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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 8,472 posts.
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Amazon API Gateway – Build and Run Scalable Application Backends
I like to think of infrastructure as the part of a system that everyone needs and no one likes to work on! It is often undifferentiated & messy, tedious to work on, difficult to manage, critical to the success of whatever relies on it, and generally taken for granted (as long as it works as […]
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XKeyscore Exposé Reaffirms the Need to Rid the Web of Tracking Cookies
Last Wednesday, The Intercept published an expose on the NSA's XKeyscore program. Along with information on the breadth and scale of the NSA's metadata collection, The Intercept revealed how the NSA relies on unencrypted cookie data to identify users. As The Intercept says: "The NSA’s ability to...
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Streams: Mail 3.0 concept
Introducing concept of Streams, aiming to fix most of email-as-a-medium flaws
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Firefox 39.0 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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React Performance
React is very popular at the moment, and I can see why: its developer ergonomics are very attractive. JSX and vDOM are really nice to work with, and it certainly enables composability. But, being the performance-minded person that I am, I wanted to test the claims that it's default-fast.
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Mozilla Games Technology Roadmap
In furthering the advantages and appeal of the Web as a platform for games and game technologies, Mozilla is publishing its games-focused roadmap. In short, it’s all about high-performance, plugin-free ...
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Firefox 41 will use less memory when running AdBlock Plus
Last year I wrote about AdBlock Plus’s effect on Firefox’s memory usage . The most important part was the following.
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Compiler Errors for Humans
A delightful language with friendly error messages, great performance, small assets, and no runtime exceptions.
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Safari is the new IE
Update: This post represents my views before I joined the Microsoft Edge team, and before I got involved with browsers or web standards in general. I leave it…
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The NoScript Misnomer
A Hacker's Blog of Unintended Use and Insomnia.
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Google Play Music – free, ad-supported radio
Google Play Music has whatever you need music for — and now comes in a free, ad-supported version in the U.S.
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What is Flask-Admin?
So what is Flask-Admin ? I'm seeing a lot of misunderstanding about the project. Typical Flask advice regarding administrative interface looks like this - "just write one from scratch, all these CRUD frameworks are very limiting". Well, I can't agree with the opinion and going to explain why.
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“Considered Harmful” Essays Considered Harmful
It is not uncommon, in the context of academic debates over computer science and Web standards topics, to see the publication of one or more “considered harmful” essays. These essays have existed in some form for more than three decades now, and it has become obvious that their time has passed. Because “considered…
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From Asm.js to WebAssembly
tl;dr I’m burying the lede with context and catch-up material first, so impatient or already-clued-in readers should skip to below the videos for today’s big news. Or just read Luke Wagner ‘s blog post right now.
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Low-level web programming in Racket and a wiki in 500 lines
Racket provides a simple yet flexible web framework for serving dynamic web content.
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Introduction to WebKit Content Blockers
Describing content blocking rules in a structured format ahead-of-time, rather than running extension-provided code.
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Ember.js 1.13.0 and 2.0 Beta Released
We are pleased to announce the release of both Ember.js 1.13.0 and the first beta in the 2.0 series. This comes as the thirteenth cycle of our release process...
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