The HackerNoon Newsletter: The Ultimate Developers Guide to Jira Success (1/13/2026)

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🪐 What’s happening in tech today, January 13, 2026?

The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, Johnny Cash performed a concert at Folsom State Prison in 1968, Wikipedia went live in 2001, SpaceX launched its Falcon Heavy rocket in 2018, and we present you with these top quality stories. From Your First AI Data Flywheel in Under 100 Lines of Python to The Ultimate Developers Guide to Jira Success, let’s dive right in.

Your First AI Data Flywheel in Under 100 Lines of Python

By @knightbat2040 [ 5 Min read ] Today, were going to get our hands dirty and construct a simple, working web application that demonstrates the core loop of a data flywheel. Read More.

The Long Now of the Web: Inside the Internet Archive’s Fight Against Forgetting

By @zbruceli [ 18 Min read ] A deep dive into the Internet Archives custom tech stack. Read More.

The Ultimate Developers Guide to Jira Success

By @tolstykhzhe [ 1 Min read ] A lightweight Jira guide for developers: why it matters, how to use it on a real project, and how it improves distributed and outsourced production workflows. Read More.

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