The HackerNoon Newsletter: Top 100 Highest Paying Upwork Clients (1/6/2025)

How are you, hacker? đŸȘ What’s happening in tech today, January 6, 2025? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, Samuel Morse and Alfred Vail publicly demonstrated their telegraph for the first time in 1838, North Korea announced that it had successfully tested a hydrogen bomb in 2016, … Read more

The #bitcoin Writing Contest by Rootstock and HackerNoon: Final Round Results🎉

Seasons greetings, Hackers! Welcome to the third and final winners announcement, for the #bitcoin Writing Contest, presented by Rootstock and HackerNoon. What a ride it’s been! Since launching in May, the contest has seen developers, writers, Bitcoin maximalists, blockchain enthusiasts, and everyone in between tackle a range of creative and technical challenges centered around the … Read more

Driving Digital Transformation: Khurana’s Impact on AI, E-Commerce, and Telecom

Artificial Intelligence (AI), e-commerce, and telecommunications require visionary leaders like Rahul Khurana, Principal Architect, Technical. His 16-year career in the tech industry reflects a rare blend of technical mastery, inventive thinking, and steadfast commitment to customer-centric solutions. A Purpose-Driven Career Khurana distinguished himself in the area of software development by creating impactful, efficient solutions. However, … Read more

Command Query Responsibility Segregation Separates Reading From Writing… but How?

The first time this term appeared in Software Engineering lexicons was all the way back in 1997. It appeared in the book “Object-Oriented Software Construction” by Bertrand Meyer. At this time it was known as CQS (Command Query Separation). CQRS was finally introduced by Greg Young in 2010. This software architecture is designed to mitigate … Read more

This Architecture Principle from 2005 Can Address Caveats Introduced by Object-oriented Programming

This architecture principle was created by Alistair Cockburn in 2005. This is one of the many forms of DDD(Domain Driven Design Architecture). The goal was to find a way to solve or otherwise mitigate general caveats introduced by object-oriented programming. This is also known as Ports and Adapters architecture. The hexagon concept isn’t related to … Read more

Learn to Generate Flow Charts With This Simple AI Integration

Integrating Large Language Models (LLMs) with diagramming tools like Mermaid and UML is revolutionizing software development by automating the creation of visual representations from textual descriptions. Generating Flowcharts from System Descriptions Example: Consider a scenario where a developer needs to visualize the process of a user interacting with an online shopping platform. By providing a … Read more

Meet Starknet: HackerNoon Company of the Week

Happy 2025 Hackers! We are kicking off the new year with another edition of Company of the Week! Every week, we introduce a prominent tech enterprise from our tech company database, in an effort to recognize their impact on the industry. This comprehensive database ranks S&P 500 companies alongside the most innovative startups of the year, presenting … Read more

MEXC Expands OTC Services With Euro Fiat Trading, Enhancing Accessibility For European Users

Seychelles, January 6, 2025 — MEXC, a global leader in cryptocurrency trading platforms, has launched euro (EUR) support for its Over-the-Counter (OTC) trading service. This strategic expansion enhances cryptocurrency accessibility for European users by streamlining the process of purchasing with their local fiat currency. With the addition of EUR, MEXC now supports 17 major fiat … Read more

MEXC Unveils First-Ever Launchpool Project With Xterio (XTER), Featuring Airdrop+ Rewards

Seychelles, January 6, 2025 – MEXC, the world’s leading cryptocurrency trading platform, announced the launch of its first-ever Launchpool project Xterio (XTER), with Launchpool activities starting on January 6, 10:00 (UTC) followed by the official list of the XTER token on January 8, 10:00 (UTC). The milestone event is accompanied by Airdrop+ rewards and exclusive … Read more

How to Configure Microsoft Entra ID as a Login Provider in Your Next.js App

Use-case Allowing users to log in using their Microsoft Entra credentials. Why Auth.js? It is a complete authentication solution. It, Abstracts away a lot of platform (social logins) / protocol (OAuth) details Supports cookie based and database based sessions Encrypts tokens Supports wide range of OAuth providers like Microsoft Entra ID, Google, GitHub, Facebook, etc. … Read more

AI Is Making it Easier to Engineer Better Products—Here’s How

Building applications that focus on tackling complex business problems and at the same time ensuring scalability, performance, and user-centricity may prove to be tricky. Artificial intelligence (AI) is indeed the technology that brings this change, which enables teams to put out data-driven insights plus fast-paced innovation. Our article will describe how AI-powered insights bring about … Read more

Workflow Optimization in Healthcare Insurance: How We Achieved 88% Reduction in Execution Time

Expertise Delivered Backend, CRM, DevOps & QA Industry Healthcare Our client, Medigap Life, is a prominent online insurance aggregator based in Florida, USA. Established in 2016, Medigap Life emerged as a key player in the insurance space, particularly within the medicare domain. Medigap Life’s business operates on a two-fold business model. They help top insurance … Read more

Top 100 Highest Paying Upwork Clients

Hope you enjoyed the holidays, my fellow freelancers! Here’s how we’re gonna do it. First, go through this list with your eyes wide shut. Then, there’ll be a FAQ section at its end. That’s gonna reduce the number of comments and save me time to finish binging the second season of Squid Game. I ain’t … Read more

The TechBeat: Programmable Bitcoin Is Here: A Turing-complete Bridgeless Bitcoin Execution Layer (1/6/2025)

How are you, hacker? đŸȘ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. ## Programmable Bitcoin Is Here: A Turing-complete Bridgeless Bitcoin Execution Layer By @omnity [ 9 Min read ] The Runes Exchange Environment … Read more

Google Project IDX, Material UI’s New React Component Library, And More – This Week in JS

Hello JavaScript Enthusiasts! The holiday season may be in full swing, but the JavaScript world isn’t taking a break. We’ve got some game-changing updates, tools, and releases that will supercharge your workflow, whether you’re fine-tuning performance, diving into modern frameworks, or exploring new databases. Project IDX From Google Google has introduced Project IDX, which aims … Read more

The Crypto Curve: Left, Right, and Center

:::tip Intelligence is a broad, relative, highly subjective variable that humans have yet to adequately quantify. Generally, if an organism is “alive” and “autonomous,” we classify it as intelligent life. Nowhere else does this abstract opaqueness materialize so vividly as in Crypto. ::: From degens crafting dissertations on the cult value of Fartcoin to governments … Read more

Why Homo Sapiens Are Addicted to Self-Reflections: A Spotify Wrapped Introspective

Spotify Wrapped is a genius move—and no, I’m not exaggerating. Every December, like clockwork, Spotify takes over our feeds with its colorful Wrapped graphics and personalized stats. Suddenly, everyone becomes a walking, talking music data chart. It’s not just an app feature—it’s a cultural event. You can’t scroll through Instagram stories for two seconds without … Read more

Charting The Ethereum Account Abstraction Roadmap I: EIP-3074, EIP-5806, and EIP-7702

Having observed the significant changes that were introduced to Ethereum through the Deneb upgrade, we have begun looking ahead to what the next hardfork, Pectra, will introduce. To help shape the discussions to come, we seek to describe the current landscape of account abstraction surrounding Ethereum and its rollup ecosystem to potentially map a clear … Read more

SQL Window Functions: A Quick Review With Examples

Introduction Window functions are a powerful feature in SQL used to perform calculations across a set of rows related to the current row. Unlike aggregate functions, window functions do not group rows into a single output; they return a result for each row while maintaining the context of the dataset. In this article, we’ll explore … Read more

A Smidge of Behavioral Science at the End of the Year

Dear readers & friends, So, yeah, this year hasn’t exactly been newsletter-heavy from my side, and I’m sorry for that. I would’ve loved to write more here, but first, there was that writer’s block thing (I wrote about it in the last edition) and after I had that sorted out, I didn’t really get to … Read more

The HackerNoon Newsletter: GPS Is Broken, And Its Holding Tech Back (1/5/2025)

How are you, hacker? đŸȘ What’s happening in tech today, January 5, 2025? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, Construction on San Francisco’s iconic Golden Gate Bridge began in 1933, All U.S. offensive action in North Vietnam got suspended in 1972, AOL acquired Time Warner & became … Read more

Agile: How to Write User Stories for Beginners

How to Write User Stories for Beginners Introduction Over my time as a Software Engineer, I’ve seen many ways people plan software projects. One method that keeps popping up is writing user stories as part of the scrum agile project methodology. They’re short descriptions of what a user wants to do, and they help everyone … Read more

Why Is JavaScript Benchmarking a Mess?

I hate benchmarking code, just like any human (which, at this point, most viewers of this probably aren’t ÂŻ(ツ)/ÂŻ). It is much more fun to pretend that your caching of a value increased performance by 1000% rather than testing to see what it did. Alas, benchmarking in JavaScript is still necessary, especially as JavaScript is … Read more

PagedAttention and vLLM Explained: What Are They?

Table of Links Abstract and 1 Introduction 2 Background and 2.1 Transformer-Based Large Language Models 2.2 LLM Service & Autoregressive Generation 2.3 Batching Techniques for LLMs 3 Memory Challenges in LLM Serving 3.1 Memory Management in Existing Systems 4 Method and 4.1 PagedAttention 4.2 KV Cache Manager 4.3 Decoding with PagedAttention and vLLM 4.4 Application … Read more

General Model Serving Systems and Memory Optimizations Explained

Table of Links Abstract and 1 Introduction 2 Background and 2.1 Transformer-Based Large Language Models 2.2 LLM Service & Autoregressive Generation 2.3 Batching Techniques for LLMs 3 Memory Challenges in LLM Serving 3.1 Memory Management in Existing Systems 4 Method and 4.1 PagedAttention 4.2 KV Cache Manager 4.3 Decoding with PagedAttention and vLLM 4.4 Application … Read more