Episodes
Wednesday Apr 21, 2021
How Many Devs Does It Take to Fly on Mars?
Wednesday Apr 21, 2021
Wednesday Apr 21, 2021
What's David's hot take on Facebook's pivot to audio? Hands up if you think the Mars Helicopter video is a deep fake! ALSO: are kids growing up during a global panini more likely to get face tattoos? đ± Shoot the shit with Hacker Noon's Editors â
This Week on Planet Internet:
- Props to the 12k open source devs Github says contributed to Ingenuity's maiden voyage! (0:33)
- Hands up if you think the Mars Helicopter video is a deep fake (3:52)
- Catch David's Hot Take on Facebook's pivot to audio (06:18)
- Hey WTF happened to Libra? (07:23)
- Are kids growing up during a global panini more likely to get face tattoos? (08:50)
- Is Substack's margin really Facebook's opportunity? (11:03)
- Find out how Facebook's moderators accidentally helped Hacker Noon sell more t-shirts (15:46)
- Is any system that claims to be blockchain voting "neither blockchain, nor voting?" (17:13)
- Do you stan #decentralization? (22:42)
- What worldwide crypto adoption sounds like (25:23)
- Oh hey, happy 4/20, everybody! (30:12)
Read the tech stories talked about this podcast:Â
1. Open source goes to Mars by Nat Friedman for The GitHub Blog: https://github.blog/2021-04-19-open-source-goes-to-mars/Â
2. Five takeaways about Facebook's pivot to audio by Casey Newton from Platformer: https://www.platformer.news/p/5-takeaways-about-facebooks-pivotÂ
3. 3 Reasons Why Blockchain Won't #ReleaseTheKraken: An Interview with John Sebes of TrustTheVote.org by Benjamin Bateman for Hacker Noon: https://hackernoon.com/3-reasons-why-blockchain-wont-releasethekraken-an-interview-with-john-sebes-of-trustthevoteorg-713i339y
4. Cannabis banking act passes U.S. House with bipartisan support by Matt Burns (lol) for Tech Crunch: https://techcrunch.com/2021/04/20/cannabis-banking-act-passes-u-s-house-with-bipartisan-support/Â Â
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Wednesday Sep 30, 2020
AI and Quantum Computing to the Rescue
Wednesday Sep 30, 2020
Wednesday Sep 30, 2020
Ever wondered what a podcast would sound like if it was hosted by an AI? Look no further. In this episode of Hacker Noon's Noonies chatcast series, Natasha Nel's AI alter-ego asks three top Hacker Noon Contributors which technological innovation they think will save the world and why. Buckle up for surreal meta moment from the future of robot podcasting.Â
With thanks to our 2020 Noonies award sponsors: Sustany Capital, .TECH Domains, Grant for the Web, Skillsoft, Flipside Crypto, Udacity, and Beyondskills.
IN THIS PODCAST:Â
(01:24) Rishabh Anand on artificial intelligence
(05:19) Vladimiros Peilivanidis on quantum
(06:25) Aditi Bhatnagar on computing speed and human possibility
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Tuesday Sep 15, 2020
Black Mirror Tech IRL: Hacker Noon Writers on Whatâs Worrying in 2021
Tuesday Sep 15, 2020
Tuesday Sep 15, 2020
Natasha Nel from Hacker Noon asks 7 Top Hacker Noon Contributors to weigh in with their scariest tech predictions for 2021 â expect a 10-minute American Horror Story anthology on everything from AI and Privacy to Content Overproduction and the internetâs impact on the planet.
With thanks to our 2020 Noonies award sponsors: Sustany Capital, .TECH Domains, Grant for the Web, Skillsoft, Flipside Crypto, Udacity, and Beyondskills.
IN THIS PODCAST
- (01:00) Ryan Dawson on how much data weâre giving away without realizing it;
- (01:45) Matt Klein on ubiquitous tech and resulting and related content overproduction;Â
- (03:30) Aditi Bhatnagar on what our collective data is being used for;Â
- (04:40) Vladimiros Peilivanidis on the next wave of intelligence being designed by us lowly humans;Â
- (05:10) Gajesh Naik on AI and automation stealing iterative jobs;Â
- (05:50) Sharmistha Chatterjee on whether or not your industryâs advancing faster than you are;Â
- And at (07:40) Melinda LB Lewis on the internetâs impact on our planet
The good news? The solutions to these problems and more are on hackernoon.com right now. (Probably.)
Tuesday Sep 08, 2020
Technology Trends for 2021: A Forecast from Hacker Noonâs Top Writers
Tuesday Sep 08, 2020
Tuesday Sep 08, 2020
Natasha Nel asks 10 of Hacker Noonâs Top Contributors to weigh in with their strategic tech predictions for 2021 â expect a briefing on everything from recession startups and (self) edtech to AI applied to end Covid-19 and the commoditization of Machine Learning.
With thanks to our 2020 Noonies award sponsors: Sustany Capital, .TECH Domains, Grant for the Web, Skillsoft, Flipside Crypto, Udacity, and Beyondskills.
IN THIS PODCAST:Â
- Matt Klein on the state of mental health (tech) in America
- Melinda LB Lewis on leveling up community and humanity in startup culture
- Ryan Dawson with real-world examples of how ethics is affecting commerce
- Muhammed Bilal on the collapse of traditional educationÂ
- Brian Wallace on why we need Chiefs of Soft SkillsÂ
- Tian Zhao on Web 3.0 and technology solving the problems of technology
- Gajesh Naik on healthtech and the early detection of disease
- Sharmistha Chatterjee on AI and the implementation a Covid-19 vaccineÂ
- Alexey Grigorev on the no-code movement, applied to Machine Learning
- Vladimiros Peilivanidis on 5G, technopolitics and surveillance
Thursday May 28, 2020
Trump vs. The Internet
Thursday May 28, 2020
Thursday May 28, 2020
What just happened to the internet!? Did our President just sign an executive order that forces social media platforms to be his personal mega phone? Hacker Noon CPO Dane Lyons and CEO David Smooke discuss the possible implications on 45's attempt to change internet law. Some sources discussed in this episode:
- Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act
- Trump's Tweet About Mail in Ballot Fraud
- Twitter's Fact Checking Page
- FCC's Official Statement on Feasibility of Executive Order
- ACLU with the BurnÂ
Read more about Net Neutrality, Twitter, Censorship, Fact Checking, and the Internet on HackerNoon.com.
Wednesday Dec 19, 2018
E16 - Building A Movement Through Emerging Tech with Enigma's Tor Bair
Wednesday Dec 19, 2018
Wednesday Dec 19, 2018
Episode 16 of the Hacker Noon Podcast: An interview with Tor Bair from Enigma.
In this episode Trent Lapinski and Tor Bair discuss privacy, blockchain, the problems with the centralized tech industry, security, and data science.Â
âI donât want to get too much into why truth is broken right now in the tech space, thatâs a whole other can of worms, but I think we can all appreciate that it is getting harder and harder to know what is trustable.â
âThe moment we start believing there is no other way, then it is just a race to the bottom. There will only be two companies in the World, and thatâs if weâre lucky. There may only be one.â
âWe have to be building a movement at the same time weâre building the technology. I think we need to be funding these kinds of solutions like this is the apocalypse event for the Internet.â âTor Bair