The Full-Stack Artist: How L.S. Toy Turns Economics, Law, and Surveillance into Creative Code

L.S. Toy is a London-based conceptual artist who merges economics, legality, currency systems, and conflict architecture into procedural artworks. With a dual background in Economics (LSE) and Fine Art (RCA), he builds projects that function like financial instruments, legal artifacts, or system-level documents. Operating outside traditional galleries—often in warehouses—Toy challenges how value, legitimacy, and power … Read more

The TechBeat: How a Demo Page for my Abandoned Open Source SDK Accidentally Found Product Market Fit (12/15/2025)

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. ## Exploiting EIP-7702 Delegation in the Ethernaut Cashback Challenge — A Step-by-Step Writeup By @hacker39947670 [ 18 Min read ] How to … Read more

iRobot files for bankruptcy

After 35 years, the maker of the Roomba robot vacuum filed for bankruptcy protection late Sunday night. Following warnings issued earlier this year that it was fast running out of options, iRobot says it is entering Chapter 11 protection and will be acquired by its contract manufacturer, the Chinese-based Picea Robotics. The company says it … Read more

Experiment Log: Validating Echo-Stabilized Recursive Routing on IBM Heron

This report documents the successful deployment of a quantum memory architecture that combines dynamical decoupling (Hahn Echo) with mid-circuit qubit recycling. The experiment was executed on the IBM ibm_torino processor. The data confirms that a qubit state can be actively stabilized against dephasing while the surrounding circuit resources are reset and reused in real-time. The … Read more

How to Accidentally Build a Programming Language While Cleaning Redis

Every programming language starts with a grand vision. Or at least, that’s what I told myself. Well mine started with Redis. More specifically, it started with a message that sounded so harmless I didn’t even bother writing notes: We need to clean Redis programmatically. No compiler theory. No syntax design. No intention of creating anything … Read more

PBIX Is Not Going Away – But PowerBI Will Never Work the Same Again

For years, the “.pbix” file was PowerBI. n Not because it was perfect, but because it made everything feel simple. One file contained everything: the report layout, semantic model, measures, metadata and visual definitions, all packaged into a single binary artifact. It was portable and approachable. It also quietly limited how PowerBI could scale inside … Read more

The Future of Weather Radar on Your Phone: 2026 Trends from a Radar-Obsessed Founder

For decades, consumer weather apps have been mostly UI wrappers around the same radar feeds, the same numerical models, and the same “will it rain in the next hour?” promise. But the underlying radar and computation landscape is changing faster than most people realize. If you work in mobile, mapping, forecasting, ML infrastructure, or edge … Read more

The 3-Word Advice I Got From Paul Graham

On recognizing when a small idea stops being a niche and starts becoming social infrastructure Paul Graham doesn’t need much introduction in the startup world. As the co-founder of Y Combinator, he helped shape companies like Airbnb, Stripe, Dropbox and mentored founders who would later define an entire generation, including Sam Altman. More than an … Read more

OpenAI GPT-5.2: The “Cheating” Controversy

Recently OpenAI released GPT-5.2 which has superior benchmark results. However, some online chatters reveal that OpenAI might have used more tokens and compute for the benchmark test, and might be considered “cheating” the tests. If everything is equal, is GPT-5.2 actually on par with Gemini 3 Pro? Here we try to find out. The “Cheating” … Read more

Shopify in 2026: 5 eCommerce Trends That Will Decide Which Merchants Win

How AI commerce, social shopping, personalization, immersive experiences, and mobile checkout are reshaping Shopify stores Shopify didn’t just survive the last wave of eCommerce disruption — it became the operating system behind it. As we head into 2026, the question isn’t whether Shopify will power the next generation of online retail. It already does. The … Read more