2025-03-30
Keach Hagey Reports on the Backstory Behind Sam Altman’s Firing and Quick Rehiring at OpenAI in 2023
Interesting excerpt at the WSJ from Keach Hagey’s upcoming book The Optimist: Sam Altman, OpenAI, and the Race to Invent the Future. (Main link is a gift link, but also...
★ ‘The Studio’ Is Fantastic So Far
Perhaps Apple’s leadership simply believes, as I do, that cinema is the grandest and greatest form of art the world has ever seen — one that encompasses acting, writing, photography...
How to Make Custom Graphics Like an Award Winning Journalism Publication
To newsroom developers creating custom interactives for the first time, it can be hard knowing how and where to incorporate them into the CMS. Choose the wrong process or place,...
The 5-Second Data Delay That Nearly Broke Us (And How We Fixed It in Milliseconds)
Our financial dashboard suffered from 3-5 second delays, making real-time analytics ineffective. Initial batch-based processing failed, so we switched to DynamoDB Streams + AWS Lambda for instant updates. By optimizing...
16 Information Diet Lifehacks for Mighty Knowledge Metabolism
A lot of us get distracted by the overwhelming amount of information available at our fingertips at any given moment. To combat this, I've developed an information consumption regimen that...
Startup Reportedly Claimed Fake Clients as Its AI-Powered Sales Bot Flailed
You've probably heard that AI is going to revolutionize work. That's according to tech tycoons, corporate stenographers, and excited venture capitalists — the folks polluting the air we breathe in...
MacOS 15 Sequoia’s Annoying-as-Hell ‘Turn On Reactions’ Menu Bar Prompt
Matt Birchler: I really thought that the screen recording notifications in macOS Sequoia would be the bane of my existence, but thankfully those have been changed quite a bit from...
Woman Alarmed When Date Uses ChatGPT to Psychologically Profile Her
As if the dating world wasn't already nightmarish enough, artificial intelligence seems to be making it worse — or, at least, weirder. In an editorial for the Financial Times, reporter...
OpenAI's Sora Has a Small Problem With Being Hugely Racist and Sexist
It's been apparent since ChatGPT changed the digital landscape as we know it that generative AI models are plagued with biases. And as video generating AIs come further along, these...
Setting New Standards in Supply Chain Management Excellence by Vijayanand Balasubramaniam
Vijayanand Balasubramaniam architected a major supply chain transformation at JCI, integrating Order Cloud solutions to reduce stockouts, improve fulfillment, and streamline COGS and shipment processes. His leadership set new industry...
Generative AI in Agile: A Strategic Career Decision
TL;DR: A Harvard Study of Procter & Gamble Shows the Way Recent research shows AI isn’t just another tool—it’s a “cybernetic teammate” that enhances agile work. A Harvard Business School...
Hims Is Begging Customers to Lobby the FDA to Keep Its Ozempic Knockoffs Legal
Hims — the next gen telehealth startup that made waves by taking the eye contact out of erectile dysfunction treatment. Of course, that's not all Hims peddles in. The Uberized...
The HackerNoon Newsletter: Can AI Really Code? I Put DeepSeek to the Test (3/30/2025)
How are you, hacker? 🪐 What’s happening in tech today, March 30, 2025? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, Census Bureau Receives...
Transforming Insurance Data Management: Khushmeet Singh's Leadership in Cloud Data Warehousing
Khushmeet Singh led the successful implementation of a Snowflake-powered insurance data warehouse, integrating diverse sources, improving data accuracy, and optimizing ETL performance. His architecture enabled faster insights, real-time reporting, and...
Chewing Gum Is Flooding Your Mouth With Microplastics
Not to burst your perfectly blown bubble, but it turns out that chewing gum may be flooding your mouth with microplastics. As detailed in a pilot study which is awaiting...
Scalability in Microservices: Creating Systems That Can Scale Effortlessly
Break your Node.js monolith into microservices to scale better, using async communication, separate databases, and Kubernetes for auto-scaling. Add observability, retries, and circuit breakers to survive real-world failures and keep...
Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow
Key selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharing
Transforming Retail Technology: Geetha Yodham's Leadership in Digital Innovation
Geetha Yodham led a dual retail app project that saved $100M, cut errors by 80%, and sped up returns to under 15 seconds. Her leadership in DevOps, hardware-software integration, and...
Before Google
Head to https://squarespace.com/nostalgianerd to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain using code NOSTALGIANERD ~ Google, Google, Google. It's the place MOST of us go to...
Insecure Dudes Are Getting Beard Transplants
The ability to grow full facial hair is considered a key indicator of masculinity and virility. Those who can't grow their own now have transplant options available to them —...
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