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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 8,470 posts.
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A Visual Guide to What's New in Swagger 3.0
ReadMe helps you create beautiful, interactive API documentation that developers love.
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Faster 3D rendering with WebGL 2.0
The WebGL JavaScript API exposes hardware-accelerated 3D graphics to the web. Chrome 56 brings support for WebGL 2.0 , a major upgrade to ...
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Web Scraping: Bypassing “403 Forbidden,” captchas, and more
The full code for the completed scraper can be found in the companion repository on github. Introduction I wouldn’t really consider web scraping one of my hobbies or anything but I guess I sort of do a lot of it.
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Scrolling on the web: A primer
Scrolling is one of the oldest interactions on the web. Long before we had pull-to-refresh or infinite-loading lists, the humble scrollbar solved the web’s original scaling problem: how can we interact with content that’s stretched beyond the available viewport? Animations by Rachel Nabors Today, scrolling is still…
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Why WebAssembly Is Faster Than Asm.js
Performance is tricky to measure, and has many aspects. Also, in a new technology there are always going to be not-yet-optimized cases. So not every single benchmark will be fast ...
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Practical Color Theory for People Who Code
Hi! I'm Natalya! I'm a classically trained fine artist who spent 6 years teaching people how to paint, draw, and grow their creativity. I am now a front end developer, and I love writing code as much as I love painting. I have a degree in Studio Art, a bachelor's in Developmental Psychology, and a master's degree in…
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Reducing power consumption for background tabs
Efficient power usage is an important aspect of speed, one of Chrome’s key pillars . To prolong battery life, Chrome should minimize power ...
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Reverse Engineering the Hacker News Ranking Algorithm
A data-driven exploration of how the Hacker News ranking algorithm works.
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JSON Web Tokens should be avoided
JWT, JWE, JWS, etc. are terrible designs and need to be scrapped, not resuscitated.
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Stories that Hacker News removes from the front page
An analysis of which stories are removed from the front page of Hacker News due to moderator intervention.
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We didn’t lose control of the Web – it was stolen
12 Mar, 2017 The Web we have is not broken for Google and Facebook. People farmers are reaping the rewards of their violations into our lives to the tune of tens of billions in revenue every year. How can they possibly be our allies?
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Linting HTML using CSS
Articles on frontend development and more.
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Why the bounce rate of AMP pages is so high
Your AMP pages have a higher than usual bounce rate? Don't worry, your data may be wrong. In this article, I explain you why.
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Https hurts users far away from the server
Welcome to my personal blog! I use it to share what I'm currently learning or thinking about, usually on topics related to technology, business, and health.
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Password Rules Are Bullshit
Of the many, many, many bad things about passwords, you know what the worst is? Password rules. Let this pledge be duly noted on the permanent record of the Internet. I don’t know if there’s an afterlife, but I’ll be finding out soon enough, and I plan
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Gmail Add-ons
Few things are as satisfying as completing a task. But at work, it’s not always so easy. The days are short and packed with to-dos, like following up on sales leads, logging support tickets or sending invoices. And while great apps exists to tackle these workstreams, most users have to flip between them and their…
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The Frequency of Known Vulnerabilities in JavaScript
An interesting whitepaper was released at the 2017 NDSS Symposium discussing a large-scale attempt at determining just how vulnerable client-side JavaScript libraries are. We wanted to share some of our thoughts on the report.
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Emoji.length == 2
EDIT: Wow, much to my surprise this really blew up on Hacker News . There are some pretty interesting discussions happening. (Thanks Stan !)
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CSS Reminification: A crazy idea that worked
CSS Remynification: A completely crazy idea that worked -- Remy Luisant's whimsical take on squishy computing science things
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Firefox 52 released
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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Understanding AdSense account suspensions due to invalid traffic
In today's post, we'll be discussing AdSense account suspensions due to invalid traffic. We have found that there are two types of publishers who may have inval…