The HackerNoon Newsletter: The Most Dangerous Person on Your Team is Dave (And He Just Quit) (12/26/2025)

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🪐 What’s happening in tech today, December 26, 2025?

The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, George Washington Won First US Victory for the Continental Army in 1776, Los Angeles Celebrated the First Kwanzaa in 1966, FDR Officially Established the Modern Thanksgiving Holiday in 1941, and we present you with these top quality stories. From Java’s Growing Graveyard: The Old APIs Being Buried—and What Replaced Them to The Most Dangerous Person on Your Team is Dave (And He Just Quit), let’s dive right in.

Java’s Growing Graveyard: The Old APIs Being Buried—and What Replaced Them

By @akiradoko [ 9 Min read ] The Java “tomb” is filling up. Here’s what’s being buried—and what you should use instead. Read More.

The Workplace as an Ethical Laboratory. Social and Emotional Experience as the Ground of Ethics

By @riedriftlens [ 5 Min read ] Before ethics becomes a policy, a guideline, or a line of code, it must first exist as a human capacity. Read More.

Groq’s Deterministic Architecture is Rewriting the Physics of AI Inference

By @zbruceli [ 20 Min read ] Groq’s Deterministic Architecture is Rewriting the Physics of AI Inference. How Nvidia Learned to Stop Worrying and Acquired Groq Read More.

The Most Dangerous Person on Your Team is Dave (And He Just Quit)

By @huizhudev [ 5 Min read ] Stop letting knowledge walk out the door. Use this system prompt to turn every commit into a well-documented masterpiece. Read More.

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