These are from my indie maker career: 7 years of actually making a SaaS from $0 to $16,000 MMR and observing others. Enjoy! Idea #1 This is one stupidly simple, but unobvious. It brought me the first 5 paid users in 2018: find people in your contact list who could be your customers. Ex-colleagues, partners, … Read more
Online privacy is one of the most prominent reasons for debate. Between serious offenses like personal data leaks from banks or insurance companies and smaller instances like annoying calls from salespeople conveniently offering you a service you need, feeling like your information is protected has never been more important. That’s not even considering dangerous situations … Read more
“Be realistic.” How many times have you heard that bullshit? Every time you’ve shared an ambitious dream, someone has probably hit you with those two dream-killing words. Your parents when you said you wanted to be an astronaut. Your guidance counselor when you aimed for an Ivy League school. Your friends when you talked about … Read more
Introduction Today, the world of business, economies, and supply chains are interconnected, and this interconnectedness leads to a chunk of tangles about managing multiple operations. Alongside factors like geopolitical tensions, natural disasters, and sudden market shifts add extra complexity to the situation. Result? Many businesses feel overwhelmed, and it is not their fault! What did … Read more
Generative AI is everywhere. Chatbots and virtual assistants respond to customers, Large Language Models (LLMs) help make blog posts, viral videos, and even teach students. But just because it’s widespread doesn’t mean it’s easy to use. Many businesses struggle to adopt generative AI because of its technical complexity, high costs, a shortage of talent needed … Read more
Welcome to HackerNoon Company of the Week – a weekly series where we give the spotlight to an awesome tech company that is actively making its evergreen mark on the internet through great innovations and extreme resilience. All the data and information are taken from HackerNoon’s tech company database, where we rank S&P 500 companies … Read more
The race to dominate the next era of blockchain adoption is intensifying, with Ripple (XRP) facing competition from emerging networks like Coldware (COLD). While Ripple (XRP) has long been positioned as the blockchain for global financial transactions, newer projects are aiming to redefine scalability, decentralization, and accessibility for billions of users. Ripple (XRP) remains one … Read more
Introduction Open source software has always been a delicate balance of ideals and practicality, and in 2024, this balance was upended. With an increasing trend of relicensing projects and a corresponding surge in forks, the open source community faces questions about what it means to be truly open. Following the heated discussions around the HashiCorp … Read more
Hedera (HBAR) has long positioned itself as a leading blockchain for institutional adoption, thanks to its governance council model featuring companies like Google, IBM, and Boeing. While this structure offers stability and enterprise credibility, it has also raised concerns about decentralization, with critics arguing that decision-making is concentrated in the hands of corporate giants. In … Read more
The Coldware community is celebrating a meteoric rise in adoption, while XRP is facing increasing competition despite major regulatory breakthroughs. With Brazil greenlighting XRP ETFs and the U.S. potentially following suit, XRP is gaining traction, but its ability to maintain dominance in the evolving crypto landscape is far from guaranteed. Meanwhile, Coldware (COLD)’s rapid expansion … Read more
How are you, hacker? 🪐 What’s happening in tech today, March 3, 2025? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, Homebrew Computer Club Holds First Meeting in 1975, and we present you with these top quality stories. From Python: A Deeper Look Into How Django Transactions Work to … Read more
The news cycle is exceptionally choppy right now. Brands need to make critical decisions on where they stand and the course ahead. And if they don’t take a stand and choose where they’re headed, how long can they stay up and stay above the waters? When boating, or doing other things where a fall can … Read more
Imagine you are managing a bank’s credit portfolio: every loan issued is a bet on the borrower’s ability to meet their obligations. But how can you determine which borrowers are reliable and which ones might struggle with repayments? This is where Probability of Default (PD) models come into play. PD models are tools used in the … Read more
You’ve probably tried every productivity hack under the sun, from the Pomodoro timers to the habit of stacking and waking up at 5 a.m. to join the club. Maybe they worked for a little while, but eventually, life got in the way. Perhaps you missed one day, then another, and before you knew it, you … Read more
When working with objects, developers often need to transform one object into another. This is especially common when working with DTO models, business logic layers, and data coming from external systems. To automate such transformations, libraries like AutoMapper and Mapster come to the rescue. But which one should you choose? In this article, we’ll discuss … Read more
Hello AI Enthusiasts! Welcome to the seventh edition of “This Week in AI Engineering”! New GPT 4.5 is here, Anthropic’s Claude 3.7 Sonnet will superpower your code, Perplexity’s Deep Research is free to use for autonomous analysis, and we even have specialized financial models! With this, we’ll also be talking about some must-know tools to … Read more
My article will explain how NASA engineers, anticipating the need to maintain the Hubble Space Telescope, designed it with the ability to be repaired in space. Through five shuttle missions from 1993 to 2009, astronauts replaced all major components except the mirrors and outer shell, which increased electrical power by 20% and restored the telescope’s … Read more
Are your containers crashing unexpectedly? Do you face performance issues alongside encountering memory exhaustion that causes fatal crashes? When containerized applications spread through systems, they become harder to handle at scale. What steps do you follow to solve a container failure? You need to identify actions that can stop resource-related crashes from happening. Keep on … Read more
Key Takeaways: ==Docker Scouts primarily helps scan images for vulnerabilities==. These vulnerabilities could pose a risk to security before the software begins its development. Besides, it scans for CVEs and makes sure that known security issues are dealt with before reaching the production stage. Moreover, ==Docker Scout sustains compliance by generating a complete Software Bill … Read more
Over the past decades, phishing has become a growing security concern. Thus, the protection of companies against AI phishing is no longer a recommendation but a necessity. According to Gartner’s survey, AI-based cyber threats are among the top emerging risks. AI-enhanced malicious attacks and AI-assisted misinformation campaigns came in first and second among a whopping 286 … Read more
In the faltering democratic experiment known as Atlantis, political factions battled for supremacy beneath the swaying coconut palms of the Pacific. Hollow promises of representation echoed across the azure waters while the ruling elite clung to power through carefully crafted loopholes. Behind the ceremonial trappings of democratic institutions, the real governance happened through backroom deals … Read more
In the aftermath of the recent Oval Office meeting between the US President and Ukrainian leader, we witnessed a concerning departure from diplomatic protocol. What was scheduled as a discussion of peace initiatives quickly veered off course, with the original agenda abandoned in favor of an attempt to strengthen position against Russia. This deviation raises … Read more
In my previous piece, I outlined a roadmap for transforming Tonga into the Web3 Tech Hub of the Pacific, emphasizing the need for financial sovereignty and technological innovation. Today, I want to expand on this vision by focusing on America’s emerging leadership in blockchain technology and how this shift will catalyze global adoption, particularly in … Read more
A scam of any kind involves deceiving someone into giving up their money, and scam or fake tokens in the crypto world aren’t different. We must say that the term “fake” is often not that accurate, since, in most cases, these assets actually exist as any other token in a certain network. Their utility or … Read more
For the past six months, I’ve been conducting what might be the most expensive social media tool experiment nobody asked for. Real client accounts, real budgets – testing every major AI social media platform I could get my hands on. After pushing every major AI social media platform to its limits with actual campaigns (and … Read more
This article takes an example of a chatbot to explain how the Retrieval-Augmented Generation(RAG) data should be secured. Rise in use of Foundation models Chatbot-like applications have been in use for a very long time. These require a lot of engineering effort to build and that is no longer the case with commoditization of Large … 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. ## Give Feedback, Get Rewarded: Win Sony Headphones or an iPad for Helping Shape HackerNoon’s Future By @hackernoon [ 3 Min read … Read more
Table of links ABSTRACT 1 INTRODUCTION 2 BACKGROUND: OMNIDIRECTIONAL 3D OBJECT DETECTION 3 PRELIMINARY EXPERIMENT 3.1 Experiment Setup 3.2 Observations 3.3 Summary and Challenges 4 OVERVIEW OF PANOPTICUS 5 MULTI-BRANCH OMNIDIRECTIONAL 3D OBJECT DETECTION 5.1 Model Design 6 SPATIAL-ADAPTIVE EXECUTION 6.1 Performance Prediction 5.2 Model Adaptation 6.2 Execution Scheduling 7 IMPLEMENTATION 8 EVALUATION 8.1 Testbed … Read more
Table of links ABSTRACT 1 INTRODUCTION 2 BACKGROUND: OMNIDIRECTIONAL 3D OBJECT DETECTION 3 PRELIMINARY EXPERIMENT 3.1 Experiment Setup 3.2 Observations 3.3 Summary and Challenges 4 OVERVIEW OF PANOPTICUS 5 MULTI-BRANCH OMNIDIRECTIONAL 3D OBJECT DETECTION 5.1 Model Design 6 SPATIAL-ADAPTIVE EXECUTION 6.1 Performance Prediction 5.2 Model Adaptation 6.2 Execution Scheduling 7 IMPLEMENTATION 8 EVALUATION 8.1 Testbed … Read more
Table of links ABSTRACT 1 INTRODUCTION 2 BACKGROUND: OMNIDIRECTIONAL 3D OBJECT DETECTION 3 PRELIMINARY EXPERIMENT 3.1 Experiment Setup 3.2 Observations 3.3 Summary and Challenges 4 OVERVIEW OF PANOPTICUS 5 MULTI-BRANCH OMNIDIRECTIONAL 3D OBJECT DETECTION 5.1 Model Design 6 SPATIAL-ADAPTIVE EXECUTION 6.1 Performance Prediction 5.2 Model Adaptation 6.2 Execution Scheduling 7 IMPLEMENTATION 8 EVALUATION 8.1 Testbed … Read more