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The TechBeat: Announcing the COBOL Streamhouse (4/10/2025)
How are you, hacker? 🪐Want to know what's trending right now?: The Techbeat by HackerNoon has got you covered with fresh content from our trending stories of the day! Set...
So Are Vapes Making a Comeback Under the Trump Administration?
The direction of federal vapor product regulation in the U.S. hangs in the balance. Vaping's Emergence Coincides with Record Low Smoking Rates. The modern e-cigarette was not a creation of...
Edge AI Agents Are Apparently a Thing Now
Edge AI agents—autonomous systems operating directly on endpoint devices—are fundamentally reshaping how we deploy intelligence.
QR Code Payment Methods: How Businesses Can Simplify Transactions and Cut Costs with Open Banking
QR code payments have emerged as one of the most versatile and accessible methods for both businesses and consumers. Open banking-powered QR codes are redefining what seamless, secure, and cost-efficient...
Ever Wanted to Run a Data Engine on Kubernetes? SeaTunnel Just Made It Weirdly Simple
A how-to guide for deploying SeaTunnel in a clustered mode on Kubernetes, enabling distributed data processing with the Zeta engine as the compute backend.
This One Data Company Abandoned DataX, Upgraded to SeaTunnel, and Turbocharged Its Workflows
Li Hongjun, the R&D manager at JoyaData Communications, on why Apache SeaTunnel was chosen.
Google A2A - a First Look at Another Agent-agent Protocol
Google A2A - a first look at another agent-agent protocol and compared to Anthropic’s MCP. Well, they are very similar.
fMRI-to-Image Reconstruction: The Results
The study was conducted using fMRI-to-Image Reconstruction. The results were published in the journal Human Experiments. The study was published on November 13, 2013.
From Brain Embeddings to Refined Images: The MindEye2 Inference Pipeline
Refinement using base SDXL subjectively improves the quality of image outputs without strongly affecting low or high-level image metrics.
Image Captioning and Fine-tuning Stable Diffusion XL for unCLIP
The study was conducted using fMRI-to-Image Reconstruction. The results were published in the journal Human Experiments. The study was published on November 13, 2013.
Backbone, Diffusion Prior, & Submodules Explained
The study was conducted using fMRI-to-Image Reconstruction. The results were published in the journal Human Experiments. The study was published on November 13, 2013.
How $20 Million Vanished From Layer 2 - and Why No One Saw It Coming
Layer 2 networks like Arbitrum, Optimism, and Blast exploded in popularity for their low fees and lightning-fast transactions. Overlooked behavior in Layer 2 logic was enough to lose $20 million....
AI: Will You See or Be Made to See?
The internet was dismissed as a speculative bubble at the turn of the millennium. But from the wreckage of that bubble, the likes of Amazon, Google, and PayPal reshaped the...
The Blacklight Privacy Inspector Is Gaining Three New Features
The Product and Technology team at The Markup has been busy with what we’ve lovingly called “Blacklight Summer,” and we’ve made some major updates to Blacklight, our popular real-time website...
Gcore Super Transit Brings Advanced DDoS Protection And Acceleration For Enterprise Security & Speed
Gcore has launched Super Transit, a cutting-edge DDoS protection and acceleration feature. Organizations face a 56% year-on-year increase in high-volume, complex DDoS attacks. Super Transit is delivered as part of...
The Remembering Self and the Experiencing Self: A Paradox to Happiness Hackers
In the TED Talk below,**Dr. Daniel Kahneman,**Inventor of Behavioral Economics, explains how our happiness is determined and sometimes distorted by what he describes as our*two**selves*. ***The way a story ends*** ...
Dear Managers, Stop Promoting Toxic Productivity - Here's How
Productivity can easily be exploited at work. Managers may ask their team to stay late, work on weekends, and prioritize work over personal commitments and other priorities in life. A...
Inside VALR: Badi Sudhakaran Reveals Secrets to Crypto Exchange Success
Explore how Badi Sudhakaran built VALR into Africa’s top crypto exchange, with insights on product strategy, cybersecurity, and the future of Web3.
Bootstrapping Surge: Why 57% More Founders Are Self-Funding in 2025
Pilot's survey of 1,844 founders found that a quarter of founders are self-funding. The median founder salary has plummeted 43%, from $132,000 in 2024 to just $75,000. The rise in...
Governments Wanted to Kill Bitcoin. Now They Want to Hoard It.
The U.S. is sitting on $17 billion worth of confiscated Bitcoin. Trump’s calling it "Digital Fort Knox"