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🪐 What’s happening in tech today, March 7, 2025?

The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, Bell Receives Patent for Telephone in 1876, and we present you with these top quality stories. From How Tethers USDT Became Essential While Meme-Stablecoins Became Compliant to Your Writing Has a Fingerprint—And This Cutting Edge AI Model Can Identify It, let’s dive right in.


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web3

How Tethers USDT Became Essential While Meme-Stablecoins Became Compliant

TL;DR Regulatory gold stars or global adoption? Discover how Tethers market focus made it essential while meme-stablecoins became regulatory trophies.

By @juancguerrero [ 2 Min read ]

Crypto was never meant to be about pleasing the system

While meme-stablecoins were busy getting regulatory gold stars, Tether was busy becoming the people's currency. Here's how playing nice became other issuers' biggest strategic mistake.

Let's talk about the two paths in the stablecoin revolution:

Meme-stablecoins' fundamental error:..

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tech-stories

Your Writing Has a Fingerprint—And This Cutting Edge AI Model Can Identify It

TL;DR Using grammatical structures from parsed text, this study explores a new method for detecting authorship, improving accuracy in AI and fake text identification.

By @authoring [ 5 Min read ]

Authors:

(1) Todd K. Moon, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Utah State University, Logan, Utah;

(2) Jacob H. Gunther, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Utah State University, Logan, Utah.

Abstract and 1 Introduction and Background

2 Statistical Parsing and Extracted Features

3 Parse Tree Features..

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machine-learning

How I Made Object Detection Smarter for Self-Driving Cars With Transfer Learning ASPP

TL;DR I worked on optimizing object detection for autonomous vehicles using Atrous Spatial Pyramid Pooling (ASPP) and Transfer Learning.

By @vineethvatti [ 11 Min read ]

Self-driving cars can’t afford mistakes. Missing a traffic light or a pedestrian could mean disaster. But object detection in dynamic urban environments? That’s hard.

Here’s how I did it.

Self-driving cars rely on Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) to detect objects, but real-world conditions introduce challenges:..

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programming

Code Smell 293 - You Should Avoid Adding isTesting or Similar Flags

TL;DR When you add flags like isTesting, you mix testing and production code. This creates hidden paths that are only active in tests.

By @mcsee [ 3 Min read ]

Don’t let test code sneak into production

TL;DR: Avoid adding isTesting or similar flags.

https://hackernoon.com/refactoring-014-how-to-remove-if?embedable=true

When you add flags like isTesting, you mix testing and production code.

This creates hidden paths that are only active in tests.

Also, you don't cover real production code.

Without Proper Instructions..

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web3

Answer To Win from $2000: How Does Decentralized Cloud Compare to Traditional Cloud Services?

TL;DR Write about decentralized cloud computing for a chance to win $700 in the #blockchain Writing Contest, hosted by Aleph Cloud HackerNoon. Submit by May 7!

By @hackernooncontests [ 2 Min read ]

The #blockchain Writing Contest, presented by Aleph Cloud and HackerNoon, is putting decentralized technologies front and center. Answer the following questions to win up to $2000.

Summarize your thoughts and end your article.

Start a draft or use this template to enter! Submissions close on May 7, 2025...

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On This Day

Bell Receives Patent for Telephone

Alexander Graham Bell receives a patent (US No. 174,465) for an “Improvement in Telegraphy,” which will later come to be known as the variable resistance telephone.

Poll Of the Week

What’s Your Take on Foldable Phones?

Foldable phones are making a strong comeback, led by Samsung's Galaxy Z Fold and Flip series. However, competitors like Motorola and Huawei, with its new tri-foldable phones, are challenging for the top spot in this revived market. With prices ranging from $600 to over $2,800, the market is growing fast, but do foldable phones truly have staying power?

30% Love them! They're the future.

30% They're cool, but unnecessary.

25% Overhyped and impractical

13% Passing fad. They won't last long.

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