HackerNoon Decoded 2024: Celebrating Our AI Community!

Welcome to HackerNoon Decoded: AI Edition—the ultimate recap of the stories, writers, and trends that defined your 2024!

Turns Out, AI Spoke Your Language—No Translation Needed

"AI is coming for our jobs!"

But you’re ahead of the curve ⤴️ If this was your top tech category, you’re in the top 11.09% of readers who can’t get enough of AI stories. While everyone else is worried about robots taking over, you’re out here learning how to use them to get ahead.

Most-Read AI Stories

Here are the top 10 AI stories that had us all wondering if we’re talking to machines or just really advanced humans in 2024:

1. Portfolio Management: All The Ways AI Is Transforming Modern Asset Strategies by Andrey Kustarev

2. Open-Source: The Next Step in AI Revolution by MinIO

3. Starting Simple: The Strategic Advantage of Baseline Models in Machine Learning by Andrey Kustarev

4. Claude 3.5 Sonnet vs GPT-4o — An honest review by Shrinivasan Sankar

5. How to Use Ollama: Hands-On With Local LLMs and Building a Chatbot by Arjun

6. A Machine Learning Text Classification Case Study with a Product-driven Twist by Maria K

7. LLMs vs Leetcode (Part 1 & 2): Understanding Transformers' Solutions to Algorithmic Problems by Bolu Ben-Adeola

8. How to Run Your Own Local LLM: Updated for 2024 - Version 1 by Thomas Cherickal

9. How to Detect and Minimise Hallucinations in AI Models by Parth Sonara

10. How to Build an End-to-End ML Platform by Zhiya

    
    

Top 10 AI Readers

These readers couldn't get enough of AI content:

1. @hacker007123
2. Thomas Cherickal
3. Matthieu Besançon
4. Bright Data
5. Dominic Ligot
6. @hacker-r9cusmy
7. Fresnel Fabian
8. Egor Kaleynik
9. Gordon
10. Antică Vlad

Top 10 AI Writers

These prolific writers shaped our content landscape:

1. Text Models
2. EScholar
3. The FewShot Prompting Publication
4. Auto Encoder
5. Computational
6. Knapsack Technology
7. Tech Media Bias
8. Transduction University Papers
9. Allan Grain
10. Jon Stojan Media

Take advantage of this recap and catch up on some of the most-read stories, subscribe to your favorite writers, or start writing yourself — try this writing template. You too could make this list by next year!

Thank You, Hacker!

We want to take a moment to thank you for your continued support and for choosing HackerNoon as your go-to platform for all things tech. Your engagement, feedback, and passion for sharing knowledge have helped make HackerNoon what it is today. We're grateful to have you as part of this incredible community, and we can’t wait to see what you’ll achieve with us in 2025 and beyond!

Happy HackerNoon Decoded!