The HackerNoon Newsletter: Keeping Up with the Upwork Civil War on Reddit (2/12/2026)

How are you, hacker? 🪐 What’s happening in tech today, February 12, 2026? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, we present you with these top quality stories. From Float vs Int Confidence Scores: Why LLM Output Format Changes Model Behavior to Symfony AI Agents in Symfony 7.4: Best Practices for Clean Architecture, Tools, and Testing , let’s dive right in. Keeping Up with the Upwork Civil War on Reddit By @nebojsaneshatodorovic [ 3 Min read ] Upwork Official vs Upwork Unofficial sub. Is this the beginning of a forum war on Reddit? Read More. Float vs Int Confidence Scores: Why LLM Output Format Changes Model Behavior By @felix [ 5 Min read ] A minimal experiment shows LLM confidence outputs shift with number format: decimals are more conservative and consistent, while some models break in 0–100 mode Read More. Why I Started Building My Own Containers (and What I Wish Tutorials Told Me) By @hacker8790755 [ 9 Min read ] Master the a