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HackerNoon Projects of the Week: PLOT, Insurmatics ESG Lite, and Scheme-langserver
Welcome to HackerNoon’s Projects of the Week, where we spotlight standout projects from the Proof of Usefulness Hackathon, HackerNoon’s competition designed to measure what actually matters: real utility over hype. Each week, we’ll highlight projects that demonstrate clear usefulness, technical execution, and real-world impact – backed by data, not buzzwords. Three more projects cleared the bar … Read more
The NTS Radio Player brings the best of internet radio to your hi-fi
Have I found my Chromecast Audio replacement? | Image: NTS Radio NTS Radio and Swedish audio company Atonemo have teamed up on a dedicated player that brings NTS’s genre-defying mixes and streaming stations to almost any stereo or speaker setup. And, like Atonemo’s existing Streamplayer, you can also listen to your favorite streaming services with … Read more
The film about Sam Altman has been dropped by Amazon MGM
Luca Guadagnino’s film about OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Artificial, has reportedly been dropped by Amazon MGM. The film, which stars Andrew Garfield and covers the rollercoaster five days in 2023 spanning Altman’s termination and reinstatement as CEO, had been in the works for about a year. The cast also includes A Complete Unknown actress Monica … Read more
Our long national sunscreen nightmare is almost over
You need a quarter teaspoon for your face alone, a half teaspoon if you include the neck (which you should!) This is Optimizer, a weekly newsletter sent from Verge senior reviewer Victoria Song that dissects and discusses the latest gizmos and potions that swear they’re going to change your life. Opt in for Optimizer here. … Read more
T1 Phone PR firm is ‘not assisting Trump Mobile any further’
Where’s the Trump phone? We’re going to keep talking about it every week. We don’t have the phones we preordered yet, but this week we received unexpected news from Trump Mobile’s media relations manager. If you’ve been following my reporting on the Trump phone, you’ll know that Trump Mobile doesn’t exactly keep open lines of … Read more
The CEO of Allbirds’ new AI biz has a plan, but no employees
Call it a startup with a sole founder and a very large seed round, but what’s next is less clear.
Leave a Trace
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In season 2 of Sugar, Colin Farrell’s quirky detective becomes much more human
When Colin Farrell was doing press for the first season of the detective series Sugar, he had to be very careful with how he spoke. Sugar is a story about a quirky private detective, but it’s also secretly a work of science fiction, something that doesn’t become clear until halfway through the season. “I knew … Read more
Kaleidescape’s movie player blows streaming, and your wallet, away
The Strato E player (here with a Mini Terra Prime server on top of it) is smaller than a Blu-ray disc collection, but you can get a lot of 4K discs for $3,000. We’ve lost something in the past 15 years. Netflix, Amazon, Disney, Apple; they’ve all convinced us that streaming is the best way … Read more
My Mathematical Regression
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The room the economy can’t see
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Plotnine
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The US says ASML’s top chip tool may be in China. ASML says it isn’t
There’s a commercial logic that cuts against the idea that ASML would risk its export license to arm a Chinese customer.
What Healthcare Engineers Know About Building Reliable Systems That Web Engineers Don’t
This is going to sound combative. It isn’t meant to be. Web engineers, broadly, are excellent at the work they do. The systems they build operate at scales and with feature velocities that healthcare engineers, broadly, don’t approach. The web engineering tradition has produced some of the most impressive software infrastructure in computing history. The … Read more
Agentic AI: The Next Cybersecurity Challenge
The Big Shift: From Chatbots to “Doers” For the past few years, we have been using Generative AI systems like ChatGPT that are great at talking but mostly wait for us to tell them what to do. Now, we are moving into the era of Agentic AI. Unlike a simple chatbot, an AI Agent is … Read more
Using Agents to Fix Our Agents
I lead product on a browser agent that fills out job applications for candidates. Where previously the best option for candidates was a browser extension, job boards can now use LLM-driven browser automation to enable candidates with better UI/UX. Our product traverses enterprise applicant tracking systems (e.g., Workday, iCIMS, Oracle, Ashby) and submits tens of … Read more
Sharing Data Across Languages Without Serialization
Learn why zero-copy cross-language data sharing is difficult, from memory layout mismatches to ABI violations and ownership disputes.
Your Redshift Cluster Is Probably Idle 85% of the Time — And You’re Paying for All of It
A production Redshift cluster with a single node running Zero ETL integrations. At 99% disk capacity with recurring storage crises requiring frequent manual intervention. When I ran a workload analysis on this cluster, the result was stark. It was actively processing queries for only 15% of the day. The remaining 85% was idle billing at … Read more
Barret Zoph is out at OpenAI again after just five months
Five months after returning to OpenAI, Barret Zoph – the company’s head of enterprise AI sales – has departed, The Verge has learned. Zoph returned to OpenAI in mid-January after a stint as co-founder and CTO of Thinking Machines Lab, the competing AI company founded by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati. Shortly after Zoph returned … Read more
Telegram ban in India sparks a rush to VPNs, rival apps
Telegram argues India should block specific content, not an entire platform used by millions.
Source: Elastic agrees to buy CRV-backed DeductiveAI for up to $85M
DeductiveAI, a startup that uses AI to catch and resolve bugs in software, was founded just three years ago.
The AirPods Effect
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Zero-Touch OAuth for MCP
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AI inference startup Baseten reportedly raising $1.5B months after its last mega-round
Startup Baseten is reportedly close to finalizing a $1.5 billion round at a $13 billion as the “inference gold rush” marches on.