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🪐 What’s happening in tech today, August 30, 2024?

The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, John Mauchly Was Born in 1907, Telephone hotline Between Washington DC and Moscow Was Established in 1963, Guion Stewart Bluford was launched into Space in 1983, and we present you with these top quality stories. From Bitcoin L2s Are Eating the World to How To Process Engineering Drawings With AI, let’s dive right in.


The Market Today

#02 Microsoft
$413.12 -0.44%
#03 Amazon IVS (Amazon)
$172.12 -0.64%
#05 ThoughtWorks
$4.34 N/A
#08 Facebook (Meta)
$518.22 -0.16%
#09 Tesla
$206.28 -1.71%
#01 Bitcoin
$58385.30 -4.25%

web3

Bitcoin L2s Are Eating the World

TL;DR Bitcoin is evolving from a niche to a dominant force, with L2 solutions unlocking its full potential for the next bull run.

By @andreserrano [ 4 Min read ]

Building on Bitcoin is no longer contrarian. For years, Bitcoin startups were overlooked by VCs, as developers fled to other ecosystems that offered greater functionality and performance. I’ve been writing about Bitcoin for over a year now, and let me tell you: this is no longer the case...

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machine-learning

How To Process Engineering Drawings With AI

TL;DR Learn why ready-made AI tools are not well-suited for engineering drawings processing and how to actually use AI to extract data from technical drawings.

By @olegkokorin [ 5 Min read ]

Having worked on multiple technical drawing processing projects, it was a matter of time till an engineering drawing automation project came our way. What’s so special about engineering drawings, you ask?

All digital documents can be separated into 2 types: structured and unstructured:..

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tech-stories

Are Primordial Black Holes Dark Matter?

TL;DR This paper takes a look at the constraints, possible detection methods, and future tests for PBHs as dark matter candidates.

By @phenomenology [ 3 Min read ]

Authors:

(1) Antonio Riotto, Département de Physique Theorique, Universite de Geneve, 24 quai Ansermet, CH-1211 Geneve 4, Switzerland and Gravitational Wave Science Center (GWSC), Universite de Geneve, CH-1211 Geneva, Switzerland;

Abstract and 1 Introduction

2 Some open questions

2.1 What is the abundance of PBHs?..

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tech-stories

Why Cant AI Count the Number of Rs in the Word Strawberry?

TL;DR Explore why AI struggles to count letters in words like strawberry, delving into tokenization, language model limitations, and potential improvements.

By @kisican [ 5 Min read ]

Why Can't AI Count the Number of "R" in the Word "Strawberry"?

Besides that, more recent generations of language models are combined, with other tools and algorithms that make these models more powerful for more structured tasks, which also include counting and arithmetic...

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On This Day

John Mauchly Was Born

This date marks the birth of John Mauchly who, with J. Presper Eckert built the ENIAC, the first large-scale, electronic calculator.

Poll Of the Week

Which Startup Hub Has the Most Potential for Growth in 2023?

The San Francisco Bay area has longtime been a haven for the world's most promising startups. However, the exorbitant business costs in America vs. the rest of the world can make it harder for a startup to work on a tight budget. Thankfully, the startup economies in developing countries are growing strong. Here are just a few...

18% Hanoi, Vietnam

13% Lagos, Nigeria

31% Bengaluru, India

11% Sao Paulo, Brazil

11% Mexico City, Mexico

5% Jakarta, Indonesia

7% Manila, Philippines

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