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Many SEO agencies charge between $500 and $5,000 a month, some even more. They say this fee covers access to advanced SEO tools, experienced staff, and tailored strategies – from audits to keyword analysis. But after signing on, clients often feel that the bill doesn’t match the value. It’s not that the agency does nothing; it’s just a whole lot less than you’d expect...

On August 5th, Odysee announced that advertisements have been completely removed from the largest web3 video-sharing platform. The decentralized video- sharing platform boldly claims they “don’t need ads to make money as a platform” The company claims to have developed monetization programs that will “help creators earn a living and at the same time keep Ody see alive”

[Toronto, Canada] Nov 14, 2024 – Torram, pioneering institutional-grade decentralized finance (DeFi) infrastructure on Bitcoin, today announced a strategic investment from Draper Associates, the venture firm led by legendary crypto investor Tim Draper. Selected from over 200 applicants for the highly exclusive BitcoinFi Accelerator, Torram is now better positioned to capture the rapidly expanding institutional DeFi market as Bitcoin emerges as the leading blockchain...

How are you, hacker? 🪐 What’s happening in tech today, November 14, 2024? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, NASA launched Apollo XII in 1969, Theodore Maiman was awarded the patent for ruby laser systems in 1967, The Great Comet of 1680 was discovered in 16...

This guide, Part 2 in a series on advanced web scraping, dives into the complexities of scraping modern, dynamic websites. As the web evolves with Single-Page Applications (SPAs), Progressive Web Apps (PWAs), and AI-driven sites, traditional scraping faces new challenges. The guide explains SPAs' seamless navigation, PWAs' app-like features, and how AI personalizes content—creating hurdles like client-side rendering, AJAX, and caching. Techniques for scraping...

Welcome to HackerNoon Startups of the Week! Each week, the HackerNoon team highlights standout Startups from our Startups of the Year database. Each startup featured, has been nominated as the best in their respective technology category or region. This week, we’re thrilled to spotlight Postjer Group, Fast Remote Services, and Semillas Urbanas Mexico

Onboarding is often rushed, leaving developers lost and disengaged. A structured approach boosts productivity and retention, helping new hires make an impact from day one.

This article honors the relentless builders of the web3 and blockchain spaces who continued to innovate during crypto’s bear markets. It highlights how bear markets strip down to essentials, prompting sustainable growth and meaningful advancements, exemplified by projects like The Graph. It celebrates the long-term vision, resilience, and commitment to decentralization and transparency that these builders upheld.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and image-hosting APIs intersect in most businesses today. AI transforms how we interact with and secure images online. Automated image tagging saves time while ensuring more accurate and comprehensive metadata for each image. AI-driven automated tagging and image recognition are game-changers.

The Startups of the Year 2024 showcases exceptional companies across 100 industries. Nominations are based on regional and industrial excellence, not just location. This series will detail our key industries and demonstrate how HackerNoon can help you explore them further. Today's Industry: Cybersecurity!

Learn how to integrate LangChain4J and Ollama for a streamlined LLM experience in Java applications. This guide covers setup, chat history, streaming responses, and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) for optimized chatbot functionality.

BlackRock has launched its USD Institutional Digital Liquidity Fund (BUIDL) on the Avalanche blockchain through digital asset firm Securitize. The $510 million fund, which represents one BUIDL token per share, targets a stable value of $1 per token. The fund invests exclusively in cash, U.S. Treasury bills, and repurchase agreements.

Optionals in Swift allow a variable to hold a value or be empty (nil) This is particularly useful when data comes from unstable sources, like user input, databases, or servers, where data presence isn’t always guaranteed. Using Optionals is an essential part of iOS development, especially when dealing with data from users or external sources.

Discover the full power of Flutter with this advanced guide to custom render objects. Learn how to handcraft complex UI components from scratch, optimize rendering performance, and ensure your app's look and feel stands out for the best experience.

Cairo is designed to be a highly optimized provable programming language, and it just so happens that STARKs are great for scaling Ethereum, too, because verifying a proof takes less time than executing the program with the same inputs. Hence, Starknet is quite literally written in Cairo with the goal of scaling Ethereum and building Web3 applications. Starknet enhances Ethereum’s scalability by enabling the...

While data tools today are more powerful than ever, most organizations still find data platforms complex and costly to maintain. What's wrong with how we build data platforms today?

Disaster can come in many flavors, ranging from natural disasters to hardware failures, misconfiguration, and cyberattacks. The problem with cyberattacks is that we risk having our data stolen and wonder if the rest of the data is trustworthy. Maybe the attack was a sleight of hand, and the primary objective was to introduce malicious data that would haunt the organization forever.

Rocket has teamed up wiath M3 DAO, MetaMars, and VooPay to build a transformative alliance focused on reshaping the digital economy.

Amazon and Netflix have adopted very different strategies to incorporate ad tiers. Which is right? Both are.

Promptable segmentation is evaluated using uniform point grids and bounding boxes on diverse datasets. Oracle performance is measured with 1-pt and 1-box IoU, showcasing the effectiveness of the approach across datasets like iShape, which includes antenna, branch, fence, and more.

The philosophy of Karma, in short, is: do good things, and good things will happen to you. The Karma system visualizes this process and simultaneously incentivizes users to do good for others.