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Most cited
Posts that commenters keep linking to, ranked by how many different people have cited them in Hacker News comments. 218 posts.
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The Onion releases fartscroll.js
Include "fartscroll.js" in your page. You can include the latest version straight from our CDN:
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Announcing Topaz: A New Ruby
I’m extraordinarily pleased to today announce Topaz, a project I started 10 months ago, to create a brand new implementation of the Ruby programming language (version 1.9.3).
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JQuery 2.0 Released
jQuery: The Write Less, Do More, JavaScript Library
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Heroku - Bamboo Routing Performance
Yesterday, one of our customers let us know about significant performance issues they have experienced on Heroku. They raised an important issue and I want
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Send payouts with Stripe
Learn how to manage payouts for your Connect platform's connected accounts.
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Introducing Heka
We here on the Mozilla Services team are happy to announce our first beta release (v0.2b1) of Heka, a tool for high performance data gathering, ...
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Start Using Emacs – A Thorough Guide for Beginners
On your journey to Clojure mastery, your editor will be your closest ally. I highly recommend working with Emacs, but you can, of course, use any editor you want. If you don’t follow the thorough Emacs instructions in this chapter, or if you choose to use a different editor, it’s worthwhile to at least invest some…
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Explicit bootstrapping of pip in Python installations
This PEP proposes that the Installing Python Modules guide in Python 2.7, 3.3 and 3.4 be updated to officially recommend the use of pip as the default installer for Python packages, and that appropriate technical changes be made in Python 3.4 to provide...
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JSTOR Statement on Aaron Swartz
We are deeply saddened to hear the news about Aaron Swartz. We extend our heartfelt condolences to Aaron’s family, friends, and everyone who loved, knew, and admired him. He was a truly gifted person who made important contributions to the development of the internet and the web from which we all benefit.
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Choc: Bret Victor's 'Learnable Programming' implemented in Javascript
Thinking procedurally is one of the hardest concepts to grasp for the beginning programmer.
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Firefox 22 released
Check out "Whats New" and "Known Issues" for this version of Firefox below. As always, youre encouraged to tell us what you think , or file a bug in Bugzilla .We'd also like extend a special thank you to all of the new Mozillians who contributed to Firefox 22!
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How Google Authorship decreased our traffic by 90%
We claimed Google Authorship like every SEO blog told us to. Then our search clicks dropped 90%. Here are the numbers and what really happened.
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Malware Hidden Inside JPG EXIF Headers
A few days ago, Peter Gramantik from our research team found a very interesting backdoor on a compromised site. This backdoor didn’t rely on the…
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(Presumably) Apple engineer comment on Lightning AV adapter design
We’ve been doing significant testing lately with video out using various iOS devices for an upcoming project. In doing so, we waded right in the middle of a strange video out mystery. It’s time to unravel that mystery. (Chung-chung!)
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A Tour Inside CloudFlare's Latest Generation Servers
CloudFlare operates at a significant scale, handling more than a trillion requests through our network every month.
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PEP 435 Accepted – Adding an Enum type to the Python standard library
This PEP proposes adding an enumeration type to the Python standard library.
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CSS Architecture
To many Web developers, being good at CSS means you can take a visual mock-up and replicate it perfectly in code. You don't use tables, and you pride yourself on using as few images as possible. If you're really good, you use the latest and greatest techniques like media queries, transitions and tra
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Trying out this Go thing at Disqus
Disqus has a history of using one tool for the job and hammering through everything. Until now, that tool has been Python. This mentality has been extremely beneficial for us since we are a small team. Everyone is able to jump in to any piece of our stack with minimal effort.
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Live editing WebGL shaders with Firefox Developer Tools
If you’ve seen Epic Games’ HTML5 port of ‘Epic Citadel’, you have no doubt been impressed by the amazing performance and level of detail. A lot of the code that ...
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Data looks better naked
Rather than dressing data up, strip it down—remove to improve.
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The Linux Backdoor Attempt of 2003
Josh wrote recently about a serious security bug that appeared in Debian Linux back in 2006, and whether it was really a backdoor inserted by the NSA. (He concluded that it probably was not.) Today I want to write about another incident, in 2003, in which someone tried to backdoor the Linux kernel. This one […]
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HipHop VM: now at 98.5% PHP framework parity, 16% faster
On November 4th, the HHVM team went on a 3-week performance and parity lockdown. The lockdown officially ended on November 22nd. Overall, this lockdown was a...
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Wikipedia Adopts MariaDB
This past Wednesday marked a milestone in the evolution of Wikimedia’s Database infrastructure: the completion of the migration of the English and German Wikipedias, as well as Wikidata, to M…