HackerNoon publishes technology stories and builds publishing software. We publish ~42 quality reads a day via the Editing Protocol, and our 150K+ story technology library is free for all to read. Support HackerNoon by publishing a blog post or business blog post.
On Hugging Face, we share open datasets from our platform and build on open models across our websites — TextModels.tech, TextMining.tech, and Phonology.tech.
Update: We are awarding decentralizeai.tech, the domain & website, to whoever publishes the best blog post about decentralizing AI.
Datasets and model collections we publish here.
| Resource | Description | Links |
|---|---|---|
| 7M+ curated tech company news articles and blog posts covering the 3,000+ most valuable tech companies in 2022–2023. Built to power hackernoon.com/companies; open for research, analysis, and ML training. | blog post ↗ | |
| 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. | startups.hackernoon.com · GitHub ↗ | |
| The open models and research behind our CMS — including the text-to-image models (Stable Diffusion XL, Kandinsky, RealVisXL) we use for story images. | hackernoon.ai |
The Hugging Face models, libraries, and Hub data that power our different websites.
| Website | Description | Links |
|---|---|---|
| A searchable directory of 3,000+ text models — LLMs, embedders, classifiers, summarisers, translators. Verified metrics are fetched per-model from the Hugging Face Hub API, and Hub-sourced listings link straight to their model pages: Qwen, Llama, gpt-oss, DeepSeek, Gemma, Mistral, SmolLM, and more. | textmodels.tech · GitHub ↗ | |
A research directory ranking the 3,000+ most-starred open-source text mining projects across 16 categories — led by Hugging Face transformers. |
textmining.tech | |
| 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 CommonAccent accent model (SpeechBrain ECAPA-TDNN, trained on Mozilla Common Voice) alongside our own vowel measurements. | phonology.tech |
| Project | Description | Links |
|---|---|---|
| A directory of 1,600+ Turing tests and AI evaluation benchmarks found across the internet. Categorized, searchable, and continuously expanded. | turingtest.tech · blog post ↗ | |
| 316+ AI grant programs for software, compute credits, and research funding — tracked, categorized, and searchable. | hackernoon.ai/grants ↗ | |
| Every HackerNoon post is reviewed via GPTZero to bring AI transparency to tech publishing. | blog post ↗ | |
| Curated learning paths by HackerNoon's editorial taxonomy — AI & ML, engineering, cybersecurity, Web3, business, and more. | learnrepo.com | |
| 80,000+ technology tags with real-time publishing rates, trending topics, and historical depth across 150K+ stories. | hackernoon.com/tagged | |
| HackerNoon's $100K+ hackathon for builders, with open submissions and a transparent scoring algorithm. | blog post ↗ |
The design systems and editors that power how stories get written and published on hackernoon.com. Free to use in your own projects. More on GitHub.
| Tool | Description | Links |
|---|---|---|
| 1,440+ pixel vector icons on a 24px grid, in four variations. MIT licensed. | pixeliconlibrary.com · npm ↗ | |
| Real-time collaborative Quill editor integrated with the Editing Protocol — used by 50,000+ HackerNoon writers. | chowa.tech | |
| Pixelated emoji that tell readers a story's content type, editorial status, and credibility signals up front. | editingprotocol.com | |
| Our signature pixel typeface, built on a 5×5 grid with curved edges. | brand.hackernoon.com |
HackerNoon is run by CEO & Creator David Smooke and COO & Board Member Linh Dao Smooke with 1,200+ shareholders. Our small, distributed team of 12 serves 4M+ monthly visitors on our own community-driven CMS, where we've published 50K+ technology experts and served 5K+ tech companies.
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