The HackerNoon Newsletter: Code Smell 293 – You Should Avoid Adding isTesting or Similar Flags (3/7/2025)

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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.

How Tethers USDT Became Essential While Meme-Stablecoins Became Compliant

By @juancguerrero [ 2 Min read ] Regulatory gold stars or global adoption? Discover how Tethers market focus made it essential while meme-stablecoins became regulatory trophies. Read More.

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

By @authoring [ 5 Min read ] Using grammatical structures from parsed text, this study explores a new method for detecting authorship, improving accuracy in AI and fake text identification. Read More.

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

By @vineethvatti [ 11 Min read ] I worked on optimizing object detection for autonomous vehicles using Atrous Spatial Pyramid Pooling (ASPP) and Transfer Learning. Read More.

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

By @mcsee [ 3 Min read ] When you add flags like isTesting, you mix testing and production code. This creates hidden paths that are only active in tests. Read More.

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

By @hackernooncontests [ 2 Min read ] 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! Read More.

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This content originally appeared on HackerNoon and was authored by Noonification