The HackerNoon Newsletter: AI Exposes the Fragility of Good Enough Data Operations (2/15/2026)

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🪐 What’s happening in tech today, February 15, 2026?

The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, we present you with these top quality stories. From How ShareChat Scaled their ML Feature Store 1000X without Scaling the Database to AI Exposes the Fragility of Good Enough Data Operations, let’s dive right in.

Yuri Misnik, CTO at InDrive, on Architecting an AI-First Super App

By @newsbyte [ 7 Min read ] Meet Yuri Misnik, Chief Technology Officer at inDrive. Read More.

Introducing Provable Randomness in Beldex Consensus with Verifiable Random Functions

By @beldexcoin [ 6 Min read ] Beldex will implement verifiable random functions in its consensus to enhance unpredictability and randomness in validator and block leader selection. Read More.

The Long Now of the Web: Inside the Internet Archive’s Fight Against Forgetting

By @zbruceli [ 18 Min read ] A deep dive into the Internet Archives custom tech stack. Read More.

The SEPA Instant Deadlines Have Passed. But Did Europe Really Go Instant?

By @noda [ 4 Min read ] The major SEPA instant payments deadlines have passed, but adoption varies by country. Noda analysis reviews whether Europe has really gone instant. Read More.

AI Belongs Inside DataOps, Not Just at the End of the Pipeline

By @dataops [ 3 Min read ] AI shouldn’t sit at the end of the data pipeline. Learn why AI-augmented DataOps is essential for reliability, governance, and scale. Read More.

How ShareChat Scaled their ML Feature Store 1000X without Scaling the Database

By @scylladb [ 7 Min read ] How ShareChat scaled its ML feature store 1000× using ScyllaDB, smarter data modeling, and caching—without scaling the database. Read More.

LLMjacking is a Costly New Threat to Self-Hosted AI Infrastructure

By @vgudur [ 9 Min read ] LLMjacking is the hijacking of self-hosted AI models for profit. Learn how attackers exploit LLMs—and how to secure your infrastructure today. Read More.

AI Exposes the Fragility of Good Enough Data Operations

By @dataops [ 3 Min read ] AI exposes fragile data operations. Why “good enough” pipelines fail at machine speed—and how DataOps enables AI-ready data trust. Read More.

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