David Smooke

treat your internet friends with respect. founder & ceo @hackernoon publish a blog

[HackerNoon | Learn Any Technology @hackernoon]

The Decentralize AI Hackathon is live 💚

For builders, developers, and technical thinkers working on open AI infrastructure:

→ Enter with a project, prototype, or technical idea, publish your work as a @hackernoon blog post
→ $51,750+ prize pool and the GRAND PRIZE of the https://t.co/Inw4J5VJKx domain
→ Free compute credits for every eligible participant
→ Two rounds: June '26 through Feb '27
→ Start at the concept stage. Keep building. Submit updates as your work evolves.

Enter today 👉 https://t.co/Inw4J5VJKx

Sponsored by @nosana_ai, @ArweaveEco, and @MEXC

#DecentralizeAI

[HackerNoon | Learn Any Technology @hackernoon]

Readers are apparently not thrilled about the idea of a brain-computer interface reading their thoughts.
#polloftheweek #3techpolls...Show more

[HackerNoon | Learn Any Technology @hackernoon]

Read the full story👇
https://t.co/afXLzuj5Db

[HackerNoon | Learn Any Technology @hackernoon]

HackerNoon will award https://t.co/pg4Akef3wc, the domain and open source website, as the grand prize in The Decentralize AI Hackatathon.
By @davidsmooke
#decentralizeaihackathon #decentralizeai...Show more

[HackerNoon | Learn Any Technology @hackernoon]

@DavidSmooke Read the full story👇
https://t.co/yzo1YPbxlf

[Nosana @nosana_ai]

The future of AI infrastructure should be open, decentralized, and builder-owned 🙌

@nosana_ai and @hackernoon are launching the Decentralize AI Hackathon: a 10-month hackathon for builders working on open AI infrastructure.

Submit your idea as a HackerNoon blog post, then build it throughout the hackathon👇

→ Claim free Nosana compute credits
→ Submit updates as your work evolves
→ Compete for $51,750+ in prizes

Start here: https://t.co/M5eCXRE0rB

[Nosana @nosana_ai]

Need inspiration? Explore what to build with Nosana:
https://t.co/w1ogLmG7Bq

[Marcin HCK Firmuga @hck_lab]

I just got my article approved on @hackernoon with a 58 Proof of Usefulness score for PC Workman!

Not gonna lie, this one hits different.
Been building it solo between warehouse shifts for the past 11 months.

Huge thanks! Its my fifth article here!

[Linh Dao Smooke ❌ @linhsmooke]

@hck_lab @hackernoon yay! Congrats on gaining the "you're in business" badge! Solopreneurs ftw!

[| ᴍᴜᴀᴢ | @MuazXinthi]

Was going through the inbox // guess what seems like back in 2023 probably the first article written about ERC 6551

seems / like I need to log back into my @hackernoon and again start writing.. who knows it might be distributed in their news letters .

[krus210 @krus210]

My article on spec-driven development in microservices made it to the Top 3 on HackerNoon TechBeat by story reads.

It's about why LLM coding agents can write good local code, but still miss cross-service rules.

https://t.co/ApugqAF2yu

#microservices #ai

[HackerNoon | Learn Any Technology @hackernoon]

Useful products start with reliable data.

Congrats to the first wave of #ProofOfUsefulness winners @proofofuseHQ. 4 amazing projects, powered by @BrightData. 🌐

$4,000 cash prize for 4 winners. All earned. Full announcement👇
https://t.co/Y7z15Zhy4C

Still building? Submission is still open! $250 in #BrightData credits for every new entry. Open until Aug 10.

[SKYLINE🥷 @SkylineETH]

@DavidSmooke distribution solved, curation broke

[David Smooke @DavidSmooke]

10/ Publishing got cheap. Attention didn't.

The internet communities that survive long-term won't publish the most. They'll build trustworthy systems for helping people decide what's worth reading at all.

https://t.co/tCbsBqMPxU

[David Smooke @DavidSmooke]

1/ The internet solved the problem of who gets to publish and scaled the problem of deciding what is worth reading.

In 1999: 23 blogs. Today: 600 million.

🧵 https://t.co/tCbsBqMPxU

[David Smooke @DavidSmooke]

9/ Can Quality Usurp Quantity? Why Editorial Friction Matters

@hackernoon rejects about 55% of submissions. When editors retitled headlines, stories were 4x more likely to surpass 1,000 reads. No dashboard shows you the impact of what you chose not to publish.