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How are you, hacker? đȘ Whatâs happening in tech today, August 14, 2026? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day,Atanasoff Finishes Paper Describing the Atanasoff Berry Computer in 1940, Lunar Obitar 1 began its orbit around the Moon in 1966, Pakistan Independence
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Prefill/decode disaggregation has the elegance of a clean architecture diagram. Prompt processing is compute-heavy. Token generation is memory-bandwidth-heavy. Put them on separate GPU pools, scale each phase independently, and stop them from interfering with each other. That logic is sound. Then a burst arrives. Prefill queues grow. Decode GPUs
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I built a RAG tool over my own writing. Here's what I learned. A note: I built this with Claude Code doing the implementation, directed by me. Worth being explicit about that, since it's the more honest version of what "I built this" means
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Let's learn about Javascript 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. "Not a real programming language" since 1995. 1. How it feels
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Privacy advocates and musicians rallied outside Madison Square Garden on Friday, pushing for new legislation to prevent facial-recognition technology at the venue and other public spaces in New York City. âMSG and its CEO, James Dolan, have been flagrantly abusing biotechnology,â City Council member Shahana Hanif said at the event
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OpenAIâs enterprise business now generates more revenue than its consumer business, finance chief Sarah Friar told shareholders on Friday, months earlier than the company had forecast. Its annualised run rate has reached $40bn, roughly double a year ago. OpenAI now makes more money from businesses than from ChatGPT subscribers.
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The Green Chile pipeline that would fuel Oracleâs Project Jupiter data centre in New Mexico has been pushed from 15 August to 1 February 2027, according to a filing by Energy Transferâs Transwestern unit. The state land commissioner has twice refused the route, citing water use and emissions.
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The average US electric vehicle sold for $56,126 in July, up 1.6% on a year earlier and the first rise of 2026, according to Kelley Blue Book. Automakers cut EV incentives by 24.3% year on year after pulling models and shrinking supply. The average electric car in
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Sponsor Posts Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning â 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. â Unlimited talk, text &
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IT leaders often view automated vulnerability scanning as a routine technical safeguard. In reality, it's a controlled operational activity that presents not only a measurable business reward, but also risk. Poorly governed scans degrade system performance, interrupt critical services or expose the organization to legal and regulatory scrutiny.
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If you have an interest in consumer CNC mills, youâve probably heard about the InfiMaker K1. It just launched on Kickstarter and has already raised about $2 million. But if you havenât backed it yet, you may be waiting for more information from a trusted source. Well, I
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Sponsor Posts Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning â 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. â Unlimited talk, text &
