David Smooke
@smooke.bsky.social
Founder & CEO @HackerNoon.com HackerNoon.com Blogs —> Blog.DavidSmooke.net
The most #useful #robots turn out to be the ones that abandoned the human shape. hackernoon.com/the-robots-c...
The Robots Changing the World Don’t Have Faces | HackerNoon
The most useful robots on Earth look nothing like us — they're rolling boxes, laser-armed gantries, and robot dogs, not the humanoids we were promised.
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Your Agent Doesn't Need Better Retries, It Needs a Circuit Breaker hackernoon.com/your-agent-d...
Your Agent Doesn't Need Better Retries, It Needs a Circuit Breaker | HackerNoon
Retry logic works for infrastructure failures. Learn why AI agents need circuit breakers to stop costly reasoning loops before they escalate.
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Legacy SQL injection nearly shipped, caught only because an internal hackathon let one dev poke outside scope. Real lesson: unscanned legacy code, not "assumed safe," is the actual risk.
The Security Bug That Almost Shipped | HackerNoon
A legacy SQL injection almost reached production until an internal security competition gave a developer permission to test beyond the release scope.
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The increasing burnout of Open Source developers through user pressure shows two things: a) We shouldn't accept any entitlement. b) We need to broaden the community beyond developers to include volunteers for communication and community management. #opensource #community
Open Source Maintainers Are Burning Out Under User Hostility | HackerNoon
Open source maintainers face burnout due to user hostility and lack of recognition, threatening the sustainability of critical projects.
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Another good article with links to research that show wellness apps (you know, ones like Calm) do NOT change burnout. hackernoon.com/another-medi... #mentalhealth #mindfulness #wellbeing #burnout #burnoutprevention
Another Meditation App Is Not the Fix to Workplace Burnout | HackerNoon
Burnout is not a resilience problem. It is what happens when workload, control, staffing, and incentives are designed to break people.
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My recent blog post about building for multiple apple platforms is live and on the front page of @hackernoon.com! 😃 👨💻🙌 hackernoon.com #iOSDev #VisionOSDev #MultiplatformDev
HackerNoon - read, write and learn about any technology
How hackers start their afternoon. HackerNoon is a free platform with 25k+ contributing writers. 100M+ humans have visited HackerNoon to learn about technology
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A small milestone, but a special one for me. #8 Top Writer in Engineering on #HackerNoon 🎉 Rejections, experiments, and a lot of writing along the way. Still learning. Still building. Still writing. 🚀
Seems like "cognition" in general is under attack from all sorts of angles. hackernoon.com/the-cognitiv...
The Cognitive Skills We May Be Quietly Losing to AI | HackerNoon
AI shifts our focus from "how" to build skills to "whether" to learn them. By eliminating cognitive friction, it silently erodes human thinking habits.
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Excited to see my article on "Autonomous Agentic Systems at Scale" now published in Hackernoon exclusives! This one provides a practical guide to "Always-On" agents 🚀 Blog: hackernoon.com/autonomous-a...
Academia Wants Guardrails, AI Wants Momentum This edition of 3 Tech Polls explores where academia should draw the line on AI-assisted writing. HackerNoon readers largely favor judging papers by research quality rather than AI usage alone, but concerns around hallucinated citation… #hackernews #news
Academia Wants Guardrails, AI Wants Momentum
This edition of 3 Tech Polls explores where academia should draw the line on AI-assisted writing. HackerNoon readers largely favor judging papers by research quality rather than AI usage alone, but concerns around hallucinated citations, weak oversight, and academic integrity remain strong as arXiv moves toward stricter enforcement.
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This Hackernoon post is from 2016. And yet, the experience today in 2026 is largely the same - albeit, now with added NPM supply chain attacks. The names have changed but the overwrought complexity is still there. hackernoon.com/how-it-feels...
How it feels to learn JavaScript in 2016 | HackerNoon
<em>No </em><a href="https://hackernoon.com/tagged/javascript" target="_blank"><em>JavaScript</em></a><em> frameworks were created during the writing of this article.</em>
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My article “How Writing Helps Developers Think Clearly” is now available as a podcast on @hackernoon.bsky.social. Interesting to see written content transformed into an audio experience for developers who prefer listening over reading. Listen here: share.transistor.fm/s/777f1e5e #Writing #Podcast
Thanks @hackernoon.com for picking up hackernoon.com/understandin... as #hackernoon-top-story #complexitymanagement #systemsthinking
Understanding Complexity Can Make Life and Work Less Complicated | HackerNoon
Systems thinking, complexity science & why control breaks down when the world stops behaving like a machine.
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DNA, neurons, and stem cells. My latest article for HackerNoon explores biocomputing and its potential as a response to the growing energy demands of data centers. But is that really what biocomputing can deliver? What role is it actually expected to play now and in the future?
HackerNoon@hackernoon.com · 4mo agoBiocomputing uses DNA and neurons as hardware, diverging in method and maturity, with DNA targeting archival storage and organoids acting as adaptive systems. #biocomputing
My Python data pipeline for analyzing 16,695 Arabic tweets and studying linguistic uncertainty and engagement patterns on X is now published on HackerNoon. Part of my research on Uncertainty–Reply Asymmetry.
HackerNoon@hackernoon.com · 5mo agoanalyzing 16,695 Python pipeline Arabic tweets from X to detect linguistic uncertainty and examine how language influences social media engagement. #datascience
Another day, another article I've had published on @hackernoon.com
AI Built the Cyberpunk Future We Were Warned About | HackerNoon
I use AI every day — and I'm starting to think it shouldn't exist. A technologist's uncomfortable take on jobs, power, weapons, and a cyberpunk future we built
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I Built a $32,000 AI Platform for Less Than a Penny, by @hackernoon@mas.to: https://hackernoon.com/i-built-a-$32000-ai-platform-for-less-than-a-penny #ai #architecture #economics #casestudies
I Built a $32,000 AI Platform for Less Than a Penny | HackerNoon
A third-party analysis priced the platform at $32,000. It was built in six hours on free compute. The first cognitive evaluation cost less than a penny.
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Just published on HackerNoon 🔥 "Google Stitch is Changing UI/UX Design in 2026" Explored how Google's new AI-powered design tool is transforming the way Flutter developers and designers create interfaces. Read here: hackernoon.com/google-stitc...
Google Stitch Is Changing UI/UX Design in 2026 | HackerNoon
Google Stitch generates UI from text but Figma is not going anywhere. Here is why AI is accelerating design and not replacing designers in 2026.
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Harper 5.0 is live. Our core runtime is now fully open source (Apache 2.0), with Harper Pro source-available under ELv2. Now with RocksDB + LMDB support. One platform for database, cache, messaging, and app logic—built for performance and scale. Read more: hackernoon.com/harper-launc...
Harper Launches 5.0: Fully Open-Source Runtime for Building and Deploying Cost-Efficient Agents | HackerNoon
Harper 5.0 launches with an open-source core, RocksDB support, and a unified runtime for AI agents—cutting latency and simplifying modern app development.
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It turns out: harming URL reach means valuable/good information is literally harder to find Thank you @hackernoon.com and @bleepingcomputer.com for being active on here I value not having to sift through *algorithmically engineered bias* before I find information
'That’s the big problem with chatbots—they will cite sources, they will say facts that are not facts. Then maybe there’s a little asterisk down at the bottom that says,”Sorry, some things here might not be true, double check all of them.” Which is just absurd.' hackernoon.com/this-journal...
This Journalism Professor Made a Better New York City Chatbot in Minutes: How He Did It | HackerNoon
He specifically asks his own bot some of the same questions we asked the city’s bot, and he got accurate responses when asking about rules for landlords
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Skynet😕 "AI can write your copy,debug your code, analyze your market, summarize your contracts, generate your pitch deck, and pass your bar exam..It is the most capable tool humanity has ever built. But I have never, not once, seen an AI be accountable for being wrong" hackernoon.com/the-one-thin...
The one thing I haven't seen any AI do yet | HackerNoon
AI can write, code, and analyze, but it cannot own the consequences. Why accountability may be the most valuable human skill in the AI era.
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The article linked in the top post, on conversational programming, has a link back to @swardley.bsky.social's post from 2016, describing "serverless" as an evolution of compute and practices. Knowing our history is going to help us examine how things evolve. hackernoon.com/why-the-fuss...
Why the Fuss About Serverless? | HackerNoon
To explain this, I’m going to have to recap on some old work with a particular focus on co-evolution.
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Claude Haiku 4.5 - My Favorite AI Model for GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio 2026 by Incomplete Developer #Azure hackernoon.com/claude-haiku...
Claude Haiku 4.5 - My Favorite AI Model for GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio 2026 | HackerNoon
Claude Haiku 4.5 is my default model for GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio 2026 — fast, affordable, and good enough for 80% of daily coding tasks.
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Disposable Apps Are Here: Where Does the Value Go When Anyone Can Clone Your Product? When AI can clone any app in a day...#news https://hackernoon.com/disposable-apps-are-here-where-does-the-value-go-when-anyone-can-clone-your-product
