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COSMIC DE: Desktop environment created for Pop!_OS and other Linux distros
Updates on wallpapers, windows, scaling, and text handling from System76’s new desktop environment, COSMIC DE.
Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 552 posts.
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Discouraging the use of web application firewalls
Mac's Tech Blog
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Comparing Adobe Firefly, Dalle-2, and OpenJourney
“🔄 Update: after posting this on HN, some commenters provided Stable Diffusion and Midjourney results as well which are now included.” In the recent Photoshop Betas, users are now able...
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Future CSS: State Container Queries
An early look at CSS state queries.
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High-performance tidy trees visualization (2022)
This article introduces the algorithm to draw non-layered trees in linear time and re-layout partially when some nodes change in O(d) time, where d is the maximum depth of the changed node.
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Flashing elements alienate users
Warning: This post might give vulnerable people new sensory sensitivities
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Connect() – a new API for creating TCP sockets from Cloudflare Workers
Today, we are excited to announce a new API in Cloudflare Workers for creating outbound TCP sockets, making it possible to connect directly to databases and any TCP-based service from Workers
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CSS Is Fun Again
CSS has been undergoing a quiet renaissance lately. Lots of big features which previously required an external tool to use, are now native parts of the language, and its growing more and more all the time…
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Every person on the planet should have their own website
Every person on the planet should have their own website, on their own domain name, and blog about whatever they want.
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Kagi finally let me lay Google Search to rest
Google Search is dead to me. Here's how and why Kagi's high quality results and compelling value proposition allowed me to fully make the switch.
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Purchase and manage domains directly through Bluesky
We’re excited to announce a new feature that allows users to seamlessly purchase and manage domains directly through Bluesky.
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How does it know I want CSV? – An HTTP trick
Forgotten parts of RFC2616
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A new approach to domain ranking
This is a very brief post announcing a fascinating discovery. It appears to be possible to use the cosine similarity approach powering explore2.marginalia.nu as a substitute for the link graph in an eigenvector-based ranking algorithm (i.e. PageRank). The original PageRank algorithm can be conceptualized as a…
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Firefox rolls out Total Cookie Protection by default to more users
Updated Aug. 28, 2024. Take back your privacy Firefox is rolling out Total Cookie Protection by default to more Firefox users worldwide, making Firefox the
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Goodbye, Node.js Buffer
It’s time to move from Buffer to Uint8Array.
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WebGPU now available for testing in Safari Technology Preview
WebGPU is a new standards-compliant API that enables high-performance 3D graphics and general-purpose computations on the Web.
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More malicious extensions in Chrome Web Store
So far I discovered 18 malicious extensions with 55 million users in total. Most popular ones are: Autoskip for Youtube, Crystal Ad block and Brisk VPN. They have been active for two years, undetected by Google.
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CSS findings from the Threads app
A few interesting CSS findings from the threads app by Meta.
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Notes from building a blog in Django
We launched the Datasette Cloud blog today. The Datasette Cloud site itself is a Django app - it uses Django and PostgreSQL to manage accounts, teams and soon billing and payments, then launches dedicated containers running Datasette for each customer.
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Bubble sort in pure CSS
Imagine you are in an interview and you get asked "can you implement bubble sort"...and you answer...
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Deno 1.33: Deno 2 is coming
Deno 1.33 is a step towards our next major release, with improved LSP support, enhanced Node.js compatibility, and more.
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Demystifying Web Push Notifications
For my recent One Day Build: Expense Tracking project I wanted to enable notifications in a progressive web app. ChatGPT struggled to generate any good code for me, and I also struggled to find any minimal clear explanations online.
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The best WebAssembly runtime may be no runtime
When we think “a fast AOT WebAssembly compiler and runtime”, we typically think about V8, Wasmer, WasmEdge or Wasmtime.
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Google AMP – The Newest of Evasive Phishing Tactic
Author: Dylan DuncanA new phishing tactic utilizing Google...
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Email Authentication: A Developer's Guide
Learn the importance of SPF, DKIM, DMARC, and BIMI in ensuring email delivery.