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Let's learn about Venture Capital via these 386 free blog posts. They are ordered by HackerNoon reader engagement data. Visit the Learn Repo or LearnRepo.com to find the most read blog posts about any technology. Exit While You're On Top: Money stories from the frontlines of the world's many Silicon Valleys 1. 8 Factors To Pay Attention to When Pitching a Startup to an Investor The article explains 8 key factors that can help your startup get considered by investors, especially i...

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 . ## SpaceX Just Bought Cursor for $60 Billion. Here's Why the Deal Actually Matters. By @kilocode [ 6 Min read ] SpaceX's $60B Cursor acquisition isn't about the editor. It's a compute and distribution play that signals why model freedom now matters more than betting on an Read More....

Most technical products don't fail because the product isn't good enough—they fail because no one sees, understands, or trusts them. Engineering-led teams often treat go-to-market as an afterthought, relying on documentation, word of mouth, or last-click attribution instead of building audience, credibility, and distribution early. In an era of AI search and fragmented attention, successful GTM means publishing where technical audiences already are and treating visibility as a core part of the p...

Quantum mechanics took 27 years (1900–1927) to produce the hardware civilization. The same physics now threatens its cryptographic layer. Three papers published between May 2025 and March 2026 compressed the qubit estimate to break ECDSA/secp256k1 from 20 million to 500,000 — a 20x drop in under a year. NIST finalized post-quantum standards (ML-KEM, ML-DSA, SLH-DSA) in August 2024, but migration in Web3 is architecturally harder than in traditional systems: private keys don't rotate, deployed sm...

Clear spec, low consequence: let the agent run. Unclear spec, high consequence: put the tool down. A senior engineer's honest map of AI's real limits in production.

From style references to moodboard UUIDs: a practical developer guide to krea-2-large, Krea's flagship text-to-image model running on Replicate in 2026.

A clean address is not a safe protocol. AML tools verify the sender; nothing checks the destination's structural health. Drift lost $285M through a removed timelock while every wallet read clean. CORE3's Probability of Loss scores protocol risk 0–100 and serves it to agents over an API, so an agent can refuse a risky destination before it signs.

SpaceX finally went public at a roughly $2 trillion valuation and revealed a $1.3 billion Bitcoin reserve, instantly becoming the largest public non-crypto Bitcoin holder. HackerNoon readers were divided: 31% would short, 28% would wait for a pullback, while only 20% would buy immediately. Meanwhile, prediction markets remain bullish, betting SpaceX can justify the valuation through relentless execution.

I Am Frankelda, A.I. Artificial Intelligence, and From Russia With Love are among the films deserving of your eyeballs this month.

Skip the pricey upgrade and save $100+ on the Oura Ring 4.

The Fellow Series 1 espresso machine has its first sale, and it’s a whopper. Other Fellow devices are 20 percent off, too.

A newly identified species of fungus attacks the famous “zombie mushrooms” that control ants.

Algae blooms, peeling paint, and a host of fixes from hydrogen peroxide to nanobubblers have made it hard to diagnose what’s wrong with the Reflecting Pool—let alone how to clean up the mess.

The private events group, cofounded by Peter Thiel, says a “criminal” hacker is behind a breach that exposed members’ personal details. WIRED found no evidence a break-in was needed to access the files.

Apple has warned about MacBook prices rising, making these Prime Day deals even more worthwhile to consider.

This lightweight neck fan is one of my favorite summer gadgets, and it's more than 30% off right now.

I can’t think of a tech accessory I actively use more than headphones. Whether it’s for music, calls, or just to block out ambient noise so I can focus, I always have a pair close at hand. One of the best times to get some of your own with some big savings attached is during […]

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has tasked a small team at the company with making an app that works like the prediction markets Polymarket and Kalshi, according to The New York Times. The app, internally called "Arena" won't let users wager real money, but instead will "probably rely" on allowing users to bet with points, the […]

We at The Verge love a good gadget or tchotchke, especially when it’s not too expensive. But with the rising cost of just about everything these days, many once-cheap gadgets aren’t so affordable anymore. Amazon and other retailers sell all sorts of products from word salad brand names, but only some of it is handy […]

If you’re in the market for a robot vacuum, Amazon Prime Day has brought a ton of discounts that we’re tracking, but the Eufy Omni C28 is one of the best deals we’ve spotted so far. It’s a great robot vacuum and mop hybrid that offers a number of flagship features without the flagship price. […]

If gaming hardware prices have you looking for less expensive alternatives, Amazon has the Windows version of the Lenovo Legion Go S on sale for $549.99 (typically around $700) for Prime Day, matching a previous low we spotted at Woot a month or so ago. What it lacks in raw performance, it makes up for […]

While there are several thousand products discounted for Prime Day 2026, most of them aren’t what we’d call winners. We’ve already gathered the best Prime Day deals in our main roundup, but we’re dedicating this page to discounts on Verge-favorite items to help you find useful gear, whether it’s tech-adjacent or not. We’re covering Prime […]

Tesla is pushing back on claims that its Full Self-Driving (FSD) system caused a fatal Texas crash, where a speeding Model 3 barreled into a home, killing a 76-year-old woman inside. In a reply on X, Tesla AI head Ashok Elluswamy says the driver "manually overrode self-driving by pressing the accelerator all the way to […]

There are three times of year that are best for buying a new TV: leading up to the Super Bowl, Black Friday, and of course now, during Amazon Prime Day. Many of the new 2026 models have been released, and while some will be seeing discounts, the majority of the best deals are going to […]

Anthropic’s new Claude Tag brings an always-on AI teammate to Slack. But beyond productivity, the feature is a strategic play to capture organizational context, institutional knowledge, and enterprise workflows.

The app would be independent of Meta's other social media offerings, although sources told the NYT that those social sites could direct users to engagement with the app.

It's unclear why Klue had not revoked the credential after the limited pilot, which hackers then used to breach a system holding keys for accessing customers' data.

Menlo has created a solid rep for itself as an AI investor, all based on one gutsy $750 million move in 2024.

The ngrok Problem If you've built against Stripe, GitHub, or Shopify webhooks, you know the friction: spin up ngrok, get a random URL, paste it into your provider's dashboard, wait for events, debug locally, restart ngrok (new URL), repeat. It works, but it's a loop that kills momentum. The real issue isn't that you need a tunnel—it's that the tunnel is stateless and ephemeral. Every restart breaks the endpoint. Every new session is manual setup. For teams, sharing a tunnel URL adds com...

One thing I appreciate about Shopify is how quickly the platform evolves. Recent improvements in Shopify's ecosystem, including GraphQL APIs, Shopify Functions, Checkout Extensions, and Theme App Extensions, are making it easier for developers to build scalable and maintainable e-commerce solutions. As a Shopify Developer, I'm currently exploring Shopify App Development with Remix and learning how these modern tools can help create better merchant experiences. The future of Shopify deve...