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Cost breakdown for Stripe, Braintree, Chargify, Recurly and Saasy

Results of Mozilla's SOPA blackout

Mozilla Blog2012102 points5 commentsSociety, Policy & Culture details

Yesterday, we blacked out the default start page in Firefox and redirected visitors to the Mozilla sites to a special action page. We also sent direct mess

The Trello Tech Stack

Impressive SOPA blackout

Building a Modern Web Stack for the Real-time Web

Ilya Grigorik2012169 points33 commentsWeb & Frontend details

WebSockets, SPDY, SSL, and persistent connections are in, except that our infrastructure can't support most of these use cases. To enable the modern, real-time web, we need to drag our 'back office' architectures into this century.

Facebook Timeline is too awful to be an accident

The Anonymous User Pattern

Making Love to Webkit

Steven Wittens (Acko.net)2012312 points45 commentsWeb & Frontend details

If the world is going to end in 2012, Acko.net will at least go out in style: I've redesigned.

How rel=nofollow Works

Luigi Montanez2012209 points50 commentsWeb & Frontend details

Links shared on Twitter aren't surfacing in Google's Search Plus Your World because Twitter wants it that way.

Designing Great API Docs

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Google+ Hacker News Circle makes Search plus Your World Amazing

Sash!2012310 points107 commentsTech Industry & Business details

When Google+ first launched, I hustled my way to get an early invite so that I could grope the shiny UI touches like circles, and oogle the sexy tech features like Hangouts, but up until now, I...

Introducing the Backbone.js Boilerplate

Diaspora re-writes its front to Backbone: why and what it means

WordPress has left the building

Kevin John Gallagher2012229 points209 commentsWeb & Frontend details

Frequently asked questions by the Press

Note: Many of these questions are now answered in much more depth in my book, Weaving the Web

Twitter’s poor API documentation practices

The personal website of Idan Gazit

ShowHN: AlreadyHN, a bookmarklet that checks if the current page is on HN

Reddit traffic doubles in less than a year, to 2 billion monthly pageviews

Reddit Blog2012251 points159 commentscited by 3Tech Industry & Business details

Get the latest product news, company announcements, and user insights from the official Reddit blog.

E-mail is the Universal Platform

Contactually is permanently shutting down on March 31.

Google Chrome HTTPS Address Bar Spoofing

ACROS Security Blog2012103 points4 commentsSecurity & Privacy details

The Fixed Bounty Bug Revealed Last month Google awarded our security analyst Luka Treiber a Chromium Security Reward for a high-severity ...

How I Designed Code Year in 1 Hour

Sacha Greif2012183 points22 commentsDesign & UX details

The MicroPHP Manifesto

Ed Finkler2012165 points72 commentsSoftware Engineering details

HTML5: With Great Templates Comes Great Responsivity

Jonathan Verrecchia2012141 points31 commentsWeb & Frontend details

I made progress bars using only CSS3. You can use them for free.

Introducing filer.js

The Facebook Platform Is A Trainwreck

Why (and how) we've switched away from Google Maps

Open Letter to sites with annoying interfaces

Golden Ratio for Readable Web Typography

Chris Pearson2011118 points31 commentscited by 5Design & UX details

This is the original introductory article to Golden Ratio Typography (GRT). The basic concepts you’ll find on this page are important for understanding GRT, but much of the math is now outdated (and has been replaced by updated formulae). For a more current and comprehensive look at all things GRT, check out the Golden

The Problem with Implicit Scoping in CoffeeScript

Armin Ronacher2011133 points134 commentscited by 3Web & Frontend details

A longer explanation of why I think that the CoffeeScript scoping is problematic and should be changed.