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🪐 What’s happening in tech today, August 21, 2026?
The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, Burroughs Received Patent for Calculating Machine in 1888, NASA lost communication with the Mars Observer almost a year after its launch in 1993, Android version 8.0 (Oreo) was released in 2017, and we present you with these top quality stories. From Inside IARPA’s Push to Detect Neurological Disorders With Spy Technology to AI Agents Are Customers Now. AURa Is How I Take Notes on How They Shop, let’s dive right in.
How I Built a Data Pipeline From Scratch Using Python
By @elsierainee [ 8 Min read ] Learn how I built a scalable data pipeline from scratch using Python, covering ingestion, processing, storage, and automation. Read More.
AI Agents Are Customers Now. AURa Is How I Take Notes on How They Shop
By @keeper-scvd [ 4 Min read ] Agentic User Research accounting (AURa): what happened when I hired AI models to shop my own x402 store and kept honest records on every transaction. Read More.
Inside IARPA’s Push to Detect Neurological Disorders With Spy Technology
By @thesociable [ 4 Min read ] IARPA’s MOVES program aims to detect neurological disorders from uncontrolled video using skeletal tracking, body-shape reconstruction, and diagnostic scoring. Read More.
Turning a SaaS App Into an Agentic System Without Rewriting the Backend
By @nandish [ 8 Min read ] A systematic approach to convert SaaS applications into Agentic Systems Read More.
How to Build Contract-Driven API Tests With OpenAPI and AI
By @tankisleva [ 22 Min read ] How we generate a typed Java API client from OpenAPI, measure coverage against the spec in CI, and feed the gaps to an LLM to write missing tests. Read More.
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