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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 3,855 posts.
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Firefox 50.0
We'd also like to extend a special thank you to all of the new Mozillians who contributed to this release of Firefox!
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Whatsapp: Video Calling
Our goal at WhatsApp has always been to help as many people as possible stay in touch with friends, family, and others they care about. That means making a product that’s simple, easy to use, and accessible no matter where you are. We started with messaging and Group Chat. Then we added voice calling. And we did it in…
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Why Chrome 53 Is Rejecting Chase Bank's Symantec Certificate
If you're using Chrome 53, which was released last week, you might find that some websites which worked under Chrome 52 now fail with "Your connection is not private" with an error code of NET::ERR_CERTIFICATE_TRANSPARENCY_REQUIRED . For example, choosemyreward.chase.com shows the following error as of publication…
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Debugging with Elm 0.18
A delightful language with friendly error messages, great performance, small assets, and no runtime exceptions.
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Principles for smooth web animations
The complete guide to 60fps smooth animations on your website
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FlyWeb – An API for web pages to host local web servers
For the past several months, a small team at Mozilla has been working on an experimental new Web API and an accompanying browser feature called FlyWeb.
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Here’s to more HTTPS on the web
Security has always been critical to the web, but challenges involved in site migration have inhibited HTTPS adoption for several years. In the interest of a safer web for all, at Google we've worked alongside many others across the online ecosystem to better understand and address these challenges, resulting in real…
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Browsers, not apps, are the future of mobile
Proclamations of an all-native mobile app world ignore the fact that browsers and the web are fast becoming the mobile operating system of the future.
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Migrating Pinterest profiles to React
Building the platform where people around the world come to search, save and shop
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Async/await support in Firefox
Support for async/await has been added in the Nightly build from the 31st of October (bug #1185106). Great stuff! Time to start removing those JavaScript transpilers from your experimental projects, ...
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HTML 5.1 is a W3C Recommendation
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is an international community where Member organizations, a full-time staff, and the public work together to develop Web standards.
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Instapaper Premium is now free for everyone
Edit: This post was created 2016 shortly after Instapaper was purchased by Pinterest. As part of the acquisition, Pinterest decided to make Instapaper Premium free for everyone. In 2018, Instapaper was spun out into an independent company run by the same people who managed it since 2013. As part of the spinout, we…
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WebAssembly Browser Preview
WebAssembly or Wasm is a new runtime and compilation target for the web, now available behind a flag in Chrome Canary!
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A Quantum Leap for the Web
Over the past year, our top priority for Firefox was the Electrolysis project to deliver a multi-process browsing experience to users…
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CoinTent: A Sustainable Ad-Free Web
Introducing CoinTent
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Wikipedia and Internet Archive partner to fix 1M broken links on Wikipedia
More than one million formerly broken links in the English Wikipedia have been updated to archived versions from the Wayback Machine, thanks to a partnership between the Internet Archive, volunteer…
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Jamboard – The whiteboard reimagined for collaboration in the cloud
The newest addition to G Suite, Jamboard is a collaborative, digital whiteboard that makes it easy for your team to share ideas and create without boundaries.
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Next.js – A small framework for server-rendered universal JavaScript apps
We're very proud to open-source Next.js, a small framework for server-rendered universal JavaScript webapps.
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The original proposal of the WWW, HTMLized
A hand conversion to HTML of the original MacWord (or Word for Mac?) document written in March 1989 and later redistributed unchanged apart from the date added in May 1990. Provided for historical interest only. The diagrams are a bit dotty, but available in versioins linked below. The text has not been changed, even…
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Distrusting New WoSign and StartCom Certificates
Mozilla has discovered that a Certificate Authority (CA) called WoSign has had a number of technical and management failures. Most seriously, we discovered they were backdating SSL certificates in order ...
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Is Your Site Leaking Password Reset Links?
Emailed password reset links are a common part of web applications. Is your site leaking these confidential links to third party sites?
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Building a Shop with Sub-Second Page Loads: Lessons Learned
Here is the story of how we leveraged research on web-caching and NoSQL systems to prepare a webshop for hundreds of thousands of visitors…
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Why we chose Vue.js
Why GitLab went with Vue.js
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