HackerNoon Decoded: And the Award For the Most Read Category Goes To...

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Now that 2024 has ended, we thought it would be interesting to recap our community’s viewing history. HackerNoon publishes hundreds of articles every week, but what were the Top 10 categories that grabbed more attention than the others? Well, you’re about to find out.

The HackerNoon community had a total reading time of 44 YEARS, 6 MONTHS, AND 18 DAYS, but the one category that caught our community's attention more than the others was… Programming!

With over 9.3 years of reading time, HackerNoon readers kept coming back and back for what the Programming category had in store.

Well, no surprises there! HackerNoon is home to some of the most in-depth guides and tutorials you’ll find on the internet on, quite frankly, any programming language you can think of!

But it’s not all just code; the Tech-stories category also caught our community’s attention, underscoring the prominence of thought leadership and other news-worthy items that our readers care about.

Artificial intelligence also continued to grab our community’s attention as the category had a reading time of over five years!

Ok, so what about the most-read stories in each of the categories? Well, friends, we have the data for that too!

Here are the Top 3 stories in the most-read categories of 2024.

Programming

• How to Deal With Complexity When Designing Software Systems by Aleksei
• Using Firebase Authentication with the Latest Next.js Features by Amadeusz Winogrodzki
• Architectural Foundations for Startups: Translating Business Into Tech by Pavel Grishin

Tech-Stories

• The Evolution of Data Center Cooling: From Air-Based Methods to Free Cooling by Egor Karitskii
• Optimizing Data Center Efficiency: A Deep Dive into Freecooling Techniques by Egor Karitskii
• How To Choose A Server Stack At Product Launch by Grigorii Novikov

(Wow, a double whammy for Egor Karitskii! Congrats!)

Artificial Intelligence

• Portfolio Management: All The Ways AI Is Transforming Modern Asset Strategies by Andrey Kustarev
• Open-Source: The Next Step in AI Revolution by MinIO
• Starting Simple: The Strategic Advantage of Baseline Models in Machine Learning by Andrey Kustarev

(This time, Andrey Kustarev occupied the top slots! Congrats!)

Product Management

• From Pre-Seed to Series A: Navigating the Key Stages of Product Development by Denis Edemskiy
• Product Hypothesis Validation: Best Practices & Examples by Anastasia Faizulenova
• 5 Steps To Achieving Product Market Fit And The 40% Rule by Julia Kordinova

Web3

• Financial Nihilism and Bitcoin Explained by Darragh Grove-White
• What's Inside Play to Earn by Andrey Logunov
• Unlocking 2024/25: The Ultimate Guide to Top RWA Crypto Projects by Mickey Maler

Cloud

• How to Earn $1 Million With AWS in One Year by Gianpi Colonna

• Everything You Need to Know to Implement Generative AI for Your Enterprise by MinIO

• Smooth Sailing: Transitioning from Docker to Localhost by MinIO

  
  

(Congrats to MinIO for dominating this one!)

Gaming

• How Fortnite Creative and UEFN Is The Next Big Creative Moneymaker and Why by Goldie Chan
• Nintendo Breaks Its Silence On Palworld by Player Auctions
• Stardew Valley 1.6 on Switch: For the Console, The Wait Continues ("As Soon as Possible") by Avni Savaliya

Finance

• The High-Frequency Trading Developer’s Guide: Six Key Components for Low Latency and Scalability by Pavel Grishin
• Checklist for FinTech Product Growth: Channels, Trends, and Tools by Denis Edemskiy
• Protect People From Themselves: Reducing Default Risks in P2P Lending by Alexander Koptelov

Cybersecurity

• Unmasking VEILDrive: Threat Actors Exploit Microsoft Services for Command & Control by Hunters
• Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) Vulnerabilities: Testing Strategies and Examples by Konstantin Sakhchinskiy
• Intro to Digital Fingerprints: Understanding, Manipulating, and Defending Against Online Tracking by Konstantin Sakhchinskiy

(Pretty impressive, Konstantin Sakhchinskiy!)

Data Science

• Outlier Detection: What You Need to Know by Natalia Ogneva
• QA Checks for Big Datasets With Deequ & Statistical Methods by Akshay Jain
• Data Science for Portfolio Optimization: Markowitz Mean-Variance Theory by Andrey Kustarev

And that’s a wrap! What did you think? Any surprises here? Let us know, and see y’all throughout 2025!

Read More About HackerNoon’s (and the HackerNoon Community’s) 2024:

• HackerNoon Decoded: How Users Searched in 2024
• HackerNoon Decoded: The Polls that Defined 2024
• HackerNoon Coded: The Top 10 Countries Where HackerNoon Is the Most Active
• HackerNoon Partnerships, Decoded!
• Welcome to HackerNoon Decoded: The Best of 2024