Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 4,615 posts.
Goodreads is still providing the worst experience when it comes to book tracking. Oku and Literal tried to create the modern Goodreads alternative users were hoping for. But are they still active?
Big News [April 24th, 2012]: I’ve launched Wordfence to permanently fix your WordPress site’s security issues. Read this now.
Object-oriented CSS is awesome. But littering your markup with non-semantic classes is not awesome. Those classes sprinkled all over your HTML are going to change, and that’s not gonna be fun. But if you combine OOCSS and Sass you get the best of both worlds: modular CSS without bloated, hard-to-maintain HTML.
Chrome Returns 206 when the Server Returns 403 Postmortem It is a feature not a bug! I got detailed explanation from chrome developers which is very helpful. You may find the complete response in the bug ticket. Also this blog post draws a lot of attention after I post it on Hackers News. You may find comments here…
In the 2000s, if you wanted to make interactive or animated visualization for the web, Flash was the main option. When Flash lost support and fell off the internet, a solid decade of great visualiz…
If you were to browse Amazon right now and someone was eavesdropping on your connection, they could tell exactly what you were looking at. They could even tell what you've bought.
Instant TodoMVC demo (please use Chrome Desktop for now!), source Uses bottle-service library to implement self-rewriting Open your favorite web application, even a simple TodoMVC would work. Let it
A technique for abusing HTTP 301 redirects and random numbers to uniquely track users; even those who have cookies disabled in their web browsers.
My argument for why we need the Single Page Applications(sarcasm inside)
Over the last week or so, I've spent my spare time working on a new roguelike game, with a focus on extensive and interesting planet generation. A key characteristic of the genre is that the game world is procedurally generated and this one is no exception.
It’s looking like I’m going to need to build a reactive engine for work, so I’m going to prepare for that by writing down what I know about them. I want to look at three ways of building reactive engines: push reactivity, pull reactivity, and the hybrid push/pull combination that is used in a bunch of web frameworks…
The landscape for learning d3 is rich, vast and sometimes perilous. You may be intimidated by the long list of functions in d3’s API…
It’s not that most top-notch mobile apps are written for iOS. It’s that *almost all of them* are, despite the fact that Android, by most accounts, has surpassed iOS in phone sales and perhaps drawn even in unit sales overall.
Amazon’s goal should be for Kindle typography to equal or match print typography. They’re not even close.
I’ve worked on so many projects recently that were more complicated than they needed to be because they used JavaScript to generate HTML. JavaScript is… Slower to load Slower to run More prone to breaking Harder to read and reason about Doesn’t actually look like the final output It’s inferior to just using HTML in…
Originally, the domain part of a web address was all ASCII (so no accents, no emojis, no Chinese characters). This was extended a long time ago thanks to something called internationalized domain name (IDN). Today, in theory, you can use any Unicode character you like as part of a domain name, including emojis…
HTTP Public Key Pinning is a very powerful standard that allows a host to instruct a browser to only accept certain public keys when communicating with it for a given period of time. Whilst HPKP can offer a lot of protection, it can also cause a lot of harm too.
A function that computes to the first color if the used color scheme is light or unknown, or to the second color if the used color scheme is dark.
A case study of a Chrome extension that turned out to be some nasty botnet malware.
If you've landed on this page because you saw a strange message on a completely different website then followed a link to here, drop a note to the site owner and let them know what happened. If, on the other hand, you're on this page because you're
When I started thinking about writing a post about web font loading my intention was to propose relatively sophisticated ideas that I've...
