The HackerNoon Newsletter: Building for the World That Doesn’t Blink (6/25/2025)

How are you, hacker? 🪐 What’s happening in tech today, June 25, 2025? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, Microsoft Was Incorporated in 1981, The Barbed Wire Was Patented in 1867, Microsoft Released Windows 98 in 1998, and we present you with these top quality stories. From … Read more

The Struggle to Measure Gender Bias in Remote Programming Environments

Table of Links Abstract and 1 Introduction 1.1 The twincode platform 1.2 Pilot Studies 1.3 Other Gender Identities and 1.4 Structure of the Paper 2 Related Work 3 Original Study (Seville Dec, 2021) and 3.1 Participants 3.2 Experiment Execution 3.3 Factors (Independent Variables) 3.4 Response Variables (Dependent Variables) 3.5 Confounding Variables 3.6 Data Analysis 4 … Read more

Contextualizing SUTRA: Advancements in Multilingual & Efficient LLMs

Table of Links Abstract and 1 Introduction 2 Related Work 3 SUTRA Approach 3.1 What is SUTRA? 3.2 Architecture 3.3 Training Data 4 Training Multilingual Tokenizers 5 Multilingual MMLU 5.1 Massive Multitask Language Understanding 5.2 Extending MMLU to Multiple Languages and 5.3 Consistent Performance across Languages 5.4 Comparing with leading models for Multilingual Performance 6 … Read more

Remedy is in control

Control. In the quiet city of Espoo, a short drive west from Helsinki in Finland, is an unassuming building that’s home to one of the most confounding studios in games. Remedy Entertainment is known for getting weird. It started with the meta horror of Alan Wake, and has since expanded with Control, a game that … Read more

SUTRA: Decoupling Concept & Language for Multilingual LLM Excellence

Table of Links Abstract and 1 Introduction 2 Related Work 3 SUTRA Approach 3.1 What is SUTRA? 3.2 Architecture 3.3 Training Data 4 Training Multilingual Tokenizers 5 Multilingual MMLU 5.1 Massive Multitask Language Understanding 5.2 Extending MMLU to Multiple Languages and 5.3 Consistent Performance across Languages 5.4 Comparing with leading models for Multilingual Performance 6 … Read more

Animoca Brands’ Flagship Project Moca Network to Debut L1 for Digital Identity

Moca Network, the identity ecosystem of Web3 investment giant Animoca Brands, is planning to introduce a layer-1 blockchain that will allow Web3 projects to identify and verify users without needing to rely on centralized platforms. Moca Chain will enable user data to be verified by applications across any blockchain, similar to the way single sign-in … Read more

Using OpenTelemetry to Diagnose a Critical Memory Leak

I. The Silent Killer in Production In the complex tapestry of modern distributed systems, a subtle yet insidious threat often lurks beneath the surface: the memory leak. Unlike immediate errors that crash an application or trigger glaring alerts, memory leaks are often silent killers. They manifest gradually, insidiously consuming more and more system memory, leading … Read more

ATOM Surges 3.6% Amid Strong Volume Swings at Key Support Levels

The ATOM token experienced notable volatility from June 24 15:00 to June 25 14:00, establishing key resistance at $4.14 and finding support around $3.99, with substantial trading volumes suggesting strong market interest at these price points. This price action comes as major institutional players like Nano Labs begin diversifying beyond Bitcoin, potentially unlocking fresh liquidity … Read more

NEAR Protocol Plunges 4% Before Staging Recovery Amid Market Volatility

The cryptocurrency market turned green over the past 24 hours from 24 June 15:00 to 25 June 14:00, with the global market cap increasing by 2.2% to $3.37 trillion. NEAR Protocol showed resilience during this period despite experiencing sharp price swings, establishing support at $2.14-$2.16 with high-volume buying emerging at critical points. In a significant … Read more

HackerNoon and the Sia Foundation Partner to Decentralize Tech Publishing

Great news, hackers and hacktivists! HackerNoon is thrilled to partner with the Sia Foundation, a nonprofit focused on cryptography-powered, decentralized cloud infrastructure, to back up its entire publishing archive. HackerNoon has already stored over 100,000+ existing articles on the Sia network, the world’s safest cloud storage, by design. An additional 2,000+ new articles are expected … Read more

The Next Frontier in Finance: Tokenized Access to Private Markets

The world’s most valuable startups aren’t traded on public markets. They’re tucked away in private portfolios — locked behind high capital requirements, long lockups and limited access to deal flow. Historically, private markets have belonged to the elite few: endowments, family offices and a small club of well-connected institutional players. Today’s private markets remain largely … Read more

What’s Next for Real-World Asset Tokenization

Real-world asset (RWA) tokenization has passed its proof-of-concept phase. With over $20 billion in tokenized assets and institutional momentum from top-tier asset issuers such as Apollo, BlackRock, Hamilton Lane, KKR and VanEck, among others, on-chain finance is no longer hypothetical. But the road ahead — powered by rapid infrastructure improvements and shifting market conditions — … Read more

The Reality of Building Trust in Mobile AI Markets

Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction 1.1 Background 1.2 Motivation 1.3 Our Work and Contributions and 1.4 Organization Related Work 2.1 Mobile AIGC and Its QoE Modeling 2.2 Blockchain for Mobile Networks Preliminaries Prosecutor Design 4.1 Architecture Overview 4.2 Reputation Roll-up 4.3 Duplex Transfer Channel OS2a: Objective Service Assessment for Mobile AIGC 5.1 Inspiration … Read more