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This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/redefining-online-dating-and-defying-doubt-how-yesong-kim-is-building-human-centered-tech. I’m Yesong (Song) Kim, the solo founder of Zeya, a social dating startup redefining modern dating through human-centric & curated offline hangouts for singles Check more stories related to tech-stories at: https://hackernoon.com/c/tech-stories. You can also check exclusive content about #technology, #women-in-tech, #women-in-tech-interview, #online-dating, #zeya, #hackernoon-interviews, #human-centered-design, and more. This story was written by: @newsbyte. Learn more about this writer by checking @newsbyte's about page, and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com. Yesong (Song) Kim is the solo founder of social dating startup Zeya. She is concerned about the rise of deepfakes and AI-enabled scams. Kim is excited about the potential of AI in dating and human connection.

This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/do-you-still-own-nfts-what-the-data-says-about-the-state-of-digital-collectibles. HackerNoon's new Weekly Newsletter curates Results from our Poll of the Week and 2 related polls around the web. This week's topic is NFTs. Check more stories related to tech-stories at: https://hackernoon.com/c/tech-stories. You can also check exclusive content about #poll-of-the-week, #3-tech-polls, #hackernoon, #nft, #nfts-in-2025, #cryptopunks, #donald-trump-nft, #nft-economy, and more. This story was written by: @3techpolls. Learn more about this writer by checking @3techpolls's about page, and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com. This week, we’re talking about a subject that has seemingly come and gone: NFTs. More than 240 people responded, letting us know whether they were still on the hype train or not.

This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/the-ecological-cost-of-the-digital-revolution. The digital revolution promises progress, but its hidden costs—from e-waste to rising carbon emissions—are pushing the planet toward crisis. Check more stories related to tech-stories at: https://hackernoon.com/c/tech-stories. You can also check exclusive content about #ai-energy-consumption, #digitization, #digital-pollution, #e-waste-crisis, #carbon-footprint-of-tech, #tech-sustainability, #digital-revolution, #environmental-impact-of-ai, and more. This story was written by: @vlabroo. Learn more about this writer by checking @vlabroo's about page, and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com. The digital revolution requires gargantuan levels of electricity consumption to sustain itself, exacerbating an already precarious climate change scenario. The social havoc being wreaked by relentless digitisation is all-pervasive. The collapse of traditional ways and means of social networking for people across age groups, as well as the dangers posed by deepfake technology, are not things that can be swept under the carpet without reaping the most harmful consequences.

This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/instance-aware-group-quantization-for-vision-transformers. A new PTQ method, IGQ-ViT, uses dynamic instance-aware grouping to quantize Vision Transformers efficiently without major accuracy loss. Check more stories related to tech-stories at: https://hackernoon.com/c/tech-stories. You can also check exclusive content about #computer-vision-models, #vision-transformers, #post-training-quantization, #model-compression, #instance-aware-ai, #neural-network-efficiency, #low-bit-neural-networks, #igq-vit, and more. This story was written by: @instancing. Learn more about this writer by checking @instancing's about page, and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com. Post-training quantization works well for CNNs but breaks down with Vision Transformers due to highly variable activation distributions. IGQ-ViT solves this by dynamically grouping channels per input instance so each group shares similar statistics, then quantizing them with shared parameters. The method also extends to softmax attention and includes a group-allocation strategy under BOP constraints. Across classification, detection, and segmentation tasks, IGQ-ViT delivers state-of-the-art quantization results for ViTs at low bit-widths without costly retraining.

This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/ssz-ql-a-guide-to-querying-ethereums-beaconstate-using-offsets-proofs-and-g-indexes. Learn how SSZ-QL lets Ethereum clients request tiny slices of BeaconState with Merkle proofs, using generalized indexes and SSZ analysis. Check more stories related to tech-stories at: https://hackernoon.com/c/tech-stories. You can also check exclusive content about #ethereum-query-language, #generalized-index, #serialization, #proof-of-concept-(poc), #ssz-ql, #multi-proof, #ssz-ql-beaconstate, #hackernoon-top-story, and more. This story was written by: @sahil4555. Learn more about this writer by checking @sahil4555's about page, and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com. Ethereum consensus clients today can’t efficiently serve small, verifiable pieces of BeaconState without shipping the entire ~271MB state or relying on ad-hoc debug endpoints. SSZ-QL, originally proposed by Etan Kissling and now prototyped by Jun and Fernando in Prysm, defines a standard query language for requesting arbitrary SSZ subtrees plus Merkle proofs, across both consensus and execution clients. The article walks through how generalized indexes and SSZ serialization shape the Merkle tree, how Prysm’s SSZ analyzer (analyzeType + PopulateVariableLengthInfo) computes offsets and chunk layouts, and how new Beacon API endpoints expose an initial SSZ-QL-powered /states/{state_id}/query and /blocks/{block_id}/query interface.

This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/what-happens-when-telegrams-1-billion-users-get-access-to-ethical-ai-alphaton-has-a-plan. AlphaTON partners with SingularityNET to deploy hydroelectric-powered GPUs for Telegram's Cocoon AI network in Sweden. Check more stories related to tech-stories at: https://hackernoon.com/c/tech-stories. You can also check exclusive content about #alpha-ton-capital, #singularity, #ai, #telegram, #cryptocurrency, #web3, #cudo-compute, #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. AlphaTON Capital has partnered with SingularityNET, CUDO Compute, and Vertical Data to deploy hydroelectric-powered GPU infrastructure in Sweden for Telegram's Cocoon AI network. The collaboration addresses three critical challenges in modern AI: privacy preservation, environmental sustainability, and decentralized computing. With Telegram's billion-plus user base representing one of the largest untapped markets for privacy-focused AI applications, this partnership positions AlphaTON at the intersection of blockchain finance and ethical AI infrastructure. The first GPU deployment begins Q4 2025, financed through Vertical Data's GPUFinancing.com platform.

This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/brands-find-the-right-hackernoon-services-for-you. Discover HackerNoon's marketing services for tech brands. From business blogging and SEO to targeted ads and writing contests - reach 4M+ engaged technologists. Check more stories related to tech-stories at: https://hackernoon.com/c/tech-stories. You can also check exclusive content about #hack-marketing-with-hackernoon, #marketing, #growth-hacking, #business-growth, #hackernoon-business-blogging, #hackernoon-services, #tech-companies, #hackernoon-top-story, and more. This story was written by: @hackmarketing. Learn more about this writer by checking @hackmarketing's about page, and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com. Finding the right marketing service shouldn't be complicated. From business blogging and SEO boosts to targeted ads and writing contests, HackerNoon offers tailored solutions to help tech brands reach millions of engaged developers and decision-makers.

This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/ai-can-write-code-fast-it-still-cannot-build-software. Why GenAI hits limits in real-world coding and governance. Learn how AI orchestration and safeguards outperform bigger models. Check more stories related to tech-stories at: https://hackernoon.com/c/tech-stories. You can also check exclusive content about #ai-governance-framework, #no-code-development-tools, #generative-ai, #multi-agent-systems, #ai-orchestration, #ai-infrastructure, #low-code-platform, #ai-observability, and more. This story was written by: @dynamo. Learn more about this writer by checking @dynamo's about page, and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com. AI coding assistants struggle with reliability, context retention, and task completion. Scaling models and context windows adds cost but not capability. The breakthrough lies in multi-agent orchestration and AI governance, enabling aligned, traceable, and safe task automation across complex workflows where single-shot prompting fails.

This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/youre-wrong-about-founder-led-ai-content-all-of-you. A rant from Ken on the annoying black and white thinking I hear daily about founder led AI content creation. Check more stories related to tech-stories at: https://hackernoon.com/c/tech-stories. You can also check exclusive content about #ai-content, #founder-led-content, #authentic-marketing, #personal-branding-for-founders, #ai-storytelling, #generative-ai-strategy, #content-automation, #emotional-resonance-in-content, and more. This story was written by: @meetsona. Learn more about this writer by checking @meetsona's about page, and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com. Have an opinion. Focus on topics your audience/customers care about. Speak your thougths or record a conversation. Use transcripts + AI + templates to scale content with taste that resonates.

This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/what-determines-how-much-funding-african-startups-raise. Discover the key factors driving startup funding across Africa—gender, education, incubators, and more shaping the continent’s innovation boom. Check more stories related to tech-stories at: https://hackernoon.com/c/tech-stories. You can also check exclusive content about #african-startups, #startup-funding-africa, #venture-capital-africa, #african-entrepreneurship, #startup-investment-data, #startup-policy-africa, #african-startup-ecosystem, #venture-capital-research, and more. This story was written by: @exitstrategy. Learn more about this writer by checking @exitstrategy's about page, and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com. This study explores the factors shaping how much funding African startups raise, revealing the strong influence of founder profiles, gender diversity, incubators, and exit strategies on deal amounts. It highlights how these insights can guide policymakers, investors, and ecosystem builders in creating supportive environments that drive sustainable innovation, cross-border collaboration, and economic growth across the continent’s startup landscape.

This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/r-systems-blogbookchapter-1-round-3-is-now-open-for-submissions. Enter Round 3 of R Systems BlogBook to write on WebAssembly or GenAI, win prizes, and be published on HackerNoon. Submissions window: Aug 11 - Sept 10, 2025. Check more stories related to tech-stories at: https://hackernoon.com/c/tech-stories. You can also check exclusive content about #r-systems-blogbook, #agentic-ai-frameworks, #gen-ai-integration, #web-assembly, #genai-for-saas, #r-systems-blogbook-chapter-1, #high-performance-computing, #hackernoon-writing-contests, and more. This story was written by: @hackernooncontests. Learn more about this writer by checking @hackernooncontests's about page, and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com. The final round of the R Systems BlogBook - Chapter 1 has begun. Share your technical insights on WebAssembly for high-performance web apps and Generative AI in SaaS. Stand a chance to win amazing prizes like HackerNoon badges. The deadline for the contest is xxx

This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/inside-the-data-what-shapes-startup-deal-sizes-in-africa. Data-driven study uses machine learning to reveal the key factors influencing African startup deal amounts and investment outcomes. Check more stories related to tech-stories at: https://hackernoon.com/c/tech-stories. You can also check exclusive content about #african-startups, #startup-funding-africa, #venture-capital-africa, #african-entrepreneurship, #startup-investment-data, #startup-policy-africa, #african-startup-ecosystem, #venture-capital-research, and more. This story was written by: @exitstrategy. Learn more about this writer by checking @exitstrategy's about page, and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com. This study analyzes over 2,500 publicly disclosed African startup deals to uncover what drives investment sizes. By cleaning, merging, and engineering data from africathebigdeal.com, features were grouped into founding-team, company, and investment categories. Exploratory Data Analysis and four machine learning models — Linear Regression, SVR, Random Forest, and Gradient Boosting — were used to predict deal amounts. The best-performing model, validated via cross-validation, forms the basis for data-backed insights and policy recommendations aimed at strengthening Africa’s startup funding ecosystem.

This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/a-practical-guide-to-scaling-real-time-video-infrastructure. Learn how to scale real-time video streaming with FFmpeg & MediaMTX—architecting for performance, reliability, and global reach. Check more stories related to tech-stories at: https://hackernoon.com/c/tech-stories. You can also check exclusive content about #video-streaming, #ffmpeg, #rtsp, #webrtc, #real-time-video-architecture, #distributed-video-systems, #live-streaming-infrastructure, #origin-edge-servers, and more. This story was written by: @gold-olar. Learn more about this writer by checking @gold-olar's about page, and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com. This article focuses on patterns and thinking, not implementation details. We'll explore when to scale, which patterns to consider, and how to make architectural decisions that balance complexity against real needs.

This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/how-pain-can-help-explain-ai-sentience. Could AI ever feel pain? Explore the ethics, science, and moral dilemmas behind artificial suffering and machine consciousness. Check more stories related to tech-stories at: https://hackernoon.com/c/tech-stories. You can also check exclusive content about #conscious-ai, #machine-sentience, #artificial-pain, #ai-moral-responsibility, #reinforcement-learning, #ai-and-emotions, #philosophy-of-mind, #artificial-consciousness, and more. This story was written by: @OurAI. Learn more about this writer by checking @OurAI's about page, and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com. Pain, long considered a uniquely human teacher, may no longer be exclusive to biology. As AI systems grow more complex, emerging behaviors suggest they could one day simulate — or even experience — pain. This essay examines how artificial pain could redefine consciousness, challenge ethical frameworks, and force society to rethink moral responsibility toward intelligent machines. Drawing on neuroscience, philosophy, and recent experiments by Google DeepMind and others, it argues that the question isn’t whether AI pain is “real,” but whether we can ethically ignore it when its behavior mirrors our own suffering.

This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/byrrgis-founder-mass-adoption-wont-happen-until-we-fix-these-defi-problems. Talk Is Cheap, Actions Define You": How Byrrgis Is Rewriting DeFi Trust Check more stories related to tech-stories at: https://hackernoon.com/c/tech-stories. You can also check exclusive content about #byrrgis, #blockchain, #defi, #cryptocurrency, #dlt, #good-company, #web3, #byrrgis-news, 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. Siraaj Ahmed, founder of Byrrgis, talks about the platform's "curated packs" The "wolf pack" concept is at the heart of Byrrgis, he says. The company recently froze 57% of the $WOLF token supply for two years.

This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/asciidoc-when-markdown-just-isnt-cutting-it. Markdown is amazing, but it has strong limitations. Asciidoc is the perfect tool to fill Markdown's gaps. Check more stories related to tech-stories at: https://hackernoon.com/c/tech-stories. You can also check exclusive content about #asciidoc, #asciidoctor, #markdown, #documentation, #technical-writing, #markdown-alternative, #open-source-software, #hackernoon-top-story, and more. This story was written by: @nfrankel. Learn more about this writer by checking @nfrankel's about page, and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com. Markdown is a lightweight markup language for creating formatted text using a plain-text editor. John Gruber created Markdown in 2004 as an easy-to-read markup language. Markdown is amazing, but it has strong limitations.

This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/when-even-the-cloud-caught-a-cold-inside-the-aws-and-azure-outages-of-2025. In October 2025, AWS and Azure suffered major outages, exposing the fragility of the cloud and redefining resilience for modern internet infrastructure. Check more stories related to tech-stories at: https://hackernoon.com/c/tech-stories. You can also check exclusive content about #aws-outage, #azure-outage, #cloud-downtime, #multi-cloud-strategy, #resilient-cloud-architecture, #october-2025-outage, #cloud-reliability, #internet-infrastructure, and more. This story was written by: @mayukhsuri. Learn more about this writer by checking @mayukhsuri's about page, and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com. In October 2025, both AWS and Microsoft Azure—the pillars of today’s cloud—suffered massive outages just nine days apart. AWS US-EAST-1 collapsed under DNS and DynamoDB control-plane failures, while Azure Front Door spread a faulty global config that broke routing and authentication across Microsoft 365, Outlook, and Teams. The twin incidents exposed how fragile the “always-on” internet really is and cost billions in downtime. The key lesson? High availability isn’t true resilience. Multi-region setups aren’t enough; automate health checks, test failovers, and design for failure as the default. In the cloud era, resilience is not a feature—it’s a culture.

This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/why-power-flexible-ai-just-became-table-stakes. The questions investors should ask about AI data centers just changed. Why power flexibility is now table stakes for infrastructure deployment. Check more stories related to tech-stories at: https://hackernoon.com/c/tech-stories. You can also check exclusive content about #data-centers, #u.s-infrastructure-investments, #power-management, #ai-ready-architecture, #private-equity, #ai-data-centers, #ai-power-consumption, #ai-energy-needs, and more. This story was written by: @asitsahoo. Learn more about this writer by checking @asitsahoo's about page, and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com. AI infrastructure's real constraint: power, not chips. Aurora AI Factory (NVIDIA/Emerald, Virginia, 96MW, 2026) implements interruptible compute—software layer throttles training during grid stress, delivers 20-30% reductions, maintains SLAs. Enables faster permitting, lower capacity charges, wholesale market participation. Trade-off: longer training times for cheaper power. Key question: will two-tier market emerge (fixed for inference, flex for training)? 100GW capacity unlock claim assumes perfect coordination—directionally correct but optimistic. Power flexibility now mandatory for deployment. Due diligence questions: demand response capability, interruptible/fixed split, interconnection impact.

This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/building-a-cloud-native-data-lake-integrating-apache-seatunnel-with-aws-s3-tables-and-iceberg-rest. Easily integrate your data into Amazon S3 Tables with Apache SeaTunnel! Check more stories related to tech-stories at: https://hackernoon.com/c/tech-stories. You can also check exclusive content about #apache-seatunnel, #data-integration, #amazon-s3, #aws, #opensource, #pb-scale, #aws-s3-tables, #iceberg-rest, and more. This story was written by: @zhoujieguang. Learn more about this writer by checking @zhoujieguang's about page, and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com. Leverage Iceberg REST Catalog for seamless real-time & batch data ingestion — cloud-native, serverless, and production-ready.

This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/holiday-shopping-trends-to-watch-in-2025-what-the-data-tells-us-about-consumer-expectations. Discover 2025 holiday shopping trends. Shoppers start early, Black Friday loses appeal, and hybrid shopping is on the rise. Check more stories related to tech-stories at: https://hackernoon.com/c/tech-stories. You can also check exclusive content about #online-shopping, #holiday-shopping-trends, #holiday, #hybrid-shopping, #e-commerce, #e-commerce-business, #grow-ecommerce-business, #ecommerce-business-trend, and more. This story was written by: @joannacs. Learn more about this writer by checking @joannacs's about page, and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com. Holiday shopping trends in 2025 reflect several insights, including stress and uncertainty that have occurred throughout the year. The biggest holiday shopping trends for 2025 reveal that customers want to shop and celebrate weeks or even months earlier than the traditional holiday season. 60% of customers surveyed claim that Black Friday is no longer relevant for the customer experience.