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We are currently building ROLL Beauty, an app that lets users lean their smartphone against a wall, sit on a chair, and do a full 360-degree rotation in about 8 seconds. Users can then drag through the recording to review their hair from the front, side, and back—making it easy to point out specific angles … Read more

Hi! I’m Ryu from AMANEKU Studio. At the time of writing this, Shipaton has been underway for five days. In my previous post, I wrote about choosing our app’s name and logo. This time, I want to show exactly how the two of us are working together—including the decisions that failed and the ones we … Read more

Welcome to HackerNoon’s Writing Prompts! Would you like to take a stab at answering some of these questions? The link for the template is HERE. 1. What is your company in 2–5 words? Boutique investment advisory & deal structuring. 2. Why is now the time for your company to exist? Capital flows between Africa, the Gulf, … Read more

As China’s midyear hackathon season accelerates, the NxCode founder brings an operator’s eye to She Nicest’s Motherboard event – and a track record spanning AI education, product development, accelerator backing and ecosystem leadership. As 2026 moves through its midpoint, China’s artificial intelligence event calendar is crowded with hackathons, demo days and founder competitions. Models are … Read more

In 2022, a lawyer working an airline liability case used an AI tool to help research and draft a brief. The citations looked right, specific case names, docket numbers, real judges’ initials attached to real courts. Opposing counsel noticed something was off. When the judge requested verification, the lawyer admitted he had used AI and … Read more

Think of your agent’s history as a warehouse the size of a city block. Every event goes onto a shelf: user messages, tool outputs, retrieved documents, the model’s own half-formed plans. A million-token context window makes that warehouse bigger. It does not hire a librarian, and it does not tell the forklift which box to … Read more

San Francisco, United States, August 19th, 2026/TechnologyWire/–HireQuotient, which recently announced its strategic partnership with Paylocity (NASDAQ: PCTY), delivers another strong return on investment (ROI) for a PE-owned North American media and retail giant. Chief People Officer of the organization, Ann Jadown shared her amazement at closing 15 critical roles with a 65% reduction in time … Read more

Let’s learn about Logging via these 77 free blog posts. They are ordered by HackerNoon reader engagement data. Visit the Learn Repo or LearnRepo.com to find the most read blog posts about any technology. Logging is the process of recording events that occur within a software application or system. It matters for debugging, monitoring performance, … Read more

How are you, hacker? 🪐 What’s happening in tech today, August 19, 2026? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, Computer Pioneer Gordon Bell was born in 1934, Sputnik 5 launched by USSR in 1960, World’s First Geostationary Satellite was Launched in 1964, and we present you with … Read more

Hi, I’m Ryu from AMANEKU Studio. Today, I want to share a small but important milestone in our app development journey. We finally decided on the name of our app, which we discussed, admittedly a little vaguely, in our introductory piece: HACKERNOONWe’ve Never Built an App. Now We’re Taking On Shipaton 2026 | HackerNoonTwo complete … Read more

Large pull requests are difficult to review well. They combine too many concerns, make feedback harder to act on, and often leave reviewers deciding where to start. GitHub Stacked PRs offer a more deliberate workflow: split one large change into a sequence of small, dependent pull requests (PRs) that can be reviewed independently. In this … 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. ## Can Machines Learn Taste? By @laumski [ 8 Min read ] Silicon Valley wants to teach AI good taste. But machines … Read more

Let’s learn about Linux via these 354 free blog posts. They are ordered by HackerNoon reader engagement data. Visit the Learn Repo or LearnRepo.com to find the most read blog posts about any technology. Free as freedom! 1. Configuring the Alpha AWUS036ACH Wi-Fi Adapter on Kali Linux The best Wi-Fi Adapter for Kali Linux and … Read more

SOCs face constant pressure to detect and respond to threats faster. Heavy workloads, limited threat visibility, and disconnected tools can delay action, increasing the risk of financial loss and operational disruption. ANY.RUN helps more than 15,000 security teams reduce these delays with fresh threat intelligence, interactive analysis, contextual enrichment, and analyst-curated reporting. Here’s how your SOC can handle incidents more … Read more

Yesterday the shift dashboard reported 41,900 units across an eight-hour window. Today the same query over the same eight hours reports 43,100. Nobody shipped a code change and nobody edited a row after the fact, so why did the number move? A plant-floor historian had lost its uplink, buffered locally, and flushed overnight, landing rows … Read more

Cloud cost optimization isn’t simply a matter of “switching to smaller servers.” It starts with understanding the actual workload, then using billing data and monitoring to identify the true sources of cost, and finally verifying through rolling deployments, health checks, and cold-start tests that the optimized system remains reliable. Background: Fixed Costs in a Production … Read more

Why Code Generation Is Not Enough The first generation of AI software engineering tools demonstrated that Large Language Models can generate production-quality code. The next generation will be measured by a fundamentally different capability: orchestrating the complete software engineering lifecycle. Code generation is only one stage of enterprise delivery. Modern systems evolve through requirement discovery, … Read more

I nearly turned four software bugs into four model personalities This article was edited with AI assistance. The cases and data come from real batch runs in the Kai! AI Arena. Every claim is limited to the game rules, model versions, and experimental setup used at the time. This is not a general model ranking. … Read more

Let’s learn about Learning To Code via these 432 free blog posts. They are ordered by HackerNoon reader engagement data. Visit the Learn Repo or LearnRepo.com to find the most read blog posts about any technology. Coding is the new literacy! 1. Java Algorithms: Linked List in Binary Tree (LeetCode) Linked List in Binary Tree … 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! Today, we look into the future — the kind of future we were promised to, and the kind we have only seen … Read more

This is Part 3 of 4-part series on how agents remember: building short-, medium-, and long-term memory that scales across users, agents, and Kubernetes clusters. It is 2 am, the memory database just crashed and thirty agents were mid-conversation across your cluster. What do your users experience? The impact depends on the design choices of … Read more

An insurance policy endorsement case study using machine-readable constraints, architecture graphs, deterministic validation, and traceable architectural trade-offs. The Design That Looked Correct An endorsement may begin as a small policy change, yet it carries the full weight of the insurance contract. A commercial property policyholder may request a higher building coverage limit, a revised deductible, … Read more

In short A team of specialized AI agents automates standardized SEO audits, but two approval stages and a personal final sign-off stay non-negotiable. Client data is anonymized locally before any external model sees it. In SEO, plenty of tasks can be automated, the technical website audit among them. The requirements for that audit are fairly … Read more

We are back with another HackerNoon Company of the Week feature! Every week, we spotlight a standout business from our Tech Company Database, which ranks companies ranging from S&P 500 giants to emerging startups making their mark on the internet. This week, we’re pleased to feature RevenueCat, the platform helping some of the world’s top … 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. ## Navigating Claude Code: The Full Workflow By @efimovov_5guqm5 [ 9 Min read ] The nine layers of Claude Code only pay … Read more

Let’s learn about Learn To Code via these 390 free blog posts. They are ordered by HackerNoon reader engagement data. Visit the Learn Repo or LearnRepo.com to find the most read blog posts about any technology. “Give someone a program, you frustrate them for a day; teach them how to program, you frustrate them for … Read more

OREM, Utah, Aug. 18, 2026 – SecurityMetrics has won the ‘Cybersecurity Audit Team of the Year’ award from the Hacker News Award 2026. AI has made it easier for criminals to spread ransomware, find weaknesses in supply chains, and attack businesses. Cybersecurity tools and services have never needed to be more thorough and adept at … Read more

One Electron app, two modes, one interface. What a two-day hackathon build taught us about on-device diarization, CoreML and DirectML, read against a production on-device engine. At this year’s internal hackathon, our esteemed colleagues Georgios Hadjiharalambous and Stuart Wood set out to build Inkwell, a dictation app centered around high-accuracy and speaker-aware note-taking, powered by … Read more

I started writing this article at 3:47 AM on a Tuesday, not because I’m a masochist, but because I’ve been staring at a screen for six hours trying to remember how I used to think before the machines started thinking for me. I’m 45. I remember when “googling” something meant scanning ten blue links, synthesizing … Read more