The HackerNoon Newsletter: How to Improve Your Debounce and Get It to Stop Lying to You (3/31/2026)

How are you, hacker? 🪐 What’s happening in tech today, March 31, 2026? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, Harvard and IBM Agree to Build The Mark I "Giant Brain" in 1939, and we present you with these top quality stories. From Pretext Does What CSS Cant — Measuring Text Before the DOM Even Exists to I Interviewed 6 People Who Use Our Data Platform. They All Described a Different System. , let’s dive right in. How to Improve Your Debounce and Get It to Stop Lying to You By @hacker5295744 [ 8 Min read ] In this article, we will keep debounce for what it is good at (UI smoothing), then harden the request path with cancellation, retries, and better error handling Read More. Pretext Does What CSS Cant — Measuring Text Before the DOM Even Exists By @typesetting [ 8 Min read ] Cheng Lous Pretext library measures multiline text height without touching the DOM — unlocking layout capabilities CSS has never been able to offer. Read More.