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🪐 What’s happening in tech today, January 27, 2025?

The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, The Liberation of Auschwitz in 1945, Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster in 1986, Signing of the Vietnam Peace Agreement in 1973, and we present you with these top quality stories. From Researchers Introduce Clever Math Trick to Beef Up Tiny Datasets Without Frying Your GPU to Most Concerns About Bitcoin Are Deeply Human, let’s dive right in.


The Market Today

#01 Instagram (Meta)
647.49 +1.71%
#02 ThoughtWorks
4.47
#03 Facebook (Meta)
647.49 +1.71%
#04 Microsoft
444.06 -0.25%
#05 Roblox
67.07 -0.19%
#01 Bitcoin
$101992.13 -2.86%

programming

Regionalize APIs Like a Pro: Achieve Global Compliance and Scalability

TL;DR Learn how to master API regionalization with strategies for global compliance, low latency, and scalable cloud solutions. Achieve seamless performance worldwide

By @madhuchavva [ 8 Min read ]

Picture this: Your application's US response times are a crisp 100ms, but your European users are suffering through 2-second delays. In my time at Twilio, we faced this very challenge head-on. - a moment that forced us to completely rethink our regional architecture.

To tackle this challenge, we:..

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web3

Most Concerns About Bitcoin Are Deeply Human

TL;DR Satoshi Nakamotos vision wasnt just about creating a new currency. It was about dismantling the old power structures.

By @edwinliavaa [ 3 Min read ]

Satoshi Nakamoto's vision wasn't just about creating a new currency. It was about dismantling the old power structures, about giving individuals a financial system that doesn't bow to corporate whims or governmental control. Yet here we are, watching institutions accumulate Bitcoin like modern-day treasure hunters...

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society

They Know You More Than You Know Yourself - Surveillance Capitalism and Its Ethical Impacts

TL;DR Critically examines surveillance capitalisms data-driven manipulation under utilitarian and Kantian ethics, spotlighting ads and national security worldwide.

By @philosophical [ 6 Min read ]

Author:

(1) Angelica Sofia Valeriani, Ethics of Information Technology, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy.

1 Introduction

2 The new Empire of Surveillance Capitalism

3 Target Advertisement

4 Military technology and Politics

5 Focus on Ethical Frameworks

5.1 Utilitarian Framework

5.2 Deontology Framework..

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machine-learning

Researchers Introduce Clever Math Trick to Beef Up Tiny Datasets Without Frying Your GPU

TL;DR Researchers have developed a new method to generate additional data points by utilizing cross-validation resampling and latent variable modeling to train AI.

By @procrustes [ 5 Min read ]

Authors:

(1) Sergey Kucheryavskiy, Department of Chemistry and Bioscience, Aalborg University and a Corresponding author (svk@bio.aau.dk);

(2) Sergei Zhilin, CSort, LLC., Germana Titova st. 7, Barnaul, 656023, Russia and Contributing authors0 (szhilin@gmail.com).

Keywords: data augmentation, artificial neural networks, Procrustes cross-validation, latent variables, collinearity..

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machine-learning

Silicon Valley Is In the Midst of an Ideological Battle That Nobody is Talking About

TL;DR Silicon Valley is experiencing a fundamental split between Freedom Warriors (like Musk, Ulbricht, Assange) and the Coward Class (Gates, Soros).

By @juancguerrero [ 4 Min read ]

There's a war happening in Silicon Valley. Not the kind with missiles and tanks, but one that will determine whether your children grow up in a world of digital freedom or algorithmic chains.

The stakes couldn't be higher, and the battle lines couldn't be clearer.

What changed?..

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-Playwright: My First Steps With the Browser Automation Tool

-A Guide on How to Make the Best Decisions Under the Worst Circumstances

On This Day

The Liberation of Auschwitz

On January 27, 1945, the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and extermination camp was liberated by Soviet forces during World War II. The camp, operated by Nazi Germany, was the largest of its kind and responsible for the deaths of over 1.1 million people, including Jews, Poles, Romani, and others. The liberation of...

Poll Of the Week

Is China's DeepSeek the Biggest AI Breakthrough Yet?

Chinese AI company DeepSeek has taken the tech world by storm with the release of its open reasoning model, R1. It’s said to outperform OpenAI’s models in some areas and cost just $5.6 million to train—way less than the hundreds of millions spent by big players like OpenAI and Google DeepMind. Its success, achieved despite U.S. sanctions, has sparked debates about the future of AI development.

Yes, it's a game-changer.
No, just impressive.
Too early to tell.
It's overhyped.

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