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🪐 What’s happening in tech today, December 31, 2024?

The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, General Motors made $1 billion by selling 5 million vehicles in 1955, Edison's light bulb is first demonstrated in 1879, Tupolev Tu-144 Took First Flight in 1968, and we present you with these top quality stories. From Melting Glaciers Slash Shipping Times—But Come With a Hidden Cost to Samsung SSDs Have Become So Fast, They Make Competitors Look Like Floppy Disks, let’s dive right in.

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programming

Its Not You; A Big Chunk of Being a Quality Assurance IS Defect Localization

TL;DR Without proper localization, a defect can become a hot potato tossed between frontend, backend, and any development team.

By @sera24 [ 6 Min read ]

A big chunk of being a QA is defect localization.

Sure, test design techniques help us choose test scenarios and make things more efficient. But what exactly is defect localization, and how can we make it less painful?

I distinguish two main architectures: client-server and backend.

There are generally two types:..

machine-learning

Is OpenAI’s o3 Finally Thinking Like a Human?

TL;DR OpenAIs o3 model pushes AI boundaries with human-like reasoning, outperforming benchmarks in coding, math, and science. Is this the closest to AGI yet?

By @niteshpadghan [ 8 Min read ]

Imagine this: You ask your AI assistant a question, and instead of spitting out a half-baked answer in milliseconds, it pauses.

It thinks. It reasons.

And then, it delivers a response so well thought-out, it feels almost…human.

Sounds futuristic, right?

But what sets o3 apart?

What’s happening here?..

business

Melting Glaciers Slash Shipping Times—But Come With a Hidden Cost

TL;DR The reduction in sea ice cover with Arctic warming facilitates the transit of ships through routes that are remarkably shorter than traditional shipping routes.

By @oceanography [ 14 Min read ]

Authors:

(1) Jorge P. Rodrıguez, Instituto de Fiscia Interdisciplinar y Sistemas Complejos (IFISC), CSIC-UIB, 07122 Palma de Mallorca (Spain), CA UNED Illes Balears, 07009 Palma (Spain) and Instituto Mediterraneo de Estudios Avanzados (IMEDEA), CSIC-UIB, 07190 Esporles (Spain);

[1] UNCTAD, Review of Maritime Transport (United Nations Publication, 2021)...

tech-companies

The Most Consequential Technology Stories of 2024, According to HackerNoon Editors

TL;DR HackerNoon editors get together to discuss what they thought were the most important themes and news bites of 2024.

By @sheharyarkhan [ 8 Min read ]

This is the last edition of this year's "Tech, What the Heck!?" newsletter. Just like in 2023, all the editors at HackerNoon got together again to discuss what they thought were the most important themes and news bites of 2024. Here’s what we thought:..

programming

Samsung SSDs Have Become So Fast, They Make Competitors Look Like Floppy Disks

TL;DR I decided to practically test the speed of the latest technology in External SSD devices and compare it to previously available technologies.

By @markpelf [ 3 Min read ]

For such situations External USB memory/disk devices are irreplaceable. I like them because I can attach them to make a backup and later detach them and physically move them to a safe place, where they are definitely offline.

Here are the basic testing conditions:

Device info:

Device info:..

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