1951
Millions of email addresses leaking to advertising and analytics companies
Breaches have been found on websites including Wish.com, JetBlue.com, Quibi.com, WashingtonPost.com, NGPVan.com and numerous other…
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 4,614 posts.
1952
The Open Web Is Dying
It\'s difficult to comprehend that there would be anything else more important right now than public health and the COVID-19 pandemic, but in the midst of it all
1953
Why isn't the external link symbol in Unicode? (2018)
I have frequently wanted to use the external link symbol ( ) in text that I’m writing, without having to resort to including an image. Normally the solution there would be to find the graphical symbol in Unicode and figure out how to type it.
1954
What I wish I knew about React
Articles on frontend development and more.
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A Critique of React Hooks
A few thoughts to consider when using React hooks
1956
Puny GUI – A tiny cross platform GUI Kit in Janet
The following image is a "sneak peek" at the full implementation and the resultant system:
1957
CSS for Internationalisation
I've come across people who do not think that CSS is related to internationalisation at all, but if you think about it, internationalisation is more than…
1958
Stripe records user movements on its customers' websites
An investigation into how Stripe tracks your users and what you can do to prevent it
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Why do we need Flask, Celery, and Redis? (2019)
Understanding Flask, Celery, and Redis through Mcdonalds
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Userscripts Are Fun and Are Still Very Much Relevant
Sharing my thoughts on userscripts, a phenomenon the swept the internet back in the 00s.
1962
Using VueJS Alongside Django
Tutorial with copy-paste ready code to add CSV Export to any model in Wagtail's modeladmin module
1963
The algebraic structure of functions, illustrated using React components
Did you know there’s an algebraic structure for functions? That may not surprise you at all. But it surprised me when I first found out about it. I knew we used functions to build algebraic structures. It never occurred to me that functions themselves might have an algebraic structure. The structure is fascinating…
1964
Protecting Lives & Liberty: How Contact Tracing Can Foil COVID-19 & Big Brother
If you'd like to help translate this comic, click here to see what translations have already been done! If your language hasn't been done yet, send a Pull Request to that repo with your translated comic, or send it to . Thank you! 💖
1965
Open-Source Virtual Background
With many of us around the globe under shelter in place due to COVID-19 video calls have become a lot more common. In particular, ZOOM has controversially become very popular. Arguably Zoom’s most interesting feature is the “ Virtual Background ” support which allows users to replace the background behind them in…
1966
Analyzing HN readers' personal blogs
Analyzing the little guys
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The JavaScript Black Hole: A playbook for ethical engineering on the web
A playbook for ethical engineering on the web.
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Userdir URLs like https://example.org/~username/ are dangerous
This blog is written by Hanno Böck. Unless noted otherwise, its content is licensed as CC0 .
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Things Markdown got wrong
John Gruber's Markdown is almost a perfect content authoring format. Here are 6 things it got wrong.
1974
Unauthorized access to cameras in Safari on macOS and iOS
A vulnerability in Safari allowed hackers to access the iPhone and Macbook cameras. (CVE-2020-3852, CVE-2020-3864, CVE-2020-3865, CVE-2020-3885, CVE-2020-3887 & CVE-2020-9784)
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Server-Side Only React with Next
You visit a seemingly simple website with little or no interactivity, yet somehow it sends you 2 MB of JavaScript to digest. You're half way down the article that you're reading and suddenly: client-side rendering kicks in, resets everything. You try to find your way back but the page is now janking around. Your…
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A Practical Guide to Memory Leaks in Node.js
Memory leaks are like parasites of an application, they creep up into your systems unnoticed and don't cause any harm initially, but once leaks are strong
1979
Firefox's low-latency WebAssembly compiler
wingolog: article: firefox's low-latency webassembly compiler
1980
Private client-side-only PWAs are hard, but now Apple made them impossible
AndreGarzia.com website