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How are you, hacker? 🪐 What’s happening in tech today, July 17, 2026? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day,American and Soviet Spacecraft Dock in Orbit in 1975, Willis Carrier Invents Air Conditioning in 1902, and we present you with these top
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Welcome back to Projects of the Week, our weekly look at some of the most interesting products coming out of the Proof of Usefulness Hackathon. The bar is pretty simple: build something people actually find useful. Every project featured here tackles a real problem, whether that's through better
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Let's learn about Cloud Computing via these 500 free blog posts. They are ordered by HackerNoon reader engagement data. Visit the Learn Repo or LearnRepo.com to find the most read blog posts about any technology. It's raining cloud stories. 1. What is IPFS? - A
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I shipped a feature last week I hadn't planned to build. Not because I suddenly had a great idea. Because someone asked me a question I couldn't answer. I was in a conversation with a founder who builds AI sales agents, the kind of product that
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Your AI Agent Doesn't Need to See Every Tool The first version of an AI agent is usually easy to understand. Give it three MCP tools: Agent ├── search_customer() ├── get_order() └── search_policy() The model can see the options. You can follow the reasoning. When something goes wrong,
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Databricks on Thursday announced a new round of funding that values the company at $188 billion. The round was led by Coatue. Databricks didn’t disclose exactly how much it raised; it said the money isn’t in its hands yet and that the round will close later in this
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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. Stop vibe coding analytics — Equals AI turns questions about your business into
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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. Stop vibe coding analytics — Equals AI turns questions about your business into
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In Brief 2:20 PM PDT · July 17, 2026 VC Jeremy Levine has a wry solution to something that routinely annoys him, according to a new Wall Street Journal article on the rise of AI transcription apps. On Zoom, he is no longer “Jeremy Levine” but instead “Jeremy Levine I
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It's getting even more expensive to be an Apple loyalist. Apple is once again raising its prices, this time targeting Apple Music and its Apple One subscription bundle, Music Business Worldwide reported Friday. The prices aren't going up by more than a dollar or two each,
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The streaming video company with the world's most subscribers has leaned quickly into AI-assisted production. 3 min read Netflix said last year it was experimenting with and debuting some of its first shows produced with artificial intelligence. Now, the company is reporting that generative AI was used in
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* JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon warns controls may be needed for Claude Mythos * The AI model from Anthropic is highly advanced, and has been proven to detect zero-day vulnerabilities and even develop working exploits * The US government has previously instructed Anthropic to block access to foreign nationals, citing security concerns Artificial
