The HackerNoon Newsletter: Announcing the COBOL Streamhouse (4/1/2025)

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🪐 What’s happening in tech today, April 1, 2025?

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Music ML: Clustering on Spotify Audio Features

By @darigain [ 7 Min read ] Discover how to apply and validate clustering techniques for curating music playlists. Read More.

AI Search Traffic Marketshare for Calling HackerNoon Blogs: 52% OpenAI, 30% Amazon 18% Perplexity

By @David [ 3 Min read ] Based on millions of monthly requests, HackerNoon found that OpenAI(52%) leads AI Search Market share, followed by Amazon/Anthropic(30%) and Perplexity(18%). Read More.

Announcing the COBOL Streamhouse

By @progrockrec [ 4 Min read ] COBOL implementation of Apache Kafka and Iceberg. Read More.

The Paradox of Open Innovation - Chaos, Creation, and Collaboration

By @andreydidovskiy [ 13 Min read ] Contrary to what short-term market movements, toxic headlines, and frantic degens on social media say, we are alive in the most prosperous time in history! Read More.

Refactoring 025 - Decompose Regular Expressions

By @mcsee [ 5 Min read ] You can break down a complex validation regex into smaller parts to test each part individually and report accurate errors. Read More.

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