HackerNoon Tech Stories: 2026/01/28

January 2026

28

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Archive: January 28th, 2026

Discovering the tech stories that shaped the day.

aimodels44@aimodels44

Rewarding the Rare: How Uniqueness-Aware RL Fixes Exploration Collapse

6 Min Read9 days Ago

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aimodels44@aimodels44

Teaching AI to Debug Might Beat Teaching It to Remember

6 Min Read9 days Ago

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Korovamode@korovamode

The Quiet Path to Mass Unemployment: “Snowballing Automation”

4 Min Read8 days Ago

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Daria Littlefield@darialittlefield

When Building a Dating Machine Optimized Everything Except Love

7 Min Read8 days Ago

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aimodels44@aimodels44

Alibaba’s ControlNet Upgrade: Z-Image-Turbo 2.0 Explained

3 Min Read8 days Ago

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Social Discovery Group@socialdiscoverygroup

I Just Wanted Code Templates, but I Ended Up Writing a WebStorm Plugin

10 Min Read8 days Ago

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aimodels44@aimodels44

What Human Hands Can Teach Robots About Learning New Tasks

5 Min Read8 days Ago

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Techbeat@techbeat

The TechBeat: HSM: The Original Tiering Engine Behind Mainframes, Cloud, and S3 (1/28/2026)

2 Min Read8 days Ago

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aimodels44@aimodels44

Why Today’s Video AI Models Fail Robots in the Real World

5 Min Read8 days Ago

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aimodels44@aimodels44

OpenVision 3 Challenges the Need for Separate Vision and Image Generation Models

4 Min Read8 days Ago

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aimodels44@aimodels44

Study Finds Simpler Training Improves Reasoning in Diffusion Language Models

4 Min Read8 days Ago

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Blockman PR and Marketing@blockman

Bitget Wallet Shifts Toward an Everyday Finance App

3 Min Read8 days Ago

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Dan Layfield@dlayf

Skipping App Store Fees Isn’t Always the Revenue Win It Seems

4 Min Read8 days Ago

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aimodels44@aimodels44

TalkNet-ASD: The “Who’s Talking?” Model for Any Video

2 Min Read8 days Ago

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HackerNoon Courses@hackernoon-courses

How to Grow Your Reach and Authority as a Writer

4 Min Read8 days Ago

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Noonification@noonification

The HackerNoon Newsletter: How to Grow Your Reach and Authority as a Writer (1/28/2026)

2 Min Read8 days Ago

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Obyte@obyte

Educational Byte: The Howey Test’s Role in Crypto and Securities Rules

4 Min Read8 days Ago

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Interoperability in Software Publication@interoperability

How Reinforcement Learning and Stable Diffusion Are Being Combined to Simulate Game Worlds

2 Min Read8 days Ago

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Saqib Khan@saqib25k

Getting Started with Agentic AI: Concepts, Terminology, and a Python Hello World

7 Min Read8 days Ago

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Interoperability in Software Publication@interoperability

Study Finds AI-Generated Game Simulations Nearly Indistinguishable From Real Play

5 Min Read8 days Ago

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Vinita Bansal@vinitabansal

Stop Proving and Start Improving: Here's How

12 Min Read8 days Ago

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Hyperbole@hyperbole

Generalizing Kuramoto Models: Collective Motion on Lie Groups and Spheres in Machine Learning

2 Min Read8 days Ago

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Hyperbole@hyperbole

Kuramoto Models as Gradient Flows: Langevin Dynamics and Hyperbolic Geometry

2 Min Read8 days Ago

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Nick Talwar@hacker68060072

The Agentic AI Maturity Gap: Combining Orchestration, Observability, and Auditability

6 Min Read8 days Ago

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Hyperbole@hyperbole

Consensus Algorithms on Manifolds: Stiefel, Siegel, and Kuramoto Dynamics

2 Min Read8 days Ago

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aimodels44@aimodels44

The Hidden Reason Smart Homes Keep Making Dumb Energy Decisions

10 Min Read8 days Ago

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Tokenwire@tokenwire

Bitcoin Hyper vs Pepeto (PEPETO): Which Is The Best Crypto Presale To Buy ?

4 Min Read8 days Ago

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Ishan Pandey@ishanpandey

Beyond the Rental Wallet: Human Tech’s ‘Wallet-as-a-Protocol’ Wants to Set Your Digital Assets Free

4 Min Read8 days Ago

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January 2026

28

Archive: January 28th, 2026

Rewarding the Rare: How Uniqueness-Aware RL Fixes Exploration Collapse

Teaching AI to Debug Might Beat Teaching It to Remember

The Quiet Path to Mass Unemployment: “Snowballing Automation”

When Building a Dating Machine Optimized Everything Except Love

Alibaba’s ControlNet Upgrade: Z-Image-Turbo 2.0 Explained

I Just Wanted Code Templates, but I Ended Up Writing a WebStorm Plugin

What Human Hands Can Teach Robots About Learning New Tasks

The TechBeat: HSM: The Original Tiering Engine Behind Mainframes, Cloud, and S3 (1/28/2026)

Why Today’s Video AI Models Fail Robots in the Real World

OpenVision 3 Challenges the Need for Separate Vision and Image Generation Models

Study Finds Simpler Training Improves Reasoning in Diffusion Language Models

Bitget Wallet Shifts Toward an Everyday Finance App

Skipping App Store Fees Isn’t Always the Revenue Win It Seems

TalkNet-ASD: The “Who’s Talking?” Model for Any Video

How to Grow Your Reach and Authority as a Writer

The HackerNoon Newsletter: How to Grow Your Reach and Authority as a Writer (1/28/2026)

Educational Byte: The Howey Test’s Role in Crypto and Securities Rules

How Reinforcement Learning and Stable Diffusion Are Being Combined to Simulate Game Worlds

Getting Started with Agentic AI: Concepts, Terminology, and a Python Hello World

Study Finds AI-Generated Game Simulations Nearly Indistinguishable From Real Play

Stop Proving and Start Improving: Here's How

Generalizing Kuramoto Models: Collective Motion on Lie Groups and Spheres in Machine Learning

Kuramoto Models as Gradient Flows: Langevin Dynamics and Hyperbolic Geometry

The Agentic AI Maturity Gap: Combining Orchestration, Observability, and Auditability

Consensus Algorithms on Manifolds: Stiefel, Siegel, and Kuramoto Dynamics

The Hidden Reason Smart Homes Keep Making Dumb Energy Decisions

Bitcoin Hyper vs Pepeto (PEPETO): Which Is The Best Crypto Presale To Buy ?

Beyond the Rental Wallet: Human Tech’s ‘Wallet-as-a-Protocol’ Wants to Set Your Digital Assets Free

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