The TechBeat: The Hidden Cost of AI: Why It’s Making Workers Smarter, but Organisations Dumber (1/3/2026)

How are you, hacker? 🪐Want to know what's trending right now?: The Techbeat by HackerNoon has got you covered with fresh content from our trending stories of the day! Set email preference here. ## The Hidden Cost of AI: Why It’s Making Workers Smarter, but Organisations Dumber By @yuliiaharkusha [ 8 Min read ] AI boosts individual performance but weakens organisational thinking. Why smarter workers and faster tools can leave companies less intelligent than before. Read More.

Why Verifiability Matters for Security: 12 Key Cloud Application Use Cases

By @michaellewellen [ 3 Min read ] Verifiability is becoming essential for crypto, AI, and cloud apps. Learn why proving how systems run will shape the next gen of secure infrastructure. Read More.

Secury Wallet Unveils Next-Generation Multichain Crypto Wallet With Chat to Pay, Opens $SEC Presale

By @btcwire [ 2 Min read ] The project has opened the $SEC token presale, including early staking opportunities offering up to 100% APY during the presale phase. Chat to Pay is an instant Read More.

Should You Trust Your VPN Location?

By @ipinfo [ 9 Min read ] IPinfo reveals how most VPNs misrepresent locations and why real IP geolocation requires active measurement, not claims. Read More.

A Developer's Guide to Building Next-Gen Smart Wallets With ERC-4337 — Part 2: Bundlers

By @hacker39947670 [ 15 Min read ] Bundlers are the bridge between account abstraction and the execution layer. Read More.

How to Build an n8n Automation to Read Kibana Logs and Analyze Them With an LLM

By @indrivetech [ 6 Min read ] How we built an n8n automation that reads Kibana logs, analyzes them with an LLM, and returns human-readable incident summaries in Slack Read More.

Tech's Attempt To Conquer Hollywood

By @3techpolls [ 5 Min read ] AI has been a major force in seemingly every career field. Now, it seems to have set its eyes somewhere else: Hollywood. Read More.

Meet ScyllaDB: HackerNoon Company of the Week

By @companyoftheweek [ 4 Min read ] Meet ScyllaDB, the high-performance NoSQL database delivering predictable millisecond latencies for Discord and hundreds more. Read More.

AI - Should we Be Afraid? 3 Years Later

By @djcampbell [ 6 Min read ] Is AI good or bad? We must decide. Read More.

Hiring Didn’t Fail - Evidence Did.

By [@Dandilion Civilization](https://hackernoon.com/u/Dandilion Civilization) [ 5 Min read ] I didn’t break hiring. It broke the evidence. Why CVs and training signals no longer predict capability, and what HR should use instead in 2026 Read More.

Coding Rust With Claude Code and Codex

By @tigranbs [ 10 Min read ] How Rust's strict compiler transforms AI coding tools into reliable pair programmers and why the language is uniquely positioned for the age of agentic coding Read More.

How Crypto Can Protect People from Currency Wars

By @chris127 [ 8 Min read ] When we think of war, we imagine soldiers, weapons, and physical destruction. But there's another type of war that affects millions of people worldwide… Read More.

The 10 Most Interesting C# Bugs We Found in Open Source in 2025

By @akiradoko [ 15 Min read ] If you'd like to check whether your project has similar issues, now's the time to use a static analyzer. Read More.

10 AI Marketing Strategies for Startups in 2026

By @khamisihamisi [ 4 Min read ] Over 90% of companies are either using or exploring the use of AI. How is your business using AI? Read More.

Best Amazon Scraper APIs for 2025: Top Picks Compared

By @oxylabs [ 9 Min read ] Compare the best Amazon Scraper APIs for 2025, analyzing speed, pricing, reliability, and features for scalable eCommerce data extraction. Read More.

Slop Isn’t the Problem. It’s the Symptom.

By @normbond [ 3 Min read ] When teams move fast without shared meaning, quality dissolves quietly. Why slop is a symptom of interpretation lag, not a technology failure. Read More.

The Architecture of Collaboration: A Practical Framework for Human-AI Interaction

By @theakashjindal [ 7 Min read ] AI focus shifts from automation to augmentation ("Collaborative Intelligence"), pairing AI speed with human judgment to boost productivity. Read More.

you’re not burned out, you’ve got context obesity

By @raysvitla [ 9 Min read ] you’re not burned out – you’ve got context obesity. why ai tools and “100 prompts” add chaos, and how to rebuild your context stack. Read More.

The Seven Pillars of a Production-Grade Agent Architecture

By @denisp [ 12 Min read ] An AI agent without memory is just a script. An agent without guardrails is a liability. The 7 critical pillars of building production-grade Agentic AI. Read More.

The HackerNoon Newsletter: The Power and Peril of Anthropomorphized AI (12/27/2025)

By @noonification [ 2 Min read ] 12/27/2025: Top 5 stories on the HackerNoon homepage! Read More. 🧑‍💻 What happened in your world this week? It's been said that writing can help consolidate technical knowledge, establish credibility, and contribute to emerging community standards. Feeling stuck? We got you covered ⬇️⬇️⬇️ ANSWER THESE GREATEST INTERVIEW QUESTIONS OF ALL TIME We hope you enjoy this worth of free reading material. Feel free to forward this email to a nerdy friend who'll love you for it. See you on Planet Internet! With love, The HackerNoon Team ✌️