The HackerNoon Newsletter: Everyone’s an AI User Now—But No One Read the Manual (6/20/2025)

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🪐 What’s happening in tech today, June 20, 2025?

The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, Samuel Morse Patented Telegraphy Signals in 1840, Wikimedia Was Founded in Florida in 2003, Chinese Astronaut Wang Yaping Gave a Lecture from Space in 2013, David H. Levy Discovered the Asteroid Eureka in 1990, NBS Unveiled the Advanced SEAC Machine in 1950, and we present you with these top quality stories. From Stop Prompting, Start Engineering: 15 Principles to Deliver Your AI Agent to Production to Everyone’s an AI User Now—But No One Read the Manual, let’s dive right in.

Can You Talk Software Into Existence? SimplyLang Thinks So

By @affanshaikhsurab [ 3 Min read ] Coding is evolving from syntax-heavy rules to natural conversation. Read More.

Code Smell 304: Null Pointer Exception - How to Avoid NULL References That Cause Runtime Crashes

By @mcsee [ 9 Min read ] Avoid NULL references that cause runtime crashes by using proper validation and null-safe patterns Read More.

Stop Prompting, Start Engineering: 15 Principles to Deliver Your AI Agent to Production

By @vladyslav_chekryzhov [ 25 Min read ] Build production-ready LLM agents. Learn 15 principles for stability, control, and real-world reliability beyond fragile scripts and hacks. Read More.

Everyone’s an AI User Now—But No One Read the Manual

By @wabinab2 [ 9 Min read ] Garbage in, garbage out. We now consume garbage produced by AI that we have no control of the garbage they put in. Read More.

Crypto Is No Longer a Resistance Movement. It’s a Financial Product Category

By @VeronikaPolar [ 2 Min read ] A decade later, crypto is no longer a resistance movement. It’s a financial product category. Read More.

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