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Static Web Hosting on the Intel N150
Compare static web hosting performance on an Intel N150 using the same nginx.conf across FreeBSD jails, SmartOS zones, NetBSD, OpenBSD and Linux, focusing on HTTP vs HTTPS and TLS CPU usage.
Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 499 posts.
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MCP Apps: Extending servers with interactive user interfaces
Introducing the MCP Apps Extension proposal (SEP-1865) to standardize interactive user interfaces in MCP, developed with the MCP-UI creators and maintainers from OpenAI and Anthropic.
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Trusting clients is probably a security flaw
If your service needs to trust the clients, hold my Big Mac
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Unifying our mobile and desktop domains
How we achieved 20% faster mobile response times, improved SEO, and reduced infrastructure load.
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Parsing PDFs (and more) in Elixir using Rust
A Love Story Between Two Amazing Languages 🦀💜
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AWS S3 SDK breaks its compatible services
Achieving Data Freedom Through Open Source and Rust
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Doom in Django: testing the limits of LiveView at 600.000 divs/segundo
Based on the latest tests I've published, Django LiveView appears to be the fastest dynamic frontend (I'm sure more variables can be measured). OK…
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How I protect my Forgejo instance from AI web crawlers
This article describes my nginx configuration and strategy on how to prevent web crawlers from putting down my instance while still serving most people with minimal amount of friction.
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Make Your Own Website: A beginner's guide
You can make your own website. This guide can help anyone make a website with HTML and CSS. You can make a personal site, link tree, hobby site, digital garden, fansite, or any other website you want. It's fun, and easy enough for a 12-year-old.
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Passkeys and Modern Authentication
Some thoughts in support of simple solutions.
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Creating your own federated microblog
In this tutorial, we will build a small microblog that implements the ActivityPub protocol, similar to Mastodon or Misskey, using Fedify, an ActivityPub server framework.
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Fastmail desktop app
Fastmail now has native apps for Mac, Windows & Linux.
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Fake VS Code Extension on NPM Spreads Multi-Stage Malware
The Mend research team uncovered a fake VS-code extension—truffelvscode—typosquatting the popular truffle for VS-code extension. Read the post for more details.
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Gmail E2E is as terrible as expected
Recently, Google introduced E2E encryption in Gmail. It went bad.
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Hardening the Firefox Front End with Content Security Policies
Most of the Firefox User Interface (UI), including the address bar and the tab strip, are implemented using standard web technologies like HTML, CSS and JavaScript plus some additional custom components like XUL. One of the advantages of using web technologies for the front end is that it allows rendering the frontend…
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Certificate Transparency in Firefox
Certificate Transparency (CT) has been one of the biggest advancements in web security, keeping users safe from threats such as certificate fraud and…
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Removing XSLT for a more secure browser
Prepare for Chrome deprecating and removing XSLT from the browser.
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Closer to the Metal: Leaving Playwright for CDP
Why we dropped Playwright and switched to raw CDP for faster, more capable browser automation.
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How to self-host a web font from Google Fonts
Here's how to self-host a web font from Google Fonts - Blog-ifyer
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Kagi Assistants
TL;DR Today we're releasing two research assistants: Quick Assistant and Research Assistant (previously named Ki during beta). Kagi's Research Assistant happened to top a popular benchmark (SimpleQA) when we ran it in August 2025. This was...
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Building Modular Rails Applications: A Deep Dive into Rails Engines
A deep dive into Rails engines through Active Storage Dashboard: structure, isolation, routes, assets and testing. Learn to build modular Rails apps.
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HTTP Caching, a Refresher
Let’s relearn web caching together.
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This month in Servo: variable fonts, network tools, SVG
Servo’s biggest month by far, with everything from IndexedDB improvements to favicons in servoshell.
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Auth.js is now part of Better Auth
Auth.js, formerly known as NextAuth.js, is now being maintained and overseen by Better Auth team
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Font-size-adjust Is Useful
In this article, I will describe a recent addition to CSS, the font-size-adjust property. I am also making a bold claim that everyone in the world misunderstands the usefulness of this property, including Google, MDN, and CSS Specification itself. (Just to clarify, no, I am not a web designer and I have no idea what I…
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PeerTube v7.1 Is Out
We're excited to release version 7.1 of PeerTube, which continues to evolve graphically, but also to simplify your discoverability! Let's take a close...
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Mozilla's new terms of use are out of step with Firefox's direct competition
On Wednesday, Mozilla introduced legal updates to users of Firefox, and something feels off. I read, and re-read the new Terms of Use and while much of it reads like standard boilerplate from any tech company, there’s a new section that is unexpected:
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Can your terminal do emojis? How big?
Emojis are great. They're particularly useful to put in the output of scripts and get some eye catching output. At least provided they aren't overused, just like colour.
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The Mozilla Cycle, Part III: Mozilla Dies in Ignominy
Mozilla's new strategy document confirms their position, and the end of their stewardship of the open web.