The HackerNoon Newsletter: Testing LLMs on Solving Leetcode Problems in 2025 (4/8/2025)

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🪐 What’s happening in tech today, April 8, 2025?

The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, Bahrain's WTC construction is completed in 2008, Windows XP End of Life in 2014, and we present you with these top quality stories. From Escape Prompt Hell With These 8 Must-have Open-source Tools to Can GPT Outsmart Social Media Regulations? Inside an AI Language Evolution Experiment, let’s dive right in.

Returns are Rising Fast — and Not Enough Tools are Focused on Stopping Them at the Source

By @jelmer [ 5 Min read ] In 2024, nearly one in five online purchases ended up being returned. Read More.

Escape Prompt Hell With These 8 Must-have Open-source Tools

By @albertlieyeongdok [ 6 Min read ] Discover 8 powerful tools transforming prompt engineering from trial-and-error into scalable systems—featuring visual workflows, auto-tuned prompts, and memory- Read More.

Muddy Waters Didn’t Short AppLovin. They Shorted You.

By @bigmao [ 9 Min read ] Muddy’s short only works if no one understands the stack. This is the line-by-line dismantling that makes their whole bet fall apart. Read More.

Can GPT Outsmart Social Media Regulations? Inside an AI Language Evolution Experiment

By @mediabias [ 11 Min read ] See how Large Language Models creatively adapt language strategies under supervision, effectively evading detection and communicating covert information. Read More.

Testing LLMs on Solving Leetcode Problems in 2025

By @alexsvetkin [ 9 Min read ] Large-scale LLMs test (o1, o3-mini; Gemini 2.0 Flash, 2.0 Pro, 2.5 Pro; DeepSeek V3, R1; xAI Grok 2; Claude 3.7 Sonnet) on solving Leetcode algorithmic problems Read More.

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