| People Will Not Use Bitcoin Just Because You Gave it to Them (And That’s OK) by Mark You’ve probably noticed a meme that’s gone around the cryptosphere for the last few years. Read the full story
 State of Hacker Noon 2019-2020 by David Smooke Dear Hackers and Those Who Identify as Hacker-Adjacent, I'm thrilled to be alive, and I hope you are too. What a year! Hacker Noon has never been stronger. It's time for the 2019-2020 Hacker Noon recap. Let’s start with a big picture graph for those in the cheap seats: Read the full story  The 59 Best Technology Journalism Stories Published in 2019 by Deirdre Here’s my compendium of the best tech reporting, writing, and commentary of 2019. Read the full story
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Outtakes From The First Draft of Hacker Noon's Crowdfunding Campaign
by Linh Dao Smooke It's been over 14 months since we launched the Hacker Noon Equity Crowdfunding Campaign and almost a year since we successfully raised the max amount of $1.07M. Read the full story  Time, Space, and DACs: The Way Ahead by Kevin Liu While regarding how to form a DAC, people are too optimistic or ideal. Read the full story  Blockchain-Verified Sentiment Postulate by Christian Kameir The explosion of content on the world wide web, social media and chat networks greatly increased the interest in sentiment analysis from a growing number and variety of interested parties. Read the full story  Text Classification Simplified with Facebook’s FastText by DataTurks This blog provides a detailed step-by-step tutorial to use FastText for the purpose of text classification. Read the full story  How To Name Your Next Open Source Project by Merlin I write about developer innovation and new technologies for a VC firm called Project A. Every now and then, we develop projects that we’d like to open source. Coming up with names for these projects is always a challenge and each team has a different approach. I’d like to describe how we named a couple of our projects and what we learned along the way. Read the full story | 
