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Firefox 4 Beta 1 Released
Experience cutting-edge browser features in pre-release versions: Firefox Developer Edition, Firefox Beta and Firefox Nightly. Download now!
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 338 posts.
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Faster Firefox landing page increases download conversion by 15%
Let's start with the punchline: By making a few minor tweaks to our top landing pages, we can drive an additional 60,000,000 Firefox downloads per ...
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LiveJournal stripping users' affiliate links
LiveJournal has done something stupid again. Let me rephrase that: LiveJournal has done something REALLY fucking stupid. Links to about 150 e-commerce sites that users post to their LiveJournals are being redirected through a 3rd party website. These redirected links also open in a new window.…
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MSNBOT must die
If you've suffered any problems accessing any of the sites, the databases, the CPAN mirror, etc from the CPAN Testers server last night, please direct your wrath at Microsoft. Last night the msnbot took out the CPAN Testers server with a dedicated denial of service attack. As a consequence measures are now being put…
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Introducing the Ubuntu Font Family to the web
Google and the Ubuntu project have today released the Ubuntu Font Family to the world through the Google Font Directory. The new Ubuntu Fon...
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Firefox will support VP8 (aka WebM)
Five important items of note today relating to Mozilla's support for the VP8 codec: 1. Google will be releasing VP8 under an open source and royalty-free basis. VP8 is a ...
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Unhosted - Freedom from web 2.0's monopoly platforms
This website describes a technology, unhosted web apps, which we find so important that some of us quit our day jobs and other spend their evenings and weekends to work for the higher goal of free technology, not just as a job that pays the bill. Why do we work for free? Why are unhosted web apps so important? Why…
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Web Inspector Vs. Firebug
If you ever tweet about being unhappy with the WebKit Web Inspector , someone from the WebKit team will inevitably take notice and ask you why. I might reply, “Because it’s not Firebug!” Firefox could almost have it all with Firebug, but Firefox’s main problem is that it’s not WebKit.
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Why node.js excites me
Today, on Hacker News, an article named “Why node.js disappoints me” appeared – right on the day I returned back from jsconf.eu (awesome conference. Best days of my life, I might add) where I…
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IE9 will support VP8 and H.264 video
Get to know Windows 11, the Windows that brings you closer to what you love.News and features for people who use and are interested in Windows, including announcements from Microsoft and its partners.Guidance to help developers create products and se
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PNG vs JPG: 6 simple lessons you can learn from our mistakes
Free, preconfigured Linux server images for self-hosting
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Help find missing kids by putting them on your 404 page
@Brian, thanks for catching that. You can try visiting a missing page on my website. eg: http://bluesmoon.info/foobar I'll update the post.
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Announcing ... MathML! (WebKit)
If you’ve been following check-ins for the last year or so, then you already know that some dedicated contributors have been working on a MathML implementation in WebKit.
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Bookmarklet: Reddit-like Collapsible Threads for Hacker News
I enjoy consuming and participating at Hacker News by Y Combinator resp. Paul Graham .
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Input type="password" Needs to Grow Up
Thoughts and musings of Dennis Forbes, expert software developer/architect and AI engineer
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Building blocks of a scalable webcrawler.
In my last semester as a student, I had the chance of working for an awesome company ( Acquia ) on a very interesting project. It all started with a post over at Dries Buytaert's blog. He is the CTO and co-founder of Acquia (and Mollom), inventor of Drupal, open-source celebrity and also knows a thing or two about…
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