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🪐 What’s happening in tech today, May 8, 2025?

The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, Nazi Germany surrendered & World War II was over in 1945, and we present you with these top quality stories. From Build a Smarter Store: Let GPT Label Your Products and Predict What Sells Next to Speechify, ElevenLabs, Hume: Which AI Voice Can Actually Feel Something?, let’s dive right in.


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programming

Tired of Paying for Emails? We Built a Rust-Powered Sleuth Instead (and Yeah, we Got Pushback)

TL;DR RocketReach, Hunter, Lusha get expensive, fast. So we built an open-source alternative for discovering and verifying professional emails.

By @hacker9038799 [ 3 Min read ]

That sticker shock, combined with a love for Rust and a good technical challenge, is exactly why Email Sleuth was born. It's our open-source attempt to build a powerful, cost-effective alternative for discovering and verifying professional emails. Forget the per-seat licenses and credit limits; this is about taking control back...

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machine-learning

Build a Smarter Store: Let GPT Label Your Products and Predict What Sells Next

TL;DR Build a real-time knowledge graph for product insights and recommendations with taxonomy and complementary taxonomy LLM extraction.

By @badmonster0 [ 11 Min read ]

In this blog, we will build a knowledge graph for product recommendations using taxonomy and complementary taxonomy. CocoIndex makes it easy to build and maintain knowledge graphs with continuous source updates.

The source code is available at CocoIndex Examples - product_taxonomy.

For example,

In a relationship, there's:..

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machine-learning

Speechify, ElevenLabs, Hume: Which AI Voice Can Actually Feel Something?

TL;DR Explore how AI text-to-speech engines (Eleven Labs, Hume, iCednant Speech, Speechify) perform when generating emotionally nuanced speech.

By @anywhichway [ 5 Min read ]

I have written a number of articles on Hackernoon regarding AI and empathy. In this article I move beyond the primarily text oriented approach I have taken in the past to address voice output. I also move beyond empathy to the broader space of emotional expression.

Platform

Audio..

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machine-learning

AI Giants Are Battling it Out for the Ultimate Prize in AI Race: Your Web Browser

TL;DR Google, OpenAI, Perplexity, they all want one thing — to control the very portal through which you access the digital world, i.e. the web browser.

By @neer-varshney [ 5 Min read ]

Google, OpenAI, Perplexity, they all want one thing — to control the very portal through which you access the digital world. It’s war.

When I think of the general population, even some tech-loving folks like me, web browsers and operating systems aren’t exactly the most exciting things around...

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web3

SOL, XRP LTC Tipped as Next in Line for Crypto ETF Approval by Bloomberg Analysts

TL;DR Which crypto ETF will be next? Bloomberg raises odds for Solana, XRP, and Litecoin ETFs in 2025 as SEC review timelines tighten.

By @johnwrites [ 4 Min read ]

The crypto Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) landscape has changed completely in the last year or so after the approval of the first batch of spot Bitcoin ETFs by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The regulatory tide has turned completely in favour of the digital currency sector...

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Additional Stories of your interest:

-WEF Calls for Disinformation to Be Treated as Cybercrime

On This Day

Nazi Germany surrendered & World War II was over

Nazi Germany officially surrendered, marking the end of WWII on May 8, 1945, which is also known as Victory in Europe (VE) Day. The official signing of the instrument of surrender by German representatives took place on May 7, 1945, in Reims, France, but the document was not ratified until...

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