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🪐 What’s happening in tech today, April 23, 2025?

The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, we present you with these top quality stories. From What If the Only Thing Holding You Back Is an Invisible Rule You Never Questioned? to Falling in Love With Chatbots Is the Next Cybersecurity Nightmare, let’s dive right in.


The Market Today

#01 Amazon
173.18 +1.93%
#02 Coursera
7.36 +2.04%
#03 Instagram (Meta)
500.28 +1.68%
#01 Bitcoin
$92746.81 +1.73%

web3

Answer to Win $1,500: What’s the Best Blockchain API for dApp Development?

TL;DR Write about dApp-development for a chance to win $1,500 in the #web3 development writing contest, hosted by GetBlock and HackerNoon.

By @hackernooncontests [ 2 Min read ]

For the chance to win from $5000, the Web3 Development Writing Contest, calls on submissions from developers, blockchain advocates, and writers who can explore key aspects of Web3 development—like how blockchain nodes work, the best ways to scale dApps, multi-chain interoperability, and more...

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programming

This Web App Turns Any Image Into a Retro Fever Dream—No Photoshop Needed

TL;DR Explore advanced image editing techniques with color palettes, HSV model, contrast, and noise adjustments for enhanced creative control in photo manipulation.

By @nailyasaf [ 7 Min read ]

In our previous tutorial, we taught our application to work with references and palettes. Now, it’s time to add more options for fine-tuning color and visual effects.

The full project code is available at this link.

Simply choose the desired filter intensity and click “Apply filter”...

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science

Falling in Love With Chatbots Is the Next Cybersecurity Nightmare

TL;DR Exploring the neuroscience, LLM architectures, and cybersecurity risks behind our growing emotional attachment to AI companions why we need to pay attention

By @a_belova [ 10 Min read ]

In this article, we'll dissect how "falling in love" with AI works — from the perspective of neuroscience, LLM architectures, cognitive biases, and cybersecurity. And what the IT community should do about it.

The Trust Effect and Attachment Hormones

The Illusion of Personality and the Anthropomorphization Effect

Emotional Anchoring and Memory..

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web3

Your Crypto Wallet Could Vanish Thanks to a Chrome Extension—And You’d Never Know

TL;DR Browser extensions, including crypto features, can do nearly everything. They’re practical and easy to use. But they may come with a high price.

By @obyte [ 5 Min read ]

But they may come with a high price.

The same can happen to literally any extension — its developer account compromised and a new, malicious version of a previously legitimate extension pushed to its users through the browser’s convenient and fast auto-update mechanism, without users noticing...

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startups

What If the Only Thing Holding You Back Is an Invisible Rule You Never Questioned?

TL;DR The Fine Line Between Rejection and Revelation: How Invisible Rules Nearly Stopped My Entrepreneurial Journey

By @ujwalarklagud [ 5 Min read ]

Looking back, I realize that moment wasn’t just about landing a potential client. It was about seeking validation that my idea — and by extension, I — was worthy of taking up space in the business world.

I’d love to hear your stories as I continue sharing mine...

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Additional Stories of your interest:

-My Journey Down the Rabbit Hole of Vibe Coding

-You Don’t Need a 5AM Routine. You Need to Put Your Phone Down and Sleep.

-AI Understands Commonsense Reasoning Better When It Thinks Like a Programmer

-Meet the HackerNoon Top Writers - Cloud and AI Craftsman: Breaking Down the Complex

Poll Of the Week

Are you still using ChatGPT?

Now that the buzz surrounding generative AI has died down (or maybe it hasn't?), are you still using ChatGPT in your day-to-day workflow?

26% Heck ya! I can't live without ChatGPT

54% I use ChatGPT from time to time

9% Not yet, but I plan to use ChatGPT in the future

9% I never used ChatGPT and don't plan to

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