The 198 Top Hacker Noon Stories Right Now — August 2018
A moment in time showing today’s technology trends
Technology is all about the now and the future.
Here are the Hacker Noon stories that people are interested in right now, according to Medium’s trending algorithm (available at hackernoon.com/trending). You can also find most read stories by year, month and day in the Hacker Noon archive.
1. Learn Blockchains by Building One by Daniel van Flymen
You’re here because, like me, you’re psyched about the rise of Cryptocurrencies. And you want to know how Blockchains work — the fundamental technology behind them.
But understanding Blockchains isn’t easy — or at least wasn’t for me. I trudged…
2. Testing Node.js in 2018 by Nick Parsons
Stream powers feeds for over 300+ million end users. With all of those users relying on our infrastructure, we’re very good about testing everything that gets pushed into production. Our primary codebase is written in Go, with some remaining bits of Python.
Our recent showcase application, Winds 2.0, is…
3. Ruby on Rails to Lucky on Crystal: Blazing fast, fewer bugs, and even more fun. by Paul Smith
I love Ruby and I love Rails, but I’ve found myself searching for something more. Something fast so I don’t need to add caching. Something type-safe so customers see fewer bugs. Something fun to use so I actually enjoy building applications.
Would Elixir scratch my itch? It was a good start. It made it fun to write…
4. Reacting to React.js by Puyan Wei
Literally a month ago there was excitement in the Vue.js community that Vue.js got more stars than React.js on github. Stars like Hollywood stars? Really, no lol, but maybe metaphorically… or philosophically?
Github stars is a way for developers to effectively bookmark that page so that…
5. Why Increased Scrutiny is Good for ICOs & the Industries they Disrupt by Reza Jafery
It seems like the Initial Coin Offering (ICO) mania of 2017 (and early 2018) is beginning to skitter to a halt. While it may have been possible to raise millions for a cryptocurrency based on damn near anything last year, the landscape is changing. Both retail investors and regulators are smartening up. Retail investors are…
6. A fresher’s guide to DevRel by Srushtika Neelakantam
Where I come from, i.e India, the term ‘fresher’ is used to indicate a person who has just finished graduation and has no work experience. Today, I cease to be a fresher. It’s as much refreshing as it’s nostalgic. It’s also sad that like a lot of other things, I’m done being a fresher and I already feel old.
I got my first job…
7. Why AI Will Bring an Explosion of New Jobs by Daniel Jeffries
AI terrifies a lot of people.
From superintelligent puppet masters taking over the world, to fiery self-driving car crashes, to the coming age of killer machines, more and more the rise of AI seems like a chilling Black Mirror episode.
But it’s the end of all jobs that horrifies…
8. Exploring Quantum Programming from “Hello World” to “Hello Quantum World” by Rahul Kumar
We have reached in an era where we can now implement basic AND, OR and XOR logics on quantum circuits similar to the classical computing and we call this era as Quantum Era.
This article is a simple introduction to Applied Quantum Computing (AQC)…
9. One-shot containers with Serverless by Mohamed Labouardy
Have you ever had short lived containers like the following use cases:
· Batch and ETL (Extract, Transform & Load) Jobs.
· Database backups and replication.
· Machine Learning algorithms for…
10. How to Push out SaaS as Quick as Possible by Emil Bruckner
Set out to build something? Don’t spend your time on building. Spend your time on talking to customers and marketing your product. That’s especially true for solopreneurs. The problem is that building a web or mobile app takes way more time then we’d like.
We’ve all heard…
11. Simple React Development in 2018 by Joshua Comeau
Maybe you’re a jQuery developer looking to experiment with a modern framework. Or, maybe you’re an Angular developer wanting to see what all the hype is about. Maybe you’re a seasoned back-end or systems programmer looking to make the jump to front-end. Maybe you’re new to programming in…
12. SoftBank is Stifling Entrepreneurship by Max Zamkow
The story of Silicon Valley is one of regular cycles. A company is founded, scales rapidly, it’s employees start their own companies, and the cycle repeats.
The first cycle began in 1965 with Shockley Semiconductor, the first silicon-based high tech company in the bay area. In less than two years the company…
13. Why It Is Not Working For You? It’s Time To Introspect by Pramod Chandrayan
It has been my personal experience that if things are not happening as per your expectations in your personal and professional life, It is you, who are responsible. It is you, who is a loser, it is you, who don’t have the required skills-set to deliver. It is you, who don’t have the material to run the business, so it is time to…
14. How to Select the Right IoT Hardware: From Prototype to Production by Jeffrey Lee
IoT development boards and modules are at the heart of every connected product. As IoT has developed, the variety and technical capabilities of these boards has only become more complex. When building an IoT product, you may start off with an off-the-shelf prototyping kit, but as you progress through…
15. How to setup AWS Lambda with SQS — everything you should know! by Ran Ribenzaft
AWS recently introduced SQS integration to Lambda. We have been waiting for this for a long time now. In the following post, I’m going to share a quick-and-simple tutorial on how to get started with message distribution between Lambda functions, using SQS.
In addition, I will also compare between…
16. Hackernoon Live: Updates from the Google Cloud keynote by Jay Zalowitz
9:24 PST — And we are live from the google cloud keynote. We are going to be doing something a little differently today by giving live updates from a thing. We wont be auto refreshing, so you will have to refresh on your own.
9:30 — Diane Green is going through the standard “What have we done this…
17. The Tools We Need to Implement Liquid Democracy by Coalichain
“The state of men without civil society is nothing else but a mere war of all against all.” Thomas Hobbes
The role of any political system is to organize a civil society so as to ensure the peaceful cohabitation of large populations and organize the flow of goods and…
18. Data Marketplaces: The Holy Grail of our Information Age by Jeremiah Smith
This is part 2 of the Data Deep Dive series. Part 1 describes how data is transforming virtually all aspects of our economy and society, but that the true promise of the Data Economy remains largely unfulfilled because we still lack the technology to allow for standard, secure and efficient data…
19. A crypto-trader’s diary — week 13; TRON by David Gilbertson
This week, I took a look at TRON, broke my cardinal rule, thought about your privacy (and how to invade it).
But first …
The profit check…
20. Microservices, bounded context, cohesion. What do they have in common? by Bruno Costa
We live in a decade where the industry has a general consensus on how to scale an organization. We know that microservices help us work together with hundreds or thousands of other software engineers, we know autonomy is a key factor and DDD is fundamental to communicate clarity with other teams…
21. The Programmer’s Guide to Booking a Plane by Zeke Gabrielse
About two months ago, I wanted to go on a vacation. I had the hotel more or less picked out, but the transportation was still up in the air.
I began by scouring the web for cheap plane tickets, like normal travel folks seem to do. I scoured all of the fancy airlines, but all of their fares were too…
22. A Review of Udacity’s React Nano Degree by Bilal Tahir
Yesterday, I finished my 2nd Nano Degree. As a typical Millennial, I have been having a quarter life crisis every two years starting in my 20s. This led me down the path of my first career change from a (wannabe) Actuary to a Data Analyst in 2015, and my first foray into online education which was, you…
23. Autoencoders — Deep Learning bits #1 by Julien Despois
Featured: data compression, image reconstruction and segmentation (with examples!)
In the “Deep Learning bits” series, we will not see how to use deep learning to solve complex problems end-to-end as we do in A.I. Odyssey. We will rather look at different techniques, along with some examples and…
24. Implementing hidesNavigationBarWhenPushed on UIViewController by Danil Gontovnik
It’s been a while since my last post.
I am back and hoping to dedicate more time to writing tutorials and open sourcing interesting things.
What this post is…
25. How to be Productive When Traveling by Anthony Castrio
In May of this year, I founded a software agency and started living as a digital nomad. That means that wherever I go, I take my work with me on my laptop and on my phone.
Here’s what I’ve learned over the last month and a half about working when you’re permanently…
