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Archive: March 18th, 2026

Discovering the tech stories that shaped the day.

Marcin "HCK" Firmuga

Marcin "HCK" Firmuga@huckler

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PC Workman 1.6.8 - 80 Downloads, 800 Hours, and Why I'm Building for Microsoft Store

Min Read7 days Ago

David Iyanuoluwa Jonathan

David Iyanuoluwa Jonathan@davidiyanu

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Zero Trust Can't Save a Flawed Architecture

Min Read7 days Ago

Damian Griggs

Damian Griggs@damianwgriggs

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RocketBox: Explaining How It Can Push 10Gbps Through a Tiny Cluster

Min Read7 days Ago

Adam Optimizer

Adam Optimizer@adamoptimizer

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Teaching Machines to Remember Means Choosing What They Forget

Min Read7 days Ago

Maxi Contieri

Maxi Contieri@mcsee

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AI Coding Tip 011 - How to Initialize Agents.md

Min Read7 days Ago

Adam Optimizer

Adam Optimizer@adamoptimizer

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This Is How Your Model Forgets What It Just Learned

Min Read7 days Ago

SwapHunt

SwapHunt@swaphunt

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False Breakouts Aren't Failures — They're the Feature

Min Read7 days Ago

Adam Optimizer

Adam Optimizer@adamoptimizer

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Measuring Catastrophic Forgetting in AI

Min Read7 days Ago

Adam Optimizer

Adam Optimizer@adamoptimizer

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Study Finds Optimizer Choice Significantly Impacts Model Retention

Min Read7 days Ago

Nargiz Noimann

Nargiz Noimann@nargiznoimann

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The Patient Digital Twin Has No Inner Life and That Is a Design Failure

Min Read7 days Ago

Nikolay Dolgov

Nikolay Dolgov@nikodolgow

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API Contract Drift - An Unsolved CI Problem

Min Read7 days Ago

Chainwire

Chainwire@chainwire

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Aster Expands WLFI Collaboration, Launches USD1-Denominated Perpetual Markets

Min Read7 days Ago

Sukesh Singuru

Sukesh Singuru@sukeshsinguru

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Building Secure and Performant Web Applications Using Azure AD and .NET Core Identity on macOS

Min Read7 days Ago

Blockman PR and Marketing

Blockman PR and Marketing@blockman

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Aster Chain Launch: Deﬁning a New Era For Onchain Privacy and Transparency

Min Read8 days Ago

Noonification

Noonification@noonification

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The HackerNoon Newsletter: How to Deploy Your Own 24/7 AI Agent with OpenClaw (3/18/2026)

Min Read8 days Ago

Blockman PR and Marketing

Blockman PR and Marketing@blockman

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Ocean Network Launches Beta For Affordable P2P GPU Orchestration

Min Read8 days Ago

Sidhesh Badrinarayan

Sidhesh Badrinarayan@sidhesh

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The Courtroom is a State Machine: Architecting Agentic Memory for Litigators

Min Read8 days Ago

SwapHunt

SwapHunt@swaphunt

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Bitcoin Moves First Because It's the Capital Gateway, Not Because It's King

Min Read8 days Ago

CyberNewswire

CyberNewswire@cybernewswire

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Orchid Security Recognized by Gartner® As a Representative Vendor of Guardian Agents

Min Read8 days Ago

Pavel M

Pavel M@pavelman

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Cursor Your Dream, Part 1: How to Move From Product Idea to First Prompt

Min Read8 days Ago

kavitha

kavitha@kavitha

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Hybrid Observability Unifies Metrics, Logs, Traces, and Data Into a Single Pane of Glass

Min Read8 days Ago

Sarat M

Sarat M@saratmaha

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How to Organize Unit Tests for AI-Generated Code

Min Read8 days Ago

Pavel Andreev

Pavel Andreev@unspected13

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A Practical Guide to SwiftUI Gestures, From Tap to Composed Interactions

Min Read8 days Ago

Vipra SMITH

Vipra SMITH@terrible-kid

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How to Train a Semi-Supervised Classifier With Pseudo-Labeling and CNN Embeddings

Min Read8 days Ago

Jon Stojan Journalist

Jon Stojan Journalist@jonstojanjournalist

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Adrian Grenier Steps Back Into Acting With ‘Self Custody,’ A Crypto Thriller Now Streaming On Prime

Min Read8 days Ago

M-Media

M-Media@mexcmedia

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MEXC Tops New Listings and Secures #2 with 8.2% Global Spot Market Share

Min Read8 days Ago

Astounding Stories

Astounding Stories@astoundingstories

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The Call of the Wild Comes Alive

Min Read8 days Ago

HackerNoon Press Releases

HackerNoon Press Releases@pressreleases

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RemotiveLabs and Vayavya Labs move ADAS validation into the full vehicle E/E architecture

Min Read8 days Ago

Nabila Hashim

Nabila Hashim@nabilahaahim14

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Beyond the Prompt: Leveraging Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Semantic Tone-Matching in Grants

Min Read8 days Ago

Leon Acosta

Leon Acosta@leonacosta

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Social Graph as Infrastructure: The Anthropological Case for Distributed Storage

Min Read8 days Ago

Pratyusha Singaraju

Pratyusha Singaraju@pratyushasingaraju

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Data-Driven Architecture: Patterns for Production

Min Read8 days Ago

Anusha Kovi

Anusha Kovi@anushakovi

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I Built a RAG System for Our Analytics Team. It Worked Great Until We Added Real Data.

Min Read8 days Ago

Caleb Adekunle

Caleb Adekunle@calebadekunle

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Designing a DAO Treasury Architecture for Transparent Community Funding

Min Read8 days Ago

Zwayla Converse

Zwayla Converse@zwaylien

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Invisible Intellect: The Emotional Burden of Being Ahead of Your World

Min Read8 days Ago

Nate Howard

Nate Howard@tli-naate

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The Protocol Built to Keep AI Honest on Live Infrastructure

Min Read8 days Ago

Ademola Balogun

Ademola Balogun@ambalogun

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MealRoaster Earns a 41 Proof of Usefulness Score by Building an AI-Powered Nutrition Assistant on WhatsApp

Min Read8 days Ago

Mariia Russkova

Mariia Russkova@marusskova

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Creative Performance Engineering: A Strategic Framework for AI-Driven Marketing in 2026

Min Read8 days Ago

Alexander Kalankhodzhaev

Alexander Kalankhodzhaev@kalaninja

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What TPS Really Measures in Blockchains — and When It Misleads

Min Read8 days Ago

Aaditya Chauhan

Aaditya Chauhan@aadityachauhan

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From Exact kNN to DiskANN: The Evolution of High-Performance Vector Search

Min Read8 days Ago

Ruban Phukan

Ruban Phukan@rubanphukan

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Chat Is Not a Software Development Process

Min Read8 days Ago

Vishwak

Vishwak@vishwak

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Building Composable Safety and Performance Layers for Agents in Rust

Min Read8 days Ago

Andrey Volkov

Andrey Volkov@netvolkonline

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Is Your Inbox a Digital Junkyard or a Career Goldmine?

Min Read8 days Ago

David Shusterman

David Shusterman@davidshusterman

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The Vibe Coding Revolution Is Coming for WordPress — And It's About Time

Min Read8 days Ago

Techbeat

Techbeat@techbeat

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The TechBeat: Create a Website Without Code: How Fabricate Turns Conversations Into Full-Stack Apps (3/18/2026)

Min Read8 days Ago

PvNP

PvNP@maverick

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Building a Web-Based Traveling Salesman Solver That Earned a 21 Proof of Usefulness Score

Min Read8 days Ago

Jonathan D. Fisher

Jonathan D. Fisher@jonathanfisher

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Build a StockX SEO Tracker With Python

Min Read8 days Ago

Gaurav Saxena

Gaurav Saxena @gauravsaxena

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Building resilient data streaming platform at enterprise scale

Min Read8 days Ago

Mark Effect

Mark Effect@markeffect

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I Was Tired of SSH — So I Built an AI Agent That Lets Me Check My Terminal From My Phone

Min Read8 days Ago

Yogurt Chiang

Yogurt Chiang@yogurt67

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An Image Engineer's Notes, Part 4: In-depth Analysis of ISP Tech

Min Read8 days Ago

Magnus Rødseth

Magnus Rødseth@magnusrodseth

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I Built a SaaS Starter to Scratch My Own Itch. Here's What I Learned.

Min Read8 days Ago

Zakhar Azatian

Zakhar Azatian@zakharbehard

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The Engineering Approach to B2C Growth: How I Grew My Bootstrap Startup to 1M Users

Min Read8 days Ago

Jackson Warner

Jackson Warner@jacksonwarner

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Building AI That Thinks With Memory

Min Read8 days Ago

Anusha Kovi

Anusha Kovi@anushakovi

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I Defined the Same Business Metric in 4 Semantic Layers. 3 of Them Disagreed.

Min Read8 days Ago

Ekky Armandi

Ekky Armandi@ekkyarmandi

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The Accidental Programmer

Min Read8 days Ago

Anup Katuwal

Anup Katuwal@anupkatwalgorkhali

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The Techie's Survival Kit: News Alerts, Secure Code, and Clear Headspace

Min Read8 days Ago

Shubham Raghav

Shubham Raghav@shubhamraghav

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I Built 7 AI Agents That Run Marketing Operations. Here's the Entire Architecture.

Min Read8 days Ago

Mikhail Fedorov

Mikhail Fedorov@teopa

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A Philosophical Concept That Allows Creating a Soul for Artificial Intelligence

Min Read8 days Ago

Chinedu Otutu

Chinedu Otutu@tutumantutu

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From Three-Tier EC2 to Serverless on AWS: What Actually Changed (Costs, Complexity, and Constraints)

Min Read8 days Ago

Mat Banik

Mat Banik@matbanik

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'I Use ChatGPT' Is Not an AI Skill: Here's What You Should Be Asking Instead

Min Read8 days Ago

Rizan Bhandari

Rizan Bhandari@rizanb

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A Terminal Setup to Increase Developer Productivity: A Quick Walkthrough

Min Read8 days Ago

Incomplete Developer

Incomplete Developer@incompletedeveloper

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GitHub Copilot Did a Code Review on the Code It Helped Me Write: Here's What Happened

Min Read8 days Ago

Sasha Apartsin

Sasha Apartsin@sashaapartsin

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Use This Free, Open-Source Library For Easy Integration With External AI APIs: ModelMesh

Min Read8 days Ago

Scottchronicity

Scottchronicity@scottchronicity

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MCP: Explaining the Shape of Small World Models

Min Read8 days Ago

Daniel Romitelli

Daniel Romitelli@romiteld

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How I Stopped Alert Storms in an Ops Dashboard

Min Read8 days Ago

aimodels44

aimodels44@aimodels44

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This AI Learns Images Without Human Labels

Min Read8 days Ago