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Today, let's look at Context Menus. A powerful way to offer additional actions when users long-press or right-click on UI elements.

Laravel Collections take some complicated array traversals and make them incredibly easy to read and understand. It is very easy to undersell the importance of writing your code with more expressive language, but once you’ve made it a habit, it’s hard to imagine how anything else is acceptable.

JavaScript challenges act like stealthy ninjas, ready to block your web scraping attempts without you even realizing it. These hidden scripts verify if a user is human, and they're used by services like Cloudflare. To bypass these challenges, you need automation tools like Selenium, Puppeteer, or Playwright that can simulate human interactions in browsers. However, advanced challenges may still pose obstacles. The ideal solution...

Cash remains vital during crises like natural disasters and geopolitical instability when digital payments fail. While digital payments offer convenience and speed, cash provides reliability in emergencies. Both forms of payment are essential, and in uncertain times, investing in tangible assets like agricultural land can offer long-term stability.

In this interview, Vadim Glazkov shares the important aspects of the research approach, talks about the challenges and gives successful use cases for bringing new products to market.

Scoutlabs is addressing the intersection of food insecurity, climate change, and sustainable farming with the worlds densest digital insect trap network.

Companies that put money into making sure their workers feel good and can work well end up with a team that works harder and likes their job more.

Guerrilla usability testing is a cost-effective method to gather user feedback quickly. This article provides a comprehensive guide on conducting successful guerrilla testing sessions, emphasizing the importance of preparation, understanding biases, and having the courage to approach strangers. Key steps include scripting your approach, ensuring your product is ready, and selecting the right time and location for testing. While guerrilla testing can yield valuable...

A look at a controversial proposal about splitting JavaScript, the latest Node.js release, some killer tools, and more.

This guide explains how to create and deploy a Bitcoin-based token on the Rootstock (RSK) network. We'll write a simple ERC-20 contract in Solidity that adheres to the standard of fungible tokens on Ethereum-like networks. The smart contract can be interacted with via a decentralized application (DApp)

Dockerfile keywords can be written in uppercase or lowercase, but it’s best not to mix them for clarity and consistency. The inconsistency in casing can lead to warnings and, in some cases, errors that can disrupt your build process. To resolve this issue, ensure that both 'FROM' and 'AS' keywords are in the same case.

OpenID Connect is an identity layer on top of the OAuth 2.0 protocol, enabling clients to verify the identity of end-users based on the authentication performed by an authorization server.

Apache Presto's ability to quickly and efficiently query large datasets stored in S3 makes it a powerful tool for data analytics, especially in environments where data is stored in data lakes

Maintaining a persistent Airflow deployment can often add significant overhead to data engineering teams, especially when orchestrating tasks across diverse systems.

Edge detection is fundamental in computer vision, allowing us to identify object boundaries within images. In this tutorial we'll implement edge detection using the Sobel operator and the Canny edge detector. We'll then create a simple web application using Flask, styled with Bootstrap, to allow users to upload images and view the results.

TD Bank’s $1.8 billion compliance failure reveals the critical need for U.S. banks to adopt advanced digital identity verification. By failing to adequately monitor suspicious activities, TD Bank allowed financial criminals to exploit outdated systems. This case highlights the importance of robust digital verification technologies, such as biometrics and AI-powered tools, to prevent future regulatory penalties and strengthen financial security. Banks must modernize their...

Self-Employed in Austria (SEA) is both a platform and a community dedicated to empowering English-speaking individuals who want to become self-employed in Austria.

Artisans of Time is a regenerative sci-fi story set in a utopian future where technology is used for good. Emma, a hardware artist, fights for equality and creativity in a world where tech is reserved for the elite. The project expands into immersive storytelling, offering a vision of hope and innovation.

The Startups of the Year 2024 showcases exceptional companies across 100 industries. Nominations are based on regional and industrial excellence, not just location. This series will detail our key industries and demonstrate how HackerNoon can help you explore them further. Today's Industry: AI!

As cryptocurrency evolves, self-custody wallets are gaining traction despite trust issues stemming from scams and hacks. While traditional banking has built trust over centuries, the decentralized nature of crypto offers users direct control over their assets but comes with significant management challenges, such as secure seed phrase storage and password protection. The future of finance may see these two systems coexisting, balancing innovation with...

Microsoft's stake is likely to have been diluted following OpenAI's October financing, bringing with it a host of advantages.

Welcome to HackerNoon Startups of the Week! Each week, the HackerNoon team showcases a list of startups from our Startups of The Year database. All these startups have been nominated as one of the best in their respective category or region. This week, we’re pleased to bring you Foxsense, Hyperhumans, and Megasight.