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🪐 What’s happening in tech today, December 13, 2024?

The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, Sir Francis Drake Sets Sail on Circumnavigation Voyage in 1577, Saddam Hussein is Captured in 2003, Nanking is Raised and Destroyed in 1937, and we present you with these top quality stories. From This Monetization Approach Is Becoming More Prominent in Software Sales to Academic Piracy Is Sometimes the Only Way to Survive the Financial Exploitation of Knowledge, let’s dive right in.

Why Look Matters More Than You Think: A Guide to The HackerNoon Editor 3.0

TL;DR Utilize the power of HackerNoon Editor 3.0 to draft a beautifully formatted top story on HackerNoon.

By @editingprotocol [ 4 Min read ]

What’s good Hackers!

Who doesn’t love eye candy? A well-presented article is always more enticing to read. In an era of shrinking attention spans, your article needs to be visually appealing to keep readers engaged. Content may be king, but presentation is undoubtedly the queen.

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This Monetization Approach Is Becoming More Prominent in Software Sales

TL;DR As usage-based pricing options grow in popularity, see how offering flexibility can complement - rather than replace - software subscription models.

By @pbland [ 5 Min read ]

Subscription software monetization is clearly popular today. I use a number of subscriptions and I’m sure you do, too. So each of us can recognize how reliance on subscription is growing...

Block-STM vs. Sealevel: A Comparison of Parallel Execution Engines

TL;DR Block-STM and Sealevel are two approaches to parallelizing blockchain execution. This paper will examine and break down how both TPUs approach parallelization.

By @2077research [ 75 Min read ]

This paper will examine and break down how both TPUs approach parallelization at a relatively low level and evaluate their performance and scalability. It will also provide an unbiased evaluation of the strengths and weaknesses of both TPUs.

Consider the example of a banking database where:

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Academic Piracy Is Sometimes the Only Way to Survive the Financial Exploitation of Knowledge

TL;DR Quality learning is increasingly gated by wealth, widening inequalities and limiting access

By @thefrogsociety [ 19 Min read ]

It’s 3:00 a.m.

A biology graduate student in Hanoi stares at her laptop, one hand nursing a cup of instant coffee, the other scrolling through Google Scholar.

Combining all the papers that she has to cite in her thesis, she’s looking at a whole year surviving of just water...

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