1951
New
The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 3,855 posts.
1952
Adding BigInts to V8
V8 now supports BigInts, a JavaScript language feature enabling arbitrary-precision integers.
1953
How Algolia Built Their Realtime Search as a Service
Algolia started out as a mobile SDK for apps that wanted better offline search. After customers starting asking for a hosted search product, they quic
1954
Custom domains on GitHub Pages gain support for HTTPS
Encryption for all GitHub Pages sites
1955
Introducing .app, a more secure home for apps on the web
Today we’re announcing .app, the newest top-level domain (TLD) from Google Registry, created specifically for apps and app developers.
1956
Flask 1.0 Released
The Flask framework has been stable for a long time. A little more than 8 years after the first commit, the version number finally reflects that. 1.0 comes with a significant number of changes representing over a year of work.
1957
A rundown of the new Gmail
Time for an upgrade.
1958
Improved code caching
Starting with Chrome 66, V8 caches more (byte)code by generating the cache after top-level execution.
1959
Qt for WebAssembly Technology Preview
Explore the Qt Blog for the latest insights on e.g. Qt Creator, your go-to source for cross-platform development tips and updates.
1960
Now Is the Perfect Time for an RSS Renaissance
neflabs.com is your first and best source for information about neflabs. Here you will also find topics relating to issues of general interest. We hope you find what you are looking for!
1961
Why it took a long time to build the tiny link preview on Wikipedia
The history of page previews.
1962
No boundaries for Facebook data: third-party trackers abuse Facebook Login
by Steven Englehardt [0], Gunes Acar, and Arvind Narayanan So far in the No boundaries series, we’ve uncovered how web trackers exfiltrate identifying information from web pages, browser password managers, and form inputs. Today we report yet another type of surreptitious data collection by third-party scripts that we…
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1964
Building a Text Editor for a Digital-First Newsroom
An inside look at the inner workings of a technology you may take for granted
1965
1966
Sneak Peek at WebAssembly Studio
WebAssembly.Studio is an online IDE (integrated development environment) that helps you learn and teach others. It’s also a Swiss Army knife that comes in handy whenever working with WebAssembly (WASM). ...
1967
AV1 beats x264 and libvpx-vp9 in practical use case
Improved video compression is important for delivering digital video files more quickly and with higher quality, while using less bandwidth and storage. Everything from 4K movie streaming to smartp…
1968
Multi-user VR experiences with A-Frame (2017)
Salva de la Puente describes the sharedspace component he's built, which brings the power of WebRTC to A-Frame users. The component provides a collaboration model where participants can join or ...
1969
Payment Request API for Apple Pay
We’re pleased to announce that Safari 11.1 on macOS and Safari on iOS 11.3 now support the W3C Payment Request API for conducting Apple Pay transactions on the web.
1970
Introducing Fly Edge Apps
News, tips, and tricks from the team at Fly
1971
Cloudflare supports Privacy Pass
Cloudflare supports Privacy Pass, a recently-announced privacy-preserving protocol developed in collaboration with researchers from Royal Holloway and the University of Waterloo.
1972
Transitioning Google URL Shortener to Firebase Dynamic Links
Understand how you will be impacted by our decision to turn off the serving portion of Google URL Shortener.
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1974
React v16.3.0: New lifecycles and context API
This blog site has been archived. Go to react.dev/blog to see the recent posts. A few days ago, we wrote a post about upcoming changes to our legacy lifecycle methods, including gradual migration strategies. In React 16.3.0, we are adding a few new lifecycle methods to assist with that migration. We are also…
1975
iOS 11.3 is available today
iOS 11.3 delivers exciting new immersive AR experiences, new Animoji for iPhone X users, access to personal health records in the Health app and more.
1976
ES modules: A cartoon deep-dive
ES modules bring an official, standardized module system to JavaScript. With the release of Firefox 60 in May, all major browsers will support ES modules, and there is current work ...
1977
1978
Update on Async Rendering
This blog site has been archived. Go to react.dev/blog to see the recent posts. For over a year, the React team has been working to implement asynchronous rendering. Last month during his talk at JSConf Iceland, Dan unveiled some of the exciting new possibilities async rendering unlocks. Now we’d like to share with…
1979
Facebook Container Extension: Take control of how you’re being tracked
Our Multi-Account Containers extension has been a game changer for many users, letting them manage various parts of their online life without intermingling
1980
V8 release v6.6
V8 v6.6 includes optional catch binding, extended string trimming, several parse/compile/runtime performance improvements, and much more!