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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 8,472 posts.
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Real-time applications and will Django adapt?
While talking about Django at PyCon India this year, the most common question I got was whether it supports Si...
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Malicious Use of the HTML5 Vibrate API
There is a new API in town! HTML5 will (soon) let you make the user's device vibrate. What fun! Obviously, it's useful for triggering alerts, improved immersivness during gameplay, and all sorts of other fun things like sending Morse Code messages via vibration. At the moment, Chrome (and other Android browsers) ask…
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Frameworkless JavaScript
Le tecnologie in tempo reale stanno trasformando il digitale. Permettono interazioni immediate e autentiche🎯 Scopri come migliorano l'esperienza utente e favoriscono il coinvolgimento.
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We switched from an icon font to SVG
A Lonely Planet project
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Why I am switching to promises
I'm switching my node code from callbacks to promises. The reasons aren't merely aesthetical, they're rather practical:
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Hacker News down, unwisely returning HTTP 200 for outage message
So HackerNews is currently down. It happens, we’ll probably find out why when it returns. For a while yesterday, all HN URLs were returning error messages from CloudFlare, apparently their CD…
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What "viable search engine competition" really looks like
Alex Clemmer is a computer programmer. Other programmers love Alex, excitedly describing him as "employed here" and "the boss's son".
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React: Another Level of Indirection
React provides a better abstraction over the DOM than MVC frameworks ever can. React is the last piece of the puzzle for ClojureScript web frontend development.
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How Expedia Buys Its Way To The Top Of Google
Welcome to Nenad SEO. This will be the first among numerous reports, SEO case studies and articles that you’re going to read on our blog. * After receiving a manual penalty by Google for 2 small si…
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XSS in Gmail through Rapportive
A blog on security, malware, cryptography, pentesting, javascript, php and whatnots
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Browser Extension Password Managers Exposing Passwords Everywhere
Advancements in password cracking and frequent theft of password databases endanger single-factor password authentication systems. Password managers are one of the only tools available that can help users remember unique high-entropy passwords, and other secrets such as credit card numbers, for a large number of…
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Clearer Conditionals using De Morgan's Laws
Ever seen a hard-to-parse conditional like this? def allow_access_to_site? ...
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The Future of JavaScript MVCs
often devs still approach performance of JS code as if they are riding a horse cart but the horse had long been replaced with fusion reactor
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Build WebRTC app backend services | Articles
WebRTC enables peer-to-peer communication. It requires servers so that clients can exchange metadata and coordinate communication through a process called signaling . Servers also help clients cope with network address translators (NATs) and firewalls.
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The Right Stuff: Breaking the PageSpeed Barrier with Bootstrap
The AppNeta award-winning suite of network monitoring tools allow unparalleled SaaS-based application end-user performance monitoring for 100% delivery confidence.
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What's Coming in Ember.js in 2014
Every few months, the Ember core team likes to get together to discuss issues face-to-face and set our priorities for the following quarter. This time, we all converged on Portland, Oregon...
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Optimizing Nginx TLS Time To First Byte
TLS is not slow, it's unoptimized. A hands-on tour of optimizing nginx to deliver one-RTT Time To First Byte (TTFB) with TLS.
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Mozilla in 2013
What an amazing year for the Web. In 2013, we celebrated 15 years of Mozilla and 15 Years of a Better Web, which we’ve been instrumental in innovating an
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CSS Variables in Firefox Nightly
As reported by Cameron McCormack, Firefox Nightly (version 29) now supports CSS variables. You can get a quick overview in this short screencast: You can define variables in a ...
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Best Firefox Add-ons of 2013
Every month, a committee of Firefox volunteers — who really, REALLY love Firefox Add-ons — puts their time and effort into finding the best new ...
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300ms tap delay removed on Chrome for Android
Every click interaction in mobile browsers is hampered with a 300ms delay, but that's gone in Chrome 32 for mobile-optimized sites!