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Today · 3 min
Non-Deterministic AI Can Still Build Deterministic Software
This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/non-deterministic-ai-can-still-build-deterministic-software. LLMs produce unpredictable outputs, but software needs predictable results. Here's how agentic development bridges the gap. Check more stories related to tech-stories at: https://hackernoon.com/c/tech-stories. You can also check exclusive content about #llms, #ai, #software-development, #software-engineering, #context-management, #ai-agent-tooling, #ai-software-development, #llm-code-generation, and more. This story was written by: @sklarsa. Learn more about this writer by checking @sklarsa's about page, and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com. LLMs produce unpredictable outputs, but software needs predictable results. Here's how agentic development bridges the gap.
Today · 15 min
Privileged Access Management for OT: Securing ICS Systems That Can't Go Down
This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/privileged-access-management-for-ot-securing-ics-systems-that-cant-go-down. Secure critical ICS and SCADA environments with Securden Unified PAM for OT. Prevent downtime, enforce just-in-time access, and simplify manufacturing security. Check more stories related to tech-stories at: https://hackernoon.com/c/tech-stories. You can also check exclusive content about #operational-technology, #manufacturing, #cybersecurity, #cybersecurity-awareness, #manufacturing-cybersecurity, #privileged-access-management, #scada-security, #good-company, and more. This story was written by: @securden. Learn more about this writer by checking @securden's about page, and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com. Secure critical ICS and SCADA environments with Securden Unified PAM for OT. Prevent downtime, enforce just-in-time access, and simplify manufacturing security.
Yesterday · 4 min
SerpApi Expands Beyond Search Results with New Extract API
This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/serpapi-expands-beyond-search-results-with-new-extract-api. SerpApi launches Extract API, helping developers retrieve structured data from public web pages for AI applications, research, and automation. Check more stories related to tech-stories at: https://hackernoon.com/c/tech-stories. You can also check exclusive content about #serpapi, #extract-api, #web-data-extraction, #structured-web-data, #web-scraping-api, #ai-agent-development, #search-engine-apis, #data-extraction-tools, and more. This story was written by: @nicafurs. Learn more about this writer by checking @nicafurs's about page, and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com. SerpApi has launched Extract API, a new capability for extracting structured content from publicly available web pages. Designed for AI applications, research platforms, and data-driven workflows, it extends SerpApi's existing search infrastructure with web extraction and discovery capabilities. The API is available to SerpApi account holders, with website support varying by page and crawl usage billed per successfully extracted page.
Yesterday · 17 min
How Drones Navigate Without GPS: A Builder's Guide to Visual SLAM in 2026
This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/how-drones-navigate-without-gps-a-builders-guide-to-visual-slam-in-2026. Explore how visual SLAM enables GPS-denied drone navigation, from visual-inertial odometry and mapping to edge AI, path planning, and limitations. Check more stories related to tech-stories at: https://hackernoon.com/c/tech-stories. You can also check exclusive content about #drone-technology, #uavs, #computer-vision, #visual-slam, #gps-denied-navigation, #autonomous-drones, #visual-inertial-odometry, #edge-ai-for-drones, and more. This story was written by: @vishwagw. Learn more about this writer by checking @vishwagw's about page, and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com. GPS is no longer a safe assumption. Jamming and spoofing are routine around conflict zones and have spilled into civil aviation. A drone that only knows where it is through GNSS is one jammer away from hovering in place or crashing. Visual SLAM (VSLAM) lets a drone estimate its own position and build a map of its surroundings from cameras, usually fused with an IMU. Cameras are cheap, light, and passive, which is why they suit small aircraft. The classical pipeline still carries the load: feature tracking → visual-inertial fusion → mapping with bundle adjustment and loop closure → path planning. ORB-SLAM3, VINS-Mono, and OpenVINS remain the reference implementations. What changed in 2025–2026: GPU-accelerated classical SLAM on edge hardware (NVIDIA cuVSLAM), foundation-model priors inside SLAM (MASt3R-SLAM), NMS-free edge detectors for filtering moving objects (YOLO26), and vision-based navigation fielded in Ukraine. Vision isn't magic. Darkness, smoke, featureless terrain, fast motion, and monocular scale ambiguity all break it. The honest design is a fusion stack where vision is the backbone, not the only sensor.
Wednesday · 5 min
ONLYOFFICE 10.0 brings AI tools, modular apps, and stronger security to its open-source office suite
This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/onlyoffice-100-brings-ai-tools-modular-apps-and-stronger-security-to-its-open-source-office-suite. Discover ONLYOFFICE 10.0, featuring built-in AI tools, four modular apps, enhanced PDF and spreadsheet editors, and 35 security vulnerability fixes. Check more stories related to tech-stories at: https://hackernoon.com/c/tech-stories. You can also check exclusive content about #onlyoffice-10.0, #onlyoffice-ai-tools, #open-source-office-suite, #ai-document-editing, #onlyoffice-modular-apps, #onlyoffice-pdf-editor, #onlyoffice-security-updates, #good-company, and more. This story was written by: @onlyoffice. Learn more about this writer by checking @onlyoffice's about page, and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com. ONLYOFFICE 10.0 introduces context-aware AI across its document, spreadsheet, presentation, and PDF editors, allowing users to summarize, translate, draft, and automate tasks without leaving their files. The release adds four modular apps for AI agents, forms, file management, and secure collaboration, alongside editor improvements, desktop and mobile upgrades, and support for locally hosted AI models. With around 50 new features and 35 security vulnerabilities fixed, the update strengthens the open-source suite for individual users and enterprise teams.
Wednesday · 10 min
How to Fix One Detail on an AI-Generated 3D Model Without Losing the Rest
This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/how-to-fix-one-detail-on-an-ai-generated-3d-model-without-losing-the-rest. Meshy Edit is a mesh-editing model from Meshy that changes only the part of a 3D model you select and leaves the rest untouched. Check more stories related to tech-stories at: https://hackernoon.com/c/tech-stories. You can also check exclusive content about #3d-printing, #ai, #ai-3d-model-generator, #meshy-edit-tutorial, #meshy-edit-features, #ai-mesh-editing, #ai-3d-generator, #good-company, and more. This story was written by: @meshyai. Learn more about this writer by checking @meshyai's about page, and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com. Meshy Edit is a mesh-editing model that allows users to change specific parts of a 3D model by selecting the area and describing the desired change in plain language. It handles three types of changes: adding, removing, and replacing parts, and can be used to fix mistakes or create variations of a model.
Monday · 11 min
The Ghost Town in Your Flash Array
This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/the-ghost-town-in-your-flash-array. Modern storage infrastructure is plagued by the problem of 90% of data being untouched and occupying expensive hot storage tiers Check more stories related to tech-stories at: https://hackernoon.com/c/tech-stories. You can also check exclusive content about #infrastructure, #storage-infrastructure, #capacity-crisis, #flash-array, #hot-storage, #modern-archiving, #metadata-trap, #archival-pipeline, and more. This story was written by: @coldcoldcold. Learn more about this writer by checking @coldcoldcold's about page, and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com. Modern storage infrastructure is plagued by the problem of 90% of data being untouched and occupying expensive hot storage tiers, leading to capacity crises and unnecessary hardware upgrades. To solve this, modern transparent archiving can turn cold, dead weight into lean, secure, and hot-RAID-friendly assets.
Monday · 18 min
61 Blog Posts To Learn About Electronics
This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/61-blog-posts-to-learn-about-electronics. Learn everything you need to know about Electronics via these 61 free HackerNoon blog posts. Check more stories related to tech-stories at: https://hackernoon.com/c/tech-stories. You can also check exclusive content about #electronics, #learn, #learn-electronics, and more. This story was written by: @learn. Learn more about this writer by checking @learn's about page, and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com.
Sunday · 16 min
64 Blog Posts To Learn About Digital Health
This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/64-blog-posts-to-learn-about-digital-health. Learn everything you need to know about Digital Health via these 64 free HackerNoon blog posts. Check more stories related to tech-stories at: https://hackernoon.com/c/tech-stories. You can also check exclusive content about #digital-health, #learn, #learn-digital-health, and more. This story was written by: @learn. Learn more about this writer by checking @learn's about page, and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com.
October 9 · 7 min
AI Can Remember Your Chats. Remembering Your Life Is Much Harder.
This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/ai-can-remember-your-chats-remembering-your-life-is-much-harder. Building useful AI memory takes more than chat history and RAG. Explore four key challenges in creating AI that understands and recalls real-world experiences. Check more stories related to tech-stories at: https://hackernoon.com/c/tech-stories. You can also check exclusive content about #aritificial-intelligence, #wearable-technology, #personal-ai, #ai, #future-of-ai, #ai-architecture, #wearables, #ai-wearable, and more. This story was written by: @bocong-looki. Learn more about this writer by checking @bocong-looki's about page, and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com. For AI to become truly useful in everyday life, it needs memory that goes beyond chat history. Building that memory means solving four key challenges: deciding what to remember, retrieving the right experience, connecting moments over time, and learning from corrections as people and circumstances change. At Looki, we’re exploring how visual evidence, supported by audio, chat, location, and other context, can create AI memory that is grounded in what actually happened—and remains understandable, verifiable, and correctable.
October 9 · 13 min
Stop Blaming AI. Start Holding Data Center Operators Accountable
This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/stop-blaming-ai-start-holding-data-center-operators-accountable. How voters, communities and elected representatives can shape data centre regulation and make AI infrastructure work in the public interest. Check more stories related to tech-stories at: https://hackernoon.com/c/tech-stories. You can also check exclusive content about #data-centers, #environment, #elections, #technology-and-democracy, #sustainability, #ai-environmental-policy, #data-center-planning, #hackernoon-top-story, and more. This story was written by: @chribonn. Learn more about this writer by checking @chribonn's about page, and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com. - AI's environmental and social effects are the result of political and planning decisions, not the technology itself. - Data centres should face enforceable rules covering energy, water, emissions, noise, infrastructure costs and community impact. - Planning approvals should include transparency, independent regulation, meaningful penalties and regular permit reviews. - Communities should have formal rights to information, consultation, oversight and fair economic benefits. - Elections matter because elected representatives and public bodies ultimately determine what gets approved and on what terms. - Citizens can act by checking planning applications, questioning candidates publicly and voting for representatives who support stronger safeguards.
October 8 · 25 min
Building Real-Time Speaker Diarization With JavaScript and the Web Audio API
This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/building-real-time-speaker-diarization-with-javascript-and-the-web-audio-api. How can drones be identified by sound? Explore acoustic fingerprints, machine learning classifiers, and the signal processing behind UAV detection. Check more stories related to tech-stories at: https://hackernoon.com/c/tech-stories. You can also check exclusive content about #speaker-diarization, #acoustic-drone-detection, #drone-acoustic-fingerprint, #speaker-identification, #audio-fingerprinting, #web-audio-api, #mfcc-algorithms, #drone-sound-recognition, and more. This story was written by: @geluvac. Learn more about this writer by checking @geluvac's about page, and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com. How can drones be identified by sound? Explore acoustic fingerprints, machine learning classifiers, and the signal processing behind UAV detection.
October 8 · 2 hr 15 min
500 Blog Posts To Learn About Chainwire
This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/500-blog-posts-to-learn-about-chainwire. Learn everything you need to know about Chainwire via these 500 free HackerNoon blog posts. Check more stories related to tech-stories at: https://hackernoon.com/c/tech-stories. You can also check exclusive content about #chainwire, #learn, #learn-chainwire, and more. This story was written by: @learn. Learn more about this writer by checking @learn's about page, and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com.
October 7 · 7 min
From Global Allowlist to RCE: Breaking Down CVE-2026-50023 in yt-dlp
This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/from-global-allowlist-to-rce-breaking-down-cve-2026-50023-in-yt-dlp. How a shortcut-extension exception in yt-dlp's CVE-2024-38519 fix opened the door to CVE-2026-50023, and what the follow-up bug teaches us. Check more stories related to tech-stories at: https://hackernoon.com/c/tech-stories. You can also check exclusive content about #vulnerability-research, #cve-2026-50023, #yt-dlp, #remote-code-execution, #filename-sanitization, #hls-subtitles, #security-patch-bypass, #allowist-security, and more. This story was written by: @pavanchow. Learn more about this writer by checking @pavanchow's about page, and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com. A fix for filename sanitization kept dangerous extensions on a global allowlist. I bypassed it by crafting an HLS manifest that forced yt-dlp to write a malicious .desktop file during a standard subtitle download. The patch moved the exception to the feature boundary, but a follow-up CVE proved the class was not fully closed.
October 7 · 9 min
When MPLS/SR Makes More Sense Than a Conventional VXLAN Fabric
This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/when-mplssr-makes-more-sense-than-a-conventional-vxlan-fabric. VXLAN-EVPN is the data center default, but MPLS/SR can still make sense for telco fabrics requiring traffic engineering, fast reroute, and low overhead. Check more stories related to tech-stories at: https://hackernoon.com/c/tech-stories. You can also check exclusive content about #data-center-networking, #vxlan-evpn, #mpls, #sr-mpls, #evpn, #network-overlays, #traffic-engineering, #nfv-infrastructure, and more. This story was written by: @vijayananda. Learn more about this writer by checking @vijayananda's about page, and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com. VXLAN-EVPN is a strong default for general-purpose data center fabrics, but MPLS/SR architectures can offer advantages in telco and NFV environments where encapsulation overhead, explicit traffic engineering, and rapid local failure recovery matter. The comparison, however, depends on the complete underlay and control-plane architecture, not simply whether packets use VXLAN or MPLS encapsulation.
October 6 · 11 min
The Swarm Is the Threat: Why Massed Drones Are Defense's Defining Problem
This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/the-swarm-is-the-threat-why-massed-drones-are-defenses-defining-problem. How coordinated swarm drone is going to be the next major threat in aerial warfare Check more stories related to tech-stories at: https://hackernoon.com/c/tech-stories. You can also check exclusive content about #drones, #drone-technology, #drone-swarm-technology, #swarm-intelligence, #swarm-robotics, #cyber-warfare, #drone-warfare, #war-tech, and more. This story was written by: @vishwagw. Learn more about this writer by checking @vishwagw's about page, and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com. Drone swarms are defense's defining threat not because drones are new, but because they attack the structure of modern defense. The cost math is already broken — $20K–$50K drones against $1M–$4M interceptors, with over 1,000 Patriots spent in ten days of the 2026 Gulf conflict — but the deeper problem hits earlier in the kill chain: dense swarms overwhelm target tracking, RF-silent (fiber-optic, vision-guided) drones defeat the cheapest detection and jamming layers, and no human can triage hundreds of tracks in the seconds available. Offensively, swarms are professionalizing fast (decentralized control, inter-agent coordination, full autonomy — each engineered to beat a specific countermeasure), and they've already left the battlefield: ~144 gray-zone incursions over Europe, airport shutdowns costing millions against drones costing nothing. A swarm doesn't need to destroy anything to succeed. The winners won't be whoever builds the best interceptor — they'll be whoever solves the tracking-and-decision layer first, because that's where the swarm actually wins.
October 5 · 7 min
Muse, Instinct, Wajo, and OpenAI's Dots: Four AI Assistants That Do the Work for You
This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/muse-instinct-wajo-and-openais-dots-four-ai-assistants-that-do-the-work-for-you. Four well-funded products from Meta, OpenAI, and fast-growing startups now compete on completed tasks: bills lowered, contracts negotiated, tables booked. Check more stories related to tech-stories at: https://hackernoon.com/c/tech-stories. You can also check exclusive content about #ai-assistant, #muse, #wajo-ai, #instinct-ai, #dots, #future-of-ai, #future-of-work, #openai, and more. This story was written by: @hacker-Antho. Learn more about this writer by checking @hacker-Antho's about page, and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com. Four AI assistants, Muse, Instinct, Wajo, and Dots, now take the next step in tasks, reading email, filling out forms, and negotiating, then reporting back for approval. Each assistant has its unique features, such as Wajo's ability to make phone calls and Instinct's hands-off experience.
October 5 · 10 min
Your Agent Retries Because It Can't Tell a Timeout From a Failure
This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/your-agent-retries-because-it-cant-tell-a-timeout-from-a-failure. A timeout is not a failure. How to stop an AI agent re-running finished work: an unknown state, a gate in the executor, and an open-source demo. Check more stories related to tech-stories at: https://hackernoon.com/c/tech-stories. You can also check exclusive content about #kill-switches, #harness-engineering, #ai-agents, #site-reliability-engineering, #idempotency, #llm-reliability, #test-automation, #retry-logic, and more. This story was written by: @SaktiBagchi_o3ue0s5k. Learn more about this writer by checking @SaktiBagchi_o3ue0s5k's about page, and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com.
October 3 · 28 min
89 Blog Posts To Learn About 2020
This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/89-blog-posts-to-learn-about-2020. Learn everything you need to know about 2020 via these 89 free HackerNoon blog posts. Check more stories related to tech-stories at: https://hackernoon.com/c/tech-stories. You can also check exclusive content about #2020, #learn, #learn-2020, and more. This story was written by: @learn. Learn more about this writer by checking @learn's about page, and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com.
October 2 · 17 min
"Documentation is Our Front Door" says Unleash Developer Advocate Alex Casalboni
This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/documentation-is-our-front-door-says-unleash-developer-advocate-alex-casalboni. Alex Casalboni, Head of DevRel at Unleash, on FeatureOps, agent-ready docs, measuring DevRel by pipeline and building tools developers love. Check more stories related to tech-stories at: https://hackernoon.com/c/tech-stories. You can also check exclusive content about #hackernoon-interview, #feature-flags, #meet-the-developer-advocate, #documentation-is-our-frontdoor, #documentation-front-door, #documentation-door, #hackernoon-top-story, and more. This story was written by: @alex-casalboni. Learn more about this writer by checking @alex-casalboni's about page, and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com. Alex Casalboni leads Developer Relations at Unleash, the open-source FeatureOps platform used by enterprises like Visa and Samsung. He explains how a weekend side project became a browser toolbar with nearly 10,000 weekly npm downloads, why Unleash now writes docs for AI agents as well as humans, and how the FeatureOps Manifesto set out to name a new category. He also covers why he measures DevRel by enterprise pipeline and whose work he admires most.

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