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The HackerNoon Newsletter: Leader or No Leader, That is the Question (12/21/2025)

How are you, hacker? 🪐 What’s happening in tech today, December 21, 2025? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On

2025/12/22

Video Data Synthesis: Categorizing Matting Difficulty by Instance Overlap

MaGGIe utilizes the V-HIM2K5 and V-HIM60 datasets, categorizing video instance matting into three difficulty levels based on occlusion and overlap.

2025/12/22

Patterns That Work and Pitfalls to Avoid in AI Agent Deployment

Highlights deployment patterns that consistently deliver value: start assistive then automate, use specialised multi-agent teams, and go event-driven Details common

2025/12/22

The Markup's Blacklight Tool Now Has New Tracking Info and Caching Options

We’ve added the option to ‘force’ a request, overriding Blacklight’s cache and triggering a brand-new scan of the page. This option is off by default, and can be

2025/12/22

Global Debt Crisis: Why Blockchain May Be the Path to a Clean Financial Reset

Global debt has reached unprecedented levels and continues growing at alarming speed. When economists discuss solutions, they often point to currency devaluation

2025/12/21

The TechBeat: Why We Misjudge Our Own Effectiveness at Finding Software Bugs (12/21/2025)

How are you, hacker? 🪐Want to know what's trending right now?: The Techbeat by HackerNoon has got you covered with fresh content from our trending stories of the

2025/12/21

Robust Mask-Guided Matting: Managing Noisy Inputs and Object Versatility

MaGGIe excels in hair rendering and instance separation on natural images, outperforming MGM and InstMatt in complex, multi-instance scenarios.

2025/12/21

How Whistleblowing Affects the Careers of Black Women in Tech

Anika Collier Navaroli was a senior policy official on Twitter's safety team. She warned that coded calls to arms could lead to offline violence. But despite her

2025/12/21

Matting Robustness: MaGGIe Performance Across Varying Mask Qualities

MaGGIe demonstrates superior quantitative performance on HIM2K and M-HIM2K, outperforming MGM-style refinement with its sparse guided progressive refinement.

2025/12/21

Why Unconscious Bias is Ruining the UK Workforce and How AI is Helping to Counter HR Inefficiencies

Unconscious bias has long impacted the quality of hiring throughout the UK workforce because of how frequently it can cloud the judgement of skilled recruiters.

2025/12/21