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 day! Set email preference here. ## The End of CI/CD Pipelines: The Dawn of Agentic DevOps By @davidiyanu [ 10 Min read ] GitHub's agent fixed my flaky test in 11 minutes. No human wrote code. But when it fails, instead of a stack trace, you get an outcome. Read More.RAG: A Data Problem Disguised as AI By @davidiyanu [ 5 Min read ] RAG fails less from the LLM and more from retrieval: bad chunking, weak metadata, embedding drift, and stale indexes. Fix the pipeline first. Read More.The 7 Best Coparenting Apps in 2026 By @stevebeyatte [ 7 Min read ] Compare the 7 best co-parenting apps in 2026, including BestInterest, OurFamilyWizard, and TalkingParents. Find the right app for high-conflict situations. 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By @aimodels44 [ 8 Min read ] A new study suggests AGENTS.md-style repo context files can reduce coding-agent success while raising inference cost. Here’s why—and what to do instead. Read More.Beyond the Demo: Why LLM Applications Crash in Production By @davidiyanu [ 8 Min read ] Production is the unmarked minefield that begins the moment you accept arbitrary user input and promise reliability. Read More.We Need to Sound the Alarm on Technical Debt. Here’s How I Do It. By @dataops [ 3 Min read ] Technical debt isn’t refactoring—it’s hidden risk. A powerful racecar analogy to help engineers explain why cutting corners can end in disaster. Read More.Optimise LLM usage costs with Semantic Cache By @birukum [ 11 Min read ] Agentic AI workflows can create a financial black hole. Learn how semantic caching uses vector similarity to cut your LLM token burn by 24%. Read More.Why Everyone is Panic-Buying Mac Minis for OpenClaw / Moltbot / Clawdbot? By @alexisrozhkov [ 5 Min read ] the reality is more nuanced than the hype suggests. Read More.Grok 4.2 vs. Sonnet 4.6: Early Impressions From Hands-On Testing By @sherveen [ 5 Min read ] Deep dive analysis of Grok 4.2 and Sonnet 4.6, two new AI releases from xAI and Anthropic, and how their agent systems compare. Read More.Cybersecurity Stocks Drop as Anthropic Launches Claude Code Security Tool By @samiranmondal [ 2 Min read ] Cybersecurity stocks fell after AI company Anthropic unveiled Claude Code Security Read More.How to Earn with Crypto Staking: A Practical Comparison of Popular Options By @MichaelJerlis [ 2 Min read ] Explore crypto staking options in 2026, compare ETH and SOL yields, and see how platforms like EMCD simplify earning passive income. Read More.Open Source’s First Cyber-Bully? 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Read More.Claude Opus 4.6 and GPT-5.3 Codex: Evaluating the New Leaders in AI-Driven Software Engineering By @ArunDHANARAJ_gfaknebg [ 14 Min read ] Compare Claude Opus 4.6 and GPT‑5.3 Codex across reasoning, coding, benchmarks, pricing, and safety to guide enterprise AI and agentic workload decisions.Read More.Python is a Video Latency Suicide Note: How I Hit 29 FPS with Zero-Copy C++ ONNX By @nickzt [ 5 Min read ] Scaling AI for the real world requires peeling back the layers of abstraction we've gotten too comfortable with. Read More.SERP Benchmarks: Success Rates and Latency at Scale By @brightdata [ 8 Min read ] We benchmark SERP APIs for success rate,speed, and stability under load. Learn which setup delivers consistent results for AI agents and deep research. Read More.MEXC Reports 2.35 Million Users Across AI Trading Suite in First Six Months By @mexcmedia [ 2 Min read ] MEXC reports 2.35M users across its AI trading suite, with 10.8M interactions and record activity during October’s flash crash. Read More. 🧑💻 What happened in your world this week? It's been said that writing can help consolidate technical knowledge, establish credibility, and contribute to emerging community standards. Feeling stuck? We got you covered ⬇️⬇️⬇️ ANSWER THESE GREATEST INTERVIEW QUESTIONS OF ALL TIME We hope you enjoy this worth of free reading material. Feel free to forward this email to a nerdy friend who'll love you for it. See you on Planet Internet! With love, The HackerNoon Team ✌️