The HackerNoon Newsletter: How to Deploy Your Own 24/7 AI Agent with OpenClaw (3/18/2026)

How are you, hacker? 🪐 What’s happening in tech today, March 18, 2026? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, Arcade Game of Many Firsts in 1974, and we present you with these top quality stories. From Does the Adam Optimizer Amplify Catastrophic Forgetting? to DARPA’s Plan to Program Life With Light and Take It to Market , let’s dive right in. Cursor Your Dream, Part 1: How to Move From Product Idea to First Prompt By @pavelman [ 26 Min read ] A practical guide for non-technical founders using Cursor and ChatGPT to build real MVPs, choose a stack, and ship faster. Read More. Does the Adam Optimizer Amplify Catastrophic Forgetting? By @adamoptimizer [ 4 Min read ] New research shows optimizer choice and flawed metrics may be distorting how we measure catastrophic forgetting in neural networks. Read More. How to Deploy Your Own 24/7 AI Agent with OpenClaw By @manishmshiva [ 6 Min read ] OpenClaw lets you run a powerful AI assistant