The HackerNoon Newsletter: Can ChatGPT Outperform the Market? Week 23 (1/5/2026)

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🪐 What’s happening in tech today, January 5, 2026?

The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, Construction on San Francisco's iconic Golden Gate Bridge began in 1933, All U.S. offensive action in North Vietnam got suspended in 1972, AOL acquired Time Warner & became the largest media company in the world in 2000, and we present you with these top quality stories. From Code Smell 12 - Null is Schizophrenic and Does Not Exist in The Real-world to What Comes After Growth Hacks: AI-Driven Marketing Systems, let’s dive right in.

Proof of Usefulness Hackathon: Win $100K+ from Bright Data, Neo4j, Algolia, Storyblok HackerNoon 

By @proofofusefulness [ 8 Min read ] Proof of Usefulness is a six-month, global hackathon powered by HackerNoon that rewards one thing and one thing only: usefulness. Read More.

Can ChatGPT Outperform the Market? Week 23

By @nathanbsmith729 [ 4 Min read ] Another strong week... Read More.

What Comes After Growth Hacks: AI-Driven Marketing Systems

By @khamisihamisi [ 3 Min read ] What comes after growth hacks isn’t more hustle. Its systems and those systems are powered by AI. Read More.

Complete Ollama Tutorial (2026) – LLMs via CLI, Cloud Python

By @proflead [ 4 Min read ] Ollama is an open-source platform for running and managing large-language-model (LLM) packages entirely on your local machine. Read More.

Code Smell 12 - Null is Schizophrenic and Does Not Exist in The Real-world

By @mcsee [ 5 Min read ] Programmers use Null as different flags. It can hint at an absence, an undefined value, en error etc. Multiple semantics lead to coupling and defects. Read More.

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