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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 3,855 posts.
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Yes, All DRM
Everybody knows that the digital locks of DRM on the digital media you own is a big problem. If you’ve bought a digital book, album, or movie, you should be able to do what you want with it—whether that’s enjoying it wherever you want to, or making it more accessible by changing the font size or...
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WebExtensions in Firefox 48
We last updated you on our progress with WebExtensions when Firefox 47 landed in Developer Edition (Aurora), and today we have an update for Firefox 48, which landed in Developer ...
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ES6, ES7, and beyond
V8 v5.2 supports ES2015 and ES2016!
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Front-End Performance: The Dark Side
The latest news about Opera web browsers, tech trends, internet tips.
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WebKit is moving away from prefixes
WebKit’s new feature policy is to implement experimental features unprefixed, behind a runtime flag.
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V8 Release 5.1
V8 v5.1 comes with performance improvements, reduced jank and memory consumption, and increased support for ECMAScript language features.
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Jarvis: an Amazon Echo clone in your browser
Javascript and Node.js training and consulting. Get your team up to speed fast or have us build and implement your next web application.
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Free VPN integrated in Opera for better online privacy
Now, you don't have to download VPN extensions or pay for VPN subscriptions to access blocked websites and to shield your browsing when on public Wi-Fi.
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React Native: A year in review
Visit the post for more.
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Gone in Six Characters: Short URLs Considered Harmful for Cloud Services
[This is a guest post by Vitaly Shmatikov, professor at Cornell Tech and once upon a time my adviser at the University of Texas at Austin. — Arvind Narayanan.] TL;DR: short URLs produced by bit.ly, goo.gl, and similar services are so short that they can be scanned by brute force. Our scan discovered a large […]
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React Native on the Universal Windows Platform
Today, Microsoft and Facebook announced at Facebook’s developer conference, F8 2016, that we’re adding Universal Windows Platform (UWP) support to React Native. This is provided as an open source, community-supported framework. The new UWP support extends the reach of these native apps to a new market of 270 million…
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Adding JavaScript modules to the web platform
One thing we’ve been meaning to do more of is tell our blog readers more about new features we’ve been working on across WHATWG standards. We have quite a backlog of exciting things that have happened, and I’ve been nominated to start off by telling you the story of <script type="module"> .
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Lektor Static Content Management System Version 2.0 Released
After quite a bit of wait, I'm happy to announce the 2.0 release of Lektor. Some things that previously were supposed to go into this release were pushed out a bit more because the wait just was too long and quite a few features were already in this release.
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Save Netflix
Netflix is in terrible danger. In fact, these might be its last days. Oh, not today's Netflix. The Netflix you're using today is fine. It made it—got to do something daring and edgy, prove out its model, and become part of the establishment. But the next Netflix—the company so cool it makes...
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Opera browser built-in ad blocking, now in beta
Opera for computers is the first major browser that integrates a built-in ad blocking solution. For better browsing experience, download Opera beta today!
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Introducing Safari Technology Preview
Starting today, there’s a new, convenient way to see what features and improvements are coming to Safari and other applications that use WebKit.
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Change GitBucket user interface to make difference with GitHub
We received a mail from GitHub a few weeks ago.
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Mapping Mountains
To view mountains from above is to journey through time itself: over ancient shorelines, the trails of glaciers, the marks of countless seasons, and ...