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How we made JSON.stringify more than twice as fast
This post explains our recent effort to improve JSON.stringify performance
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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Hacker News Hug of Deaf
About three years ago, I set up a tiny netcat loop on one of my Debian servers to accept arbitrary connections from the Hacker News (HN) community. The loop ran for 24 hours and did exactly three things whenever a client connected:
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An interactive guide to SVG paths
SVG gives us many different primitives to work with, but by far the most powerful is the element. Unfortunately, it’s also the most inscrutable, with its compact Regex-style syntax. In this tutorial, we’ll demystify this infamous element and see some of the cool things we can do with it!
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The web does not need gatekeepers: Cloudflare’s new “signed agents” pitch
Do you register with Google, Amazon or Microsoft to use the web?
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Aspects of modern HTML/CSS you may not be familiar with
An overview of what makes modern CSS so awesome.
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Japan: Apple Must Lift Browser Engine Ban by December
Readers may recall that Japan recently passed the Smartphone Act, officially the Bill on the Promotion of Competition for Specified Software Used in…
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Tags to make HTML work like you expect
I was watching Alex Petros’ talk and he has a slide in there titled “Incantations that make HTML work correctly”. This got me thinking about the basic snippets…
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Orion 1.0
After six years of relentless development, Orion for MacOS 1.0 is here. What started as a vision initiated by our founder, Vladimir Prelovac, has now come to fruition on Mac, iPhone, and iPad. Today, Orion for...
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Servo's progress in 2024
Summary of Servo’s progress in 2024: some numbers, main highlights and plans for the future.
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Google de-indexed Bear Blog and I don't know why
Preamble: The whole affair is Google’s fault and not Bear Blog’s. Huge thanks to Herman—Bear Blog’s founder and dev—for his patience and help. A month afte...
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Introducing command And commandfor In HTML
Learn about the new capabilities for declarative behavior on buttons.
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Ruby website redesigned
A Programmer's Best Friend
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Don't Download Apps
The personal blog of Caleb Jay Rogers, Software Engineer
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HTTP/3 is everywhere but nowhere
HTTP/3 has been in development since at least 2016, while QUIC (the protocol beneath it) was first introduced by Google way back in 2013. Both are now...
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The Future Is Niri
The worst "street-cred" I have is that I've been using tiling window managers for thirty-five percent of my life: five years with Sway and two...
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Figma Slides Is a Beautiful Disaster
Some highlights and lowlights.
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Rendering Crispy Text on the GPU
Rubén Osorio’s blog
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You might not need WebSockets
Websockets are powerful tools that have become a fan-favorite for building realtime applications, but you might be using them for all the wrong reasons. Let's explore the pitfalls of websockets and how we can use plain old HTTP to get the same job done.
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Where it's at://
From handles to hosting.
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The recently lost file upload feature in the Nextcloud app for Android
Discover why Nextcloud file uploads for Android app are not working properly, and how Google’s app store rules are hurting Nextcloud users.
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Improving recommendation systems and search in the age of LLMs
Model architectures, data generation, training paradigms, and unified frameworks inspired by LLMs.
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macOS 26 Tahoe's Dead Canary Utility App Icons
These are the not the work of carpenters who care about the backs of the cabinets they’re building. These icons are so bad, they look like the work of untrained “How hard can it be?” dilettante carpenters who only last a few days on the job before sawing off one of their own fingers.
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Python on the Edge: Fast, sandboxed, and powered by WebAssembly
With AI workloads on the rise, the demand for Python support on WebAssembly on the Edge has grown rapidly. However, bringing Python to WebAssembly isn'...
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Web Browsers have stopped blocking pop-ups
If you were an Internet user for a few years on either side of the turn of the millennium, you will remember pop-up advertisements.
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FediMeteo: A €4 FreeBSD VPS Became a Global Weather Service
How a simple idea turned into an international weather service on the Fediverse.
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Celebrating 20 Years of MDN
MDN turns 20! Let's look at how we started, how MDN became the most trusted resource for web developers, the impact it's had on the open web, and yes, there's cake, too.
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Overengineered Anchor Links
Learn about the overengineered anchoring pattern, a technique to improve the user experience of scrollable content.
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Why can't HTML alone do includes?
Is there a perfectly clear and reasonable answer? Or could we get this someday?