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🪐 What’s happening in tech today, April 21, 2025?

The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, we present you with these top quality stories. From Startup Fundraising, Fake VCs, and an Actual Stalker: My Founder Horror Story to Real Growth Isn’t About More Discipline — It’s About Deeper Clarity, let’s dive right in.


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programming

Meet the HackerNoon Top Writers - Satisfying the Curiosity Crunch: My Tech Writing Expedition

TL;DR Meet HackerNoon Top Writer Mohit Menghnani and his story on satisfying the curiosity crunch.

By @writerspotlight [ 4 Min read ]

Soon, I drafted more documents on the systems and technologies I was working. I realized writing wasn’t just a supplement to calls—it was my way to scale impact, reach dozens at once, and leave a lasting reference.

Favorite article has to be: https://hackernoon.com/how-websockets-power-real-time-apps

https://hackernoon.com/how-websockets-power-real-time-apps?embedable=true

https://hackernoon.com/u/mmenghnani?embedable=true..

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tech-stories

Your Career Is Not Your Personality. Sorry.

TL;DR Who are you without your job? Build an identity strong enough to stand, even when life falls apart.

By @benoitmalige [ 3 Min read ]

(Even When Life Dropkicks You in the Face)

You know that hollow feeling when something falls apart and you suddenly have no idea who you are anymore?

Yeah—been there.

For years, my identity was my business.

It was my purpose, my personality, my status, my therapy, my everything.

Benoit..

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life-hacking

Real Growth Isn’t About More Discipline — It’s About Deeper Clarity

TL;DR The self-improvement industry thrives on a simple premise: You are broken and need fixing.

By @scottdclary [ 8 Min read ]

https://open.spotify.com/episode/6pSjV5zdfjV0kshQ7fRNNa?si=9Le4xI0BQpmGEhPlFPXidg&embedable=true

Your bookshelf is full of half-read self-help books.

Your phone has six productivity apps you downloaded and abandoned.

Your notes are filled with morning routines you followed for exactly 9 days.

Self-improvement doesn't work as well as self-understanding.

Buy this course. Follow this guru. Use this system...

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startups

Startup Fundraising, Fake VCs, and an Actual Stalker: My Founder Horror Story

TL;DR How one pitch turned into a rabbit hole of fake VCs, emotional manipulation, and FBI threats. A survival guide for women navigating investor landmine territory.

By @janefisher [ 8 Min read ]

How one pitch turned into a rabbit hole of fake VCs, emotional manipulation, and FBI threats. A survival guide for women navigating investor landmine territory.

Let’s rewind.

All names in this story have been changed for my personal safety, as the person in question still has my address.

Hmmm…...

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machine-learning

How to Prompt Engineer Phi-3-mini: A Practical Guide

TL;DR In this article, we’ll walk through how to do it in Python, using the Phi-3-mini-4k-instruct model by Microsoft. We’ll use the Huggingface inference API

By @buzzpy [ 10 Min read ]

Prompts are basically our requests or inputs to AI models. Prompt engineering, as the name suggests, is about going a little deeper than basic prompts by creating specialized inputs that (more) effectively guide AI models to produce near-perfect outputs.

Here are some popular ones:

You: hello..

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Poll Of the Week

How concerned are you about the impact of AI-driven cyberattacks?

AI technologies are increasingly being used both to defend against and launch cyberattacks. While AI can enhance security through automated threat detection and response, it can also be weaponized by cybercriminals to create more sophisticated and hard-to-detect attacks. AI-driven cyberattacks can include malware attacks, automated phising attacks, deepfake-based social engineering tactics, and more.

48% Very concerned, and it'll only get worse!

23% Somewhat concerned, defensive cybersecurity is just as good!

15% Not concerned, it will never outpace defensive cybersecurity.

13% Don't think its a significant risk, we have biggers problems.

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