The TechBeat: Building a RAG System That Runs Completely Offline (12/10/2025)

How are you, hacker? 🪐Want to know what's trending right now?: The Techbeat by HackerNoon has got you covered with fresh content from our trending stories of the day! Set email preference here. ## Free .cv Domains for Everyone: A Tiny Island Nation Is Rewriting the Future of Professional Profiles By @cv-domain [ 5 Min read ] The .cv domain is shaping a new global identity layer in the AI era, as Cape Verde and Ola.cv build an open, DNS-anchored alternative to LinkedIn. Read More.

Introducing the Genies Avatar SDK: Integrate High-Fidelity, Customizable Avatars into Your Game

By @genies [ 4 Min read ] Genies Avatar Framework is a flexible system for building high-quality avatars that fit naturally into any game world. Read More.

How To Power AI, Analytics, and Microservices Using the Same Data

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Why More VARs and SIs Are Embedding Melissa Into Their Enterprise Solutions

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How Iceberg + AIStor Power the Modern Multi-Engine Data Lakehouse

By @minio [ 11 Min read ] Learn how Apache Iceberg paired with AIStor forms a high-performance, scalable lakehouse architecture with SQL features, snapshots, & multi-engine support. Read More.

Reversing Immigration With Simple Coding! No Walls, Laws, Taxes, or Conflicts!

By @chris127 [ 7 Min read ] A blockchain-based UBI pegged to water prices eliminates economic desperation driving migration. No walls, laws, or taxes! Read More.

How AIStor’s Prompt API Lets Healthcare Professionals “Talk” to Their Data

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Porting Scientific Algorithms from MATLAB to JavaScript

By @teimurjan [ 21 Min read ] Port MATLAB to JavaScript the right way. Use Octave for ground-truth validation, match academic references, and ship accurate scientific algorithms. Read More.

Why DataOps Is Becoming Everyone’s Job—and How to Excel at It

By @minio [ 4 Min read ] As DataOps becomes central to modern data work, learn what defines great DataOps engineering—and why fast, high-performance object storage is essential. Read More.

Best AI Automation Platforms for Building Smarter Workflows in 2026

By @stevebeyatte [ 7 Min read ] From no-code tools to enterprise AI systems, discover the top AI workflow automation platforms to use in 2026, and learn which solution fits your business needs Read More.

Three Numbers. That’s All Your AI Needs to Work

By @josecrespophd [ 11 Min read ] Three overlooked eigenvalue diagnostics can predict whether your AI will succeed, fail, or silently collapse. Here’s the 1950s math the industry keeps ignoring. Read More.

How a Data Engineer-Turned-Music-Producer Is Revolutionizing Spatial Intelligence

By @stevebeyatte [ 3 Min read ] Read the story of a Romanian engineer-musician blending creativity and ML to build human-centric AI cameras while keeping his passion for music alive. Read More.

Meet Ignatius Sani - HackerNoon Blogging Course Facilitator

By @hackernoon-courses [ 3 Min read ] Meet Ignatius Sani - a HackerNoon Blogging Course Facilitator and hear his journey from software engineering to technical writing. Read More.

Building a RAG System That Runs Completely Offline

By @teedon [ 30 Min read ] Build a private, offline RAG with Ollama + FAISS. Ingest docs, chunk, embed, and cite answers—no APIs, no cloud, full control over sensitive data. Read More.

You’re a Business, Man: How Blogging Builds Authority, Opportunity, and Income

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How to Add Real-Time Web Search to Your LLM

By @manishmshiva [ 5 Min read ] Learn how to connect Tavily Search so your AI can fetch real-time facts instead of guessing. Read More.

Stop "Shotgun Debugging": How to Use AI to Solve Bugs Like a Forensic Scientist

By @huizhudev [ 5 Min read ] Turn your LLM into a ruthlessly efficient root cause analyst that catches what you miss. Read More.

Automated Content Moderation: How Does It Work?

By @TheMarkup [ 7 Min read ] Shifting societal norms, technological advances, and the chaos of world events mean we may never reach an equilibrium where content moderation is solved. Read More.

Can ChatGPT Outperform the Market? Week 18

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12 Best Web Scraping APIs in 2025

By @oxylabs [ 11 Min read ] Discover the 12 best web scraping APIs of 2025, comparing performance, pricing, features, & success rates to help teams scale reliable data extraction. Read More. 🧑‍💻 What happened in your world this week? It's been said that writing can help consolidate technical knowledge, establish credibility, and contribute to emerging community standards. Feeling stuck? We got you covered ⬇️⬇️⬇️ ANSWER THESE GREATEST INTERVIEW QUESTIONS OF ALL TIME We hope you enjoy this worth of free reading material. Feel free to forward this email to a nerdy friend who'll love you for it. See you on Planet Internet! With love, The HackerNoon Team ✌️