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🪐 What’s happening in tech today, August 26, 2024?

The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, Miss Manners Addressed Computer Correspondence in 1984, First German to go into Space in 1978, and we present you with these top quality stories. From Direct Preference Optimization: Your Language Model is Secretly a Reward Model to Here’s How we Made a Real-time Phishing Website Detector for MacOS, let’s dive right in.

The Market Today

#01

Instagram (Meta)

$528.00 -1.69%

#02

Microsoft

$416.79 -0.05%

#03

Amazon IVS (Amazon)

$177.04 -0.17%

#05

ThoughtWorks

$4.36 +0.46%

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NVIDIA

$129.37 +2.71%

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Bitcoin

$63382.78 -1.27%

tech-companies

Meet AELF: HackerNoon Company of the Week

TL;DR This week, HackerNoon features aelf - a cutting-edge Blockchain platform, leveraging AI to help simplify and streamline Web3 for developers.

By @companyoftheweek [ 2 Min read ]

Welcome back to another HackerNoon Company of the Week! If you’re not already in the loop, each week, the team at HN showcases a new company from our tech company database or from our awesome business blogging partners.

That’s all we have for you today, folks!..

web3

5 Signs to Recognize a Legitimate DeFi Crypto Project

TL;DR Decentralized Finance platforms are controlled by communities of developers and users. To avoid losing our funds to them, we need to look for the right signs.

By @obyte [ 7 Min read ]

In a previous piece, we talked about the signs you should be looking for in legitimate centralized services around cryptocurrencies. Now, we are going to explore some signs that could help us identify scams in decentralized systems, especially among Decentralized Finance (DeFi) platforms...

cybersecurity

Here’s How we Made a Real-time Phishing Website Detector for MacOS

TL;DR MacPaw’s Moonlock team created a real-time phishing detector for macOS, offering instant alerts and enhanced privacy with on-device detection—no cloud needed.

By @moonlock [ 5 Min read ]

This real-time, on-device antiphishing solution for macOS takes reference-based detection to a new level, instantly warning Mac users they are on a phishing website.

Here is how it works in a nutshell.

Author: Ivan Petrukha, Senior Research Engineer at MacPaw Technological R&D, ex-Moonlock...

machine-learning

Direct Preference Optimization: Your Language Model is Secretly a Reward Model

TL;DR Explore how Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) simplifies fine-tuning language models by eliminating complex reinforcement learning steps

By @textmodels [ 5 Min read ]

Authors:

(1) Rafael Rafailo, Stanford University and Equal contribution; more junior authors listed earlier;

(2) Archit Sharma, Stanford University and Equal contribution; more junior authors listed earlier;

(3) Eric Mitchel, Stanford University and Equal contribution; more junior authors listed earlier;

(4) Stefano Ermon, CZ Biohub;

2 Related Work..

gaming

How to Optimize UIs in Unity: Slow Performance Causes and Solutions

TL;DR See how to optimize UI performance in Unity using this detailed guide with numerous experiments, practical advice, and performance tests to back it up!

By @sergeybegichev [ 9 Min read ]

See how to optimize UI performance in Unity using this detailed guide with numerous experiments, practical advice, and performance tests to back it up!

First, let’s review Unity’s recommendations for UI optimization, which I have summarized into six key points:

RectTransform changes:

FlllAmount changes:

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On This Day

Miss Manners Addressed Computer Correspondence

Miss Manners confronts a new realm of etiquette in her August 26 column as she responded to a reader's concern about typing personal correspondence on a personal computer. The concerned individual said that using the computer was more convenient but that they were worried about the poor quality of her...