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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 499 posts.
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DoubleClickjacking: A New type of web hacking technique
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Use DuckDB-WASM to query TB of data in browser
The Library Innovation Lab is growing knowledge and community by bringing library principles to technological frontiers.
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Build a link blog like Simon Willison
Achieving Data Freedom Through Open Source and Rust
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Why is GitHub UI getting slower?
Matyáš Racek's blog
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Malware found in official gravityforms plugin indicating supply chain breach
Update 7-12-2025 06:00 UTC: We have observed some activity in regard to one of the backdoors that involves a gf_api_token parameter. The IP address 193.160.101.
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Hyperlight WASM: Fast, secure, and OS-free
We're announcing the release of Hyperlight Wasm: a Hyperlight virtual machine “micro-guest” that can run wasm component workloads written in many programming languages. Learn more.
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<Blink> and <Marquee> (2020)
Dan explores the history of two (much-maligned) HTML tags of the yesterweb. With blinking marquees!
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Customizable HTML Select
An early look at the new customizable select feature.
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Mac Themes Garden
A website for old Macintosh themes and some background.
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Discovering the indieweb with calm tech
Blog Quest and StreetPass help you discover the independent web
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Window Activation
You click a link in your chat app, your browser with a hundred tabs comes to the front and opens that page. How hard can it be? Well, you probably know by now that Wayland, unlike X, doesn’t let one application force its idiot wishes on everyone else. In order for an application to bring its window to the front, it…
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Look, Another AI Browser
Yesterday, OpenAI announced Atlas, its AI browser. To the surprise of literally nobody, it’s Chromium with AI slapped on top. Perplexity also has a …
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Why the open social web matters now
The needs are real – and you have so much power.
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30 years of <br> tags
Three decades of making things on the internet
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This website has no class
Going “full CSS Zen Garden” with modern CSS.
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AMP and why emails are not (and should never be) interactive
Google's AMP for Email promised interactive, dynamic messages. Why senders and email clients rejected it, and why email should never be interactive.
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A flowing WebGL gradient, deconstructed
An introduction to writing WebGL shaders using gradient noise and cool math.
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The time is right for a DOM templating API
Update: See my follow up post, What should a native DOM templating API look like? .
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Selfish reasons for building accessible UIs
All web developers know, at some level, that accessibility is important. But when push comes to shove, it can be hard to prioritize it above a bazillion other…
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Knowing CSS is mastery to front end development
There are countless articles why developers should not focus on Frameworks too much and instead learn to understand the underlying languages. But I think rarely we can find good reasons except that Frameworks come and go. To me, the main reason is different: You won’t be a master at frontend development if you don’t…
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Incapacitating Google Tag Manager (2022)
Drilling beneath the hype to expose the truth
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We’ll be ending web hosting for your apps on Glitch
We’ve got an important update for the Glitch community today: We’ll be ending web hosting for your apps on Glitch.
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Why we built Lightpanda in Zig
We chose Zig over C++ and Rust because we wanted a simple, modern systems language. Here's what we learned building a browser with it.
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The FAIR Package Manager: Decentralized WordPress infrastructure
In December, I wrote about the state of leadership in the WordPress ecosystem. I shared how too much power rests with one person, and how the lack of transparen
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Disable AI in Firefox
Quick reference for how to turn off AI features in Firefox
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Aggressive bots ruined my weekend
The web-scraping arm race continues