1891
New
The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 3,855 posts.
1892
Love letter to Vue
In the frustratingly fast-paced, ever-shifty and profoundly fashion-driven JavaScript web development ecosystem, it’s not easy to find something that one can even stand to use, to say nothing…
1893
Instapaper is going independent
Today, we’re announcing that Pinterest has entered into an agreement to transfer ownership of Instapaper to Instant Paper, Inc., a new company owned and operated by the same people who’ve been working on Instapaper since it was sold to betaworks by Marco Arment in 2013. The ownership transfer will occur after a 21 day…
1894
Mailinator.com: Anatomy of a Spammy Campaign
Mailinator is a popular disposable email service. It's also become a great tool for QA Teams to test email receipt, acknowledgment, authen...
1895
1896
Bootstrap 4.1.2 released
We've been busy these last couple months since launching v4.1.1, but we're back with another bug fix and some sweeping changes to how we build and publish our…
1897
1898
Comparing Serverless Performance for CPU Bound Tasks
This post is a part of an ongoing series comparing the performance of Cloudflare Workers with other Serverless providers. In our past tests we intentionally chose a workload which imposes virtually no CPU load (returning the current time).
1899
Lessons learned scraping 100B product pages
Price Intelligence experience scraping over 100 billion product pages. Learn the best practices and demands of extracting product data from e-commerce stores.
1900
A Real-World WebAssembly Benchmark
A WebAssembly benchmark for browser vendors to test a real-world production application.
1901
React Native: A retrospective from the mobile-engineering team at Udacity
The mobile team at Udacity recently removed the last features in our apps using React Native. Here's what worked and what didn't.
1902
Serverless Performance: Cloudflare Workers, Lambda and LambdaEdge
A few months ago we released a new way for people to run serverless Javascript called Cloudflare Workers. We believe Workers is the fastest way to execute serverless functions, but lets prove it.
1903
Against privacy defeatism: why browsers can still stop fingerprinting
In this post I’ll discuss how a landmark piece of privacy research was widely misinterpreted, how this misinterpretation deterred the development of privacy technologies rather than spurring it, how a recent paper set the record straight, and what we can learn from all this. The research in question is about browser…
1904
The Constrained Directional Enhancement Filter in AV1
AV1 is a new general-purpose video codec developed by the Alliance for Open Media. The alliance began development of the new codec using Google’s VPX codecs, Cisco’s Thor codec, and ...
1905
Firefox 61.0 Released
Firefox Quantum keeps on keeping on. Look to this release for even more performance improvements, features that let you do more without leaving the webpage you’re on, and a safer online experience.
1906
‘You can't use Brotli for dynamic content’ and other misconceptions
And other horses**t.
1907
Our Vision for Rust and WebAssembly
Stay up to date with events, learning resources, and recent developments in Rust and WebAssembly community.
1908
The Architecture of Mailinator (2007)
Almost 3.5 years ago I started the Mailinator(tm) service. I got the bulk of the idea from my drunk roommate at the time and the first incar...
1909
V8 release v6.8
V8 v6.8 features reduced memory consumption and several performance improvements.
1910
Improved JavaScript and WebAssembly performance in EdgeHTML 17
In every release of Microsoft Edge, we tune the Chakra JavaScript engine to provide better startup and execution performance, with a leaner memory footprint, and with improved responsiveness on real-world workloads. As EdgeHTML 17 rolls out to users as part of the Windows 10 April 2018 Update, we’d like to dive into…
1911
Announcing Flutter Release Preview 1
Community momentum builds on the path to release
1912
Sunsetting React Native
Due to a variety of technical and organizational issues, we will be sunsetting React Native and putting all of our efforts into making…
1913
Qt for WebAssembly
Explore the Qt Blog for the latest insights on e.g. Qt Creator, your go-to source for cross-platform development tips and updates.
1914
React Native at Airbnb
In 2016, we took a big bet on React Native. Two years later, we’re ready to share our experience with the world and show what’s next.
1915
Politicians in favor of upload filtering get channel deleted by upload filtering
French politicians of the former Front National are furious: their entire YouTube channel was just taken down by automatic filters at YouTube for alleged
1916
GitLab Web IDE
Here's how we went from a proof of concept to a new feature that makes it even easier for everyone to edit inside of GitLab.
1917
Bing Maps Streetside Imagery Now Integrated into OpenStreetMap iD Editor
This week Microsoft is integrating its Streetside imagery for the United States in to iD, a popular web-based editor for contributing to OpenStreetMap. This is the same imagery currently visible…
1918
1919
Don’t Let Facebook, or Any Tracker, Follow You on the Web
Using the web today, you are a target. And because of the rampant tracking across websites, each time you use the internet, you become an easier target. Tor Browser can help.
1920