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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 TSJ Diversified Group, Smart Mountain, and Self-employed in Austria.

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Discover how Mawari is spearheading Osaka’s digital evolution with Digital Entertainment City Namba—a city-wide integration of AI, XR, and DePIN that transforms urban transit and public spaces.

Load balancers distribute traffic across multiple servers to enhance performance, prevent downtime, and optimize resource usage. They use algorithms like round robin, least connections, and IP hash to route requests efficiently. Key features include health checks, SSL termination, and session persistence. Choosing the right load balancer—hardware, software, or cloud-based—depends on your needs. Best practices include redundancy, security, and monitoring. Implementing load balancers ensures high...

.NET developers now have access to the officially supported buildpack for .NET, which means you can now deploy your .NET apps onto Heroku with just one command.

With the enactment of the Public Enterprises Act, we've created a redundant layer of bureaucracy that serves more as a financial burden than an effective oversight mechanism.

The project is built on the principle of microservice architecture, which allows you to divide functionality into independent services. Each component is responsible for a highly specialized task, which ensures flexibility, scalability, and fault tolerance of the system. The project is based on the Go programming language.

Long-distance romances and meaningful friendships are established entirely via online communication platforms. With the value of virtual connection increasing, communication apps must evolve. Apps must prioritize personalization and intimacy to foster genuine digital relationships.

Helm is a package manager for Kubernetes that helps deploy, configure and manage applications in a cluster. Instead of writing and applying multiple YAML files, Helm lets you deploy applications with a single command. Helm tracks deployments, allowing you to roll back to previous versions in case of failures.

The race between China and the U.S. to dominate artificial intelligence (AI) is not just about technological supremacy or global power projection – it threatens national security and constitutes an existential risk. Both nations are aggressively developing an AI-driven military, with heightened capabilities. The nation that harnesses AI first will have the advantage in future conflicts.

NFT Paris 2025 brought community and innovation to life, but onboarding struggles show Web3 still has a long way to go for mass adoption.

Hosting all services in a single public cloud and relying solely on credential protection can cause server overloading and security vulnerabilities.

GraphQL is an often misunderstood framework that went from being one of the most popular development innovations to an unfairly maligned one.

Microsoft AI Red Team releases whitepaper detailing lessons from its 100 generative AI products. Security researchers have identified eight core security lessons from rigorous adversarial testing.

This guide offers a comprehensive walkthrough of response compression in ASP.NET Core. It explores what is response compression, when to use it, and how to set it up. It also analyzes the results before and after using the response compression middleware.

How are you, hacker? 🪐 What’s happening in tech today, February 20, 2025? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, we present you with these top quality stories. From Getting Started With Apples Vision Framework: A Developers Perspective to How to Obsidian Sync fo...

Traditional stock market APIs come with rate limits and high costs, so I built my own web scraper using Python. By extracting data from Yahoo Finance and CNN Money, I bypassed restrictions while maintaining flexibility. This guide covers setup, handling challenges like rate limiting and data validation, and future plans for AI-powered stock analysis.

Apex Fusion has launched its blockchain ecosystem with the AP3X token and PRIME chain, aiming to combine Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum’s programmability.

Berachain’s BERA token launch has reignited debates over fair vs. VC-backed token distributions, as insiders dumped holdings, triggering a price crash. This article explores how unfair allocations erode trust while fair launch models, like Bitcoin’s and exSat’s, foster transparency and community-driven growth.