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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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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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A lot of companies still run finance like it's 2012. Budgets get locked once a quarter. Forecasts get refreshed once a month. Engineering ships an AI feature on Monday, and finance figures out what it did to cloud spend somewhere around the middle of the following month. That
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Pull the current price for the same event from two prediction market APIs and diff them. Check "Fed cuts rates in September" on Kalshi and Polymarket at the same moment: Kalshi shows YES at 61¢, Polymarket shows YES at $0.58. Three cents isn't rounding error,
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One-shot generation is fast, but fragile. A model produces an answer in one pass, with no enforced verification step, no hard break condition, and no structural defense against its own blind spots. The result is familiar: polished language masking logical drift. Reliable AI systems are not built by asking for
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You built the dashboard. It's connected to the right sources. It refreshes on schedule. It looks good in the demo. Three months later, someone in a leadership meeting asks where a number came from, and the room goes quiet. Nobody answers with the dashboard. Someone pulls up a
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Recent moves by Crypto.com, Coinbase, and S&P suggest that the next phase of crypto may be built around infrastructure—not another trading screen. For years, crypto exchanges competed on a familiar set of features: more tokens, lower fees, faster trading, and increasingly complicated charts. That competition is
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The global memory chip shortage is affecting the availability of Apple’s most popular Mac, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. Gurman said the shortage — caused by the demands of chip-hungry AI companies — had already affected Apple’s more niche computers, the Mac mini and Mac Studio. But it seems
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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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* Russia patented a carrier drone capable of deploying six tethered reconnaissance copters * One airborne platform controls multiple surveillance drones through physical cable connections simultaneously * Each tethered copter receives power and commands directly from the carrier aircraft A newly-patented Russian drone design turns a single aircraft into a mobile hub for
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Mostly, conversations around connected workers begin with wearables like smart helmets, smart watch, panic buttons, and biometric bracelets. This is where most press coverage and vendor activity has happened. While the industry has been building the ‘connected worker’ concept around new hardware, it has overlooked a sensor that has already
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Technology is transforming transportation by helping researchers better understand why crashes happen and where safety improvements can have the greatest impact. A new research approach uses AI (artificial intelligence) to connect roadway condition data with crash reports, giving transportation agencies clearer insights into road safety risks. Researchers at the University
