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Educational Byte: Decentralized Escrow—What It Is and Why You Should Use It

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“Escrow” has been a security measure in traditional finances for a while, long before the appearance of cryptocurrencies and decentralized systems. The point was opposite to decentralization, indeed: escrow implies middlemen. A trusted third party, often a company, mediates between two strangers and keeps the funds involved in their trade safe until it’s complete. That … Read more

I Told My Team to Complain Every Week—It Transformed Our Productivity

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Photo by Dylan Gillis on Unsplash More than a decade ago, I had the opportunity to take a Total Quality Management (TQM) course by none other than Andrzej Blikle at ASBIRO, a unique Polish educational institution where only entrepreneurs teach entrepreneurship. Since then, I’ve been testing and refining various TQM techniques with my teams, especially … Read more

Mal-Where? How We Boosted Malware Detection to XG-ceptional Levels

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:::info Authors: (1) S M Rakib Hasan, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, BRAC University, Dhaka, Bangladesh (sm.rakib.hasan@g.bracu.ac.bd); (2) Aakar Dhakal, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, BRAC University, Dhaka, Bangladesh (aakar.dhakal@g.bracu.ac.bd). ::: Table of Links Abstract and I. Introduction II. Literature Review III. Methodology IV. Results and Discussion V. Conclusion and Future Work, and … Read more

Earth’s Climate Is Being Hurt By AI in Non-Obvious Ways

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This article is copublished with Grist Read on our collaborator’s site This story was published in partnership with Grist, a nonprofit media organization covering climate, justice, and solutions. Subscribe to its weekly newsletter here. “Something’s fishy,” declared a March newsletter from the rightwing, fossil-fuel-funded think tank Texas Public Policy Foundation. The caption looms under an … Read more

Setting Up Auth0 Authentication with Expo Router: A Complete Guide

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Implementing a robust authentication system is crucial for mobile applications. In this guide, I’ll walk you through setting up Auth0 authentication with Expo Router, creating a seamless and secure user experience. Prerequisites Before starting, ensure you have: An Expo project using Expo Router An Auth0 account with a configured application Basic understanding of React Native … Read more

A Guide to Naming and Mapping Monographs

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:::info Author: (1) Thierry Boy de la Tour, Univ. Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, Grenoble INP, LIG 38000 Grenoble, France. ::: Table of Links Abstract and 1 Introduction 2 Basic Definitions and Notations 2.1 Sets 2.2 Sequences 2.3 Signatures and Algebras and 2.4 Categories 3 Monographs and their Morphisms 4 Limits and Colimits 5 Drawing Monographs 6 … Read more

How Monographs Unify Graph Structures

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:::info Author: (1) Thierry Boy de la Tour, Univ. Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, Grenoble INP, LIG 38000 Grenoble, France. ::: Table of Links Abstract and 1 Introduction 2 Basic Definitions and Notations 2.1 Sets 2.2 Sequences 2.3 Signatures and Algebras and 2.4 Categories 3 Monographs and their Morphisms 4 Limits and Colimits 5 Drawing Monographs 6 … Read more

The Building Blocks of Graph Structures

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:::info Author: (1) Thierry Boy de la Tour, Univ. Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, Grenoble INP, LIG 38000 Grenoble, France. ::: Table of Links Abstract and 1 Introduction 2 Basic Definitions and Notations 2.1 Sets 2.2 Sequences 2.3 Signatures and Algebras and 2.4 Categories 3 Monographs and their Morphisms 4 Limits and Colimits 5 Drawing Monographs 6 … Read more

The Algebra of Everything

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:::info Author: (1) Thierry Boy de la Tour, Univ. Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, Grenoble INP, LIG 38000 Grenoble, France. ::: Table of Links Abstract and 1 Introduction 2 Basic Definitions and Notations 2.1 Sets 2.2 Sequences 2.3 Signatures and Algebras and 2.4 Categories 3 Monographs and their Morphisms 4 Limits and Colimits 5 Drawing Monographs 6 … Read more

What Is the Solana Gulf Stream? How It Differs From Traditional Mempool Architectures

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Introduction Transaction pool, also known as the “mempool,” is a temporary storage area for unconfirmed transactions on the blockchain as they await confirmation and inclusion in a block. The emergence of Bitcoin led to the introduction of the mempool concept. Ethereum later incorporated this into its architecture as well. When a user initiates a transaction, … Read more

The HackerNoon Newsletter: AI Wont Replace Me Yet, But It Might Prove I Was Never That Original (3/15/2025)

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How are you, hacker? 🪐 What’s happening in tech today, March 15, 2025? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, First Newsletter of the Homebrew Computer Club in 1975, and we present you with these top quality stories. From Building a Bitcoin Wallet from Scratch: Two Months of … Read more

Artificial Intelligence Optimization (AIO): The Next Frontier in SEO

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Artificial Intelligence Optimization (AIO) is one of the newest developments in search engine optimization. AIO combines AI technologies with traditional SEO techniques which improves the processes. This concept, which is frequently called AI SEO or SEO using AI, uses sophisticated algorithms and machine learning models to analyze and optimize web content. The purpose of employing … Read more

OTel Me Why: Why I’m So Excited About OTel

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LIMITED TIME OFFER! I’m ready for my next adventure as a DevRel advocate/Technical Evangelist/IT Talespinner. If that sounds like something you need, drop me a line by email or on LinkedIn. My blog on pricing from the other day caught the attention of the folks over at MetricFire, and we struck up a conversation about … Read more

Navigating the Murky Waters of AI and Copyright Law

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The ongoing debate about the authorship and ownership of generative content is intense. Since both sides have solid arguments, the answer isn’t crystal clear. The water is only becoming murkier as the legal battles surrounding artificial intelligence rage on. Who owns AI-generated works? Can AI companies really use copyrighted content for free, as OpenAI’s CEO … Read more

AI Won’t Replace Me Yet, But It Might Prove I Was Never That Original

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The issue with Large Language Models—capitalized here the way you might capitalize God or Death, given the mission-critical importance the tech industry now attaches to them—is not that they generate text. That part is almost endearingly quaint, cute even. So 2022. The real conundrum I’m racking my brains over, dear HackerNoon reader, is more unsettling. … Read more

Like Kermit Once Said: “It’s Not Easy Being Green” – AI Environmental Equity

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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. From our work at The Markup, we know that adoption of technology so often means that some bear the costs while others enjoy conveniences. We challenge … Read more

Linear Attention and Long Context Models

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:::info Authors: (1) Albert Gu, Machine Learning Department, Carnegie Mellon University; (2)Tri Dao, Department of Computer Science, Princeton University agu@cs.cmu.edu, tri@tridao.me. ::: Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction 2 State Space Models 3 Selective State Space Models and 3.1 Motivation: Selection as a Means of Compression 3.2 Improving SSMs with Selection 3.3 Efficient Implementation … Read more

State Space Models vs RNNs: The Evolution of Sequence Modeling

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:::info Authors: (1) Albert Gu, Machine Learning Department, Carnegie Mellon University with Equal contribution (agu@cs.cmu.edu); (2) Tri Dao, Department of Computer Science, Princeton University with Equal contribution (tri@tridao.me). ::: Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction 2 State Space Models 3 Selective State Space Models and 3.1 Motivation: Selection as a Means of Compression 3.2 … Read more