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Archive: May 12th, 2025

Discovering the tech stories that shaped the day.

Aditya Vilas Deshpande

Aditya Vilas Deshpande@adideshpande

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Navigate the PSP Labyrinth: Choosing the Right Payment Partner

Min Read10 months Ago

Caleb Simmons

Caleb Simmons@hcss11

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Decentralized Science is Powering Accelerated Innovation: Here’s How

Min Read10 months Ago

Alvin Lee

Alvin Lee@alvinslee

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Unstructured Data Is Trying to Tell You Something - Try Listening to It: The Human Side of Logs

Min Read10 months Ago

Maximiliano Contieri

Maximiliano Contieri@mcsee

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Code Smell 300 - Package Hallucination

Min Read10 months Ago

Chainwire

Chainwire@chainwire

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AB DAO And AB Charity Foundation To Build a Trustworthy Infrastructure For Global Philanthropy

Min Read10 months Ago

Chainwire

Chainwire@chainwire

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Sonic Labs Announces $10M Token Sale To Galaxy For U.S. Expansion

Min Read10 months Ago

Oleg Pustovit

Oleg Pustovit@nexo-tech

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Startups, Do You Really Want to Pay The Microservices Tax?

Min Read10 months Ago

SnoopGame

SnoopGame@snoopgame

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From Indie Studios to AAA Deadlines: How SnoopGame Scales Trust

Min Read10 months Ago

Seed Funding Announcements

Seed Funding Announcements @seedfunding

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Cyber Startup Pillar Security Raises $9M in Seed Funding to Defend AI with its Own Tech

Min Read10 months Ago

Shabnam Karbalaeihadi

Shabnam Karbalaeihadi@Shabhadi

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Win SEO in the Age of LLMs: Strategies for AI Visibility

Min Read10 months Ago

Volumize

Volumize@volumize

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How to Select the Right Features for Better Machine Learning Results

Min Read10 months Ago

Volumize

Volumize@volumize

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Can Less Data Make Better Predictions? This Study Says Yes

Min Read10 months Ago

Volumize

Volumize@volumize

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You Can Only Trust Your Data if You Know What to Ignore

Min Read10 months Ago

Andrian Budantsov

Andrian Budantsov@andrianbudanstov

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Test Smarter, Not Harder: How Purpose-Built Test Management Tools Outperform Spreadsheets

Min Read10 months Ago

Stephano

Stephano@terminal

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Android Users Can Now Simulate Phishing Attacks with PyPhisher on Termux—Here's How

Min Read10 months Ago

Noonification

Noonification@noonification

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The HackerNoon Newsletter: Good Programmers Always Be Refactoring (5/12/2025)

Min Read10 months Ago

Vigneshwaran Vijayakumar

Vigneshwaran Vijayakumar@vigneshwaran

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Understanding Svchost.exe: the Backbone of Windows 11 Processes

Min Read10 months Ago

Company of the Week

Company of the Week@companyoftheweek

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Meet Sora: HackerNoon Company of the Week

Min Read10 months Ago

Allan Grain

Allan Grain@allan-grain

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The Race for Quantum Superiority Is On

Min Read10 months Ago

Ishan Pandey

Ishan Pandey@ishanpandey

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How Enclave Markets is Building a Privacy-First, Fully Encrypted Crypto Exchange

Min Read10 months Ago

Phenomenology Technology

Phenomenology Technology@phenomenology

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Silicon Doesn’t Dream: Why Computers Lack Brains’ Biochemical Magic

Min Read10 months Ago

Phenomenology Technology

Phenomenology Technology@phenomenology

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Are We Building Brain-Inspired or Just Brain-Imitating AI? The Great ANN Debate

Min Read10 months Ago

Phenomenology Technology

Phenomenology Technology@phenomenology

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Mind Over Model: Why AI May Never Capture the Soul of Consciousness

Min Read10 months Ago

Phenomenology Technology

Phenomenology Technology@phenomenology

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Can AI Dream? Rethinking Consciousness Through the Lens of Evolution

Min Read10 months Ago

Gaurav Mishra

Gaurav Mishra@gmmishra

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Advancing Your Software Engineering Career in 2025

Min Read10 months Ago

Large Models (dot tech)

Large Models (dot tech)@largemodels

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How Tokenizer Choices Shape Hidden Risks in Popular Language Models

Min Reada year Ago

Large Models (dot tech)

Large Models (dot tech)@largemodels

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Where Glitch Tokens Hide: Common Patterns in LLM Tokenizer Vocabularies

Min Reada year Ago

Large Models (dot tech)

Large Models (dot tech)@largemodels

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How Many Glitch Tokens Hide in Popular LLMs? Revelations from Large-Scale Testing

Min Reada year Ago

Large Models (dot tech)

Large Models (dot tech)@largemodels

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Comprehensive Detection of Untrained Tokens in Language Model Tokenizers

Min Reada year Ago

Aleph Cloud

Aleph Cloud@alephcloud

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How Aleph Cloud Helped HyperSwap Mitigate a DDoS Attack and Save Millions in Cryptocurrencies

Min Reada year Ago

CodeByBlazej

CodeByBlazej@codebyblazej

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The Odin Project’s Chess Game Took Me Weeks to Finish—And I’d Still Do It Again

Min Reada year Ago

Baptiste Fernandez

Baptiste Fernandez@bap

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Windsurf Shakes Up AI Coding Tool Market With Generous Free Tier and GPT-4.1 Access

Min Reada year Ago

Chenuli J.

Chenuli J.@buzzpy

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DIY Chatbots Like It’s 2021: A Python Throwback Tutorial

Min Reada year Ago

Pawan Jaiswal

Pawan Jaiswal@pawanjswal

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The Top 5 Cybersecurity Podcasts to Look Out for In 2025

Min Reada year Ago

Pawan Jaiswal

Pawan Jaiswal@pawanjswal

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Microsoft Is Making a Push For Passwordless

Min Reada year Ago

Pawan Jaiswal

Pawan Jaiswal@pawanjswal

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WhatsApp Encrypts Your Messages—But What About the Backups?

Min Reada year Ago

Pawan Jaiswal

Pawan Jaiswal@pawanjswal

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A Good Understanding of Open Redirect Vulnerability Can Help You Stay Safe Online

Min Reada year Ago

Julien Doussot

Julien Doussot@buzzbyjool

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AI Has Become My Co-Founder

Min Reada year Ago

Eric Walter

Eric Walter@ericwalter

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Building Reusable Components in React: Best Practices and Patterns

Min Reada year Ago

Rutkat

Rutkat@rutkat

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Your Quickstart Guide to Building Apps With React Expo

Min Reada year Ago

Alexander Simonov

Alexander Simonov@alexandersimonov

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AI Might Soon Watch Your Login Attempts the Blade Runner Way

Min Reada year Ago

Neha Boloor

Neha Boloor@neha_boloor

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Wavefront Frontier Algorithm Enables Autonomous Mapping in Unknown Environments

Min Reada year Ago

Oluwatobiloba Owolabi

Oluwatobiloba Owolabi@oluwatobilobaowolabi24

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Ethereum’s Pectra Upgrade Goes Live: Could This Be Ethereum’s Breakout Moment?

Min Reada year Ago

@hacker-n5w9bon

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Meet Brandenburg Labs, Winner of Startups of The Year 2024 in Thuringia, Germany

Min Reada year Ago

Albert Lie

Albert Lie@albertlieyeongdok

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The AI Industry's Obsession With Transformers Might Finally Be Waning

Min Reada year Ago

Shilpi Bhattacharyya

Shilpi Bhattacharyya@shbhattachar

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I Built an Agentic AI That Takes the Struggle Out of Cooking

Min Reada year Ago

Fayam Ayekame

Fayam Ayekame@zohan

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Sitcom One-liners That Have Become A Staple In Real Life Dialogue

Min Reada year Ago

Andrew Prosikhin

Andrew Prosikhin@andrewproton

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Help, My Prompt is Not Working!

Min Reada year Ago

Sanjay Mood

Sanjay Mood@moodsanjay

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Agile Is Getting Noisy: Are AI Tools Speeding Us Up or Just Creating More Work?

Min Reada year Ago

Muhammad Usman

Muhammad Usman@muhammdusman

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The In‑Depth, Crystal‑Clear Roadmap to Learning System Design End‑to‑End (HLD & LLD)

Min Reada year Ago

Alex Holloway

Alex Holloway@alexholloway

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GPT Is Changing the Way We Use Excel — Forever

Min Reada year Ago

Saaniya Chugh

Saaniya Chugh@saaniyachugh

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IT Service Management Is No Longer the "Boring Plumbing" of Tech Organizations

Min Reada year Ago

Saaniya Chugh

Saaniya Chugh@saaniyachugh

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AI Triage Failure: When Moving Fast Becomes a Risk

Min Reada year Ago

Indie designer - Harish Pillai

Indie designer - Harish Pillai@id

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Blockchain Emerges as Key Tool in Safeguarding IP Rights Amid Rapid AI Advances

Min Reada year Ago

This Week in JavaScript

This Week in JavaScript@thisweekinjavascript

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Visual Studio Code 1.100: AI Gets Personal!

Min Reada year Ago

LJ@badmonster0

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ETL Built for AI, With AI

Min Reada year Ago

This Week in AI Engineering

This Week in AI Engineering@thisweekinaieng

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Google's Gemini 2.5 Pro Claims the #1 Spot for Web Development

Min Reada year Ago

Serge Baloyan

Serge Baloyan@sergey-baloyan

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TOKEN2049: What I've Learned from The Biggest Crypto Conference

Min Reada year Ago

William Guo

William Guo@williamguo

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Build Scalable Data Pipelines With Apache SeaTunnel × Cloudberry Integration

Min Reada year Ago

Edwin Liava'a

Edwin Liava'a@edwinliavaa

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Tonga's New Cyber Laws Modernize Digital Policy but Lack Provisions for Emerging Technologies

Min Reada year Ago

Devin Partida

Devin Partida@devinpartida

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Understanding Your Community’s Needs Through a Tech Lens

Min Reada year Ago

Blockchainize Any Technology

Blockchainize Any Technology@blockchainize

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Studying Blockchain Systems with the help of Agent-based Modeling and Simulation

Min Reada year Ago

@hacker1223933

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Turning Ideas into IPOs: How the PVP Framework Multiplies Business Growth

Min Reada year Ago