Month: July 2025

How are you, hacker? 🪐 What’s happening in tech today, July 13, 2025? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, New York City Loses Power in 1977, John F. Kennedy Nominated for Presidency in 1960, Live Aid Concert Organized in 1985, and we present you with these top … Read more

Bypassing anti-bots is one of the major pain points a professional web scraper faces during their career. Luckily enough, the market offers several solutions for bypassing them, but delegating the heavy-duty work always comes with a price tag attached, which is not for every pocket. As the saying goes, ‘If you want something done right, … Read more

How does the human brain store language, process speech and memory, in general? When an individual is saying anything, what is going on in the brain in that instance? It can be assumed that what is said is prepared, for speech — the output. Speech comes out in an accent and with a certain cadence. … Read more

Richard Feynman once said that all the mysteries of quantum mechanics are contained in the double-slit experiment. So perhaps the simplest way to explain what quantum mechanics is about is to start right there. In elementary school, we learned that atoms are the smallest building blocks of matter that still retain its properties. For a … Read more

During the second half of our junior year of high school, we were shocked to learn about an algorithm called the Dropout Early Warning System (DEWS) that our home state of Wisconsin had been using to predict future dropouts. As Black students, who make up nine percent of the public school student body statewide, it … Read more

Avoid accidental redundancy TL;DR: Don’t pass attributes your object already owns Problems Addressed 😔 Redundant Parameters Unclear responsibility Duplicated logic Parameter pollution Low cohesion Parameter redundancy Code duplication Incomplete extracted method object Related Code Smells 💨 https://hackernoon.com/how-to-find-the-stinky-parts-of-your-code-part-xxxviii https://hackernoon.com/how-to-find-the-stinky-parts-of-your-code-part-xxxv https://hackernoon.com/how-to-find-the-stinky-parts-of-your-code-part-ii-o96s3wl4 https://hackernoon.com/how-to-find-the-stinky-parts-of-your-code-part-x-i7r34uj https://hackernoon.com/how-to-find-the-stinky-parts-of-your-code-part-xxix Steps 👣 Identify methods that receive owned attributes Remove those parameters from the method … Read more