The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 8,469 posts.
It’s easy to get carried away when you’re building a new web app. You’ve got big ideas, you picture millions of users flocking to your platform, and you start imagining the kind of infrastructure needed to handle all that traffic. So, you build for scale from day one—optimising databases, setting up powerful servers…
This is the last minor release before v7, but it's packed with interesting new features! Let's have a look :) Separate audio and video streams for mor...
I went for a spelunk through an ancient codebase a few weeks ago which contained a curious regex that I just couldn't grok. Copied to 📋⧉ {<((https?|ftp|dict|tel):[^\'">\s]+)>}i I'm familiar with HTTP and FTP. I worked in the mobile industry, so knew that tel:+44... could be used to launch a dialer. But DICT?!?!?! It…
TL;DR; - they prevent companies from denying services to people that use technology to block tracking and ads. ...
This specification defines a new HTTP method, QUERY, as a safe, idempotent request method that can carry request content.
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In this article we discuss the complexity of introducing concurrent operations on the client wuthout causal ordering on the server.
Discover critical Feeld app vulnerabilities from our pentest. See how flaws in security controls expose personal data and learn key fixes.
The story of how I gained two world-firsts, somehow.
Let's build another web browser based on Servo!
FastAPI, FastHTML, Next.js, SvelteKit, and thoughts on how coding assistants influence builders' choices.
Up until now, I was not aware that concurrency and parallelism were actually different things since they are often used interchangeably by some. I just learned that this is not the case while reading Chapter 9 of the book “Clojure for the Brave and True.” This made me want to learn more about concepts related to…
Sometimes I just want to put pixels on a screen. I don’t want to think about SDL this or OpenGL that—I just want to draw my pixel buffer and be done.
By Ruben Schade in Eora/Sydney, Australia.
I want to provide a smooth experience to my site visitors, so I work on accessibility and ensure it works without JavaScript enabled. I care about page load time because some pages contain large illustrations, so I minify my HTML. But one thing makes turning my blog light as a feather a pain in the ass.
Posted on Thursday 5 Sep 2024. 1,133 words, 5 links. By Matt Webb.
tl;dr; if you want to pass HTML data to GPT-4o, just strip out all the HTML and pass raw text, it’s cheaper and there is little to no performance degradation. Source code and demo available.
Yes, the rumours are true! Kagi has been thoughtfully integrating AI into...
An exploration of the newly supported at-rule for explicitly defining and animating custom properties in CSS.
The official blog for the Vue.js project
Would you like the design a web API that is reliable and pleasant to use? I have some ideas for you.
tl;dr; show me the demo and source code!
There are several popular meta schemas out there. Open Graph may be the best supported, but if you want your meta data to be picked up by a particular service you might need to do a bit of research. Or support them all.
Exploring the web’s clipboard APIs, their limitations, and their history.
The Django ORM, how it compares to raw SQL and gotchas that you should be aware of when using it
Flexbox and WebXR are now enabled by default.
Teens wrote me a secret. I found them.
