Everything You Can Expect With Symfony 7.4

Hey, folks! Guess what? Symfony 7.4 LTS — biggest, safest upgrade is coming! The final minor release in any Symfony branch is always the crucial moment where awesome new features meet enterprise stability. It’s the release that truly matters for long-term production stability. This is the familiar, reliable rhythm of Symfony that you know and … Read more

Node.js vs Go in Practice: Which Performs Better? Chaos-proxy or Chaos-proxy-go?

The original chaos-proxy was developed in Node.js, primarily to support testing of TypeScript and JavaScript applications. Node’s event-driven model and npm ecosystem made it a natural fit for rapid development and for supporting custom middleware written in JS/TS – features that are especially valuable for frontend and full-stack teams. However, unlike chaos-fetch, another testing tool, … Read more

Understanding Parallelism and Performance in Databricks PySpark

When processing large datasets in Databricks using PySpark, performance depends heavily on how well your cluster resources are utilized — specifically, executors, cores, and partitions. n In this blog, we’ll break down exactly how to calculate the number of parallel tasks, understand cluster behavior, and see a real-world example with performance observations. Concept Overview Before … Read more

Abundant Oracles: How Much Data Is Too Much Data?

Blockchain applications live and die by the data they consume. In decentralized finance (DeFi), gaming, and beyond, smart contracts rely on oracles, services that bridge onchain code with off-chain information. As the crypto industry has grown, so too has the number of oracle providers clamoring to feed blockchains with real-world data. This explosion of abundant … Read more

What Reddit’s “Hug of Death” Taught the Internet About Scaling

System design sounds intimidating until you realize it’s just what happens after your code meets reality. Reddit’s early scaling problems are the perfect crash course in what every developer learns eventually, usually right after a deploy. Back in 2005, Reddit was a small Python web app running on a single server. Two engineers, one database, … Read more

The Psychology of Scarcity Messages: Lessons from Real-World Experiments in Travel UX

Scarcity messages like “Only 1 room left!” really do drive bookings — but not for the reasons people admit. We ran real experiments and found that even tiny details like color and wording can massively change user behavior (red urgency banners beat orange and green by far). The twist? In interviews, users swore these messages … Read more

Why “Immediacy Bias” Might Be the Secret to Faster, Smarter Blockchain Transactions

Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction 1.1 Our Approach 1.2 Our Results & Roadmap 1.3 Related Work Model and Warmup and 2.1 Blockchain Model 2.2 The Miner 2.3 Game Model 2.4 Warm Up: The Greedy Allocation Function The Deterministic Case and 3.1 Deterministic Upper Bound 3.2 The Immediacy-Biased Class Of Allocation Function The Randomized … Read more

The Algorithmic Evolution of Blockchain Fee Design

Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction 1.1 Our Approach 1.2 Our Results & Roadmap 1.3 Related Work Model and Warmup and 2.1 Blockchain Model 2.2 The Miner 2.3 Game Model 2.4 Warm Up: The Greedy Allocation Function The Deterministic Case and 3.1 Deterministic Upper Bound 3.2 The Immediacy-Biased Class Of Allocation Function The Randomized … Read more

Modeling Miner Incentives in Discounted Transaction Fee Mechanisms

:::info Authors: (1) Yotam Gafni, Weizmann Institute (yotam.gafni@gmail.com); (2) Aviv Yaish, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem (aviv.yaish@mail.huji.ac.il). ::: Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction 1.1 Our Approach 1.2 Our Results & Roadmap 1.3 Related Work Model and Warmup and 2.1 Blockchain Model 2.2 The Miner 2.3 Game Model 2.4 Warm Up: The Greedy Allocation Function … Read more

Meet OpenxAI: HackerNoon Company of the Week

We are back with another Company of the Week feature! Every week, we share an awesome tech brand from our tech company database, making their evergreen mark on the internet. This unique HackerNoon database ranks S&P 500 companies and top startups of the year alike. This week, we are featuring OpenxAI, a decentralized, permissionless AI ecosystem that aims … Read more

“We Are Very Early in Our Work With LLMs,” – Prem Ramaswami, Head of Data Commons at Google

Google Data Commons launched an MCP server to ground AI in verifiable public data from trusted sources like the UN, World Bank, and Census Bureau. The clever part: users’ own LLMs do the translation work, so Google’s compute isn’t involved. Prem Ramaswami argues we’re still “very early” with LLMs (Google’s transformer paper was only 2017) … Read more

Mutuum Finance (MUTM) Announces Development of Lending & Borrowing Protocol, Surpasses $17 Million

Crypto presales often make headlines for ambitious promises, but only a handful manage to deliver both momentum and a clear roadmap. In 2025, Mutuum Finance (MUTM) emerged as one of the rare projects doing both. With its presale surging toward the $17.2 million mark and the team officially announcing progress on its lending and borrowing … Read more

ViaBTC Unveils Enhanced Collateralized Loan Service for Global Miners

Hong Kong, Hong Kong, October 9th, 2025/Chainwire/–ViaBTC, the third largest BTC mining pool, announced a major upgrade to its crypto loan offerings. The revamped Collateral-pledged Loan service now supports multiple cryptocurrencies as collateral and features a streamlined lending process, making it easier for miners to access liquidity. This enhanced service serves as a powerful tool … Read more

The HackerNoon Newsletter: Can ChatGPT Outperform the Market? Week 9 (10/13/2025)

How are you, hacker? 🪐 What’s happening in tech today, October 13, 2025? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, White House Cornerstone was Laid in 1792, The first US cellular network was launched in 1983, Chilean miners are rescued after 69 days underground in 2010, and we … Read more

Tapbit Delivers a Strong Presence at TOKEN2049 Singapore

Singapore, Singapore, October 13th, 2025/Chainwire/–The world-renowned blockchain event, TOKEN2049 Singapore, successfully concluded at the Marina Bay Sands Expo and Convention Centre. As a leading compliant cryptocurrency exchange, Tapbit made a remarkable impression at the event, capturing the attention of global blockchain companies, investors, and media with its strong brand presence and innovative products. A Crowd-Pulling … Read more

Building with Clarity: Yusuke Kawano on Scaling Startups Through Data Discipline

Yusuke Kawano, Product Growth & Analytics Leader at Meta, reveals how startups can turn raw data into clarity and culture. His 10-point playbook—from defining objectives and ensuring data trust to documenting workflows and scaling with simplicity—shows why data discipline, not dashboards, drives growth. The secret? Clarity, trust, and cultural alignment from day one.

Vyana’s “Replace-Don’t-Dilute” Smart Vent Could Redefine Home Air Quality

Vyana, founded by Arjun Gupta, introduces a smart ventilation system that replaces, not dilutes, indoor air. Using CO₂, VOC, and pollen sensors with predictive algorithms, it optimizes airflow for health and energy savings (~15% in early tests). With sealed dampers, washable filters, and $250–$300 pricing, Vyana aims to make fresh air an algorithmic decision.

Lightship Security and the OpenSSL Corporation Submit OpenSSL 3.5.4 for FIPS 140-3 Validation

Newark, United States, October 9th, 2025/CyberNewsWire/–Lightship Security, an Applus+ Laboratories company and accredited cryptographic security test laboratory, and the OpenSSL Corporation, the co-maintainer of the OpenSSL Library, announce the submission of OpenSSL version 3.5.4 to the Cryptographic Module Validation Program (CMVP) for FIPS 140-3 validation. This submission confirms that the code is complete and that … Read more

Mutuum Finance (MUTM): Official Development Milestone Announcement

In a year when many crypto presales have struggled to maintain momentum after their initial hype, Mutuum Finance (MUTM) has taken a more disciplined approach. Through structured fundraising, transparent communication, and clear progress on its development roadmap, the project has steadily built credibility. With over 16,800 investors on board and more than 750 million tokens … Read more

Binance Is Back — Or Why the October 10 Crash Was Yet Another CEX Attack on the Crypto World

Without further preamble, my position is simple: CEXs don’t just parasitize cryptocurrencies, tokens, and other crypto assets — they do so with cynical audacity and alarming regularity. 2025. One Banana to Rule Them All I won’t dive into conspiracy theories about a secret pact between Trump and CZ (even if it’s quite obvious), but here are … Read more

The TechBeat: Klink Finance Disrupts Failing Web2 Ads – Launching $KLINK Token This October (10/13/2025)

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. ## The Complete Guide to Mega Productivity With Perplexity Comet (100 Shortcuts + 40 Prompts) By @sidsaladi [ 19 Min read ] … Read more

The AI Co-Founder You’ll Never See Join the Board

There’s a shift happening in entrepreneurship so quiet, most founders won’t realize it until they’re already obsolete. The next generation of startups won’t be built by teams; they’ll be built by hybrids. Half human ambition, half machine cognition. For decades, the founder’s story followed a predictable arc, an idea, a pitch, a few sleepless nights, … Read more

Forgeting Funnels and Building Feelings – The Future of Content Marketing

Over a decade, marketers treated people like pixels in a pipeline — push them through awareness, nurture them with content, and convert them at the end. It worked, for a while. But somewhere between the dashboards, drip campaigns, and lead magnets, we forgot the point that people don’t move through funnels. They move through feelings. … Read more