The HackerNoon Newsletter: Can ChatGPT Outperform the Market? Week 21 (12/25/2025)

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🪐 What’s happening in tech today, December 25, 2025?

The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, NASA Launched The James Webb Space Telescope in 2021, Gorbachev Resignd and Ukraine left the Soviet Union in 1855 AD, Huygens Probe Landed on Titan's Surface in 2004, and we present you with these top quality stories. From From Lagos to Mauritius: We Paid People to Play Mario Kart with Bitcoin to Best Shopify Scaler APIs 2026: The Definitive Deep-Dive for High-Growth Commerce, let’s dive right in.

From Lagos to Mauritius: We Paid People to Play Mario Kart with Bitcoin

By @tobses [ 4 Min read ] Mario Kart at the second edition of BTrusts Dev Day held in Mauritius. Read More.

Hedgehogs vs. Porcupines: In Defense of ‘Spiky’ Writing in the Age of AI

By @harveyk42 [ 10 Min read ] Are you a hedgehog writer or a porcupine writer? Read this article to learn why spiky writing is important in an AI-driven world. Read More.

Best Shopify Scaler APIs 2026: The Definitive Deep-Dive for High-Growth Commerce

By @lomitpatel [ 5 Min read ] The definitive 2026 guide to Shopify scaler APIs. Lomit Patel breaks down the Catalog API, Functions, Prediko AI, and Agentic Commerce for high-growth brands. Read More.

Java’s Greatest Hits (of Failure): Top 10 Open-Source Errors of 2025

By @akiradoko [ 18 Min read ] PVS-Studio’s year-end roundup of the top 10 strangest Java errors found in open-source projects in 2025. Read More.

Can ChatGPT Outperform the Market? Week 21

By @nathanbsmith729 [ 6 Min read ] I did not create a post for 21, so this is for continuity. Sorry! Read More.

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