Hitechies started with a simple frustration.
Technology journalism had become two things simultaneously: too fast and too shallow. Breaking news that was wrong. Trend pieces written by people who had never built anything. Press releases repackaged as analysis. And on the other end, academic research that never made it out of the journals and into the hands of the people who needed it.
There was a gap in the middle. The space where serious practitioners — the people actually building the AI systems, running the security infrastructure, making the investment decisions, writing the code — shared what they actually knew. Not what they were willing to say in a press interview. Not the sanitised version. The real version.
That gap is what Hitechies exists to fill.
Where We Started
Pramod Dhakal launched the Hitechies Podcast in 2021 with a straightforward idea: have honest conversations with the people building technology, and make those conversations public.
Over the next four years, the podcast featured founders, investors, engineers and builders across AI, cryptocurrency, cybersecurity, software development and startups. Guests included the co-founder of Async Art on the real use cases of NFTs, the CEO of Nori on building a carbon removal marketplace using blockchain, security professionals on the practical realities of defending against ransomware, and developers on what institutional crypto adoption actually looks like from the inside.
The conversations were longer and more honest than most tech media. That was the point.
Why We Became a Publication
The podcast conversations kept pointing at stories that needed more space than a single interview could give them.
When a guest explained why the internet was structurally broken, that deserved 2,000 words of careful analysis alongside the conversation. When institutional Bitcoin ETF flows started telling a story that contradicted the prevailing narrative, that deserved original research and data. When a Nebraska lawyer got suspended for 57 AI hallucinations and then lied about using AI to the Supreme Court, that was a story about professional accountability in the age of AI — and it deserved proper reporting.
In May 2024, Hitechies launched as a full editorial publication. The podcast continues. The journalism expands it.
What We Cover
AI — The models, the infrastructure, the products, and the professional and regulatory consequences of deploying them at scale. We cover what AI is actually doing in 2026, not what people are claiming it will do.
Crypto — Institutional adoption, DeFi maturation, regulatory frameworks and the underlying technology. We are interested in what is actually happening in the markets and the protocols, not in price speculation.
Security — Real attacks, real defences, and the growing intersection of cybersecurity with AI and geopolitics. We cover incidents that deserve more analysis than they receive.
Code — Language trends, developer tooling, open source and the practice of building software. We write for engineers who want to understand the forces shaping their field.
Startups — Funding trends, founder stories and the gap between what the venture ecosystem says and what it actually looks like for most founders.
How We Work
Pramod Dhakal is the founder and editor of Hitechies. He has spent over a decade working across digital transformation, technology entrepreneurship and investing — with a particular focus on the intersection of AI, blockchain and enterprise systems.
We research before we write. We use real numbers with real sources. We present the counterargument alongside the argument. We do not publish content we would not want to read ourselves.
We are not sponsored to cover any company, product or technology. When Hitechies writes positively about something, it is because we think it is genuinely worth writing about. When we disagree with the consensus, we say so and explain why.
Editorial Independence
Hitechies is independently owned. We do not have investors, venture backers or corporate parents with interests in the companies we cover.
When we carry advertising or sponsored content, it is clearly labelled and kept editorially separate from our journalism. Our commercial relationships do not influence our coverage. If they ever did, we would not be worth reading.
Get In Touch
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The Hitechies Podcast is available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and everywhere you listen.