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Introducing the WebKit FTL JIT
Designed to bring aggressive C-like optimizations to the largest variety of JavaScript programs.
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Posts that commenters keep linking to, ranked by how many different people have cited them in Hacker News comments. 33 posts.
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AdBlock Plus’s effect on Firefox’s memory usage
[Update: Wladimir Palant has posted a response on the AdBlock Plus blog. Also, a Chrome developer using the handle “Klathmon” has posted numerous good comments in the Reddit discussion of this post , explaining why ad-blockers are inherently CPU- and memory-intensive, and why integrating ad-blocking into a browser…
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CNAME Flattening: RFC-Compliant CNAMEs at a Domain's Root
This post is about a new feature we've been quietly rolling out over the last few months. Last week we began enabling it for everyone by default.
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Why HTTP/2.0 does not seem interesting (2012)
Varnish is a powerful, flexible HTTP accelerator that speeds up web applications by caching content and optimizing delivery.
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Publisher Transformation with Users at the Center
*Feb. 13 update: I posted more details about Directory Tiles here.* We believe that if you put the user front and center, you can make ...
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A New, Optional Way to Share and Discover Music, TV and Movies
We’re making conversations quicker and easier.
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Launching in 2015: A Certificate Authority to Encrypt the Entire Web
Today EFF is pleased to announce Let’s Encrypt, a new certificate authority (CA) initiative that we have put together with Mozilla, Cisco, Akamai, IdenTrust, and researchers at the University of Michigan that aims to clear the remaining roadblocks to transition the Web from HTTP to HTTPS.Although...
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Moving Atom to React
We are archiving Atom and all projects under the Atom organization for an official sunset on December 15, 2022.
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XSLT is a failure wrapped in pain
“ The essence of XML is this: the problem it solves is not hard, and it does not solve the problem well.” – Phil Wadler, POPL 2003
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Universal SSL
The team at CloudFlare is excited to announce the release of Universal SSL™. Beginning today, we will support SSL connections to every CloudFlare customer, including the 2 million sites that have signed up for the free version of our service.
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Gradually sunsetting SHA-1
Cross-posted on the Chromium Blog The SHA-1 cryptographic hash algorithm has been known to be considerably weaker than it was designed t...
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Are You a Robot? Introducing “No CAPTCHA ReCAPTCHA”
Posted by Vinay Shet, Product Manager, reCAPTCHA reCAPTCHA protects the websites you love from spam and abuse. So, when you go online—say...
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Top Web Design Mistakes of 1999
New technology and conventions have led to several new classes of usability problems in Web design.
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Adobe Spyware Reveals Again the Price of DRM: Your Privacy and Security
The publishing world may finally be facing its “rootkit scandal.” Two independent reports claim that Adobe’s e-book software, “Digital Editions,” logs every document readers add to their local “library,” tracks what happens with those files, and then sends those logs back to the mother-ship, over...
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Firefox Add-on Enables Web Development Across Browsers and Devices
Developing across multiple browsers and devices is the main issue developers have when building applications. Wouldn’t it be great to debug your app across desktop, Android and iOS with one ...
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Debugging Asynchronous JavaScript with Chrome DevTools
A powerful feature that makes JavaScript unique is its ability to work asynchronously via callback functions. Assigning async callbacks let you write event-driven code but it also makes tracking down bugs a hair pulling experience since the JavaScript is not executing in a linear fashion.
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Intel Bringing SIMD to JavaScript
Access technologies from partnerships with the community and leaders. Everything open source at Intel. We have a lot to share and a lot to learn.
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Hybrid sweet spot: Native navigation, web content
When we launched the iPhone version of Basecamp in February of last year, it was after many rounds of experimentation on the architectural direction. The default route suggested by most when we got started back in early/mid-2012 was simple enough: Everything Be Native! This was a sensible recomm…
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Rebuilding the Shopify Admin: Deleting 28k lines of JavaScript
Shopify powers millions of businesses in more than 175 countries with essential commerce infrastructure. Our engineers and developers work on challenging and impactful projects spanning frontend, backend, mobile and data.
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News Feed FYI: Click-baiting
Today we're announcing some improvements to News Feed to help people find the posts and links from publishers that are most interesting and relevant.
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