Who Breaks The #Internet?

Not Ralph!

The long answer would be YOU GUYS - the superstars driving the internet into a promising, interesting, dynamic, democra-tech, and fun direction while really embracing the awesome side of the human psyche. For that, we thank you!

The Noonies Winners Announcement series will announce some of the top founders, hackers, and makers in all 6 categories.

2021 was the year HackerNoon went all out for its annual Noonies Awards with more categories, more sub-categories, more nominees, and more winners, making it the most exciting Noonies to date.

Still don’t believe us? Here are some stats for ya nerds:

• 4,961 nominees.

• 586 Hacker Noon awards for 2021.

• Across 6 award categories: , , , , , and .

• A monumental 105,122 votes cast over at 

  
  

The honors the true internet artists of our time ,those who host the best podcasts, write the best newsletters, and those who generally help make the internet a worthwhile place to spend time. Think of this award as the Nobel Prize, for the internet.

And without further ado, the N̶o̶b̶e̶l̶ Noonies go to...

Thanks to Jamie, designers ‘don’t need Google no more’ for inspiration and wisdom.

Give it up for jamiefry for giving HackerNoon more colors than just green!

We couldn’t be more proud of how much of an influence she has been in terms of e-commerce. A round of applause to Sahana.

Women in tech keep winning!

Twitter, TikTok or Mailboxes? Thanks to Jullie Arden, checking our mailboxes is now the new scrolling TikTok ;)

Here’s to writing more incredible Freelancing stories on HackerNoon, Amtul Rafay. Congratulations on winning a Noonie award!

Tired of watching Netflix? No worries, time to rest your eyes because the QUEEN of podcasts is here to the rescue. Thank you, RachelEleza, for giving us reasons to care for our ears.

When it comes to publishing stories on startup-marketing on HackerNoon, no one can beat the woman herself, Jane Rouge, at giving us the highest quality stories. The Noonies salutes you!

Everything in the world revolves around storytelling; books, movies, music, traveling and even work. We couldn’t be more grateful to Brian Wallace

for giving us big brain insights into storytelling.

VPN simply stands for Internet Teleportation. We’ve all been teleporting with VPNs from time to time. And for that, let’s give it up for Tangram Vision

for inspiring us to travel the world while sitting in front of our computers.

Here claiming the award for best Youtube stories on HackerNoon, we have Jeremy Kauffman who deserves all the plaudits for giving us such insightful content.

We assure you, she’s not a mad scientist. Not yet at least (wink wink). A large part of the universe is a mystery, but the universe is no match for this scientist. Thanks to her, Aliens were finally discovered on Earth! A standing ovation for . Thank you for demystifying the universe.

Salesman of the year? Close.

Congratulations Steve Kehler on winning a Noonie, and thanks for giving us some great reads.

Big shout out to Ivan Mir for showing us how to use Twitter without hating it. We still do, but thanks!

Here’s to the person who wrote the most eye-opening stories from ways of protecting our cellphone number to ways of hacking your own body to beat “inflamm-aging”. Zen Chan, you’ve earned a Noonie, and our respect!

Not many people are willing to show us the A-Z of email development and sending. A Noonie award is waiting for you to claim, Andriy Zapisotskyi!

Even Mark Zuckerberg can’t beat our man, Louis Bouchard.

You’re ready to create your own Meta, and we can provide you our .

All hail the new leader of #remote-work-gang, . Thanks to your advocation, we can now work in sweatpants.

Planning your next website design isn’t easy, but giving out a Noonie is, especially when the person who won an award is Marie-Elise.

Your story on Drupal 8, a CMS-based project, was top-notch!

The Noonies celebrates the amazing people who power the technology industry. And especially those who write, those who shine a spotlight on triumphs, fumbles, hacks, why's that, how-tos and breakthroughs. This award is for the highest quality PHILOSOPHY stories on HackerNoon.

The winner is: Karim Fanous!

We can’t be happier to give this Noonie award to the one and only, Ieva Sipola Keep flying high!

This nominee literally showed us how to detect influencers with machine learning. Say hello to the new Noonie recipient, the INFLUENCER of the Welsh vegan engineers’ world, Kyle Jones!

We can’t be more f**g excited to give this mterfing award to, the one and only, Benjamin Bateman.

Who the **** cares about internet censorship when we have Benjamin the man to do all the uncensoring and teas-pilling for us.

It's a science. It's an art. It's never perfect. And the Noonie goes to Anastasia Dyachenko.

You get a Noonie, you get a Noonie, Pavel Cherkashin gets a Noonie, you all get a Noonie. Now that’s democracy.

HackerNoon isn’t only about technology, coding, and hacking the net.

Here we also highlight stories on biology, philosophy, rationalism, illusions, deceptions, metaphysics, happiness, and others. In other words, think of us when you’re trying to draft a story, like this Noonie winner: Roxana Murariu!

This award recognizes the highest quality SIDE-PROJECT stories on HackerNoon. We’re happy to have your name engraved on a Noonie badge, Ashutosh Mishra!

Anyone should at least once in their lifetime learn about what Google’s third-party cookie ban mean to their privacy. Thank God we have Nabeel Ali to walk us through that. And for that, sir, you earn a Noonie!

A standing ovation for Jon V for making the best out of HackerNoon stories. Without you, we would have sold our NFTs like noobs.

Thanks for showing us an insightful take into product leadership between Ford and Ferrari, Sundar Raghavan. One Noonie award for you!

As a full-stack software developer, a tech blogger, a person who genuinely loves to write about JavaScript, Python, Linux, and Open Source, this nominee won the Noonie fair and square. Congratulations, Suhail Kakar!

Because heaven knows we needed them this year. #FCovid

And the Noonie goes to .

This nominee has been with HackerNoon since 2018, and consistently produced high quality stories. Let’s give it up for Louis Barclay.

We specifically enjoyed reading “Bad Blocking Will Be The New Ad Blocking”, and not just because it’s fun to say the title out loud!

Another Noonie goes to Nick Platonenko for writing the highest quality analytics stories. Salute!

We love it that this nominee walked us through the process of building a website to view classmates using Wix and Velo. Big congrats to AppleiPad556.

Tim Cook, is that you? How about a Noonie for a new Mac? We’ll be waiting.

Say no more, the MVP of this Noonie award calls for UppLabs.

A WordPress king. No one deserves this award more than John Risby.

Thank you for showing us how to gain quality control for WordPress plugins.

All the problems with SEO in the world will be solved by this man. And no, we’re not exaggerating (okay maybe a little bit). Let’s give it up for Sonny Alves Dias!

Because "if you build it, they will come" was always bullsh*t.

And the winner is Egor Kaleynik a marketer in IT.

This award is for the highest quality GROWTH-HACKING stories on HackerNoon. And the Noonie goes to Khamisi Hamisi.

2 awards in a row? We don’t get enough Noonies around here for Khamisi Hamisi.

'The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.' Aristotle

And the recipient of this Noonie is no one else but, Liz Eddy

Astonished by the consistent production of top-notch stories on HackerNoon, The Noonies is more than honored to give this award to Elizabeth Lvova.

We love you here, much like your colleagues at Evrone!

Your stories about marketing strategy are awesome. We might just steal one or two and use them for ourselves. Thank you in advance, Ritika Mehta.

You are something of a design celebrity, y’know. Your design influence is massive, especially on Hackernoon. Thank you for your longevity and good stories, Jordan Bowman.

You rock! We want to honor you with a Noonie award for your wonderful content. Keep pushing out wonderful stories, Adetolani Eko.

Your stories about how to use different design patterns are awesome! We appreciate you and your content, Sukhpinder Singh.

In the simplest words, we don’t like BS when it comes to job descriptions. Thanks to this HR department, that is now a reality. Thank you, for having No BS Job Descriptions.

Creative block SUCKS. SO. BAD. You have helped us conquer work and impostor syndrome with your creativity boosts. We look forward to more how-to-use stories from Hua Shu.

You’ve made us come to the harsh realization that design is not just about colors, shapes and text (childhood ruined!). Actually, we appreciate all exposure you’ve given us in the design world. Here’s a Noonies medal for you, Jordan Bowman.

Writing is as old as time itself. No matter how much technology evolves, writing will always be a vital part of it. The Clash of the Titans: Video vs Audio vs Written Stories will always have a clear winner. Thank you, rhortx.

Since school moved to the internet, life has been SO MUCH EASIER OMG! Online learning is more effective in some cases, and this is not just because we can now learn while only wearing underwear. Either way, much thanks to you for being a walking and talking school, !

Performance, the ultimate benchmark for measuring success. Thanks to you, we now know which database is best for us. To Margo McCabe we say a massive thank you.

Your NBA Top Shots story was fire (spoiler alert, it’s not about how to shoot a basketball). The Noonies congratulate you, Rao Vinnakota. Keep shooting to the top!

Thanks to you, many of us have been able to get more IG followers. No jokes, we are now mini-IG celebrities. The only thing we don’t have is the blue tick, for now. Thank you, Anupriya.

Another consecutive win! Seems like you’re something of a Social Media Sensei. Keep blessing us with all your wisdom and knowledge, o great one. The incredible, Anupriya.

Another Mark Zuckerberg app takeover! I’m sure IG wasn’t created to teach Tech but this content creator has turned it into Udemy. All hail for creating Instademy!

We can all agree that we are happy that Chatbots don’t ask us to verify if we are humans. Shout-out to kunal rajput.

First of all, we love your interview stories with tech celebrities. Nothing beats getting first-hand knowledge from a Pioneer of the tech world. Kudos to you, Elizabeth Lvova.

Hackernoon and Hackathon sound so good together. We love your stories and would also love to read one of your books one day. Take a bow, Helder Vasconcelos.

We’ve all had moments where we loved and hated learning. Ultimately, learning is why we are all here today. The Noonies congratulates Azamah Jr

for helping us rediscover the importance of learning.

Your Story, To Offshore Or Not To Offshore was very insightful. Thanks to you, a lot of Post-Pandemic questions have been answered. Muchos gracias, Alcor.

Design is so vast and not easy to grasp. Thanks to this brave man, one of the concepts, UI Design, seems a bit simpler to understand.

Tank you, Vivek Tank.

Ah yes, Twitter. We all have a love-hate relationship with Twitter. Cheers to Daniel Jimenez for his great Twitter Content. Jack would be proud.

Whether it is art in the museum worth $10 Million or an NFT worth 500 ETH, we can all agree that art proves that beauty is expensive. We want to give a shout-out to Christian Kameir. We appreciate all you do for the world of art.

You proved that listening to tech podcasts is as interesting as listening to true-crime podcasts. Dear, we appreciate you, sincerely. Thank you for leading us to the NorthStar.

The Noonies celebrates the amazing people who power the technology industry. And especially those who write, those who shine a spotlight on triumphs, fumbles, hacks, why's that, how-tos and breakthroughs. This award is for the highest quality UX-DESIGN stories on HackerNoon, Vivek Tank.

We cannot emphasize enough that UI is not UX. Thank you, Gábor Boros for being an advocate of UI. #UXisnotUI

When we hear remote work, we all think of the bogeywoman, Ms. Rona. COVID-19 changed the world in a bad way but also brought about some good opportunities. We appreciate Rohit Jacob Mathew for giving us good insight into remote work.

We have more content about User Experience thanks to Vivek Tank

Tanks for telling us why users almost always come first.

“We are all now connected by the Internet, like neurons in a giant brain.” - Stephen Hawking. And who’s the better person to connect us all, via stories, than...Christian Kameir, You rock!

You are only as good as your website's bounce rate. Congrats Vivek Tank!

In a slump? The HackerNoon Community is here for you! Lomit Patel keeps us motivated.

All the BOOK NERDS, please bow down to for writing the highest quality BOOKS stories on HackerNoon.

From every piece of data we could possibly encounter, please give a warm congratulations to . Your data indeed influenced us ;)

The only reason we check our mailbox every morning. Big SHOUT OUT to .

2 years in a row??? Let’s give it up for Nebojsa ”Nesha” Todorovic.

Thanks for always asking the big questions, forecasting the next big things, and never shying away from playing the devil's avocado. 🥑

This is for the highest quality NEWS stories on HackerNoon, and the award goes to Sergei Shaikin. Thanks for spending a chunk of your time writing quality news stories, now you can go back to testing software!

More Information:

If you’re a winner, please answer this interview! If you’re a reader, participant, or just a curious individual, consider answering one of our other interviews here.

Read about the Noonies here. To see all of the winners you may visit , pick any award, and view the name that appears at the top.

Or follow this account for posts with the list of names released over the course of the week of February 14, 2022.

The Noonies Winners Annoucement series will announce some of the top founders, hackers, and makers in all 6 categories.

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This post was written by Kien Dao and Joshua Kevin Omale.