The HackerNoon Newsletter: HackerNoon Decoded: How Users Searched in 2024 (1/14/2025)

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🪐 What’s happening in tech today, January 14, 2025?

The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, The First Outer Solar System Landing Occurred in 2005, NSA was reported using spyware on other countries in 2014, Net Neutrality took a big hit! in 2014, and we present you with these top quality stories. From HackerNoon Decoded: How Users Searched in 2024 to 2025 Might Be the Year of AI Agents, If They Can Survive Enterprise Hell, let’s dive right in.

HackerNoon Decoded: How Users Searched in 2024

By @decoded [ 3 Min read ] Discover the top 15 most searched tags on HackerNoon in 2024, from profit to token economy and React—plus the weirdest search queries of the year! Read More.

This Weird Game Makes You Mimic Faces—and Somehow It’s Advancing AI

By @gamifications [ 4 Min read ] Researchers have developed a gamified method of acquiring annotated facial emotion data without an explicit labeling effort by humans. Read More.

2025 Might Be the Year of AI Agents, If They Can Survive Enterprise Hell

By @yahiabsat [ 15 Min read ] Challenges like system customization, fragile GUIs, and authentication hurdles make full automation elusive. Read More.

New Research Says Robots Could Be Used to Teach Children Good Habits

By @gamifications [ 5 Min read ] Researchers developed a new gaming platform to teach proper hand hygiene practices to children using a pro-social robot. Read More.

Welcome to HackerNoon Decoded: The Best of 2024 Tech Blogging

By @decoded [ 7 Min read ] Discover HackerNoon Decoded: the top stories, writers, and trends that defined 2024. Celebrate the readers and writers who shaped our community! Read More.

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