The HackerNoon Newsletter: Hard Problems Are Easier, Once You Think Like This (12/10/2025)

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🪐 What’s happening in tech today, December 10, 2025?

The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, George Jennings, Inventor of the Toilet, was Born in 1810, Unity bought Weta Digital tech division in 2021, Ernest Lawrence won the Nobel Prize in 1939, and we present you with these top quality stories. From What the October 2025 Flash Crash Taught Us About Liquidations — And Why DeFi Needs Better Fail-Safe to Hard Problems Are Easier, Once You Think Like This, let’s dive right in.

Hard Problems Are Easier, Once You Think Like This

By @praisejamesx [ 8 Min read ] Stop being overwhelmed. Learn the neuroscience of mastery: how all genius works by compressing complexity into simple, automatic structures. Read More.

Not a Lucid Web3 Dream Anymore: x402, ERC-8004, A2A, and The Next Wave of AI Commerce

By @mickeymaler [ 30 Min read ] Explains how x402, ERC-8004, and agent discovery turn APIs and AI agents into usage-based micro businesses. Web3s future is in Agents doing the work for you. Read More.

A Simple Guide to KZG Commitments and Why Ethereum Needs Them to Scale

By @sahil4555 [ 15 Min read ] Practical guide to polynomial commitments and KZG, showing how zk-rollups, Proto-Danksharding and PeerDAS scale data and proofs on Ethereum. Read More.

Can Your AI Actually Use a Computer? A 2025 Map of Computer‑Use Benchmarks

By @ashtonchew12 [ 10 Min read ] A 2025 map of computer use agent benchmarks, from ScreenSpot to Mind2Web, REAL, OSWorld and CUB, and how harness design now rivals model quality. Read More.

What the October 2025 Flash Crash Taught Us About Liquidations — And Why DeFi Needs Better Fail-Safe

By @michaelegorov [ 7 Min read ] DeFi’s October 2025 flash crash exposed critical weaknesses in liquidation models. Michael Egorov analyzes what broke, what worked, and how DeFi must evolve. Read More.

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