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🪐 What’s happening in tech today, August 7, 2024?

The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, First Satelite Image of Earth in 1959, Revolving door was patent in 1888, IBM presented the first ever Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (ASCC) in 1944, and we present you with these top quality stories. From From AI to VR: Recent Trends in Social Discovery and Dating to Buh-Bye Webpack and Node.js, Hello Rails and Import Maps, let’s dive right in.


The Market Today

#03 Amazon Interactive Video Service
$161.93 +0.14%
#05 ThoughtWorks
$4.32 +0.23%
#08 Facebook (Meta)
$494.09 +3.05%
#09 Tesla
$200.64 -0.05%
#12 NVIDIA
$104.25 +0.39%
#01 Bitcoin
$56320.53 +0.11%

startups

Damn Near Every Digital Service is Ripping You Off to Float Free-riders

TL;DR Let us cogitate here on the economic absurdity that almost every digital service or good offered in the current year has a free version and a $100/year option.

By @jroseland [ 16 Min read ]

Let's look at an example of another digital personal empowerment tool, that's got its pricing wrong (in my opinion)...

I asked on Quora...

Remember Photobucket? In my past life, I used them to host the flyer images for the events I would organize at nightclubs on MySpace (Remember MySpace? Remember clubbin'? Good times!)..

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programming

Buh-Bye Webpack and Node.js, Hello Rails and Import Maps

TL;DR Discover how Rails 7 and Import Maps allow the use of third-party JavaScript libraries, taking away the need for Webpack and Node.js.

By @johnjvester [ 7 Min read ]

As software engineers, we’re accustomed to accepting these early-adopter challenges when giving new tech a test drive. What works best for me is to keep a running list of notes and commands I’ve executed since seemingly illogical steps don’t remain in my memory.

This is what I saw:..

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tech-stories

Intel Stuns Employees By Cutting Free Office Fruit (And Staff)

TL;DR Intel is perhaps one of the only big tech companies that, despite following the AI fad, is losing out

By @sheharyarkhan [ 4 Min read ]

Intel caused quite a stir this past week after it announced that it would be letting go of thousands of employees as part of a broader cost-cutting plan to save billions in dollars. Joining the staff members on the chopping block: office fruit...

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life-hacking

TikTok and Diagnosing Mental Illness: Would You Please Kindly Shut Up About ADHD

TL;DR The politics of self-diagnosing mental illnesses from TikTok and other social media platforms.

By @loggedinblog [ 19 Min read ]

When the psychiatrist tells his family that he has depression, they look at him like a crazy man.

But if you catch a cold? Because you were running in the rain yesterday. Please don’t do that again, or you run the risk of catching it again.

drum rolls

Fuck...

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futurism

From AI to VR: Recent Trends in Social Discovery and Dating

TL;DR Recently, there has been a slight decline in dating app downloads. To regain the audiences interest, many apps are adding “social discovery” features.

By @asmbl [ 3 Min read ]

Credit: Nicolas Lobos via Unsplash

Social discovery, a concept that centers on the idea of connecting people based on their shared interests and activities is designed to help people find like-minded individuals for romantic or platonic relationships. Here's what is shaping the future of this industry...

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-How Cybercriminals Are Weaponizing Sound Waves

On This Day

First Satelite Image of Earth

The Explorer 6 satellite launched atop a Thor-Able rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida. Its mission was to study Earth’s electrical and magnetic fields in the upper atmosphere, but it also carried a device for scanning and photographing cloud cover. Approximately a week into the mission, it captured and transmitted the...

Poll Of the Week

Banks are in trouble. What does it mean for crypto?

After the collapse of SVB and then Signature Bank, now Credit Suisse is also feeling the effects of the broader economic issues. While some of SVB and Signatures' issues stemmed from their crypto business, Credit Suisse is just feeling the impact of macroeconomic issues. How will the troubles in the banking sector impact crypto?

43% Crypto is dead

36% This is exactly why crypto was made

5% Banks need to cut out crypto altogether

13% Banks and crypto companies need to cooperate

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