The HackerNoon Newsletter: Can AI Grow Up? Why Robots Don’t Have Childhoods (Yet) (5/13/2025)

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13 May 2025

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🪐 What’s happening in tech today, May 13, 2025?


The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, Tiananmen Square hunger strikes began in 1989, and we present you with these top quality stories. From Stop Looking At Other Resume Guides: This Is The Only One Youll Ever Need to You Can Only Trust Your Data if You Know What to Ignore, let’s dive right in.

The 10 Weirdest, Most Brilliant Algorithms Ever Devised and What They Actually Do


By @paoloap [ 12 Min read ] Discover 10 unusual algorithms that defied logic, broke rules, and transformed the way we think about technology and problem-solving. Read More.

Can AI Grow Up? Why Robots Don’t Have Childhoods (Yet)


By @phenomenology [ 6 Min read ] AI lacks the evolutionary, epigenetic, and developmental paths shaping human consciousness-limiting its potential for true self-aware or reflective minds. Read More.

Stop Looking At Other Resume Guides: This Is The Only One Youll Ever Need


By @ash [ 7 Min read ] A hiring manager’s no-BS playbook for writing a resume that actually works. Read More.

Startups, Do You Really Want to Pay The Microservices Tax?


By @nexo-tech [ 15 Min read ] Why early microservices can kill your startup’s velocity, and how monoliths help you ship faster and stay alive. Read More.

You Can Only Trust Your Data if You Know What to Ignore


By @volumize [ 6 Min read ] Testing feature selection methods with small datasets using similarity metrics like edit and Hausdorff distance to avoid overfitting in finance models. Read More.


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