The HackerNoon Newsletter: Agentic AI and the Rise of Outcome Engineering (8/10/2025)

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10 Aug 2025

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🪐 What’s happening in tech today, August 10, 2025?


The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, The first wedding took place while being in space. in 2003, Computer Inventor Rajchman was Born in 1911, Canon Inc was established in 1937, and we present you with these top quality stories. From I Built a Custom MCP Server in Golang To Make Claude Smarter—Heres How to Meta’s AI Boss Just Called LLMs ‘Simplistic’ — Here’s What He’s Building Instead, let’s dive right in.

Immutable Backups: Everything You Need To Know To Protect Your Cloud


By @n2w [ 6 Min read ] Learn how immutable backups prevent ransomware, ensure data integrity, and meet compliance needs with secure, tamper-proof cloud data protection. Read More.

I Built a Custom MCP Server in Golang To Make Claude Smarter—Heres How


By @rajashree [ 10 Min read ] Build a Golang-based MCP server that Claude can talk to—and watch your natural language prompts turn into real tool executions. Read More.

Heres The Exact Indie-Hacking Vibe-Coding Setup I Use as a Middle-Aged Product Manager


By @ivankuznetsov [ 7 Min read ] Middle-aged PM shares his AI-powered vibe-coding setup after restarting dev journey to beat burnout. Read More.

How Frequently Do IP Addresses Change and Why It Matters for Accurate Data


By @ipinfo [ 7 Min read ] Discover how often IP addresses change, why IPv4 is less stable than IPv6, and how IPinfo updates its data daily for accuracy and security. Read More.

The Dating App Breach That Turned Into a Biometric Black Mirror Episode


By @qryptonic [ 6 Min read ] Teas Firebase misconfiguration exposed 1.1M sensitive messages. Read More.

Could This Be the Best AI Video Generation Model? Alibaba Releases Wan 2.2


By @thisweekinaieng [ 6 Min read ] Alibabas Wan 2.2 delivers cinematic quality video generation with 27B parameters but only 14B active per step. Read More.

Meta’s AI Boss Just Called LLMs ‘Simplistic’ — Here’s What He’s Building Instead


By @hacker-Antho [ 8 Min read ] Yann LeCun, Chief AI Scientist at Meta, discusses the future of AI. Read More.

Agentic AI and the Rise of Outcome Engineering


By @editingprotocol [ 4 Min read ] Agentic AI goes beyond prompts. Discover how autonomous AI tools can supercharge your writing, research, and content workflow. Read More.


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