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A paper from UGA shows you can match SOTA LLM performance with 2000 targeted samples instead of 300000. The secret? Looking inside model’s feature space. A recent paper called Less is Enough from University of Georgia, UC San Diego matched SOTA performance on instruction-following using 2,000 synthetic samples instead of 300,000. That’s 150x less data … Read more

Last week, BBC journalist Thomas Germain wrote a fake blog post claiming he was the world’s greatest hot-dog-eating tech journalist. Within 24 hours, ChatGPT and Google were repeating it as fact. Claude, made by Anthropic, wasn’t fooled. One AI out of three caught the lie. The entire industry treated that as an interesting footnote. An … Read more

Should your startup offer a free tier? A practical framework for founders to evaluate freemium, trials, conversion math, and acquisition tradeoffs.

Written from the perspective of a senior engineer who has built, debugged, and battle-tested operators in production. Table of Contents Why Operators Exist The Conceptual Foundation: Control Theory Kubernetes API Machinery: The Backbone Custom Resource Definitions (CRDs) The Controller Runtime: Inside the Engine Informers, Listers, and the Cache The Reconciliation Loop in Depth Work Queues … Read more

Ivan Illich wrote Tools for Conviviality in 1973. It’s the best framework for AI dependency nobody’s using.

Claude can code, but can it check binary executables? We already did our experiments with using NSA software to hack a classic Atari game. This time, we want to focus on a much more practical task — using AI agents for malware detection. We partnered with Michał “Redford” Kowalczyk,a reverse engineering expert from Dragon Sector, … Read more

Explore the 3 stages of AI guardrails—from LLM filters to agent authorization and multi-agent control planes for enterprise AI governance.

Not everything that can be automated should be. As QA engineers and leads, we often face the same question: Should we automate this, or handle it manually? And the truth is – there’s no single answer. The right choice depends on context, stability, and value. Automation is powerful when it accelerates learning and confidence, not … Read more

When I first thought about this article, I had planned to go with a headline ‘Harness Matters’ or something cool like ‘A good harness is all you need’, but to my own shock, it seems to not actually make that much of an impact – atleast as far as MVP’ing a front end wireframe goes. … Read more

Across 38 career reports, a five-model consensus method shows why verification—not generation—will define premium content in the AI era.

Let me set the scene. You’ve shipped three .NET applications in the last two years. Each one has a DbContext, a generic repository, probably a Unit of Work wrapper. Maybe you even went full CQRS on the last one because you’d watched enough conference talks to feel guilty about not doing it. And every single … Read more

Wilmington, North America, February 24th, 2026/CyberNewswire/–In a recent DMARCbis fireside chat, email authentication leaders discussed upcoming DMARC changes and how teams can plan for 2026.  Sendmarc has released a new fireside chat featuring Todd Herr, Principal Solutions Architect at GreenArrow Email and co-editor of DMARCbis, on the upcoming update to DMARC (Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting, … Read more

There is a race underway, and most companies do not yet understand what they are racing toward. The unnamed goal is “autonomy”, the point when organizations self-manage, requiring only human approval to deliver outcomes. That, of course, is an ideal, and not every industry or organization will reach it. But that is the end of … Read more

Cybersecurity stocks declined sharply after artificial intelligence firm Anthropic introduced Claude Code Security, a new AI-powered system designed to identify and fix software vulnerabilities automatically. The announcement triggered investor concerns that advanced AI tools could disrupt traditional cybersecurity products, particularly those focused on code scanning and threat detection. What Is Claude Code Security? Claude Code … Read more

Welcome to HackerNoon’s Meet the Writer Interview series, where we learn a bit more about the contributors that have written some of our favorite stories. Let’s start! Tell us a bit about yourself. For example, name, profession, and personal interests. Hello, hello everyone. My name is Sergey, and I’m working as Chief Product Officer and … Read more

You can always find some legitimately free tokens in crypto, because some projects decide to give them away as a marketing tool or rewards of some kind. That’s called an airdrop: users (especially early adopters) can receive a portion of the tokens minted by that platform. So… free money! Scammers know this, of course, and … Read more

Welcome back to 3 Tech Polls, HackerNoon’s Weekly Newsletter that curates Results from our Poll of the Week, and 2 related polls around the web. Thanks for voting and helping us shape these important conversations! This week’s poll asked a clean, binary-feeling question: Are you good at spotting AI-generated content online – text, images, videos, deepfakes? The question … Read more

Crypto hedge funds just did something they have never done before. According to BeInCrypto, some major funds now report zero exposure to Bitcoin and Ethereum. Not reduced. Zero. Cash balances hit levels not seen since early 2025. But anyone who reads that as a death sentence for crypto has not been paying attention. This is … Read more

Byline: TBD by the Network Photo Courtesy of Renderforest Renderforest now functions as a primary production system inside agencies and marketing teams planning campaigns through 2026. Teams face shorter timelines, tighter budgets, and stricter review cycles. Visual work reaches clients faster and faces heavier scrutiny. Under those conditions, platforms earn trust through reliability, speed, and … Read more

My dear reader, splendid news! You can stop dithering over whether to scrape by as a barista or a binman. The planet is recruiting. Positions for “God” have just opened up — and this isn’t some metaphorical HR fluff. The practical phase is underway. The sole entry requirement? Immortality. All it takes is a casual … Read more

My dear reader, splendid news! You can stop dithering over whether to scrape by as a barista or a binman. The planet is recruiting. Positions for “God” have just opened up — and this isn’t some metaphorical HR fluff. The practical phase is underway. The sole entry requirement? Immortality. All it takes is a casual … Read more

I built a natural language chat bot reporting system, powered by Retrieval Augmented Generation(RAG). It provided a great experience to the user, they were able to query the data and get reports diced and sliced by the dimensions which they wanted. It was intuitive and provided efficiency. It turned tons of data into liquid gold. … Read more

I built a natural language chat bot reporting system, powered by Retrieval Augmented Generation(RAG). It provided a great experience to the user, they were able to query the data and get reports diced and sliced by the dimensions which they wanted. It was intuitive and provided efficiency. It turned tons of data into liquid gold. … Read more

So this started because of a Slack argument. Someone on my team pasted a SQL query from ChatGPT straight into a pull request. No testing. No checking. And the query looked fine. Clean formatting, proper aliases, and even had a comment explaining the logic. One problem: it was returning wrong numbers. Off by about 15%. … Read more

So this started because of a Slack argument. Someone on my team pasted a SQL query from ChatGPT straight into a pull request. No testing. No checking. And the query looked fine. Clean formatting, proper aliases, and even had a comment explaining the logic. One problem: it was returning wrong numbers. Off by about 15%. … Read more

We were very far away from reality, and maybe now people will start thinking differently. The crypto market is down. This is because people finally stopped paying for what they thought would happen and started looking at what’s really going on with crypto. For a time, people thought that crypto would become a big part … Read more

We were very far away from reality, and maybe now people will start thinking differently. The crypto market is down. This is because people finally stopped paying for what they thought would happen and started looking at what’s really going on with crypto. For a time, people thought that crypto would become a big part … Read more

Introduction In today’s world, most people don’t just have “one job.” They hold multiple roles, often on the same day, sometimes at the same time. We have work demands, family responsibilities, social obligations, and the struggle to maintain a personal identity. The ongoing challenge of maintaining our health and mental well-being. This isn’t an isolated … Read more

Introduction In today’s world, most people don’t just have “one job.” They hold multiple roles, often on the same day, sometimes at the same time. We have work demands, family responsibilities, social obligations, and the struggle to maintain a personal identity. The ongoing challenge of maintaining our health and mental well-being. This isn’t an isolated … Read more

How are you, hacker? 🪐 What’s happening in tech today, February 24, 2026? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, Signing of the Gonski Review in 2012, Gold was discovered at Sutter’s Mill in 1848, and we present you with these top quality stories. From Do AI Agents … Read more