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## The Hidden Cost of AI: Why It’s Making Workers Smarter, but Organisations Dumber
By @yuliiaharkusha [ 8 Min read ]
AI boosts individual performance but weakens organisational thinking. Why smarter workers and faster tools can leave companies less intelligent than before. Read More.
Should You Trust Your VPN Location? 
By @ipinfo [ 9 Min read ]
IPinfo reveals how most VPNs misrepresent locations and why real IP geolocation requires active measurement, not claims. Read More.
Best Amazon Scraper APIs for 2025: Top Picks Compared 
By @oxylabs [ 9 Min read ]
Compare the best Amazon Scraper APIs for 2025, analyzing speed, pricing, reliability, and features for scalable eCommerce data extraction. Read More.
How to Build an n8n Automation to Read Kibana Logs and Analyze Them With an LLM 
By @indrivetech [ 6 Min read ]
How we built an n8n automation that reads Kibana logs, analyzes them with an LLM, and returns human-readable incident summaries in Slack Read More.
Secury Wallet Unveils Next-Generation Multichain Crypto Wallet With Chat to Pay, Opens $SEC Presale 
By @btcwire [ 2 Min read ]
The project has opened the $SEC token presale, including early staking opportunities offering up to 100% APY during the presale phase. Chat to Pay is an instant Read More.
Tech’s Attempt To Conquer Hollywood 
By @3techpolls [ 5 Min read ]
AI has been a major force in seemingly every career field. Now, it seems to have set its eyes somewhere else: Hollywood. Read More.
2 Billion Requests, 100ms Deadlines, $10k a Month: Engineering a Lean Global RTB System 
By @shashanksingla [ 8 Min read ]
Inside a lean RTB system processing 350M daily requests with sub-100ms latency, built by a 3-person team on a $10k cloud budget. Read More.
Coding Rust With Claude Code and Codex 
By @tigranbs [ 10 Min read ]
How Rust’s strict compiler transforms AI coding tools into reliable pair programmers and why the language is uniquely positioned for the age of agentic coding Read More.
The Architecture of Collaboration: A Practical Framework for Human-AI Interaction 
By @theakashjindal [ 7 Min read ]
AI focus shifts from automation to augmentation (“Collaborative Intelligence”), pairing AI speed with human judgment to boost productivity. Read More.
Java’s Growing Graveyard: The Old APIs Being Buried—and What Replaced Them 
By @akiradoko [ 9 Min read ]
The Java “tomb” is filling up. Here’s what’s being buried—and what you should use instead. Read More.
Adapting to AI: Insights from a Project Manager in Game Development 
By @tolstykhzhe [ 9 Min read ]
I became a project manager in a game company in 2021 and witnessed how production processes evolved in parallel with the rapid emergence of new AI tools. Read More.
How DataHaven’s Camp Haven XP System Plans to Build a Decentralized Storage Network 
By @ishanpandey [ 5 Min read ]
DataHaven has launched Camp Haven, an activation campaign that doubles as a large-scale stress test for its AI-focused decentralized storage platform. Read More.
Hiring Didn’t Fail – Evidence Did. 
By [@Dandilion Civilization](https://hackernoon.com/u/Dandilion Civilization) [ 5 Min read ]
I didn’t break hiring. It broke the evidence. Why CVs and training signals no longer predict capability, and what HR should use instead in 2026 Read More.
AI – Should we Be Afraid? 3 Years 
By @djcampbell [ 6 Min read ]
Is AI good or bad? We must decide. Read More.
Web3 jobs in 2025: why the market is not coming back, but growing up 
By @benoitk14 [ 3 Min read ]
Web3 jobs in 2025 are growing again, but the market has matured. Less hype, more regulation, senior talent, and new community-driven hiring models. Read More.
The Infinite Loop of “Fixing the Build”: How to Escape CI/CD Purgatory 
By @huizhudev [ 5 Min read ]
A guide to transforming CI/CD pipeline creation from a manual chore into an automated, architectural process using a specialized AI system prompt. Read More.
How Anonymous Instagram Stories Viewing Changed My Social Media Strategy 
By @sanya_kapoor [ 6 Min read ]
Anonymous Instagram Story viewing enables private research, reduces social pressure, and reshapes how we engage with public content. Read More.
Small Language Models Beat GPT-4 for Our Use Case: 94% Cost Reduction 
By @dineshelumalai [ 5 Min read ]
Small language models outperformed GPT-4 for our use case. Learn how we achieved 94% cost reduction, faster response times, and higher customer satisfaction wit Read More.
Meet ScyllaDB: HackerNoon Company of the Week 
By @companyoftheweek [ 4 Min read ]
Meet ScyllaDB, the high-performance NoSQL database delivering predictable millisecond latencies for Discord and hundreds more. Read More.
Can ChatGPT Outperform the Market? Week 21 
By @nathanbsmith729 [ 6 Min read ]
I did not create a post for 21, so this is for continuity. Sorry! Read More.
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