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Flash-Free Video in 2016
Read about how we turned off Flash support for VHS, the New York Times video player.
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Using Flat Files So Elections Don’t Break Your Server
Publishing live election results requires a carefully tuned system: the setup must be able to withstand some of the most intense traffic levels seen all year at NYTimes.com. We decided to center our elections app on the simplest of all caching strategies: the flat file.
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HTTPS on NYTimes.com
We are thrilled to announce that we have begun to enable HTTPS on NYTimes.com, an effort that helps protect the privacy of our readers and ensures the authenticity of our content.
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Scoop: A Glimpse Into the NYTimes CMS
A look at Scoop, the CMS that powers NYTimes.com and its mobile apps.
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NYTimes Opensources Their Deep Linking JS
We’ve released an update to “Emphasis,” the feature that enables paragraph-specific anchor links and highlighted text. We’re also putting the source on GitHub for everyone to use.
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Extracting Structured Data from Recipes Using Conditional Random Fields (2015)
Erica Greene describes the tool that she built to extract structured data from recipes.
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Building the Next New York Times Recommendation Engine
Alexander Spangher discusses recent work that’s been done to revamp our article recommendation algorithm.
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Announcing the New York Times Congress API
We’re pleased to announce the Congress API, which lets developers access information about Congressional representatives and their votes.
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NYTimes.com Announces Map/Reduce Toolkit
Recently we’ve been exploring the on-demand storage and computation tools offered by Amazon Web Services, along with an open-source toolkit called Apache Hadoop. The result is many computers working together to answer questions about our users.