and harm a system, and crypto-stealing malware specifically targets digital assets. These threats come in many forms, tricking users into installing them through fake apps, phishing links, or compromised software. Once inside a device, they can steal private keys, modify transactions, or deceive victims into approving fraudulent … Read more

In this exclusive edition of our Behind the Startup series, Ishan Pandey sits down with Travis Good, co-founder of Ambient, a decentralized AI network that’s redefining how computation, verification, and blockchain consensus come together. From building mathematically optimal freight systems to pioneering AI-driven biotech efficiency, Travis now turns his focus to decentralizing AI — at … 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. ## How Clapper is Revolutionizing the Creator Economy By @clapper [ 5 Min read ] Clapper is a new social media platform … Read more

Table of Links Abstract and 1 Introduction 2 MindEye2 and 2.1 Shared-Subject Functional Alignment 2.2 Backbone, Diffusion Prior, & Submodules 2.3 Image Captioning and 2.4 Fine-tuning Stable Diffusion XL for unCLIP 2.5 Model Inference 3 Results and 3.1 fMRI-to-Image Reconstruction 3.2 Image Captioning 3.3 Image/Brain Retrieval and 3.4 Brain Correlation 3.5 Ablations 4 Related Work … Read more

Wait! What about Trump’s tariffs and stocks? Not going there. America first. Me first. A reciprocal approach. I don’t have a horse in the stock market race, but I have in: Crypto—No matter how small my humble crypto portfolio is, I’d like to know what’s going to happen. Tech—Both my potential future jobs and writing … Read more

Dublin, Ireland, April 11th, 2025/Chainwire/–AB Charity Foundation has officially launched its global operations and unveiled its newly upgraded website at www.ab.org, marking the beginning of a public-interest initiative built on institutional credibility and advanced blockchain technology. Headquartered in Ireland with recognized legal status under EU law, the Foundation is positioned as a global nonprofit entity … Read more

Cary, North Carolina, April 11th, 2025, CyberNewsWire/–INE Security Highlights How Practical, immersive training environments help defense contractors meet DoD cybersecurity requirements Defense contractors are facing increased pressure to meet the Department of Defense’s stringent Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) 2.0 requirements ahead of 2025 compliance deadlines. INE Security, a leading global provider of cybersecurity training … Read more

London, Greater London, April 11th, 2025/Chainwire/–As the crypto trader funding market grows rapidly, My Crypto Funding (MCF) has established itself as the leading crypto prop firm in the space. The firm was recently honored with the 2024 award for Best Crypto Trading Conditions by The Trusted Prop, a notable review platform in the prop trading evaluation space. Image of the … Read more

The Markup’s investigative series on internet disparities, “Still Loading,” has won the Online News Association’s (ONA) Excellence in Technology Reporting award in the small and medium newsroom category. The award recognizes excellence in digital journalism focusing on coverage of technology, including pieces that address all aspects of technology, like culture, policy, and economic impact. Judges … Read more

Table of Links Abstract and 1 Introduction 2 MindEye2 and 2.1 Shared-Subject Functional Alignment 2.2 Backbone, Diffusion Prior, & Submodules 2.3 Image Captioning and 2.4 Fine-tuning Stable Diffusion XL for unCLIP 2.5 Model Inference 3 Results and 3.1 fMRI-to-Image Reconstruction 3.2 Image Captioning 3.3 Image/Brain Retrieval and 3.4 Brain Correlation 3.5 Ablations 4 Related Work … Read more

Table of Links Abstract and 1 Introduction 2 MindEye2 and 2.1 Shared-Subject Functional Alignment 2.2 Backbone, Diffusion Prior, & Submodules 2.3 Image Captioning and 2.4 Fine-tuning Stable Diffusion XL for unCLIP 2.5 Model Inference 3 Results and 3.1 fMRI-to-Image Reconstruction 3.2 Image Captioning 3.3 Image/Brain Retrieval and 3.4 Brain Correlation 3.5 Ablations 4 Related Work … Read more

Table of Links Abstract and 1 Introduction 2 MindEye2 and 2.1 Shared-Subject Functional Alignment 2.2 Backbone, Diffusion Prior, & Submodules 2.3 Image Captioning and 2.4 Fine-tuning Stable Diffusion XL for unCLIP 2.5 Model Inference 3 Results and 3.1 fMRI-to-Image Reconstruction 3.2 Image Captioning 3.3 Image/Brain Retrieval and 3.4 Brain Correlation 3.5 Ablations 4 Related Work … Read more

How are you, hacker? 🪐 What’s happening in tech today, April 11, 2025? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, Apple 1 is released in 1976, Panama Papers Leaked in 2016, and we present you with these top quality stories. From The 5 Secrets To Getting Featured as … Read more

Hackers, Builders, Industry Experts… This is your final boarding call for the #blockchain Writing Contest brought to you by Aleph Cloud and HackerNoon. The countdown is on: Submissions close May 7, 2025. So, if you’ve been sitting on an idea, or are just now hearing about this great opportunity, now’s the time to put pen … Read more

Is the DeFi Liquidity Layer Finally Ready for Institutions? What happens when one of the most modular automated market makers decides to go multi-chain in a big way—on a network gaining institutional traction? Balancer officially launched Balancer v3 on Avalanche, marking a new chapter in its effort to reimagine on-chain liquidity infrastructure. The integration follows … Read more

Hey hackers! We know how much everyone just looooves to be featured as a top story on HackerNoon’s homepage, what, with all those juicy views and free (yes, free!) translations. Plus, you get to be in viewers’ notice for a full 24 hours! But how do editors decide what story is worthy to be on … Read more

Science fiction has always pushed the boundaries of our imagination. From movies like Star Wars to books by Arthur C. Clarke, these stories introduced big ideas like space travel, robots, and satellite networks long before they became real. Today, many of those once-impossible dreams are part of everyday life. This article explores how science fiction … Read more