Posts that commenters keep linking to, ranked by how many different people have cited them in Hacker News comments. 35 posts.
Flipboard launched during the dawn of the smartphone and tablet as a mobile-first experience, allowing us to rethink content layout principles from the web for a more elegant user experience on a variety of touchscreen form factors.
Today we are announcing some major upcoming changes to Firefox add-ons. Our add-on ecosystem has evolved through incremental, organic growth over the years, but there are some modernizations to Firefox ...
Today we are announcing our intent to phase out non-secure HTTP. There's pretty broad agreement that HTTPS is the way forward for the web. In recent months, there have been ...
A delightful language with friendly error messages, great performance, small assets, and no runtime exceptions.
Yesterday morning, August 5, a Firefox user informed us that an advertisement on a news site in Russia was serving a Firefox exploit that searched for sensitive files and uploaded ...
A year ago, we announced the start of efforts to implement support for a component in Firefox that would allow content wrapped in Digital Rights Management
A delightful language with friendly error messages, great performance, small assets, and no runtime exceptions.
Mozilla Firefox Developer Edition 43 and other modern browsers help websites to control third-party JavaScript loads and prevent unexpected or malicious modifications. Using a new specification called Subresource Integrity, a ...
Today is a special day for Bootstrap. Not only is it our fourth birthday, but after a year of development, we're finally shipping the first alpha release of…
A while ago, I posted about ffvp9, FFmpeg's native decoder for the VP9 video codec, which significantly outperforms Google's decoder (part of libvpx). We also talked about encoding performance (quality, mainly), and showed VP9 significantly outperformed H.264, although it was much slower. The elephant-in-the-room…
Describing content blocking rules in a structured format ahead-of-time, rather than running extension-provided code.
Posted by Ryan Sleevi, Software Engineer This post updates our previous notification of a misissued certificate for google.com Followin...
Over the past few months the team at RethinkDB has been working on a project to make building modern, realtime apps dramatically easier. The upcoming features are the start of an exciting new database access model – instead of polling the database for changes, the developer can tell RethinkDB to continuously push…
Model-View-Intent is a unidirectional data flow architecture with Virtual DOM rendering for single-page web apps, similar to React and Flux but with plenty of surprising additions.
Posted by Adam Langley, Security Engineer On Friday, March 20th, we became aware of unauthorized digital certificates for several Google ...
The Associated Press reports that healthcare.gov–the flagship site of the Affordable Care Act, where millions of Americans have signed up to receive health care–is quietly sending personal health information to a number of third party websites. The information being sent includes one's zip code,...
