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New Chrome extension: block sites from Google’s web search results
Insights from Googlers into our products, technology, and the Google culture
Most cited
Posts that commenters keep linking to, ranked by how many different people have cited them in Hacker News comments. 1,175 posts.
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JPEG XL and the Pareto Front
Full details on libjxl v. 0.10 and how it affects jpeg xl lossless compression using Pareto Front for a closer analysis.
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Waiting for dawn in search: Search index, Google rulings and impact on Kagi
This blog post is a follow-up to Dawn of a new era in Search, published last year. A lot has changed: the legal case has advanced, AI has become the central battleground, and the need for...
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The case for JPEG XL
The recent decision by Chrome developers to no longer support JPEG XL has sent a ripple through the developer community and is a bit premature given the relative newness of the image format.
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Cloudflare Workers: Run JavaScript Service Workers at the Edge
You see this everywhere, but as a lifelong gamer, my personal favorite example is probably graphics cards. In the '90s, graphics hardware generally provided a fixed set of functionality.
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Do not let your CDN betray you: Use Subresource Integrity
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 ...
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HDR QR Code
Here’s an HDR QR Code . If you’re viewing this on an Apple device’s built-in display, it should work. If the big QR code is brighter than the smaller one, it works.
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Apple is not defending browser engine choice
Some folks claim that Apple's mandated inadequacy for browsers and their engines is somehow beneficial to the cause of ensuring a diverse pool of web engines. Nothing could be farther from the truth, but to understand why, we need to understand how browsers are funded. With that understanding, we can see that not only…
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Intelligent Tracking Prevention 2.0
Note: Read about improvements to this technology in recent blog posts about Intelligent Tracking Prevention, and the Storage Access API.
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Cname cloaking, a disguise of third-party trackers
An in-depth exploration of a new method used by tracking companies to disguise their third-party trackers as first-party trackers.
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The Revel Web Framework for Go
Edit, save, and refresh. Revel compiles your code and templates for you, so you don't miss a beat. Code doesn't compile? It gives you a helpful description . Run-time code panic? Revel has you covered .
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Introducing Riptide: WebKit's Retreating Wavefront Concurrent Garbage Collector
The new Riptide garbage collector in WebKit leads to a five-fold improvement in latency in the JetStream/splay-latency test.
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Using the HTML5 Fullscreen API for Phishing Attacks
Feross Aboukhadijeh is a computer security researcher, teacher, web developer, designer, long distance runner, gamer, music lover, and builder of websites that (sometimes) go viral.
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MathBox 2: PowerPoint Must Die
PowerPoint must die.
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How Apple Pay works and why it matters for developers
A blog for third-party developers on the Clover POS platform.
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Pokedex.org: a progressive webapp for Pokémon fans
Blog by Nolan Lawson about JavaScript on mobile devices
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Photoshop’s journey to the web
Over the last three years, Chrome has been working to empower web applications that want to push the boundaries of what's possible in the browser. One such web application has been Photoshop. The idea of running software as complex as Photoshop directly in the browser would have been hard to imagine just a few…
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Improving DNS Privacy in Firefox
Domain Name Service (DNS) is one of the oldest parts of internet architecture, and remains one that has largely been untouched by efforts to make the web safer and more ...
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User Agent Changes
Vivaldi is changing how it presents its User Agent in the upcoming release. Here is an explanation of what a User Agent is and what we are doing.
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On the Perceived Value of EV Certs, Commercial CAs, Phishing and Let's Encrypt
Last week I wrote about how Life Is About to Get a Whole Lot Harder for Websites Without HTTPS [https://www.troyhunt.com/life-is-about-to-get-harder-for-websites-without-https/]. Somewhere in the comments there, the discussion went off on a tangent about commercial CAs, the threat
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What is the small web? (2020)
Updated June 19th, 2023 Sorry, your browser doesn't support embedded videos. But that doesn’t mean you can’t watch it! You can download Small Is Beautiful #23 directly, and watch it with your favourite video player. Small Is Beautiful (Oct, 2022): What is the Small Web and why do we need it? Today, I want to introduce…
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Crafting Subtle & Realistic User Interfaces
Mac, iPhone & iPad interface design consulting, writing and speaking featuring tutorials, interviews, techniques and thoughts on crafting & building beautiful software. By Mike Rundle.
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GUI Architectures (2006)
Describing the way architectures for UIs have evolved over the years, in particular the many and often misunderstood definitions for Model-View-Controller.
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Ending CAPTCHAs: Introducing Cryptographic Attestation of Personhood
We want to remove CAPTCHAs completely. The idea is rather simple: a real human should be able to touch or look at their device to prove they are human, without revealing their identity. Let's explore!
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Mistakes in Web Design
The 10 most egregious UX offenses against users. Web design disasters and HTML horrors are legion, though many usability atrocities are less common than they used to be.
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Goodbye, Clean Code
Let clean code guide you. Then let it go.
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Apple's New Map
Four years in the making, it covers just 3% of the U.S.’s area and 4.9% of its population: