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The most popular blog posts about web & frontend on Hacker News. 267 posts.

2021
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Showing GUIs from Shell Scripts

Ever written a quick (shell) script to automate a small task at some point? Then that script grew over the years and perhaps ended up in the hands of way more users than you originally anticipated? If you were lucky enough to experience this, maybe you wondered: Wouldn't it be nice to have a GUI for that script?

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Browsers eating RAM

This got a lot more attention than it deserves. As I'm pointing out below, it's likely the case that the system tool I used for measuring memory footprint isn't giving the full picture. It's also not a very indicative test in terms of every day use. However, I do think the reason this resonated with so many people is…

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HATEOAS: An Alternative Explaination

In this essay, Carson Gross explores HATEOAS (Hypermedia as the Engine of Application State), explaining how it enables REST APIs through hypermedia responses and contrasting it with modern JSON-based APIs. Using clear HTML examples, Carson demonstrates how HATEOAS allows clients to discover available actions…