The HackerNoon Newsletter: Can AI Save Centuries of Kurdish History? (8/19/2025)

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🪐 What’s happening in tech today, August 19, 2025?

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Y Combinators Youngest Solo Founder Says Digital Identity Is The Internets Biggest Infrastructure

By @johnwrites [ 6 Min read ] Y Combinators youngest solo founder Kirill Avery discusses digital identity crisis, AI bot threats, privacy concerns, and decentralized solutions. Read More.

Building a Go Dependency Scanner From Scratch

By @rezmoss [ 8 Min read ] Build a Go dependency scanner with the standard library: parse go.mod, query OSV for vulnerabilities, and analyze licenses. Read More.

How I Cut Agentic Workflow Latency by 3-5x Without Increasing Model Costs

By @rohitjacob [ 6 Min read ] Learn how to speed up and optimize agentic workflows with smart step-cutting, parallelization, caching, and model right-sizing. Read More.

Can AI Save Centuries of Kurdish History?

By @webfonts [ 4 Min read ] Digitizing fragile Kurdish archives with Tesseract OCR: challenges, dataset creation, and a new tool to preserve Kurdish heritage. Read More.

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