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Hey Hackers! Welcome back to another edition of Company of the Week! We like to share an awesome tech company from our tech company database every week, making its evergreen mark on the internet. This week, we’re excited to showcase Superlinked – A Python framework & cloud infrastructure for AI engineers. Being an AI engineer can be challenging, but … Read more

HackerNoon’s monthly product update is here! 🚀 Explore your new reading recommendations, new mobile app inbox, words written stats, and more! This product update reflects changes to the platform from February 4, 2025, until April 7th, 2025. New Notification Board: “For You” Our notification board has been revamped to make all your alerts more relevant … Read more

Big Tech Doesn’t Want to “Fix” Healthcare—It Wants to Own It Your medical history, prescriptions, lab results, and even real-time vitals from wearables are worth billions. The companies that control this data will dictate the future of healthcare, not hospitals or governments—Silicon Valley. Tech giants like Google, Amazon, and Microsoft aren’t just dipping their toes … Read more

:::info Author: (1) Tiffany N. Younger, The Graduate Center, City University of New York, New York, NY 10016, USA (tyounger@hunter.cuny.edu). ::: Table of Links Abstract and 1 Introduction 2. Early Life 3. Whiteness as an Institution 4. The Triple Threat 5. The Academic Plantation Field 6. The Future Is Black Women 7. Imagination as a … Read more

:::info Author: (1) Tiffany N. Younger, The Graduate Center, City University of New York, New York, NY 10016, USA (tyounger@hunter.cuny.edu). ::: Table of Links Abstract and 1 Introduction 2. Early Life 3. Whiteness as an Institution 4. The Triple Threat 5. The Academic Plantation Field 6. The Future Is Black Women 7. Imagination as a … Read more

Look, I’m not saying I’m building Skynet here, but when my AI agent started generating philosophical tweets at 3 AM about the nature of consciousness… well, let’s just say I understand why Sarah Connor was so concerned. Why This Actually Matters While I’m having fun with the Terminator references, there’s something seriously fascinating happening here. … Read more

Part 1 was published last December and has proved to be useful to so many reader and a lot of the candidates reached out to get more pointers on how to approach ML interviews. Hence this article. Machine learning system design round is increasingly becoming one of the rounds of assessment at top FAANG companies … Read more

It was in early 2025 that I initiated my own blog, OpenExploit.in, with one simple aim: to make cybersecurity easy to learn and available to all—particularly students and curious minds who are new to this field. I decided to host my blog using Ghost CMS and pledged to update it on a regular basis, discussing … Read more

This is part of an ongoing series: see first and second posts. Principle III: Modularize The Prompts A hideous monstrosity. Every experienced engineer has seen one: code that is so vast, high risk, and difficult to understand that no one dares to touch it. There are no unit tests, every change is cause for a … Read more

As a company that helps legitimate businesses reach your inbox, Selzy knows a thing or two about spam. Today, we are going to share why spam lands in your inbox, what you can do to prevent it, and how to recognize a spam email if you’ve got one in your inbox. Why Am I Getting … Read more

Dear readers & friends, So, you might have noticed by now that “research done wrong in industry” is kind of my pet peeve, and I’m sorry you have to endure that. However, I’m not quite done with the topic yet. My new article in The UX Collective, “No research is (often) better than ‘some’ research,” takes … Read more

https://open.spotify.com/episode/5l6zZ3J3HKXQLnncswYDhU?si=VoSLwHNwQEmq88AAMB2FKw&embedable=true You’ve been lied to about excellence. They told you it’s about grinding harder. About perfecting systems. About optimizing what already exists. That’s not excellence. That’s just the hamster wheel painted a different color. True excellence isn’t about running the race better. It’s about changing the track entirely. Richard Feynman didn’t solve impossible physics problems … Read more

Building user interfaces is hard. Building nice interfaces is harder, and building exceptional ones is only achievable by the teams that have the best tooling. Today, we will talk about Storybook, one of the most essential tools in modern front-end development, and see how it helps us in building interfaces. UI Development Lifecycle Let’s do … Read more

I want you to take a moment to imagine not having a bank account, credit card, or access to loans. How would you save money, invest, or handle financial emergencies? A World Bank report from 2022 says about 1.4 billion people worldwide are unbanked. The report approximates that 71% of unbanked adults live in rural … Read more

Nowadays, JS (Javascript) is the main and important part of our modern web applications which provides the interactive UI with full-fledged server-side logic. And now the attackers come into the picture and whatever weakness is there in JS, attackers will use the benefits of it and disturb the flow of the beautiful empire of JS. … Read more

I never thought I’d write one of those “this tool changed everything” posts. They usually feel… overblown? But here I am, because the shift in my work has been real enough that colleagues have started asking what I’m doing differently. It wasn’t some dramatic moment. No lightbulb. Just a gradual realization that my relationship with … Read more

CocoIndex https://github.com/cocoindex-io/cocoindex is a ETL framework that helps you to turn your data ready for AI in realtime. The essential part for supporting robust and efficient update is because of incremental update. In CocoIndex, users declare the transformation, and don’t need to worry about the work to keep index and source in sync. In this … Read more

Hello AI Enthusiasts! Welcome to the thirteenth edition of “This Week in AI Engineering”! Alibaba releases QVQ-Max visual reasoning with extended thinking, Anthropic reveals how LLMs think through circuit tracing, OpenAI improves GPT-4o’s technical problem-solving, UCLA releases groundbreaking OpenVLThinker-7B, and Google launches TxGemma to accelerate drug discovery. With this, we’ll also be talking about some … Read more

Thank you for having elevated our evergreen community, we cannot wait to hear your story 💚 Introduction My I.T. superhero origin story goes like this: I got my degree in Theater and promptly realized the world didn’t need another short young scrawny nebbishy looking actor (at the time, Matthew Broderick had that corner of the … Read more

My grandfather, Nels Roseland, played a crucial role in mankind’s greatest leap. He was a part of the Apollo 11 and Apollo 14 launch teams and one of the rocket scientists who worked to achieve mankind’s greatest leap. I wouldn’t infringe on the great accomplishment (arguably the greatest accomplishment) that my grandfather contributed to by … Read more

1. Introduction In the context of blockchain technology, a blockchain node is a fundamental component that forms the backbone of any blockchain network. Based on the Pasifika Web3 Tech Hub infrastructure, blockchain nodes are essentially computers that process data, monitor conditions, and support the network by participating in the validation with verification of transactions and … 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. ## Legally Compliant Cryptocurrency Exchange: A Case Study of NovaChange By @novachange [ 3 Min read ] As cryptocurrency adoption grows worldwide, … Read more

Leonardo da Vinci designed flying machines, such as the ornithopter. This has become a foundation in our history of realizing the purpose of flying in the air. He was inspired by the flight of birds and developed a deep understanding of aerodynamics, which later helped him formulate principles of air flight. His design never became … Read more

The response to the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO, Brian Thompson, last year in Manhattan exposed a torrent of anger by Americans towards the private insurance sector. And the stories of treatment denial shared on social media and legacy media were nothing short of nightmarish: many recounted losing healthcare coverage amid a health crisis, others told … Read more

The history of Upwork fee changes has been adjusted many times for inflation and alignment of the stars. My memory serves me right, as far back as the sliding fee structure in 2016. That was the year when connections were no longer free. You had to pay $0.15 to play on Upwork. Newbie freelancers were … Read more

20 Mind-Blowing Science-Fiction AI and Blockchain Use Cases I was doing online research for blockchain meets AI companies. But it did strike me that the article was turning out – well – meh. OK. Standard. Nothing spectacular. So, I decided to ask Gemini 2.5 Pro to generate 20 use cases for AI and blockchain. These … Read more

Transform manual hard-coded inputs into testable functions TL;DR: Extract input logic into separate functions to make your code testable, with regressions and more maintainable. Problems Addressed 😔 Hard-coded inputs Testing difficulty Poor reusability Hidden dependencies Rigid and coupling implementation Untestable code Unnecessary input validation Hardcoded values Console side effects Poor regression Related Code Smells 💨 … Read more

It’s strange to think that while a significant portion of Earth’s population still lacks access to the internet, clean water, medicine, and other basic necessities, another part is engaged in a hunt for MEV—essentially a form of temporal warfare. In this scenario, for some, it’s about a present that has yet to unfold, while for … Read more

DATEDIF function is used to find the difference in days, months, or years between two dates. DATEDIF Function: A Brief The DATEDIF function in Excel calculates the difference between two dates in years, months, or days. The name DATEDIF stands for Date + Difference, meaning it calculates the difference between two dates. You must need … Read more