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[HackerNoon](https://hackernoon.com) publishes technology stories and builds publishing software. We publish ~42 quality reads a day via the [Editing Protocol](https://editingprotocol.com), and our 150K+ story technology library is free for all to read. Support HackerNoon by [publishing a blog post](https://hackernoon.com/p/new) or [business blog post](https://business.hackernoon.com/business-blogging).

On Hugging Face, we share open datasets from our platform and build on open models across our websites — [TextModels](https://textmodels.tech), [TextMining](https://textmining.tech), [Phonology](https://phonology.tech), [Reinforcement](https://reinforcement.tech), and [Deduplication](https://deduplication.tech). Read the latest [AI & ML practitioner blogs on HackerNoon](https://hackernoon.com/c/ai).

**Update:** We are awarding [decentralizeai.tech](https://decentralizeai.tech), the domain [& website](https://github.com/hackernoon/decentralize-ai-hackathon), to whoever publishes the best [blog post about decentralizing AI](https://hackernoon.com/tagged/decentralize-ai).

## 🤗 HackerNoon on Hugging Face

Datasets and model collections we publish here.

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<th width="24%" style="width:24%;text-align:left">Resource</th><th width="54%" style="width:54%;text-align:left">Description</th><th width="22%" style="width:22%;text-align:left">Links</th>
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<tr><td><img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hackernoon/pixel-icon-library/main/icons/PNG/for-light-mode/24px/purcats/tech-companies.png" width="20" style="display:inline;margin:0 6px 0 0;vertical-align:middle" alt=""/><b><a href="https://huggingface.co/datasets/HackerNoon/tech-company-news-data-dump">Tech Company News Data Dump</a></b></td><td>7M+ curated tech company news articles and blog posts covering the 3,000+ most valuable tech companies in 2022–2023. Built to power <a href="https://hackernoon.com/companies">hackernoon.com/companies</a>; open for research, analysis, and ML training.</td><td><a href="https://hackernoon.com/7-million-tech-company-news-articles-dataset">blog post ↗</a></td></tr>
<tr><td><img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hackernoon/pixel-icon-library/main/icons/PNG/for-light-mode/24px/regular/trending.png" width="20" style="display:inline;margin:0 6px 0 0;vertical-align:middle" alt=""/><b><a href="https://huggingface.co/datasets/HackerNoon/where-startups-trend">Where Startups Trend</a></b></td><td>600K+ community votes for tens of thousands of startups across thousands of cities — the only open dataset mapping startup popularity by location globally. Updated annually with Startups of the Year.</td><td><a href="https://startups.hackernoon.com">startups.hackernoon.com</a> · <a href="https://github.com/hackernoon/where-startups-trend">GitHub ↗</a></td></tr>
<tr><td><img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hackernoon/pixel-icon-library/main/icons/PNG/for-light-mode/24px/regular/image.png" width="20" style="display:inline;margin:0 6px 0 0;vertical-align:middle" alt=""/><b><a href="https://huggingface.co/collections/HackerNoon">Models Used in HackerNoon Publishing System</a></b></td><td>The open models and research behind our CMS — including the text-to-image models (Stable Diffusion XL, Kandinsky, RealVisXL) we use for story images.</td><td><a href="https://hackernoon.ai">hackernoon.ai</a></td></tr>
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## Built with Hugging Face

The Hugging Face models, libraries, and Hub data that power our websites.

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<th width="24%" style="width:24%;text-align:left">Website</th><th width="54%" style="width:54%;text-align:left">Description</th><th width="22%" style="width:22%;text-align:left">Links</th>
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<tr><td><img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hackernoon/pixel-icon-library/main/icons/PNG/for-light-mode/24px/regular/robot.png" width="20" style="display:inline;margin:0 6px 0 0;vertical-align:middle" alt=""/><b><a href="https://textmodels.tech">TextModels</a></b></td><td>A searchable directory of 3,000+ text models — LLMs, embedders, classifiers, summarizers, translators. Verified metrics are fetched per-model from the Hugging Face Hub API and refreshed every 72 hours; Hub-sourced listings link straight to their model pages: Qwen, Llama, gpt-oss, DeepSeek, Gemma, Mistral, SmolLM, and more.</td><td><a href="https://textmodels.tech">textmodels.tech</a> · <a href="https://github.com/hackernoon/textmodels.tech">GitHub ↗</a></td></tr>
<tr><td><img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hackernoon/pixel-icon-library/main/icons/PNG/for-light-mode/24px/solid/code-solid.png" width="20" style="display:inline;margin:0 6px 0 0;vertical-align:middle" alt=""/><b><a href="https://textmining.tech">TextMining</a></b></td><td>A research directory ranking the 3,000+ most-starred open-source text mining projects across 16 categories, refreshed every 24 hours — led by Hugging Face <a href="https://github.com/huggingface/transformers"><code>transformers</code></a>.</td><td><a href="https://textmining.tech">textmining.tech</a></td></tr>
<tr><td><img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hackernoon/pixel-icon-library/main/icons/PNG/for-light-mode/24px/regular/globe.png" width="20" style="display:inline;margin:0 6px 0 0;vertical-align:middle" alt=""/><b><a href="https://phonology.tech">Phonology</a></b></td><td>Read aloud for 30 seconds and see which dialect regions your vowels resemble and where your accent falls on a world map. Runs the open <a href="https://huggingface.co/Jzuluaga/accent-id-commonaccent_ecapa">CommonAccent</a> accent model (SpeechBrain ECAPA-TDNN, trained on Mozilla Common Voice) alongside our own vowel measurements.</td><td><a href="https://phonology.tech">phonology.tech</a></td></tr>
<tr><td><img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hackernoon/pixel-icon-library/main/icons/PNG/for-light-mode/24px/regular/chart-line.png" width="20" style="display:inline;margin:0 6px 0 0;vertical-align:middle" alt=""/><b><a href="https://reinforcement.tech">Reinforcement</a></b></td><td>An alpha compiler for reward-model loops: describe the reward, and it emits a ready-to-run <a href="https://thinkingmachines.ai/tinker/">Tinker</a> training script (sample → forward_backward → optim_step → save_state) for fine-tuning open-weight models like Qwen and Llama.</td><td><a href="https://reinforcement.tech">reinforcement.tech</a> · <a href="https://hackernoon.com/u/reinforcement">blog ↗</a></td></tr>
<tr><td><img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hackernoon/pixel-icon-library/main/icons/PNG/for-light-mode/24px/regular/copy.png" width="20" style="display:inline;margin:0 6px 0 0;vertical-align:middle" alt=""/><b><a href="https://deduplication.tech">Deduplication</a></b></td><td>When one tech term has two meanings, which one owns the word? Split-screen pages compare the original meaning against the newcomer, using AI-labeled spoken mentions from the <a href="https://huggingface.co/datasets/espnet/yodas">YODAS</a> YouTube corpus and OpenSubtitles. The labels are published as an open HackerNoon dataset.</td><td><a href="https://deduplication.tech">deduplication.tech</a> · <a href="https://github.com/hackernoon/deduplication">GitHub ↗</a></td></tr>
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## AI Directories & Tools

Searchable AI databases, experiments, and the AI in our editorial process.

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<th width="24%" style="width:24%;text-align:left">Project</th><th width="54%" style="width:54%;text-align:left">Description</th><th width="22%" style="width:22%;text-align:left">Links</th>
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<tr><td><img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hackernoon/pixel-icon-library/main/icons/PNG/for-light-mode/24px/regular/analytics.png" width="20" style="display:inline;margin:0 6px 0 0;vertical-align:middle" alt=""/><b><a href="https://turingtest.tech">Turing Test</a></b></td><td>A directory of 1,600+ Turing tests and AI evaluation benchmarks found across the internet. Categorized, searchable, and continuously expanded.</td><td><a href="https://turingtest.tech">turingtest.tech</a> · <a href="https://hackernoon.com/turing-test">blog post ↗</a></td></tr>
<tr><td><img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hackernoon/pixel-icon-library/main/icons/PNG/for-light-mode/24px/regular/question.png" width="20" style="display:inline;margin:0 6px 0 0;vertical-align:middle" alt=""/><b><a href="https://computational.tech">Computational</a></b></td><td>Human vs Machine: a 20-question Computational Turing Test that scores whether your answers read as human (emotion, story, uncertainty) or machine (logic, precision, brevity), plus a blog on computability theory.</td><td><a href="https://computational.tech">computational.tech</a> · <a href="https://huggingface.co/Computationaltech">Hugging Face ↗</a></td></tr>
<tr><td><img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hackernoon/pixel-icon-library/main/icons/PNG/for-light-mode/24px/regular/box-usd.png" width="20" style="display:inline;margin:0 6px 0 0;vertical-align:middle" alt=""/><b><a href="https://hackernoon.ai/software-compute-grants-credits-search">AI Grants Database</a></b></td><td>316+ AI grant programs for software, compute credits, and research funding — tracked, categorized, and searchable.</td><td><a href="https://hackernoon.ai/software-compute-grants-credits-search">hackernoon.ai/grants ↗</a></td></tr>
<tr><td><img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hackernoon/pixel-icon-library/main/icons/PNG/for-light-mode/24px/regular/laptop-code.png" width="20" style="display:inline;margin:0 6px 0 0;vertical-align:middle" alt=""/><b><a href="https://hackernoon.com/skills">SKILL.md Library</a></b></td><td>~2,900 agent skills ingested from license-verified open-source repos — searchable and ready to drop into your AI agent.</td><td><a href="https://hackernoon.com/skills">hackernoon.com/skills</a></td></tr>
<tr><td><img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hackernoon/pixel-icon-library/main/icons/PNG/for-light-mode/24px/regular/octagon-check.png" width="20" style="display:inline;margin:0 6px 0 0;vertical-align:middle" alt=""/><b>AI Detector</b></td><td>Every HackerNoon post is reviewed via GPTZero to bring AI transparency to tech publishing.</td><td><a href="https://hackernoon.com/hackernoon-and-gptzero-partner-to-bring-ai-transparency-and-preserve-whats-human-in-tech-publishing">blog post ↗</a></td></tr>
<tr><td><img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hackernoon/pixel-icon-library/main/icons/PNG/for-light-mode/24px/regular/badge-check.png" width="20" style="display:inline;margin:0 6px 0 0;vertical-align:middle" alt=""/><b><a href="https://proofofusefulness.com">Proof of Usefulness</a></b></td><td>HackerNoon's $100K+ hackathon for builders, with open submissions and a transparent, AI-graded usefulness scoring algorithm.</td><td><a href="https://hackernoon.com/proof-of-usefulness">blog post ↗</a></td></tr>
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## Free Publishing Software & Resources

The design systems, editors, and libraries that power how stories get written, organized, and published on [hackernoon.com](https://hackernoon.com). Free to use in your own projects. More on [GitHub](https://github.com/hackernoon).

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<tr><td><img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hackernoon/pixel-icon-library/main/icons/PNG/for-light-mode/24px/regular/bolt.png" width="20" style="display:inline;margin:0 6px 0 0;vertical-align:middle" alt=""/><b><a href="https://github.com/hackernoon/pixel-icon-library">Pixel Icon Library</a></b></td><td>1,440+ pixel vector icons on a 24px grid, in four variations. MIT licensed.</td><td><a href="https://pixeliconlibrary.com">pixeliconlibrary.com</a> · <a href="https://www.npmjs.com/package/@hackernoon/pixel-icon-library">npm ↗</a></td></tr>
<tr><td><img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hackernoon/pixel-icon-library/main/icons/PNG/for-light-mode/24px/regular/pen-nib.png" width="20" style="display:inline;margin:0 6px 0 0;vertical-align:middle" alt=""/><b><a href="https://github.com/hackernoon/chowa">Chowa Text Editor</a></b></td><td>Real-time collaborative Quill editor integrated with the Editing Protocol — used by 50,000+ HackerNoon writers.</td><td><a href="https://chowa.tech">chowa.tech</a></td></tr>
<tr><td><img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hackernoon/pixel-icon-library/main/icons/PNG/for-light-mode/24px/regular/face-grin.png" width="20" style="display:inline;margin:0 6px 0 0;vertical-align:middle" alt=""/><b><a href="https://github.com/hackernoon/emoji-credibility-indicators">Emoji Credibility Indicators</a></b></td><td>Pixelated emoji that tell readers a story's content type, editorial status, and credibility signals up front.</td><td><a href="https://editingprotocol.com">editingprotocol.com</a></td></tr>
<tr><td><img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hackernoon/pixel-icon-library/main/icons/PNG/for-light-mode/24px/brands/hackernoon.png" width="20" style="display:inline;margin:0 6px 0 0;vertical-align:middle" alt=""/><b><a href="https://github.com/hackernoon/font">HackerNoon Font</a></b></td><td>Our signature pixel typeface, built on a 5×5 grid with curved edges.</td><td><a href="https://brand.hackernoon.com">brand.hackernoon.com</a></td></tr>
<tr><td><img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hackernoon/pixel-icon-library/main/icons/PNG/for-light-mode/24px/regular/tag.png" width="20" style="display:inline;margin:0 6px 0 0;vertical-align:middle" alt=""/><b><a href="https://hackernoon.com/tagged">Technology Tags</a></b></td><td>80,000+ technology tags with real-time publishing rates, trending topics, and historical depth across 150K+ stories.</td><td><a href="https://hackernoon.com/tagged">hackernoon.com/tagged</a></td></tr>
<tr><td><img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hackernoon/pixel-icon-library/main/icons/PNG/for-light-mode/24px/regular/book.png" width="20" style="display:inline;margin:0 6px 0 0;vertical-align:middle" alt=""/><b><a href="https://github.com/hackernoon/learn">Learn Repo</a></b></td><td>Curated learning paths by HackerNoon's editorial taxonomy — AI &amp; ML, engineering, cybersecurity, Web3, business, and more.</td><td><a href="https://learnrepo.com">learnrepo.com</a></td></tr>
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## About HackerNoon

HackerNoon is run by [CEO & Creator David Smooke](https://hackernoon.com/u/david) and [COO & Board Member Linh Dao Smooke](https://hackernoon.com/u/linh) with [1,200+ shareholders](https://startengine.com/hackernoon). Our small, distributed team of 12 serves 4M+ monthly visitors on our own [community-driven CMS](https://hackernoon.tech), where we've [published 50K+ technology experts](https://hackernoon.com/p/publish) and [served 5K+ tech companies](https://business.hackernoon.com/all-partners).

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