The HackerNoon Newsletter: How To Get a First Name Domain for Less Than $101 (12/14/2025)

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🪐 What’s happening in tech today, December 14, 2025?

The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, US Navy and MIT Developed Whirlwind in 1952, Planck Presented Black-Body Radiation Law Derivation in 1900, DNA is Created in a Test Tube in 1967, Wilkinson Patented the Nut and Bolt Machine in 1798, and we present you with these top quality stories. From Why More VARs and SIs Are Embedding Melissa Into Their Enterprise Solutions to How Iceberg + AIStor Power the Modern Multi-Engine Data Lakehouse, let’s dive right in.

Introducing the Genies Avatar SDK: Integrate High-Fidelity, Customizable Avatars into Your Game

By @genies [ 4 Min read ] Genies Avatar Framework is a flexible system for building high-quality avatars that fit naturally into any game world. Read More.

Why More VARs and SIs Are Embedding Melissa Into Their Enterprise Solutions

By @melissaindia [ 5 Min read ] Partner with Melissa to empower VARs and SIs with accurate data, seamless integrations, and scalable verification tools for smarter, faster client solutions. Read More.

How Iceberg + AIStor Power the Modern Multi-Engine Data Lakehouse

By @minio [ 11 Min read ] Learn how Apache Iceberg paired with AIStor forms a high-performance, scalable lakehouse architecture with SQL features, snapshots, multi-engine support. Read More.

Reversing Immigration With Simple Coding! No Walls, Laws, Taxes, or Conflicts!

By @chris127 [ 7 Min read ] A blockchain-based UBI pegged to water prices eliminates economic desperation driving migration. No walls, laws, or taxes! Read More.

Why DataOps Is Becoming Everyone’s Job—and How to Excel at It

By @minio [ 4 Min read ] As DataOps becomes central to modern data work, learn what defines great DataOps engineering—and why fast, high-performance object storage is essential. Read More.

Agentic UX Over Chat: How to Design Multi-Agent Systems People Actually Trust

By @designchurchill [ 9 Min read ] Principles for designing agentic UX: verification, transparency, handoffs, and moving beyond chat interfaces. Read More.

When The Oldest Programming Language Outsmarts The Newest AI

By @josecrespophd [ 8 Min read ] C++ was not supposed to come back. Read More.

How To Get a First Name Domain for Less Than $101

By @cv-domain [ 3 Min read ] Missed out on FirstName.com? .cv domain could be your last real chance to own your name online. Secure it now. Read More.

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