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🪐 What’s happening in tech today, March 8, 2025?

The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, IBM Introduces PC-XT in 1983, and we present you with these top quality stories. From Stay Calm in Stressful Situations With These 6 Proven Techniques to I Built a €500K Neobank for Immigrants—It Didnt Go As Planned, let’s dive right in.


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startups

I Built a €500K Neobank for Immigrants—It Didnt Go As Planned

TL;DR I built and shut down a €500K neobank for immigrants in Portugal. Heres a post-mortem.

By @alexpiskarev [ 9 Min read ]

I didn’t have the purpose to leave my country, it happened mostly accidentally. I visited Portugal for the Web Summit conference in 2018.

The first thing in settling in a foreign country is to get the required papers. For us, it meant opening a local bank account.

Payment processing..

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tech-stories

Ham vs Spam: How to Identify and Classify Spam E-mail

TL;DR In this project, some of the machine learning tools were used to see how they perform as classifiers for Ham and Spam emails.

By @ramakadapala [ 7 Min read ]

The below chart would help understand the flow of the various steps followed –

Preprocessing Steps

The text data needs to be acceptable to a linear classifier. This means the dataset must be transformed using text feature extraction methods to numeric features.

Code for the Preprocessing steps -

Results..

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society

One Would Think The World Was Built Just as Much for Women as It Is For Men

TL;DR Research has revealed that a shocking amount of modern design was created with only half the population in mind.

By @thefrogsociety [ 20 Min read ]

When my girlfriend visited me for the first time, we stayed in my room. It was all very romantic, except that we immediately discovered we were at war over the air conditioning. The coldest temperature she could tolerate still felt lukewarm.

Ha. Cute.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

The audacity...

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life-hacking

Stay Calm in Stressful Situations With These 6 Proven Techniques

TL;DR Stay calm under stress with these 6 simple techniques. Breathe better, think clearer, and take control.

By @benoitmalige [ 5 Min read ]

Ever feel like stress is life’s way of playing a never-ending prank on you?

One minute, you’re handling things like a pro. The next, you’re overwhelmed by an email subject line that starts with “Can you take a look at this?”

Stress doesn’t disappear—it just changes costumes.

Here’s how:..

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tech-stories

One Month Left to Win Your Share of 15,000 USDT in Round 1 of the Spacecoin Writing Contest

TL;DR 1 month left to enter Round 1 of the Spacecoin Writing Contest! Write about #decentralized-internet, #spacetech, #blockchain-use-case to compete for 15000 USDT!

By @hackernooncontests [ 4 Min read ]

Hear Ye, Hear Ye!

Space geeks, writers, developers, blockchain advocates, and technologists across the globe, put your affairs in order and buckle up because we’re going to space🚀🚀🚀

Round 1 is almost over, so don’t miss your chance—Enter Now!

Here’s a breakdown of the contest’s timeline for context:..

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On This Day

IBM Introduces PC-XT

IBM introduces the IBM Personal Computer XT, which stands for eXtended Technology. For a price of $4,995, it features a Intel 8088 processor, a 10MB hard drive, eight expansion slots, serial port, 128 kB RAM, 40Kb ROM, a keyboard, and one double-sided 360kB floppy drive.

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Is Web3 really the future, or just a passing trend for people looking to make a quick buck? At HackerNoon, we have our answer. Now, let us help you find yours!

13% Hell yea, it was great!

62% HackerNoon has a documentary!?

18% Not yet, but I want to!

4% I plan to watch it during the holidays

🧑‍💻 What happened in your world this week?

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