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How transactions work on Solana, including their structure, processing lifecycle, and why Solana transactions are fast and low-cost.

80% of software engineers are not able to become senior software developers. Here are three reasons why. If you make all these mistakes, then right now stop, otherwise you will face problems.

Mamba enhances SSMs with a selection mechanism for context-aware reasoning, outperforming Transformers in long-context tasks like DNA and audio modeling. Future directions include scaling to LLaMa-sized AI models.

Welcome to HackerNoon Startups of the Week! Each week, the HackerNoon team showcases a list of startups from our Startups of The Year database. All these startups have been nominated as one of the best in their respective category or region. This week, we’re pleased to bring you ROW Marketing Agency, Violet, & YellowMay.

DeFi's reliance on variable rates limits institutional adoption. DELV’s Hyperdrive protocol brings fixed-rate yield and borrowing, offering stability, efficiency, and seamless integration with top DeFi platforms. By optimizing liquidity provisioning and enabling tokenized fixed-income products, DELV is paving the way for structured, long-term investment in decentralized finance.

Traditional performance testing focuses on metrics like response times and max load but often ignores user experience and business impact. A more effective approach includes user journey simulations, frustration metrics, conversion tracking, and resilience testing under real-world conditions. Teams must go beyond numbers, integrating business goals and user insights to ensure true application success.

Discover how 51nodes and World Mobile’s $5 million grant program is funding 50 innovative projects to drive Industry 5.0, supported by major corporations and cutting-edge decentralized solutions.

Funtico and FunNFT launch Mystery Tournaments on March 14, 2025. The tournaments feature three games, offering a prize pool of 1,500 USDT and 75,000 $TICO, Funtico’s native token. The event tests how digital assets connect to competitive play.

The emergence of cryptocurrency has greatly impacted the financial system around the world. Some countries recognize the importance of cryptocurrency and have well-tailored laws to support it, while some others impose strict regulations or even complete bans.

Face recognition (FR) is widely used in the financial sector, security, video surveillance, smart home services, multi-factor authentication, etc. In this article we'll deep dive into recent research trends

Solana optimizes block propagation using Turbine, a peer-to-peer data dissemination method that avoids network congestion and bandwidth overload.

Solana’s Proof of History improves transaction speed and ordering but its computational demands create a scalability challenge.

CypherGoat is a crypto swap aggregator that automatically finds the best exchange rates from our partnered exchange at no extra cost.

Learning Ruby can be tough, but I stay motivated by trusting the process (even when it’s boring), having a strong “why,” and focusing on my goal—building apps.

The Model Context Protocol (MCP) has emerged as the universal translator for artificial intelligence, and it's redefining what integrated AI systems can achieve.

The lifecycle and states of an app are like a person going through different parts of their day. By understanding how an app moves through states, you can catch sneaky bugs, simulate real-world scenarios.

Different teams may have different length sprints, but in general, a Sprint is either two or three weeks.

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.