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Welcome to the Proof of Usefulness Hackathon spotlight, curated by HackerNoon’s editors to showcase noteworthy tech solutions to real-world problems. Whether you’re a solopreneur, part of an early-stage startup, or a developer building something that truly matters, the Proof of Usefulness Hackathon is your chance to test your
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Everyone says their AI system has a human in the loop. Almost nobody says where in the loop, which is the only part that matters — because a human placed at the wrong point in a loop is not oversight. It's ceremony with a salary. I want to describe
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A few months ago, I almost became the kind of student who believed opportunities could be purchased. Like many students, I saw programs marketed as internships. Some asked for payments. Some promised certificates. Some promised experience. At the time, it sounded reasonable. Today, I see things differently. Not because someone
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Overview dots.llm1.inst is an instruction-tuned mixture-of-experts language model built by dots-studio that activates 14 billion parameters out of a total of 142 billion parameters during inference, delivering performance comparable to Qwen2.5-72B while requiring significantly less computational resources. The model uses a 62-layer architecture with 32 attention heads,
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Sponsor Posts Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens. Most carriers track everything. Cape doesn't. — Unlimited talk, text &
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AI AND ML As Trump dismantles the US-led world order, what the rest of the world really needs is sovereign apps and datacenters, argues 'enshittification' coiner OPINION Cory Doctorow, tech gadfly and coiner of the eminently relevant term "enshittification," posted a useful argument on Wednesday related
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paas and iaas It's Alphabet's fastest-growing business and now makes up more than a fifth of the juggernaut's revenue and operating profit Since the beginning of the year, several people have remarked to me off the cuff, apropos of nothing in particular: "Google
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TL;DR Brockman called Kimi K3 “pretty good” but said it is too early to tell if Moonshot distilled from OpenAI, as the White House accused the startup of IP theft OpenAI president Greg Brockman called Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3 “pretty good” in a Bloomberg interview on Tuesday, a
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TL;DR IBM lowered its revenue growth forecast to four to five percent after mainframe Z system sales fell 42 percent in the second quarter IBM cut its full-year sales outlook on Wednesday after reporting a sharp drop in demand for its mainframe business, lowering its revenue growth target to
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OpenClaw has become one of the fastest adopted open source tools in recent memory. Originally released in late 2025 under the name Clawdbot, this autonomous AI agent now boasts hundreds of thousands of GitHub stars and a rapidly expanding ecosystem of third-party skills. For enterprise CISOs and other business leaders,
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Samsung’s latest foldables bring upgrades over last year’s models — including a new wider-screen device — but they also carry the industry’s favorite trend: higher prices. The Galaxy Z Fold 8 Ultra and Z Flip 8 each cost $100 more than last year’s Z Fold 7 and Z
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Sponsor Posts Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens. Most carriers track everything. Cape doesn't. — Unlimited talk, text &
