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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 4,615 posts.
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Google's dropping H.264 in Chrome is not a step backward for openness.
The latest news about Opera web browsers, tech trends, internet tips.
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Simple Questions for Google Regarding Chrome’s Dropping of H.264
Why not drop H.264 support from Android and YouTube, too?
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Uniformity vs. Individuality in Mac UI Design
The conservatives see non-standard custom UI elements as wrong. Liberals see an app built using nothing other than standard system UI elements as boring, old-fashioned, stodgy.
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Google’s decreasingly useful, spam-filled web search
People whose opinions I respect have all been echoing the same sentiment — Google, the once essential tool, is somehow losing its edge. The spammers, scrapers, and SEO’ed-to-the-hilt content farms are winning.
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Eric Meyer's Reset Revisited
It was close to four years ago now that I first floated (ha!), publicly refined, and then published at its own home what's become known as the
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RSS Is Dying, and You Should Be Very Worried
RSS makes it possible for me to check 100s of sites a day. I only actually implicitly go and read two, everything else goes through the RSS reader. If I didn’t have RSS then I wouldn’t bother keeping an eye on that many sites in the first place. Because me and you—dear technical readers—don’t have to suffer that…
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Why are restaurant web sites so bad?
On Twitter, my friends Shani and Erie are engaged in a bit of time-honored kvetching about the legendary and general awfulness of restaurant Web sites. Who thinks it’s good idea to blast annoying music at people going to your site? Why do they so often rely on Flash, which doesn’t really add anything to the…
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Common Mistakes as Python Web Developer
A short list of common mistakes in Python web applications in terms of security and architecture.
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Building blocks of a scalable webcrawler.
In my last semester as a student, I had the chance of working for an awesome company ( Acquia ) on a very interesting project. It all started with a post over at Dries Buytaert's blog. He is the CTO and co-founder of Acquia (and Mollom), inventor of Drupal, open-source celebrity and also knows a thing or two about…
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Stored XSS Vulnerability in Amazon (or How to hack Amazon with a book)
hacking Amazon with a book, Amazon stallowned, stored XSS
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What to Read to Get Up to Speed in JavaScript
Updated: 10/7/2016 I wanted to offer up what I felt were good books/resources to carry you through learning JavaScript. Note that some resources will overlap between levels. That should be expected…
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Opera 11 goes final
Get the latest information about our desktop browser direct from the Opera Desktop team.
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Input type="password" Needs to Grow Up
Thoughts and musings of Dennis Forbes, expert software developer/architect and AI engineer
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Breaking the Reddit code
A few days ago an entry on Reddit asked for help breaking a code . Because I was laid up in bed yesterday with something chesty and nasty I...
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Xc.js - a Javascript framework for 2d games. Backends for HTML5 canvas and iOS
We help to build the next thing
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Announcing Browserling: Interactive cross-browser testing in your browser
Hey guys, here are the lastest StackVM news. So we applied to Y Combinator for the Winter 2011 funding cycle but got rejected. On November 2 we got an email saying that they could not accept our application for funding, which meant that we wouldn't even get the interview. Our plan was to surprise Y Combinator folks…