The TechBeat: Your AI Pitch is Scaring People (4/8/2025)

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TruBit and Clapper Bring US-LATAM Payment Solutions to Maximize Earnings for Content Creators

By @clapper [ 4 Min read ] Clapper, a rapidly growing social media platform, announces its partnership with TruBit, the leading digital asset payment solutions platform in Latin America. Read More.

AutoResponder AI: The Smart Way to Manage Your Gmail Inbox

By @dineshbesiahgari [ 17 Min read ] AutoResponder AI automates email replies using AWS & AI. Streamline inbox management, boost productivity, and stay responsive with this serverless Gmail assista Read More.

AI’s Energy Dilemma: Can LLMs Optimize Their Own Power Consumption?

By @dineshbesiahgari [ 5 Min read ] Can AI optimize itself for sustainability? Explore how LLMs can reduce energy use through pruning, quantization, and hardware co-design for a greener future. Read More.

An AI Ark Could Save Human Knowledge—If We Don’t Screw It Up First

By @dineshbesiahgari [ 4 Min read ] Explore the AI Knowledge Ark, a visionary initiative to safeguard humanity’s intellectual and cultural legacy. Learn how AI ensures knowledge survival, inspired Read More.

Want To Win Your Share of $2000? Tell Us How Your Hardware Can Power Aleph Cloud’s DePIN

By @hackernooncontests [ 2 Min read ] HackerNoon’s #blockchain Writing Contest offers a $2,000 prize pool, including $300 for the best DePIN story. Read More.

How Clapper is Revolutionizing the Creator Economy

By @clapper [ 5 Min read ] Clapper is a new social media platform for content creators. Read More.

Announcing the COBOL Streamhouse

By @progrockrec [ 4 Min read ] COBOL implementation of Apache Kafka and Iceberg. Read More.

This Is What Happens When You Store Your AI Prompts in the Wrong Place

By @andrewproton [ 6 Min read ] Would you want your chatbot to start discussing Taylor Swift lyrics instead of providing tech support? Well.. that’s what our chatbot did. Here's why. Read More.

This One Practice Makes LLMs Easier to Build, Test, and Scale

By @andrewproton [ 7 Min read ] LLM prompt modularization allows you to safely introduce changes to your system over time. Read More.

OpenAI Saga Part 4: The firing & unfiring of CEO Sam Altman FINALLY explained

By @linh [ 8 Min read ] Toxic Genius, Tender Offers, it really was about the money after all. Read More.

How to Design Customizable Data Indexing Pipelines

By @badmonster0 [ 4 Min read ] Learn how custom transformation logic enhances data indexing with AI, vector search, TF-IDF, metadata enrichment, and optimized document chunking. Read More.

AI Search Traffic Marketshare for Calling HackerNoon Blogs: 52% OpenAI, 30% Amazon & 18% Perplexity

By @David [ 3 Min read ] Based on millions of monthly requests, HackerNoon found that OpenAI(52%) leads AI Search Market share, followed by Amazon/Anthropic(30%) and Perplexity(18%). Read More.

How I Built a Retro Game in an Hour: My Experience With Gemini 2.5 Pro and Vibe Coding

By @hackercm8rb8yho00003d73roo9e3hg [ 3 Min read ] The experience turned out to be nearly 100% “vibe coding.” In just 12 minutes, I laid down the initial gameplay by simply instructing Cursor on my goals. Read More.

Can AI Really Code? I Put DeepSeek to the Test

By @filestack [ 7 Min read ] I remember the day I first started experimenting with DeepSeek for coding. It felt like stepping into a new dimension where code could almost write itself. Read More.

The Majority of Writers and Editors Today are Clueless When it Comes to Generative AI

By @genprompt [ 10 Min read ] Writers see AI as a threat to their careers, overlooking how they can use generative AI to build AI-proof jobs. Change the script with these 7 AI-proofing tips. Read More.

Your AI Pitch is Scaring People

By @aryawrites [ 4 Min read ] Selling AI to industries tied to manual workflows? Your messaging better earn trust, not trigger fear. Here's how to position AI as assistive, not disruptive. Read More.

These Voice-first AI Projects Make You Productive Without Typing (And They're Open Source)

By @albertlieyeongdok [ 4 Min read ] Discover hands-on AI projects focused on voice interfaces—build with Whisper, GPT, and TTS to create transcription tools, voice assistants and more. Read More.

Escape the Cloud: How a Decentralized Web Is Rising from the Pacific

By @edwinliavaa [ 6 Min read ] Decentralized cloud computing offers a more secure, equitable, and community-driven alternative to traditional, centralized cloud services. Read More.

Why Is Sentient Challenging the AI Giants with Open Deep Search?

By @ishanpandey [ 4 Min read ] Sentient’s Open Deep Search, an open-source AI, outshines Perplexity in search and reasoning, launching soon with a 1.75M waitlist. Read More.

A Pragmatic Look at 2025 Technology Trends: What You Need to Know

By @elekssoftware [ 7 Min read ] ELEKS' tech experts have dissected predictions from Gartner, IDC, Deloitte, and KPMG to evaluate each trend's real deployment risk and business value.  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 ✌️