HackerNoon Tech Stories: 2025/12/17

December 2025

57

Stories Published

Archive: December 17th, 2025

Discovering the tech stories that shaped the day.

Vinita Bansal@vinitabansal

Different Ways to Deal With a Toxic Top Performer: A Boss's Guide to Improving Work Culture

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Lomit Patel@lomitpatel

Social Commerce: The New Growth Engine for Brands

4 Min Reada month Ago

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Ishan Pandey@ishanpandey

SMARDEX Becomes Everything: The Single-Contract Protocol That Could Reshape DeFi Architecture

6 Min Reada month Ago

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Hunter Thomas@hunterthomas

SpaceX Goes Public: The Hidden Question Every Tesla Investor Should Ask

4 Min Reada month Ago

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Rejin Jose K@rejinjosek

A Complete Guide to GenAI Native Architecture and Reliable System Design

8 Min Reada month Ago

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Damian Griggs@damianwgriggs

The Quantum Gavel: Engineering Incorruptible Justice as a Blind Architect

3 Min Reada month Ago

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Konstantin Nikolaev@konstantinnikolaev

Zero-Touch EDI: Automating Retail’s Digital Pulse for Next-Gen E-Commerce

6 Min Reada month Ago

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Manish@mjhere

Parallel Thinking & Sequential Answering: AI Breakthrough That Can Change The Way We Work With LLMs

5 Min Reada month Ago

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Yuliia Harkusha@yuliiaharkusha

The Hidden Cost of AI: Why It’s Making Workers Smarter, but Organisations Dumber

8 Min Reada month Ago

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Siddhesh Surve@siddheshsurve

The Goldfish Era is Over: How Google’s ‘Titans’ Gave AI Infinite Memory

5 Min Reada month Ago

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Bobby K@bobbywkittleberger

My 5 Favorite Lightweight TXT File Tools

2 Min Reada month Ago

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Konstantin Zamotaev@qanstantin

Ethical QA Engineer: A New Profession for the Era of Autonomous AI

9 Min Reada month Ago

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Atish Kumar Dash@atishkdash

From SaaS to AI Agents: Are We Entering a New Software Era?

4 Min Reada month Ago

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Siddhesh Surve@siddheshsurve

Google Just Killed LeetCode: Why AlphaEvolve is the End of the "Algorithm Interview"

5 Min Reada month Ago

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Roderick RH@rod-is-reelhuman

Why I Built Witness and How it Works Under the Hood

17 Min Reada month Ago

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noon_AT@cm0g4qf5i0000357s7xsi7icm

Stop the Generative AI Arms Race Before It Stops Us

4 Min Reada month Ago

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Damian Griggs@damianwgriggs

Quantum Oracles Have a Fatal Timing Problem — So I Built a “Parking Brake” for Qubits

3 Min Reada month Ago

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Alex Cloudstar@alexcloudstar

No Mouse 30: A Quiet Experiment in Keyboard-First Work

3 Min Reada month Ago

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Alex Cloudstar@alexcloudstar

How Astro Made My Portfolio 82% Faster to Build

5 Min Reada month Ago

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Nick Talwar@hacker68060072

Ranked on Google, Invisible to AI

3 Min Reada month Ago

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Paolo Perrone@paoloap

The Realistic Guide to Mastering AI Agents in 2026

12 Min Reada month Ago

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superorange0707@superorange0707

Prompting for Safety: How to Stop Your LLM From Leaking Sensitive Data

9 Min Reada month Ago

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Norm Bond@normbond

The Interpretation Gap: Why Capability Is Outpacing Trust, and Valuation Is Paying the Price

4 Min Reada month Ago

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tyingshoelaces.com@tyingshoelaces

The "Stochastic Parrot" Narrative Is Dead. Physics Killed It.

4 Min Reada month Ago

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superorange0707@superorange0707

Stop Parsing Nightmares: Prompting LLMs to Return Clean, Parseable JSON

14 Min Reada month Ago

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Lab42AI@lab42ai

Production Environment: Where AI Agent Demos Go To Die

12 Min Reada month Ago

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Suhasan Dillibatcha@suhasanpm

AEO (Answer Engine Optimization): The New Entry Point of the eCommerce Buying Funnel

5 Min Reada month Ago

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Nica Furs@nicafurs

The Battle for the Borders: How AI and Cyber Intelligence Are Reshaping Statecraft

5 Min Reada month Ago

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Alex Troitsky@alextroitskyai

Stop Guessing AI Metrics: Regression Explained with MSE, RMSE, MAE, R² & MAPE

3 Min Reada month Ago

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Rie | DriftLens team!@riedriftlens

The Curse of Rumination—and How We Unknowingly Reinforce It

5 Min Reada month Ago

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Jon Stojan Journalist@jonstojanjournalist

NE2NE’s PDFFlex Eliminates Data Paralysis by Automating PDF Extraction

4 Min Reada month Ago

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Siddhesh Surve@siddheshsurve

RIP Chatbots: Why Claude’s New 'Tasks' Mode is the Agent We’ve Been Waiting For

4 Min Reada month Ago

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Techbeat@techbeat

The TechBeat: Code Review Anti-Patterns: How to Stop Nitpicking Syntax and Start Improving Architecture (12/17/2025)

2 Min Reada month Ago

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Ishan Pandey@ishanpandey

How SCOR Plans to Rescue Thousands of Dormant Sports NFTs from Digital Graveyards

5 Min Reada month Ago

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Code Review@codereview

What We Know (and Don’t) About Modern Code Reviews

9 Min Reada month Ago

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Code Review@codereview

A Decade of Modern Code Review Research Shows Gaps in Industry Priorities

11 Min Reada month Ago

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Dippu Kumar Singh@dippusingh

How to Build Real-World Drone Avatars with WebRTC and Python

5 Min Reada month Ago

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Code Review@codereview

Study Finds Most Code Review Research Lacks Real-World Validation

39 Min Reada month Ago

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Dippu Kumar Singh@dippusingh

How to Fix 3 Common AWS Serverless Performance Killers (Lambda, S3, SQS)

6 Min Reada month Ago

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Instancing@instancing

MaGGIe: Achieving Temporal Consistency in Video Instance Matting

4 Min Reada month Ago

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Code Review@codereview

Inside a Practitioner Survey on Modern Code Review Priorities

11 Min Reada month Ago

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Dippu Kumar Singh@dippusingh

Turning Your Data Swamp into Gold: A Developer’s Guide to NLP on Legacy Logs

5 Min Reada month Ago

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Instancing@instancing

Evolution of Matting: From Traditional Sampling to MaGGIe's Instance Approach

2 Min Reada month Ago

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Instancing@instancing

MaGGIe Architecture: Efficient Mask-Guided Instance Matting

1 Min Reada month Ago

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Instancing@instancing

MaGGIe's Coarse Alpha Matte Prediction: Temporal Feature Aggregation

1 Min Reada month Ago

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Instancing@instancing

Data Strategy for MaGGIe: Bridging the Gap in Matting Resources

1 Min Reada month Ago

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Noonification@noonification

The HackerNoon Newsletter: Stop the Generative AI Arms Race Before It Stops Us (12/17/2025)

2 Min Reada month Ago

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Ishan Pandey@ishanpandey

How Altitude Finance Turned Bitcoin Into a $26 Million Lending Infrastructure

6 Min Reada month Ago

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Hack Marketing with HackerNoon for Businesses@hackmarketing

7 Marketing Shifts Redefining Tech Companies in 2026

4 Min Reada month Ago

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3 Tech Polls@3techpolls

Which Company Will Define The Next Decade of Technology?

3 Min Reada month Ago

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EScholar: Electronic Academic Papers for Scholars@escholar

A Replication Study on Software Testing Perception vs Effectiveness

6 Min Reada month Ago

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EScholar: Electronic Academic Papers for Scholars@escholar

Why the Testing Method Developers Prefer Is Rarely Ever the One That Finds the Most Bugs

15 Min Reada month Ago

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EVOENZYME@evoenzyme

Meet EvoEnzyme

6 Min Reada month Ago

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Sanya Kapoor@sanya_kapoor

Manoj Srivastava: Architecting Strategic Transformation Across Industries

4 Min Reada month Ago

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Sanya Kapoor@sanya_kapoor

Revolutionizing NIH-Funded Research: Dilip Mehendra Sharma's Cloud Platform Research Transformation

5 Min Reada month Ago

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Sanya Kapoor@sanya_kapoor

Architecting the Future of Financial Planning: Karan Shah's Pioneering Cutting-Edge SAP EPM Systems

4 Min Reada month Ago

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Hui@huizhudev

Why I Fired Myself From Writing Unit Tests (And Hired an AI QA Lead)

5 Min Reada month Ago

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December 2025

57

Archive: December 17th, 2025

Different Ways to Deal With a Toxic Top Performer: A Boss's Guide to Improving Work Culture

Social Commerce: The New Growth Engine for Brands

SMARDEX Becomes Everything: The Single-Contract Protocol That Could Reshape DeFi Architecture

SpaceX Goes Public: The Hidden Question Every Tesla Investor Should Ask

A Complete Guide to GenAI Native Architecture and Reliable System Design

The Quantum Gavel: Engineering Incorruptible Justice as a Blind Architect

Zero-Touch EDI: Automating Retail’s Digital Pulse for Next-Gen E-Commerce

Parallel Thinking & Sequential Answering: AI Breakthrough That Can Change The Way We Work With LLMs

The Hidden Cost of AI: Why It’s Making Workers Smarter, but Organisations Dumber

The Goldfish Era is Over: How Google’s ‘Titans’ Gave AI Infinite Memory

My 5 Favorite Lightweight TXT File Tools

Ethical QA Engineer: A New Profession for the Era of Autonomous AI

From SaaS to AI Agents: Are We Entering a New Software Era?

Google Just Killed LeetCode: Why AlphaEvolve is the End of the "Algorithm Interview"

Why I Built Witness and How it Works Under the Hood

Stop the Generative AI Arms Race Before It Stops Us

Quantum Oracles Have a Fatal Timing Problem — So I Built a “Parking Brake” for Qubits

No Mouse 30: A Quiet Experiment in Keyboard-First Work

How Astro Made My Portfolio 82% Faster to Build

Ranked on Google, Invisible to AI

The Realistic Guide to Mastering AI Agents in 2026

Prompting for Safety: How to Stop Your LLM From Leaking Sensitive Data

The Interpretation Gap: Why Capability Is Outpacing Trust, and Valuation Is Paying the Price

The "Stochastic Parrot" Narrative Is Dead. Physics Killed It.

Stop Parsing Nightmares: Prompting LLMs to Return Clean, Parseable JSON

Production Environment: Where AI Agent Demos Go To Die

AEO (Answer Engine Optimization): The New Entry Point of the eCommerce Buying Funnel

The Battle for the Borders: How AI and Cyber Intelligence Are Reshaping Statecraft

Stop Guessing AI Metrics: Regression Explained with MSE, RMSE, MAE, R² & MAPE

The Curse of Rumination—and How We Unknowingly Reinforce It

NE2NE’s PDFFlex Eliminates Data Paralysis by Automating PDF Extraction

RIP Chatbots: Why Claude’s New 'Tasks' Mode is the Agent We’ve Been Waiting For

The TechBeat: Code Review Anti-Patterns: How to Stop Nitpicking Syntax and Start Improving Architecture (12/17/2025)

How SCOR Plans to Rescue Thousands of Dormant Sports NFTs from Digital Graveyards

What We Know (and Don’t) About Modern Code Reviews

A Decade of Modern Code Review Research Shows Gaps in Industry Priorities

How to Build Real-World Drone Avatars with WebRTC and Python

Study Finds Most Code Review Research Lacks Real-World Validation

How to Fix 3 Common AWS Serverless Performance Killers (Lambda, S3, SQS)

MaGGIe: Achieving Temporal Consistency in Video Instance Matting

Inside a Practitioner Survey on Modern Code Review Priorities

Turning Your Data Swamp into Gold: A Developer’s Guide to NLP on Legacy Logs

Evolution of Matting: From Traditional Sampling to MaGGIe's Instance Approach

MaGGIe Architecture: Efficient Mask-Guided Instance Matting

MaGGIe's Coarse Alpha Matte Prediction: Temporal Feature Aggregation

Data Strategy for MaGGIe: Bridging the Gap in Matting Resources

The HackerNoon Newsletter: Stop the Generative AI Arms Race Before It Stops Us (12/17/2025)

How Altitude Finance Turned Bitcoin Into a $26 Million Lending Infrastructure

7 Marketing Shifts Redefining Tech Companies in 2026

Which Company Will Define The Next Decade of Technology?

A Replication Study on Software Testing Perception vs Effectiveness

Why the Testing Method Developers Prefer Is Rarely Ever the One That Finds the Most Bugs

Meet EvoEnzyme

Manoj Srivastava: Architecting Strategic Transformation Across Industries

Revolutionizing NIH-Funded Research: Dilip Mehendra Sharma's Cloud Platform Research Transformation

Architecting the Future of Financial Planning: Karan Shah's Pioneering Cutting-Edge SAP EPM Systems

Why I Fired Myself From Writing Unit Tests (And Hired an AI QA Lead)

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