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The HackerNoon Newsletter: How To Get a First Name Domain for Less Than $101 (12/14/2025)
How are you, hacker? đȘ Whatâs happening in tech today, December 14, 2025? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, US Navy and MIT Developed Whirlwind in 1952, Planck Presented Black-Body Radiation Law Derivation in 1900, DNA is Created in a Test Tube in 1967, Wilkinson Patented the … Read more
Solana (SOL) Consolidates While This $0.035 Altcoin Rushes Through 96% Phase 6 Allocation
Solana is once again locked in a consolidation pattern, moving sideways as traders wait for a clear signal. While SOL slows, one early stage altcoin priced at $0.035 is racing ahead as Phase 6 allocation pushes past 96%. This sharp contrast in momentum has many investors shifting their attention toward Mutuum Finance (MUTM) as they … Read more
AI Upends the eCommerce Funnel as PDP Becomes the New Starting Point
AI-assisted shopping is becoming a new normal for eCommerce funnels, making the product detail page (PDP) the new starting point for buyers. For businesses and PMs, this new system could be highly relevant in optimizing every funnel stage and driving better conversion.
Inside the high drama of the iPhone 4
By 2010, the iPhone era was in full swing. Smartphones were still a new and unfinished idea – the iPhone had only just gotten copy and paste! – but it was clear that these big slabs of glass were going to change the way we did pretty much everything. Apple was also already on an … Read more
All the Ways Teachers Are Using AI In Their Classrooms
The Markup, now a part of CalMatters, uses investigative reporting, data analysis, and software engineering to challenge technology to serve the public good. Sign up for Klaxon, a newsletter that delivers our stories and tools directly to your inbox. AI seems to be everywhere these daysâand more and more, that includes the classroom. Teachers are … Read more
The end of OpenAI, and other 2026 predictions
Here’s a thought: what if the next-generation Siri is awesome? Not just awesome for setting timers and dictating text messages (though that would be nice), but so awesome and fun to talk to that people actually start falling in love with their iPhones. We may not be prepared for what happens next. On this episode … Read more
Iâm finally beginning to trust Microsoftâs handheld Xbox
An Xbox Ally in front of an Xbox Ally X. I still wouldn’t buy an Xbox Ally, and I still don’t think the tweaked version of Windows that shipped with it is ready for primetime. The Xbox Full Screen Experience (FSE) needs work. But two months after I panned the cheaper $600 white Xbox Ally … Read more
Vacuum Is a Lie: About Your Indexes
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A new old idea about video stores
Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 109, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome, hope you’re staying warm, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I’ve been reading about Google Maps and shopaganda and life as a pop … Read more
AI image generators are getting better by getting worse
Real ones will know that Mount Rainier looks too big in this image, but the re-creation of a Washington State ferry in this AI image is uncanny.ï»ż This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on smartphones and digital imagery – real or otherwise – … Read more
Baumol’s Cost Disease
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Surface Tension of Software
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Bye, Mom
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Compiler Engineering in Practice
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The TechBeat: Linux Foundation Launches Agentic AI Group to Set Standards for Autonomous Systems (12/14/2025)
How are you, hacker? đȘWant 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. ## The Architecture of Collaboration: A Practical Framework for Human-AI Interaction By @theakashjindal [ 7 Min read ] AI focus shifts from … Read more
âYou should never build a CMSâ
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Indiaâs Spinny lines up $160M funding to acquire GoMechanic, sources say
Spinny is set to be valued at about $1.8 billion post-money in its latest funding round.