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🪐 What’s happening in tech today, January 23, 2026?
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The Game AI Problem Computers Were Never Built to Solve
By @aimodels44 [ 7 Min read ] An explainer on why brute-force AI fails at grand strategy games, and how hybrid LLM architectures enable long-horizon strategic reasoning. Read More.
How to Enter the Proof of Usefulness (PoU) Hackathon
By @proofofusefulness [ 5 Min read ] No pitch decks. No mockups. Just code that works. Here is your step-by-step guide to entering HackerNoons $150K Proof of Usefulness Hackathon. Read More.
How to Make Your Legacy Exception-Throwing Code Compatible With Lambdas
By @nfrankel [ 6 Min read ] In this post, I tackled the issue of integrating checked exceptions with lambdas in Java. Read More.
How to Add the AWS WAF CAPTCHA to an Angular Application
By @rodrigokamada [ 6 Min read ] In this article, we will create a WEB application using the latest version of Angular and integrate the AWS WAF CAPTCHA challenge to protect against bots. Read More.
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