The HackerNoon Newsletter: Forget Authenticity – It’s The Age Of The Founder Story (12/16/2025)

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🪐 What’s happening in tech today, December 16, 2025?

The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, Ims Associates Shipped Imsai 8080 Kits in 1975, China Successfully Landed Yutu in 2013, IBM Discontinued Sales of Os/2 Operating System in 2005, Microsoft Purchased GIANT Company Software in 2004, and we present you with these top quality stories. From Before AI Takes Our Jobs, Someone Better Teach It How to Tell Time to Forget Authenticity – It’s The Age Of The Founder Story, let’s dive right in.

Choose Your Niche, Own Your Content – and Hear It Straight From Our Past Fellows

By @hackernoon-courses [ 4 Min read ] Learn how to choose your writing niche, sharpen your voice, and build a loyal audience with the HackerNoon Blogging Fellowship. Read More.

Crawl, Walk, Run, Fly - The Four Phases of AI Agent Maturity

By @denisp [ 5 Min read ] Dont let your AI fly before it can walk. Why jumping straight to fully autonomous systems is a recipe for disaster (and what to do instead). Read More.

Before AI Takes Our Jobs, Someone Better Teach It How to Tell Time

By @talktechtome [ 3 Min read ] Researchers found today’s top AI models still can’t reliably read analog clocks. ChatGPT, Gemini and others got the time and calendar wrong most of the time. Read More.

Forget Authenticity – It’s The Age Of The Founder Story

By @felixhmohr [ 8 Min read ] Authenticity is dead. Gen Z rejects corporate realness. Trust is hard to find. But heres why The Founder Story is now excelling where big business failed. Read More.

Sourcegraph Spins Out Amp to Chase the AI Coding Frontier

By @ainativedev [ 3 Min read ] The company framed the change as necessary for greater freedom and focus in what is a fast-moving space. Read More.

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