The HackerNoon Newsletter: Can ChatGPT Outperform the Market? Week 19 (12/15/2025)

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🪐 What’s happening in tech today, December 15, 2025?

The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, Aim Was Discontinued as a Service in 2017, Netscape Launched Navigator in 1994, Google Buzz is Replaced by Google+ in 2011, Alta Vista is Launched in 1995, and we present you with these top quality stories. From The API First Illusion: Why Your Simple Endpoints Turn Into Technical Debt (And How to Fix It) to Can ChatGPT Outperform the Market? Week 19, let’s dive right in.

HackerNoon and GPTZero Partner to Bring AI Transparency and Preserve What’s Human in Tech Publishing

By @pressreleases [ 2 Min read ] HackerNoon announces its AI-detection partnership with GPTZero. This AI detector will now analyse 5000+ monthly blog post submissions reviewed by the editors. Read More.

Can ChatGPT Outperform the Market? Week 19

By @nathanbsmith729 [ 5 Min read ] New low of $67... Read More.

The API First Illusion: Why Your Simple Endpoints Turn Into Technical Debt (And How to Fix It)

By @huizhudev [ 5 Min read ] Stop treating API design like a plumbing task. Use this system prompt to enforce Richardson Maturity Model Level 3 and build endpoints that actually scale. Read More.

How To Send .NET Crash Dumps To Slack From ECS Fargate Task

By @kvendingoldo [ 14 Min read ] Automate .NET crash dumps on ECS Fargate using EFS, DataSync, and S3, with Lambda-powered Slack alerts and scheduled EFS cleanup. Read More.

Why Developers Keep Picking the Wrong Testing Techniques

By @escholar [ 4 Min read ] A study shows developers often misjudge which testing techniques are most effective—leading to measurable drops in software quality. Read More.

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