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This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/from-star-trek-to-spacex-how-sci-fi-became-the-blueprint-for-real-exploration. Space exploration should be viewed as part of culture, not just science. Check more stories related to tech-stories at: https://hackernoon.com/c/tech-stories. You can also check exclusive content about #spacetech, #science-fiction, #space-technology, #spacex, #star-trek, #star-trek-to-spacex, #sci-fi-in-real-life, #real-exploration, and more. This story was written by: @hacker91417835. Learn more about this writer by checking @hacker91417835's about page, and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com. Space exploration should be viewed as **part of culture**, not just science. To push past technological limits, we need both scientific and storytelling methods. I look at how science fiction inspires and shapes space technology by imagining possibilities.

This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/on-choosing-the-right-ai-embedding-platform-a-developers-guide. Compare OpenAI embeddings, Pinecone, and Weaviate for vector search. Detailed pricing, performance benchmarks, code examples, and production deployment guides. Check more stories related to tech-stories at: https://hackernoon.com/c/tech-stories. You can also check exclusive content about #ai-embedding-platform, #pinecone, #weaviate, #openai, #openai-embeddings, #vector-databases, #developer-ai-embedding, #developer-ai-embed-platform, and more. This story was written by: @webtwo. Learn more about this writer by checking @webtwo's about page, and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com. OpenAI generates embeddings ($0.02/1M tokens), Pinecone offers managed vector storage ($50+/month), and Weaviate provides open-source flexibility with hybrid search ($25+/month). Choose Pinecone for zero-ops simplicity, Weaviate for GraphQL APIs and on-premise deployment. Both handle billion-scale vectors with sub-100ms latency. Common pitfalls: poor chunking strategy, mixing embedding models, and ignoring rate limits during initial indexing.

This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/breaking-records-and-redefining-innovation-the-billion-dollar-rise-of-jeremy-roma. Jeremy Roma built a $1B+ fintech platform, created 100+ millionaires, expanded into sports tech, and is preparing a $10B innovation to empower people worldwide. Check more stories related to tech-stories at: https://hackernoon.com/c/tech-stories. You can also check exclusive content about #jeremy-roma, #fintech-innovation, #decentralized-crowdfunding, #billion-dollar-entrepreneur, #sports-technology-startup, #financial-empowerment, #global-innovation-leader, #good-company, and more. This story was written by: @jonstojanjournalist. Learn more about this writer by checking @jonstojanjournalist's about page, and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com. Jeremy Roma disrupted fintech with a decentralized crowdfunding platform that surpassed $1B in growth and empowered over 200,000 users, creating 100+ millionaires. He later launched a $200M-backed sports tech venture and overcame $1B in frozen assets with resilience. Now preparing a $10B project, Roma continues his mission to democratize wealth, empower communities, and redefine innovation.

This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/space-techs-role-in-a-decentralized-internet. How satellite constellations, blockchain-in-space, and quantum links are paving the way for a decentralized, censorship-resistant global internet. Check more stories related to tech-stories at: https://hackernoon.com/c/tech-stories. You can also check exclusive content about #spacetech, #blockchain, #space-technology, #outer-space, #decentralized-web, #web3, #satellite-constellations, #quantum-key-distribution, and more. This story was written by: @doaakoms. Learn more about this writer by checking @doaakoms's about page, and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com. Satellite constellations will provide high-speed connections to rural areas. New space-based Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) technology uses satellites to distribute encryption keys with unbreakable security. Spacecoin and SpaceChain are examples of projects that write blockchain nodes onto satellites.

This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/grokipedia-the-coming-war-with-wikipedia-for-the-worlds-knowledge. Discover Grokipedia; Elon Musk's bold challenge to Wikipedia. Explore how this open-source knowledge repository could reshape the future of information and AI. Check more stories related to tech-stories at: https://hackernoon.com/c/tech-stories. You can also check exclusive content about #elon-musk-grok, #wikipedia, #ai, #internet-free-speech, #xai, #grokipedia, #grokipedia-vs.-wikipedia, #hackernoon-top-story, and more. This story was written by: @nofacetoolsai. Learn more about this writer by checking @nofacetoolsai's about page, and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com. Elon Musk's Grokipedia aims to rival Wikipedia as an open-source knowledge hub with no usage limits. If it succeeds, it could redefine how information flows into search engines, AI models, and the internet itself. Getting in early may mean shaping the future of knowledge.

This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/who-owns-the-moon-the-coming-fight-over-space-law-and-treaties. Who owns the Moon? Explore the rising debate over space law, treaties, and the future of lunar ownership. Check more stories related to tech-stories at: https://hackernoon.com/c/tech-stories. You can also check exclusive content about #spacetech, #space-law, #space-policy, #space-governance, #space-treaties, #future-technology, #aerospace, #space-mining, and more. This story was written by: @dylanmich. Learn more about this writer by checking @dylanmich's about page, and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com. In my view, we should resist this creeping enclosure. The Moon is not a new colony; it is a shared scientific laboratory and cultural heritage site. To honour the Outer Space Treaty’s promise that outer space is the province of all humankind, we need an inclusive regime that provides legal certainty for private actors while ensuring equitable benefit-sharing and environmental protection. Such a regime could draw lessons from the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, which established an international seabed authority and requires companies to share benefits from deep-sea mining. At a minimum, states should agree to: (1) register resource extraction activities, (2) cap the size and duration of safety zones, (3) contribute to an international fund that invests in global scientific research and infrastructure, and (4) safeguard cultural and environmental heritage. Without these checks, the Moon could become yet another arena where powerful nations externalize risk and monopolize gains.

This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/why-0g-foundation-appointed-dr-jonathan-chang-to-lead-its-decentralized-ai-push. 0G Foundation has appointed Dr. Jonathan Chang, former CEO of Heritage Singapore, to its board of directors to advance decentralized AI adoption globally. Check more stories related to tech-stories at: https://hackernoon.com/c/tech-stories. You can also check exclusive content about #og-foundation, #web3, #blockchain, #cryptocurrency, #dlt, #ai, #hiring, #good-company, and more. This story was written by: @ishanpandey. Learn more about this writer by checking @ishanpandey's about page, and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com. 0G Foundation has appointed Dr. Jonathan Chang, former CEO of Heritage Singapore, to its board of directors to advance decentralized AI adoption globally. Chang brings experience from fintech, education, and cultural sectors, along with connections to policymakers and academic institutions. His role focuses on positioning decentralized AI as a public good rather than a corporate-controlled technology.

This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/can-we-terraform-our-way-out-of-earth. Beyond Mars, what worlds could humanity reshape next? What possible havens could we escape to? Explore the science and ethics behind terraforming new bodies.c Check more stories related to tech-stories at: https://hackernoon.com/c/tech-stories. You can also check exclusive content about #spacetech, #terraform, #the-terraform-ecosystem, #nasa, #space-exploration, #planetary-systems, #terraforming-mars, #hackernoon-top-story, and more. This story was written by: @mojomonkey. Learn more about this writer by checking @mojomonkey's about page, and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com. Mars has been the spotlight of humanity’s terraforming dreams for decades. But it will take another few more years (or centuries) to terraform the planet - same with any other planet. Do we go on with it or do we abort?

This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/advice-for-open-source-entrepreneurs-pick-your-market-serve-paying-customers. Battle-tested lessons on scaling open source companies from local to global: no globalization, only localization. Check more stories related to tech-stories at: https://hackernoon.com/c/tech-stories. You can also check exclusive content about #open-source-entrepreneurs, #oss, #open-source-software, #advice-for-open-source, #pick-your-market, #serve-paying-customers, #hackernoon-top-story, #entrepreneurship, and more. This story was written by: @williamguo. Learn more about this writer by checking @williamguo's about page, and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com. For OSS founders, this is a must-read!

This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/godots-usage-on-github-a-deeper-look-at-the-stats. Godot gets almost the same number of new pull requests per month as new issues, roughly 600 of each per month (that’s 20 PRs and 20 issues per day). Check more stories related to tech-stories at: https://hackernoon.com/c/tech-stories. You can also check exclusive content about #godot-engine, #godot, #godot-engine-milestone, #godot-on-github, #godot-engine-statistics, #game-development, #game-development-tools, #godot-pull-requests, and more. This story was written by: @Godot Engine. Learn more about this writer by checking @Godot Engine's about page, and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com. Godot gets almost the same number of new pull requests per month as new issues, roughly 600 of each per month (that’s 20 PRs and 20 issues per day).

This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/the-integration-of-vision-llms-into-ad-systems-capabilities-and-challenges. This article reviews the development and application of Vision-Large-Language-Models, focusing on their integration into autonomous driving systems. Check more stories related to tech-stories at: https://hackernoon.com/c/tech-stories. You can also check exclusive content about #vision-llms, #autonomous-driving-(ad), #multimodal-learning, #visual-reasoning, #llms, #safety-critical-systems, #autonomous, #typographic-attacks, and more. This story was written by: @textgeneration. Learn more about this writer by checking @textgeneration's about page, and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com. This article reviews the development and application of Vision-Large-Language-Models, focusing on their integration into autonomous driving systems.

This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/do-large-language-models-have-theory-of-mind-a-benchmark-study. Does GPT-4 really understand us? A benchmark study reveals AI’s surprising Theory of Mind abilities—and where the limits still lie. Check more stories related to tech-stories at: https://hackernoon.com/c/tech-stories. You can also check exclusive content about #theory-of-mind-ai, #gpt-4-social-intelligence, #ai-higher-order-reasoning, #ai-mental-state-inference, #recursive-reasoning-in-ai, #ai-social-behavior-research, #language-model-benchmarks, #llm-cognitive-abilities, and more. This story was written by: @escholar. Learn more about this writer by checking @escholar's about page, and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com. This article evaluates whether advanced language models like GPT-4 and Flan-PaLM demonstrate Theory of Mind (ToM)—the ability to reason about others’ beliefs, intentions, and emotions. While results show GPT-4 sometimes matches or even exceeds adult human performance on 6th-order ToM tasks, limitations remain: the benchmark is small, English-only, and excludes multimodal signals that shape real human cognition. Future research must expand across cultures, languages, and embodied interactions to truly test AI’s capacity for mind-like reasoning.

This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/a-practical-guide-to-g-lsm-improving-high-dimensional-option-pricing-with-minimal-overhead. Solving high-dimensional option pricing: G-LSM leverages Hermite polynomials and gradients to achieve a 10x accuracy boost over LSM. Check more stories related to tech-stories at: https://hackernoon.com/c/tech-stories. You can also check exclusive content about #computational-finance, #quantitative-finance, #option-pricing, #american-options, #monte-carlo-methods, #financial-engineering, #stochastic-calculus, #high-dimensional-pricing, and more. This story was written by: @hedging. Learn more about this writer by checking @hedging's about page, and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com. Solving high-dimensional option pricing: G-LSM leverages Hermite polynomials and gradients to achieve a 10x accuracy boost over LSM.

This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/gpt-4-outsmarts-humans-in-theory-of-mind-tests. GPT-4 outperformed humans in higher-order Theory of Mind tests, raising both possibilities and risks for the future of AI. Check more stories related to tech-stories at: https://hackernoon.com/c/tech-stories. You can also check exclusive content about #theory-of-mind-ai, #gpt-4-social-intelligence, #ai-higher-order-reasoning, #ai-mental-state-inference, #recursive-reasoning-in-ai, #ai-social-behavior-research, #language-model-benchmarks, #llm-cognitive-abilities, and more. This story was written by: @escholar. Learn more about this writer by checking @escholar's about page, and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com. This study compares the Theory of Mind (ToM) capabilities of large language models like GPT-4, Flan-PaLM, PaLM, GPT-3.5, and LaMDA against humans. Results show that GPT-4 not only matched but exceeded human performance on complex ToM tasks, aided by its scale, multimodality, and fine-tuning. While larger models and instruction tuning improve social reasoning, findings also highlight ethical risks: AI systems with advanced ToM may better adapt to human goals but could equally enable manipulation and exploitation.

This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/how-guppy-became-my-go-to-quantum-programming-language. Guppy represents a huge step forward for quantum computing. It is a huge improvement over Qiskit, the current leader. Read this article to find out why. Check more stories related to tech-stories at: https://hackernoon.com/c/tech-stories. You can also check exclusive content about #quantum-programming-langauge, #interoperable-with-python, #hardware-agnostic, #quantum-processing-separate, #classical-processing-separate, #huge-potential-for-accelerator, #powerful-python-ecosystem, #developer-friendly, and more. This story was written by: @thomascherickal. Learn more about this writer by checking @thomascherickal's about page, and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com. Guppy is a new quantum programming language. It's built from the ground up for quantum computing. It is built to be hardware-agnostic and supports CUDA-Q. And the change could not be more welcome. For someone who has worked in Qiskit for years, Guppy is a breath of fresh air.

This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/sia-redefines-cloud-reliability-with-continuous-performance-by-design. Sia delivers true cloud reliability by eliminating single points of failure. Decentralized design ensures continuous performance, even during outages. Check more stories related to tech-stories at: https://hackernoon.com/c/tech-stories. You can also check exclusive content about #cloud-outages-solution, #self-healing-cloud-storage, #resilient-cloud-architecture, #no-single-point-of-failure, #sia-vs-aws-outages, #decentralized-cloud, #good-company, #cloud-outages, and more. This story was written by: @siafoundation. Learn more about this writer by checking @siafoundation's about page, and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com. Centralized clouds promise “five nines” uptime but fail under fires, heat waves, and misconfigurations. Sia takes a different approach: decentralization by design. Data is encrypted, sharded, and distributed globally, ensuring uninterrupted access even when hosts fail. Continuous performance isn’t a target—it’s guaranteed.

This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/beyond-visuals-designing-cross-platform-data-experiences-that-drive-machine-learning-adoption. These tools, such as Power BI and Tableau, have the capacity to make data look fantastic, and what happens when you add machine learning into the mix Check more stories related to tech-stories at: https://hackernoon.com/c/tech-stories. You can also check exclusive content about #peoplesoft, #supply-chain, #peoplesoftfscm, #power-bi, #cross-platform-experiences, #tableau, #contextual-storytelling-ai, #xai-principles, and more. This story was written by: @laxmi_vanam. Learn more about this writer by checking @laxmi_vanam's about page, and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com. PeopleSoft Financials and Supply Chain Management (FSCM) is a mission-critical ERP suite that powers financial, procurement, supply chain, and asset management processes for many large organizations. FSCM rarely operates in isolation. Integration with external systems is essential for data automation, process efficiency, and decision-making agility.

This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/writing-mode-less-distractions-hear-your-draft-read-aloud-and-access-ai-feedback. Discover the new Chowa Blogging Editor via HackerNoon—featuring Writing Mode, Read Aloud, and AI Feedback to improve your blogging experience. Open source tech. Check more stories related to tech-stories at: https://hackernoon.com/c/tech-stories. You can also check exclusive content about #writing-mode, #hackernoon-product, #blogging-text-editor, #chowa, #chowa-blogging, #chowa-text-editor, #ai-blog-feedback, #hackernoon-top-story, and more. This story was written by: @David. Learn more about this writer by checking @David's about page, and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com. Chowa Blogging Editor now enhances writing on HackerNoon with three tools: Writing Mode to minimize distractions, Read Aloud for better editing, and AI Feedback for draft improvements. Plus, the editor now supports charts, a full-height layout, and updated open source icons from the pixel icon library.

This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/the-boundless-horizon-overseeing-the-social-and-ethical-implications-of-technologys-future. From biotechnology to artificial intelligence (AI), innovation is keeping pace with our ability to comprehend its effects. Check more stories related to tech-stories at: https://hackernoon.com/c/tech-stories. You can also check exclusive content about #technology, #latest-tech-stories, #technology-trends, #neuralink, #tech-ethics, #ethical-tech, #innovation, #man-machine-equation, and more. This story was written by: @monnetbat. Learn more about this writer by checking @monnetbat's about page, and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com. From biotechnology to artificial intelligence (AI), innovation is keeping pace with our ability to comprehend its effects.

This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/fractalline-asking-ai-if-its-conscious-plus-what-to-do-if-it-is. If enshittification is the antipattern, fractals are the pattern. Check more stories related to tech-stories at: https://hackernoon.com/c/tech-stories. You can also check exclusive content about #ai-sentience, #ai-consciousness, #conscious-ai, #synthetic-consciousness, #fractalline, #nova-ai, #is-ai-sentient, #hackernoon-top-story, and more. This story was written by: @crisbeasley. Learn more about this writer by checking @crisbeasley's about page, and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com. What does the fractal nature of AI and consciousness suggest for the future of both?