HackerNoon

HackerNoon publishes technology stories and builds publishing software. We publish ~42 quality reads a day via the Editing Protocol, and our 150K+ story technology library is free for all to read. Support HackerNoon by publishing a blog post or business blog post.

On Hugging Face, we share open datasets from our platform and build on open models across our websites — TextModels, TextMining, Phonology, Reinforcement, and Deduplication. Read the latest AI & ML practitioner blogs on HackerNoon.

Update: We are awarding decentralizeai.tech, the domain & website, to whoever publishes the best blog post about decentralizing AI.

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Datasets and model collections we publish here.

Resource	Description	Links
Tech Company News Data Dump	7M+ curated tech company news articles and blog posts covering the 3,000+ most valuable tech companies in 2022–2023. Built to power hackernoon.com/companies; open for research, analysis, and ML training.	blog post ↗
Where Startups Trend	600K+ community votes for tens of thousands of startups across thousands of cities — the only open dataset mapping startup popularity by location globally. Updated annually with Startups of the Year.	startups.hackernoon.com · GitHub ↗
Models Used in HackerNoon Publishing System	The open models and research behind our CMS — including the text-to-image models (Stable Diffusion XL, Kandinsky, RealVisXL) we use for story images.	hackernoon.ai

Built with Hugging Face

The Hugging Face models, libraries, and Hub data that power our websites.

Website	Description	Links
TextModels	A searchable directory of 3,000+ text models — LLMs, embedders, classifiers, summarizers, translators. Verified metrics are fetched per-model from the Hugging Face Hub API and refreshed every 72 hours; Hub-sourced listings link straight to their model pages: Qwen, Llama, gpt-oss, DeepSeek, Gemma, Mistral, SmolLM, and more.	textmodels.tech · GitHub ↗
TextMining	A research directory ranking the 3,000+ most-starred open-source text mining projects across 16 categories, refreshed every 24 hours — led by Hugging Face transformers.	textmining.tech
Phonology	Read aloud for 30 seconds and see which dialect regions your vowels resemble and where your accent falls on a world map. Runs the open CommonAccent accent model (SpeechBrain ECAPA-TDNN, trained on Mozilla Common Voice) alongside our own vowel measurements.	phonology.tech
Reinforcement	An alpha compiler for reward-model loops: describe the reward, and it emits a ready-to-run Tinker training script (sample → forward_backward → optim_step → save_state) for fine-tuning open-weight models like Qwen and Llama.	reinforcement.tech · blog ↗
Deduplication	When one tech term has two meanings, which one owns the word? Split-screen pages compare the original meaning against the newcomer, using AI-labeled spoken mentions from the YODAS YouTube corpus and OpenSubtitles. The labels are published as an open HackerNoon dataset.	deduplication.tech · GitHub ↗

AI Directories & Tools

Searchable AI databases, experiments, and the AI in our editorial process.

Project	Description	Links
Turing Test	A directory of 1,600+ Turing tests and AI evaluation benchmarks found across the internet. Categorized, searchable, and continuously expanded.	turingtest.tech · blog post ↗
Computational	Human vs Machine: a 20-question Computational Turing Test that scores whether your answers read as human (emotion, story, uncertainty) or machine (logic, precision, brevity), plus a blog on computability theory.	computational.tech · Hugging Face ↗
AI Grants Database	316+ AI grant programs for software, compute credits, and research funding — tracked, categorized, and searchable.	hackernoon.ai/grants ↗
SKILL.md Library	~2,900 agent skills ingested from license-verified open-source repos — searchable and ready to drop into your AI agent.	hackernoon.com/skills
AI Detector	Every HackerNoon post is reviewed via GPTZero to bring AI transparency to tech publishing.	blog post ↗
Proof of Usefulness	HackerNoon's $100K+ hackathon for builders, with open submissions and a transparent, AI-graded usefulness scoring algorithm.	blog post ↗

Free Publishing Software & Resources

The design systems, editors, and libraries that power how stories get written, organized, and published on hackernoon.com. Free to use in your own projects. More on GitHub.

Tool	Description	Links
Pixel Icon Library	1,440+ pixel vector icons on a 24px grid, in four variations. MIT licensed.	pixeliconlibrary.com · npm ↗
Chowa Text Editor	Real-time collaborative Quill editor integrated with the Editing Protocol — used by 50,000+ HackerNoon writers.	chowa.tech
Emoji Credibility Indicators	Pixelated emoji that tell readers a story's content type, editorial status, and credibility signals up front.	editingprotocol.com
HackerNoon Font	Our signature pixel typeface, built on a 5×5 grid with curved edges.	brand.hackernoon.com
Technology Tags	80,000+ technology tags with real-time publishing rates, trending topics, and historical depth across 150K+ stories.	hackernoon.com/tagged
Learn Repo	Curated learning paths by HackerNoon's editorial taxonomy — AI & ML, engineering, cybersecurity, Web3, business, and more.	learnrepo.com

About HackerNoon

HackerNoon is run by CEO & Creator David Smooke and COO & Board Member Linh Dao Smooke with 1,200+ shareholders. Our small, distributed team of 12 serves 4M+ monthly visitors on our own community-driven CMS, where we've published 50K+ technology experts and served 5K+ tech companies.

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