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🪐 What’s happening in tech today, July 16, 2025?
The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, First Atomic Bomb Detonation in 1945, Apollo 11 Mission Launches in 1969, Amazon Opened For Business in 1995, and we present you with these top quality stories. From Code Smell 307 - Naive Time Assumptions and How to Fix It to The Web3 Development Writing Contest by GetBlock and HackerNoon: Results Announcement 🎉, let’s dive right in.
Teaching Your AI to Read: A Guide to Scraping, RAG, and Smart Data Insights
By @pigivinci [ 14 Min read ] Build an AI assistant with RAG: scrape with Firecrawl, create vector embeddings, and store in Pinecone to query custom web data via natural language. Read More.
The Web3 Development Writing Contest by GetBlock and HackerNoon: Results Announcement 🎉
By @hackernooncontests [ 4 Min read ] The Web3 Dev Contest results are in! See who won from $5,000 for top stories in the blockchain APIs, dApp development, and GetBlock tutorial categories. Read More.
Code Smell 307 - Naive Time Assumptions and How to Fix It
By @mcsee [ 7 Min read ] Time is not absolute. Your code breaks when you treat it that way. Read More.
How Grammarly and Kasta Made Ukraine a Global Clojure Hotspot
By @artfreshcode [ 4 Min read ] Grammarly’s AI engine and Kasta’s e-commerce platform showcase functional programming at global scale. Read More.
What Losing a 125K-Member Reddit Community Taught Me! The Digital Wake-Up Call I Didn’t See Coming
By @blackjoseph044 [ 6 Min read ] Heres a story of how my 125K-member FireStick Reddit community was suddenly wiped out by Reddit. Read More.
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