The 198 Top Hacker Noon Stories Right Now - August 2018

The 198 Top Hacker Noon Stories Right Now — August 2018

A moment in time showing today’s technology trendsBy Ilya Pavlov on Unsplash

Technology is all about the now and the future.

Here are the Hacker Noon stories that people are interested in right now, according to Medium’s trending algorithm (available at hackernoon.com/trending). You can also find most read stories by year, month and day in the Hacker Noon archive.

1. Learn Blockchains by Building One by Daniel van Flymen

You’re here because, like me, you’re psyched about the rise of Cryptocurrencies. And you want to know how Blockchains work — the fundamental technology behind them.But understanding Blockchains isn’t easy — or at least wasn’t for me. I trudged…

2. Testing Node.js in 2018 by Nick Parsons

Stream powers feeds for over 300+ million end users. With all of those users relying on our infrastructure, we’re very good about testing everything that gets pushed into production. Our primary codebase is written in Go, with some remaining bits of Python.Our recent showcase application, Winds 2.0, is…

3. Ruby on Rails to Lucky on Crystal: Blazing fast, fewer bugs, and even more fun. by Paul Smith

I love Ruby and I love Rails, but I’ve found myself searching for something more. Something fast so I don’t need to add caching. Something type-safe so customers see fewer bugs. Something fun to use so I actually enjoy building applications.Would Elixir scratch my itch? It was a good start. It made it fun to write…

4. Reacting to React.js by Puyan Wei

Literally a month ago there was excitement in the Vue.js community that Vue.js got more stars than React.js on github. Stars like Hollywood stars? Really, no lol, but maybe metaphorically… or philosophically?Github stars is a way for developers to effectively bookmark that page so that…

5. Why Increased Scrutiny is Good for ICOs & the Industries they Disrupt by Reza Jafery

It seems like the Initial Coin Offering (ICO) mania of 2017 (and early 2018) is beginning to skitter to a halt. While it may have been possible to raise millions for a cryptocurrency based on damn near anything last year, the landscape is changing. Both retail investors and regulators are smartening up. Retail investors are…

6. A fresher’s guide to DevRel by Srushtika Neelakantam

Where I come from, i.e India, the term ‘fresher’ is used to indicate a person who has just finished graduation and has no work experience. Today, I cease to be a fresher. It’s as much refreshing as it’s nostalgic. It’s also sad that like a lot of other things, I’m done being a fresher and I already feel old.I got my first job…

7. Why AI Will Bring an Explosion of New Jobs by Daniel Jeffries

AI terrifies a lot of people.From superintelligent puppet masters taking over the world, to fiery self-driving car crashes, to the coming age of killer machines, more and more the rise of AI seems like a chilling Black Mirror episode.But it’s the end of all jobs that horrifies…

8. Exploring Quantum Programming from “Hello World” to “Hello Quantum World” by Rahul Kumar

We have reached in an era where we can now implement basic AND, OR and XOR logics on quantum circuits similar to the classical computing and we call this era as Quantum Era.This article is a simple introduction to Applied Quantum Computing (AQC)…

9. One-shot containers with Serverless by Mohamed Labouardy

Have you ever had short lived containers like the following use cases:· Batch and ETL (Extract, Transform & Load) Jobs.· Database backups and replication.· Machine Learning algorithms for…

10. How to Push out SaaS as Quick as Possible by Emil Bruckner

Set out to build something? Don’t spend your time on building. Spend your time on talking to customers and marketing your product. That’s especially true for solopreneurs. The problem is that building a web or mobile app takes way more time then we’d like.We’ve all heard…

11. Simple React Development in 2018 by Joshua Comeau

Maybe you’re a jQuery developer looking to experiment with a modern framework. Or, maybe you’re an Angular developer wanting to see what all the hype is about. Maybe you’re a seasoned back-end or systems programmer looking to make the jump to front-end. Maybe you’re new to programming in…

12. SoftBank is Stifling Entrepreneurship by Max Zamkow

The story of Silicon Valley is one of regular cycles. A company is founded, scales rapidly, it’s employees start their own companies, and the cycle repeats.The first cycle began in 1965 with Shockley Semiconductor, the first silicon-based high tech company in the bay area. In less than two years the company…

13. Why It Is Not Working For You? It’s Time To Introspect by Pramod Chandrayan

It has been my personal experience that if things are not happening as per your expectations in your personal and professional life, It is you, who are responsible. It is you, who is a loser, it is you, who don’t have the required skills-set to deliver. It is you, who don’t have the material to run the business, so it is time to…

14. How to Select the Right IoT Hardware: From Prototype to Production by Jeffrey Lee

IoT development boards and modules are at the heart of every connected product. As IoT has developed, the variety and technical capabilities of these boards has only become more complex. When building an IoT product, you may start off with an off-the-shelf prototyping kit, but as you progress through…

15. How to setup AWS Lambda with SQS — everything you should know! by Ran Ribenzaft

AWS recently introduced SQS integration to Lambda. We have been waiting for this for a long time now. In the following post, I’m going to share a quick-and-simple tutorial on how to get started with message distribution between Lambda functions, using SQS.In addition, I will also compare between…

16. Hackernoon Live: Updates from the Google Cloud keynote by Jay Zalowitz

9:24 PST — And we are live from the google cloud keynote. We are going to be doing something a little differently today by giving live updates from a thing. We wont be auto refreshing, so you will have to refresh on your own.9:30 — Diane Green is going through the standard “What have we done this…

17. The Tools We Need to Implement Liquid Democracy by Coalichain

“The state of men without civil society is nothing else but a mere war of all against all.” Thomas HobbesThe role of any political system is to organize a civil society so as to ensure the peaceful cohabitation of large populations and organize the flow of goods and…

18. Data Marketplaces: The Holy Grail of our Information Age by Jeremiah Smith

This is part 2 of the Data Deep Dive series. Part 1 describes how data is transforming virtually all aspects of our economy and society, but that the true promise of the Data Economy remains largely unfulfilled because we still lack the technology to allow for standard, secure and efficient data…

19. A crypto-trader’s diary — week 13; TRON by David Gilbertson

This week, I took a look at TRON, broke my cardinal rule, thought about your privacy (and how to invade it).But first …The profit check…

20. Microservices, bounded context, cohesion. What do they have in common? by Bruno Costa

We live in a decade where the industry has a general consensus on how to scale an organization. We know that microservices help us work together with hundreds or thousands of other software engineers, we know autonomy is a key factor and DDD is fundamental to communicate clarity with other teams…

21. The Programmer’s Guide to Booking a Plane by Zeke Gabrielse

About two months ago, I wanted to go on a vacation. I had the hotel more or less picked out, but the transportation was still up in the air.I began by scouring the web for cheap plane tickets, like normal travel folks seem to do. I scoured all of the fancy airlines, but all of their fares were too…

22. A Review of Udacity’s React Nano Degree by Bilal Tahir

Yesterday, I finished my 2nd Nano Degree. As a typical Millennial, I have been having a quarter life crisis every two years starting in my 20s. This led me down the path of my first career change from a (wannabe) Actuary to a Data Analyst in 2015, and my first foray into online education which was, you…

23. Autoencoders — Deep Learning bits #1 by Julien Despois

Featured: data compression, image reconstruction and segmentation (with examples!)In the “Deep Learning bits” series, we will not see how to use deep learning to solve complex problems end-to-end as we do in A.I. Odyssey. We will rather look at different techniques, along with some examples and…

24. Implementing hidesNavigationBarWhenPushed on UIViewController by Danil Gontovnik

It’s been a while since my last post.I am back and hoping to dedicate more time to writing tutorials and open sourcing interesting things.What this post is…

25. How to be Productive When Traveling by Anthony Castrio

In May of this year, I founded a software agency and started living as a digital nomad. That means that wherever I go, I take my work with me on my laptop and on my phone.Here’s what I’ve learned over the last month and a half about working when you’re permanently…26. What happens when you use RxJS in React? by Dom Kriskovic27. Create objects in JavaScript by Rupesh Mishra28. Functional programming paradigms in modern JavaScript: Function Composition by Alexander Kondov29. Why you should choose date-fns over moment.js in your nodeJs applications by Ben Garrison30. The Answer to Disruptive Technology is “Education” by Erik P.M. Vermeulen31. Is blockchain the last resort for the emerging economies? by Olya Green32. Coinvest — Investment Platform Review by Devin Soni33. The Evolution of Crypto-Exchanges by Mayank Tripathi34. The Comprehensive Beginner’s Guide to JavaScript Geolocation Tracking by Joe Hanson35. 7 tips for effective microservices by mitendra mahto36. Semantic Segmentation Datasets for Autonomous Driving by Prerak Mody37. The Eightfold Path of the Legendary Trader by Daniel Jeffries38. Stop manually provisioning AWS for Laravel — use Terraform instead by Lionel Martin39. A new kind of pooling layer for faster and sharper convergence by Sahil Singla40. Can blockchain technology stop declining wages? Origin Protocol believes it can by Alex Feinberg41. Building a Gas Pump Scanner with OpenCV/Python/iOS by Kevin Kazmierczak42. 12 Productivity Hacks to Get Stuff Done by Sam Reader43. Neural Machine Translation: Using Open-NMT for training a translation model by DataTurks: Data Annotations Made Super Easy44. Growth Capital On The Blockchain by Trent Lapinski45. How to growth hack Noam Chomsky by Erik Sandberg46. Good Artists Copy. Great Artists Steal. by Kyle Samani47. Five SEC-Compliant Reg A+ STOs Worth Watching by Robert D. Knight48. Can you run ChefDK and kitchen-docker inside of a Docker container? by Aaron Kalair49. Building Brundage Bot by Andrew Mauboussin50. Personal Kanban by Eduard Metzger51. Conditional Coin Flips with Rock Paper Scissors by Puyan Wei52. What The Hell Is A Crypto Punk? by Trent Lapinski53. Algorithms Explained: Diffie-Hellman by Pyler54. Nested categories with rails gem Ancestry. by George Chkhvirkia55. GraphQL nested mutations with Apollo: small fatigue, max gain by Alessandro Annini56. Dev Rant: Stop reinventing user auth by Ryan M Harrison57. Behold The Next Generation VR Technology: Part 2 — Full-body tracking by Kirill Karev58. 5 Real Examples of Freelance Projects Junior Developers Should Definitely Avoid by Ariel Camus59. The Most Promising Internet of Things trends for 2018 by DashMagazine60. Does VC Fund Differentiation Matter? by Brad Feld61. Welcome to Mastodon by Eugen Rochko62. Jackpot — Should you go ALL IN? by Nele Maria Palipea63. Logging slow Ecto queries: adventures in metaprogramming by Derek Haynes64. Publish your first Docker Image to Docker Hub by Rushal Verma65. How I invited myself as a Writer of The White House’s Medium Publication by Aj Dumanhug66. The Developer’s Pill to Freedom by Stupid Gopher67. Top Crypto News in Asia from July 26- July 29th by Joyce68. The history of the fight against a possible real-world Terminator Scenario, but is it really needed? by Adam Milton-Barker69. Why you should document your self-documenting code by Oleksandr Kaleniuk70. What’s the Difference Between Data Science and Business Analytics? by Ramesh Ilangovan71. Build a Google Home App with PubNub Functions by Kaushik Ravikumar72. Taking an Agile Approach to New Year’s Resolutions by 😎 Nate Andorsky73. How to Fake an Email From Almost Anyone in Under 5 Minutes by Dylan Tweney74. Uncle Sam Wants In on Your Crypto Gains by IoTeX75. Generics on Go’s stdlib by Juan Álvarez76. An Alternative Investment — Small Businesses by Gary Stephens, Jr77. Rewarding Quality Journalism in The World of Clickbait by Sanchit Gera78. Code Mesh 2017: Day 1 review by Erlang Solutions79. Social media, privacy and the world wide police state by Qayyum Rajan80. The 80/20 of React Native by William Candillon81. How to train a Keras model to recognize text with variable length by Chengwei Zhang82. Three AI technologies that could make chatbots intelligent by Daoud Clarke83. Blockchain Solutions: The Way to Transform Your Business Processes by DashMagazine84. TweetHub, the missing GitHub release notifier on Twitter! by Mickaël Andrieu85. Bcash & Coinbase: collusion, manipulation, and FUD by Brenden Matthews86. The Emotionally Fit Founder, Part Two: 7 Traits of Emotionally Fit Leaders by Dr. Emily Anhalt87. 4 Steps That Helped Me Overcome My Severe Procrastination by Nils Salzgeber88. The Fun of Troubleshooting by Greg Kogan89. Top Virtual Reality Companies in Los Angeles, CA, USA | VR App Developers by Jigar Modi90. What Separates a Junior Programmer vs. a Senior Programmer? by Quora91. The 3 Paths to Blockchain User Adoption by Tony Sheng92. Install Visual studio code on Ubuntu linux by Zameer Ansari93. The Real Reason for the Decline of StackOverflow by James Jeffery94. Friday Night Manifesto for Better Web Development by Just Chris95. The $10,000,000 Question by Elijah Murray96. IPython Or Jupyter? by Karlijn Willems97. 3 books to help you stop procrastinating by Febin John James98. Why tech companies are betting on VR/AR? by Paulius Jurcys99. You Don’t Need a Dependency Injection Container by Vadim Samokhin100. For Entrepreneurs by Code2040101. Something I wrote a while back about tech media… by Frank102. Diary of a Flying Car Engineer #0 by Sanyam Bhutani103. recognition by Kopjes Kattenoppas104. Forget the ‘5 ways to be a better manager’… by Brennan McEachran 👨‍🚀105. What designers need to know about machine learning by Emma Rosenberg106. Why We All Need Tesla/Solarcity To Happen aka Building An Antifragile Grid. by Seyi Fabode107. Designing inclusive illustrations (or, a brief history of the meeple) by Sara VanSlyke108. Let the Games Begin: Scorum Launches Testnet! by Scorum109. Swift and JavaScript comparison snippets(7) — Closures by unbug110. When logic programming meets CQRS by Liron Shapira111. Dear employees of Microsoft and LinkedIn by TeamBlind112. Types of Chatbots and How They Help Businesses by SteelKiwi Inc.113. Three common mistakes in requirements engineering by Isaak Tsalicoglou114. How Casper Shows That Use Cases Should Come Before Technology for Startups by Founder Collective115. Crypto market snapshot | May’18 by AITrading116. How to write nice, typed and expressive node-express functions by Aurélien Hervé117. Here’s Why You NEED a Crypto-Wallet by Joe Stanley118. The 3 Step Beginner’s Guide to Cryptocurrency Research by CoinCheckup.com119. We need to end the high achiever myth by Ted Bauer120. MIMIR Blockchain Solutions Announces Blockchain Push Notification Offering by John Licata121. Biologically inspired product design by Daniel Christian Wahl122. Tips for Investors When Vetting a Hardware Product by Mindtribe123. 109 Free Things for Managing Your Money, Retiring Early, and Getting out of Debt by Anthony Castrio124. Developer Spotlight: Abe Hendricks by Carson Gibbons125. How I Hacked Around Facebook To Share Links to a Third-Party App by Jérémy Gotteland126. How do product teams evolve? Is it the best way to achieve high performing teams? by Nacho Bassino127. “Weekly what changed in crypto” by Alte.Capital — 9–16 April 2018 by Lukas — Alte.Capital128. Swift and JavaScript comparison snippets(2) — Basic Operators by unbug129. Celebrities headline Utah tech summit by Rhett Wilkinson130. 23 Ways ICON is Hyper-Connecting the World by Paul Payam Almasi131. The Era of ICO’s by Ricky Lee132. Self Driven Data Science — Issue #35 by Conor Dewey133. How does Angular2 work? Part 2 — bootstrapModule() by Pete Mertz134. How I Learned that 2 = 1. The First Step of Non-Dualism by Bitcoin-Maximalist.com135. Continuous Monitoring with TICK stack by Mohamed Labouardy136. Introducing HiddenWallet : Full Block SPV TumbleBit Wallet — Testing Release by nopara73137. I Got Sloppy. I Got Scammed by Edward T. Giraffe138. Crazy Idea or Better Mouse Trap… by Outset139. Why Everyone Needs a Digital Detox by Courtney Goes140. Getting Started with AWS Lambda & Node.js by RisingStack141. Free Startup Stock Photos by Burst & Hacker Noon by Burst by Shopify142. How to Run a Successful ICO Bounty Program by Ivan Kan, Co-Founder of Crowdcreate143. Stress test for Nginx + PHP + Tarantool by Vadim Popov144. 2017 — The year blockchain went mainstream. by Mohit Mamoria145. What’s Wrong With Mining and How Crowdfunding and Atomic Energy Could Fix It by Stas Tikhonov146. 9 Examples of The Best Hotel Website Design You Cannot Miss Out! by Trista liu147. For Inclusive Communities in Blockchain — An Interview with Bloktalks by Gabrielle Micheletti148. Staying “Ahead of the Curve” in a Digital Age by Erik P.M. Vermeulen149. The Great Capacity of Statistics & Collections: June Edition of 2017 by Travis van der Font150. Blockchain for non-techies: 3. Smart contracts by William Rode151. Issuing Employee Token Grants? Here’s a Better Alternative by Brittany Laughlin152. Good Karma Roundabout by Mubashar Iqbal153. We’re So Close To a Better Future If Only We’d Shut Up About Privacy by Kerry Morrison154. Is Nine to Five Office Working A Thing Of The Past? by Bromford Lab155. Trading tips from AIT desk by AITrading156. Empty Out Your Junk Drawer by Brad Feld157. Introducing CryptoTab: A Google Chrome Extension for Tracking Cryptocurrencies in Every New Tab by jordangonen158. 2 Ways I Fight Impostor Syndrome by Jamie @ The Doer Co.159. Divide and Conquer (Merge Sort) by Promila Ghosh Monty160. Your “Frontier Tech” Startup Should Hire Business People. Stat. by Founder Collective161. Typography Trends in Web Design 2017 by Jessie162. The Top 5 Mistakes That Can Kill your Startup! by Ahmed El-Sharkasy163. Tarantool: when it takes 500 lines of code to notify a million users by Vadim Popov164. Why learning to program alone is a terrible idea by colearn165. Machine Learning: Finding the Right Candidate for the Job by Nidhi Gupta166. Small computing, artisanal computing by Rococo Modem Basilisk167. iOS Adaptive Layouts by Khawaja Farooq168. Finding the Right Price for Early Customers by Ash Rust169. Why is Bitcoin Cash spiking? by Coin and Crypto170. If you’re a dev, come and get your own rockstar portfolio! by Pedro Silva Moreira171. Swift Tutorial: Native Machine Learning and Machine Vision in iOS 11 by Alex Wulff172. 11 Habits that changed my life (and will yours too) by Manas J. Saloi173. Considering The Information We Store in Databases, You’d Think They’d Have Better Security by KaylaMatthews174. Twitter didn’t invent the hashtag… Chris Messina did! by Andreas Sandre175. Bitcoin Trolling Matters and Toxicity by WhalePanda176. Does maths make you moral? by Junaid Mubeen177. These High School Dropouts Crushed It With Some Simple Growth Hacks by John Greathouse178. What educators must learn from IBM’s ‘betrayal of science’ by Junaid Mubeen179. GoDaddy Revoked and then Un-Revoked a certificate without request by Simon Green180. Top 5 ICO Marketing Tools for the 2018 ICO Marketing Guru by Ivan Kan, Co-Founder of Crowdcreate181. The difference having a product makes: What has surprised me most about building ButcherBox by ButcherBox182. Technology doesn’t have to increase inequality — a message to the leaders at WEF by The Web Foundation183. Guide into Static Site Generators by Denis Kostrzewa184. Influencing for Real Change by Ivan Houston185. Visionary?or Right Place, Right Time? by Nigel Stone186. Machine Learning in Brain by Mukul Malik187. Introducing React Easy State by RisingStack188. 20/02/2018: Biggest Stories in the Cryptosphere by BlockEx189. What is the Temporal Dead Zone? by Stride190. SV’s Scorecard for M4E Deals by Samaipata Ventures Writer191. Trust No One: An Introduction to Large Codebases for New Engineers by Kat Busch192. Tools I’ve Used To Improve My Communication And Writing by Peter Schroeder 🚀193. Learn from Folly source code the new C++11 features. by lahlali issam194. GDPR — an Opportunity, Not just Risks, for the Digital Business by Ken Tsai195. Up Close And Personal: An Interview With Crypto.Tickets’ Cofounder Katerina Kirillova by Audrey Raby196. How To Shut Down XenServer automatically With NUT by Open School Solutions197. ʼ;ŚℇℒℇℂƮ *: How Unicode Homoglyphs Will Break Your Custom SQL Injection Sanitizing Functions by Bert Wagner198. How I hacked Google Daydream controller (Part VI) by Matteo PisaniBonus Story: Every Aspiring Developer Should Pay Attention to this $3 Million Contest by Eric Martin25 individuals or teams from around the world will split up to $3 million dollars worth of prizes (up to over $100,000 USD each), both in cash and the Kin cryptocurrency. All they need to do is apply, be accepted into the program, and integrate Kin into an existing app or create a new app that integrates Kin to get the first chunk of the reward.

There are just under 7 days left to apply to the $3 million Kin Developer Program. Applications are due “no later than 10 A.M. P.T. on Aug. 10.” It is a free, worldwide incubator program where your startup gives up no equity. Disclosure: I am a Kin ambassador.

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