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HackerNoon's "Startups of The Year" voting wraps up on March 31, 2025. This event celebrates leading startups worldwide, with current top contenders including Sprinto, Peris.ai, and SECUREU. Major cities leading in votes are San Francisco, Singapore, and Bengaluru. Dominant industries in the race include Data Privacy and Compliance, Cybersecurity Services and Products, and IT Services. Cast your vote and learn more in this blog...

AI has rapidly transformed software development, with 75% of developers using AI coding tools like ChatGPT and GitHub Copilot. While AI boosts developer efficiency, it also introduces new security risks, including "Shadow AI" – unmanaged AI usage within organizations. This can lead to uncontrolled vulnerabilities, data leaks, and compliance violations. However, AI also offers solutions, from discovering shadow AI to enabling semantic code analysis...

This section explains the basics of Layer-1 and Layer-2 solutions, including rollups that scale blockchain networks. It also details how rollups use optimistic or zero-knowledge proofs to secure transactions and lower gas costs, with examples like zkSync Era and Arbitrum.

Selecting the right endpoint protection platform (EPP) is critical for cybersecurity. Evaluate solutions based on technical features, cost, scalability, and vendor reliability. Consider factors like real-time threat detection, integration with existing systems, and operational impact. Top platforms include CrowdStrike, Cortex XDR, Trend Vision One, Check Point Harmony, and Sophos Intercept X.

Exploring the ethical crossroads of data control, this analysis calls for transparency, accountability, and education to protect individual rights.

Contrasting utilitarian and Kantian views on surveillance: when invisible control for safety clashes with individual autonomy and privacy rights.

Exploring Kantian ethics in surveillance capitalism, this paper debates privacy, autonomy, and consent in today's data-driven advertising landscape.

The Ukraine war has become a proving ground for AI, drones, and autonomous systems, fundamentally reshaping modern warfare. Both Ukraine and Russia are rapidly investing in battlefield automation, leading to drone swarms, robotic ground vehicles, and AI-assisted targeting. The arms race for unmanned systems is accelerating, and its impact on future global conflicts will be significant.

While the potential shutdown of USAID represents a significant shift in American foreign policy, perhaps it also offers an opportunity to rethink how we approach international development.

Coin3D enhances interactive 3D modeling with proxy-bounded part editing and progressive volume caching. Users can edit specific object parts while preserving others, ensuring seamless integration. The caching mechanism enables instant previews from any viewpoint. Additionally, volume-conditioned reconstruction improves mesh quality by integrating 3D-aware control, making modeling more efficient and precise.

Existing 3D generation methods rely on text or images but lack precise shape control. Coin3D introduces 3D-aware conditioning within diffusion models, allowing interactive, proxy-guided generation. Unlike prior methods requiring long reconstruction times, Coin3D supports real-time previews and local edits, making 3D modeling more controllable, efficient, and accessible.

Coin3D enhances 3D asset generation by combining voxelized shape proxies with 2D-conditioned diffusion, allowing fine-tuned control and real-time previews. A novel 3D adapter integrates shape-guided constraints, while proxy-bounded editing ensures precise modifications. Volume caching accelerates rendering, making Coin3D a fast, interactive, and customizable 3D modeling framework.

Coin3D establishes a new framework for 3D asset generation, combining shape proxies with interactive editing and real-time previews. While effective, it faces challenges like prompt dependency, limited fine-detail resolution, and baked lighting effects. Future improvements include object-centric fine-tuning, high-resolution optimization, and PBR material integration for enhanced rendering quality.

Coin3D introduces proxy-guided control to enhance 3D generation, making object creation more intuitive than relying on text or images alone. Users can easily assemble proxies via tools like Tinkercad or SteamVR. However, limitations include resolution constraints for high-poly models and the need for manual tuning to balance control strength, similar to ControlNet’s user-dependent adjustments.

Coin3D surpasses Latent-NeRF and Fantasia3D in controllable 3D object generation by directly integrating 3D-aware control into the diffusion process. Unlike previous methods, it maintains shape accuracy, avoids overgrowth artifacts, and enables real-time previews. Experiments confirm that volume-SDS improves reconstruction, while proxy-bounded editing ensures precise modifications without compromising existing features.

Coin3D introduces a novel approach to 3D asset generation, allowing users to guide object creation with simple shapes for enhanced control and flexibility. Unlike traditional methods, Coin3D provides interactive editing, real-time previews, and seamless part regeneration. Key innovations include a 3D adapter, proxy-bounded editing, and a progressive volume cache for a responsive modeling experience.

Coin3D trains on the LVIS subset of Objaverse with 16-view rendering and proxy voxelization. Evaluations include CLIP scores, ImageReward, and GPTEvals3D. User studies compare its output against existing methods. The model trains with a dual 3D UNet and volume-SDS loss on an Nvidia A100-80G, enabling high-fidelity 3D reconstruction in just minutes, optimizing both quality and efficiency.

After three years of implementing PSS for CS in CS1, surveys reveal overwhelmingly positive feedback from students, with 99% finding PSS engaging. The combination of demonstrations, PSS, and pair programming fostered an effective learning environment, highlighting the value of structured guidance and collaborative learning.

Damon Burton’s study reverse-engineers Google’s ranking factors, analyzing 205 queries and key SEO metrics. Findings reveal that long-form content with 1,700–2,300 words, high sentence volume, and a balanced mix of complex words rank best. The Gunning Fog Index and Automated Readability Index emerge as top readability tools for SEO success.

How are you, hacker? 🪐 What’s happening in tech today, February 4, 2025? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, we present you with these top quality stories. From How to Build a Tiny Language Model (TLM) in Ruby: A Step-by-Step Guide to The AI Writing Contest b...

The AI Writing Contest, sponsored by Bright Data and HackerNoon, has wrapped up! With nearly 300 entries and 290K+ views, here are the finalists and winners claiming a share of $2,500 in prizes.

Welcome to HackerNoon Decoded—the ultimate recap of the Science stories, writers, and trends that defined 2024! Explore the top Science stories that captivated our readers, meet the leading writers who shaped the discourse, and celebrate the standout readers who enriched our community. Let's dive into the best of 2024!

Olas raises $13.8M to launch Pearl, a decentralized AI agent marketplace. Pearl enables true AI ownership, letting users customize and deploy agents autonomously. With a 30% MoM growth rate and an accelerator program offering $1M in grants, Olas is revolutionizing AI accessibility and innovation.