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🪐 What’s happening in tech today, April 29, 2025?

The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, we present you with these top quality stories. From AWS Regions and Availability Zones: A Useful Guide for Beginners to Turns Out, a Little Competition Goes a Long Way—Especially When it Comes to Content, let’s dive right in.


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Turns Out, a Little Competition Goes a Long Way—Especially When it Comes to Content

TL;DR HackerNoon Writing Contests drive revenue and engagement—sponsors get brand exposure and quality content, the community gets to compete and create.

By @hackmarketing [ 3 Min read ]

Everyone’s buzzing about Generative AI tools, and yes, they’re powerful. But here’s the real kicker: behind every viral post, prompt, and AI project are real humans fueling the hype.

So, the big question is:

Lasting brand awareness is built by engaging real people and inspiring them to share your story...

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data-science

AWS Regions and Availability Zones: A Useful Guide for Beginners

TL;DR High Availability in the cloud: why us-east-1 alone is not a strategy (its a gamble)

By @luminousmen [ 4 Min read ]

If your go-to plan is just "I'll just pick us-east-1 and be done with it", this post is for you.

Similarly, Slack uses AWS Regions to store user data and messages and to handle real-time messaging across the globe, ensuring scalability and data locality.

Thank you for reading!..

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machine-learning

Dear ChatGPT, Im Alone and Depressed—Can You Help?

TL;DR ChatGPT is a chatbot that listens to your thoughts and responds to them. Its being used for emotional support in an increasingly lonely and overwhelmed world.

By @thefrogsociety [ 20 Min read ]

“The exhausted, depressive achievement-subject grinds itself down, so to speak. It is tired, exhausted by itself, and at war with itself.”

— Byung-Chul Han, The Burnout Society

So, in a moment that feels half-joke, half-hail-Mary, you open ChatGPT.

”What harm can it do anyway?”, you thought...

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Poll Of the Week

AGI Is No Longer a Mere Pipe Dream. Should We Really Be Pursuing It?

Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) - systems surpassing human intelligence - can potentially extend the limits of human possibility. But OpenAI's CEO, Sam Altman, cautions that AGI also bears significant risks: misuse, catastrophic accidents, and societal upheaval. Considering the pros and cons, should the pursuit of AGI continue?

25% Yes, the benefits outweigh the potential risks

9% No, It’s too dangerous.

21% Maybe, if we can figure out regulation.

44% We don’t have a choice, the wheels are already in motion.

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