HackerNoon Tech Stories: 2026/02/04

February 2026

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Archive: February 4th, 2026

Discovering the tech stories that shaped the day.

tt@ttassos

AI Power Isn’t Just About “Better Models.” It’s About Who Controls the Systems They Run On

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aimodels44@aimodels44

This Llama Model Knows When to Think: Inside Llama3.3-8B Instruct + “Reasoning Mode”

2 Min Read3 days Ago

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aimodels44@aimodels44

This 40B “Loop” Coder Model Tries Twice So Your Code Doesn’t Have To

2 Min Read3 days Ago

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Professional Imposter Syndrome@amalik18

CAP Theorem Explained, Part 1: The Problem With “Pick Two”

7 Min Read3 days Ago

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Vik Bogdanov@viceasytiger

Beyond the Perimeter: Securing AI for the Quantum Era

9 Min Read3 days Ago

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Bruce Li@zbruceli

Cell Service Is Escaping Earth

16 Min Read3 days Ago

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Lab42AI@lab42ai

Openclaw: The Viral Phenomenon

8 Min Read3 days Ago

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Nitesh Padghan@niteshpadghan

AI Spawned a Religion in 48 Hours. The Real Story Is Way Darker.

10 Min Read3 days Ago

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Saumya Tyagi@saumyatyagi

Why Most Database Migrations Fail Silently: 5 Hidden Failure Modes in Zero-Downtime Replatforming

16 Min Read3 days Ago

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Matt Trifiro@mtrifiro

Mastering COSS: Why You Should Monetize Complexity, Not Core Value

7 Min Read3 days Ago

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marina_webdev@marinawebdev

Designing a Multi-Seller Platform With Stripe Connect Express

10 Min Read3 days Ago

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Aleksei Rozhkov@alexisrozhkov

Why Everyone is Panic-Buying Mac Minis for OpenClaw / Moltbot / Clawdbot?

5 Min Read3 days Ago

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Praveen Kumar Myakala@praveenmyakala

OpenClaw: An AI Lobster That Gets Work Done

6 Min Read3 days Ago

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Anusha Kovi@anushakovi

“Bring Your Own Agent” Meets “Bring Your Own Data”: ADBC-First Notebooks as a Governed Data UX

5 Min Read3 days Ago

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SENTRA@sentra-bureau

Lending Markets for Stablecoins

5 Min Read3 days Ago

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Piyush Jajoo@pjajoo

mTLS Explained: Mutual Authentication for Cloud Microservices

23 Min Read3 days Ago

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Nikhil Adithyan@nikhiladithyan

Build a Tool-Backed Market Brief Copilot (Not a Chat Demo)

21 Min Read3 days Ago

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aimodels44@aimodels44

Qwen’s 0.6B CustomVoice TTS: Multilingual, Fast, and Surprisingly Expressive

2 Min Read3 days Ago

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aimodels44@aimodels44

AI Assistants Can Quietly Kill Skill Growth

8 Min Read3 days Ago

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Joachim Zeelmaekers@joachimz

The Best Engineering Teams Share These Four Traits

4 Min Read3 days Ago

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decoder man@decoderman

Transaction Decoding on Ethereum (EVM Blockchains) vs Solana: A Technical Perspective

3 Min Read3 days Ago

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aimodels44@aimodels44

Turn Any Image Into a Video: fal-ai’s vidu/q3 Guide

2 Min Read3 days Ago

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Kaustuv Ghosh@nxtgencode

The Technology Management Manifesto

5 Min Read3 days Ago

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Joe bou khalil @Joeboukhalil

Building a Live HTML Page Generator Using Pure JavaScript

2 Min Read3 days Ago

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William Guo@williamguo

Run a Flink Kafka Job from DolphinScheduler (Standalone VM Setup)

13 Min Read3 days Ago

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Vaishnavi Gudur@vgudur

LLMjacking is a Costly New Threat to Self-Hosted AI Infrastructure

9 Min Read3 days Ago

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Techbeat@techbeat

The TechBeat: Your AI Model Isn’t Broken. Your Data Is (2/4/2026)

2 Min Read3 days Ago

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Jon Stojan Journalist@jonstojanjournalist

Ghulam Murtaza: From Rural Pakistan To Amazon Automation

5 Min Read3 days Ago

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Jon Stojan Journalist@jonstojanjournalist

The Next Generation of Cybersecurity Protection for Healthcare

3 Min Read3 days Ago

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Astounding Stories@astoundingstories

How Light Broke the Human Mind

7 Min Read3 days Ago

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Professional Imposter Syndrome@amalik18

CP Systems Explained, Part 2: Quorums, Consensus, and the Price of Being Right

15 Min Read3 days Ago

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DataOps.live@dataops

AI Belongs Inside DataOps, Not Just at the End of the Pipeline

3 Min Read3 days Ago

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The Itan Quill@itanquill

The Web3 UX Problem AI Agents Are Accidentally Solving

5 Min Read3 days Ago

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BTCWire@btcwire

Mutuum Finance Crosses Major Funding Threshold as MUTM Hits 3x With Over $20.2M Raised

3 Min Read3 days Ago

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Hyperbole@hyperbole

Hyperbolic Space Statistical Models: Geometric Deep Learning & Inference

2 Min Read3 days Ago

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HackerNoon Courses@hackernoon-courses

How to Become a Pro at Researching and Reaching Out for Interviews

4 Min Read3 days Ago

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Noonification@noonification

The HackerNoon Newsletter: Cell Service Is Escaping Earth (2/4/2026)

2 Min Read3 days Ago

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CyberNewswire@cybernewswire

One Identity Appoints Gihan Munasinghe as Chief Technology Officer

2 Min Read3 days Ago

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Hyperbole@hyperbole

Probabilistic ML on Grassmannians and Orthogonal Groups: Langevin and Bingham Matrix Models

2 Min Read3 days Ago

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Hyperbole@hyperbole

Swarms on Manifolds for Deep Learning: Training Kuramoto Models and Trajectory Learning

2 Min Read3 days Ago

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Hyperbole@hyperbole

Supervised Learning for Swarms on Manifolds: Training Kuramoto Networks and Stochastic Optimization

3 Min Read3 days Ago

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Economic Hedging Technology@hedging

A New Cyber-Insurance Model Uses Game Theory to Protect Smart Power Grids

5 Min Read3 days Ago

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Hyperbole@hyperbole

Reinforcement Learning on Non-Euclidean Spaces: Swarms, Spheres, and Hyperbolic RL

2 Min Read3 days Ago

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Economic Hedging Technology@hedging

Modeling Cyberattacks on Power Grids to Price Risk in Mutual Insurance Systems

8 Min Read3 days Ago

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Economic Hedging Technology@hedging

Balancing Risk and Fairness in Power Grid Cyber-Insurance Design

5 Min Read2 days Ago

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Christopher Louis Tsu@louistsu

The $30 Trillion Economy That Doesn't Need Humans

5 Min Read2 days Ago

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Dizzaract@dizzaract

FAR Labs Launches Distributed Compute Network for AI Inference

2 Min Read2 days Ago

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Jurgis@jurgispocius

How I Built an AI VC Associate to Screen 3,000 Pitch Decks

13 Min Read2 days Ago

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CyberNewswire@cybernewswire

MomentProof Deploys Patented Digital Asset Protection

2 Min Read2 days Ago

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Economic Hedging Technology@hedging

Cyber Insurance Models Show Reliability Gains for Power Grids Under Epidemic-Style Attacks

11 Min Read2 days Ago

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M-Marvin Ken@maken8

Elon Musk is Going to Build AI-Powered Rockets

3 Min Read2 days Ago

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Dmytro Spilka@dmytrospilka

How Big Data is Transforming Wealth as 28 Million UK Adults Use AI to Support Financial Decisions

3 Min Read2 days Ago

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Vladislav Guzey@proflead

OpenClaw for Beginners: Install, Configure, and Secure Your Bot

4 Min Read2 days Ago

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February 2026

53

Archive: February 4th, 2026

AI Power Isn’t Just About “Better Models.” It’s About Who Controls the Systems They Run On

This Llama Model Knows When to Think: Inside Llama3.3-8B Instruct + “Reasoning Mode”

This 40B “Loop” Coder Model Tries Twice So Your Code Doesn’t Have To

CAP Theorem Explained, Part 1: The Problem With “Pick Two”

Beyond the Perimeter: Securing AI for the Quantum Era

Cell Service Is Escaping Earth

Openclaw: The Viral Phenomenon

AI Spawned a Religion in 48 Hours. The Real Story Is Way Darker.

Why Most Database Migrations Fail Silently: 5 Hidden Failure Modes in Zero-Downtime Replatforming

Mastering COSS: Why You Should Monetize Complexity, Not Core Value

Designing a Multi-Seller Platform With Stripe Connect Express

Why Everyone is Panic-Buying Mac Minis for OpenClaw / Moltbot / Clawdbot?

OpenClaw: An AI Lobster That Gets Work Done

“Bring Your Own Agent” Meets “Bring Your Own Data”: ADBC-First Notebooks as a Governed Data UX

Lending Markets for Stablecoins

mTLS Explained: Mutual Authentication for Cloud Microservices

Build a Tool-Backed Market Brief Copilot (Not a Chat Demo)

Qwen’s 0.6B CustomVoice TTS: Multilingual, Fast, and Surprisingly Expressive

AI Assistants Can Quietly Kill Skill Growth

The Best Engineering Teams Share These Four Traits

Transaction Decoding on Ethereum (EVM Blockchains) vs Solana: A Technical Perspective

Turn Any Image Into a Video: fal-ai’s vidu/q3 Guide

The Technology Management Manifesto

Building a Live HTML Page Generator Using Pure JavaScript

Run a Flink Kafka Job from DolphinScheduler (Standalone VM Setup)

LLMjacking is a Costly New Threat to Self-Hosted AI Infrastructure

The TechBeat: Your AI Model Isn’t Broken. Your Data Is (2/4/2026)

Ghulam Murtaza: From Rural Pakistan To Amazon Automation

The Next Generation of Cybersecurity Protection for Healthcare

How Light Broke the Human Mind

CP Systems Explained, Part 2: Quorums, Consensus, and the Price of Being Right

AI Belongs Inside DataOps, Not Just at the End of the Pipeline

The Web3 UX Problem AI Agents Are Accidentally Solving

Mutuum Finance Crosses Major Funding Threshold as MUTM Hits 3x With Over $20.2M Raised

Hyperbolic Space Statistical Models: Geometric Deep Learning & Inference

How to Become a Pro at Researching and Reaching Out for Interviews

The HackerNoon Newsletter: Cell Service Is Escaping Earth (2/4/2026)

One Identity Appoints Gihan Munasinghe as Chief Technology Officer

Probabilistic ML on Grassmannians and Orthogonal Groups: Langevin and Bingham Matrix Models

Swarms on Manifolds for Deep Learning: Training Kuramoto Models and Trajectory Learning

Supervised Learning for Swarms on Manifolds: Training Kuramoto Networks and Stochastic Optimization

A New Cyber-Insurance Model Uses Game Theory to Protect Smart Power Grids

Reinforcement Learning on Non-Euclidean Spaces: Swarms, Spheres, and Hyperbolic RL

Modeling Cyberattacks on Power Grids to Price Risk in Mutual Insurance Systems

Balancing Risk and Fairness in Power Grid Cyber-Insurance Design

The $30 Trillion Economy That Doesn't Need Humans

FAR Labs Launches Distributed Compute Network for AI Inference

How I Built an AI VC Associate to Screen 3,000 Pitch Decks

MomentProof Deploys Patented Digital Asset Protection

Cyber Insurance Models Show Reliability Gains for Power Grids Under Epidemic-Style Attacks

Elon Musk is Going to Build AI-Powered Rockets

How Big Data is Transforming Wealth as 28 Million UK Adults Use AI to Support Financial Decisions

OpenClaw for Beginners: Install, Configure, and Secure Your Bot

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