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Analyzing One Million Robots.txt Files
Insights gathered from analyzing the robots.txt files of Alexa's top one million domains.
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Web & Frontend
The most popular blog posts about web & frontend on Hacker News. 3,855 posts.
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Firefox 56: Last Stop Before Quantum
Here at Mozilla, we’re extremely excited about next month’s release of Firefox Quantum, with massive speed improvements, a brand new UI, and many Developer Tools upgrades -- available now in ...
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Testing Cliqz in Firefox
About a year ago, Mozilla announced a strategic investment in Cliqz GmbH, the Munich, Germany-based provider of search and privacy tools. Today, we want to tell you about an important ...
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A planned EU regulation about website certificates is causing concern
Feisty Duck’s Cryptography & Security Newsletter is a periodic dispatch bringing you commentary and news surrounding cryptography, security, privacy, SSL/TLS, and PKI. It's designed to keep you informed about the latest developments in this space. Enjoyed every month by more than 50,000 subscribers. Written by Hanno…
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Whatsapp: Video Calling
Our goal at WhatsApp has always been to help as many people as possible stay in touch with friends, family, and others they care about. That means making a product that’s simple, easy to use, and accessible no matter where you are. We started with messaging and Group Chat. Then we added voice calling. And we did it in…
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Chrome 89 Beta: advanced hardware interactions, web sharing on desktop
Unless otherwise noted, changes described below apply to the newest Chrome beta channel release for Android, Chrome OS, Linux, macOS, and Wi...
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Django 1.9 alpha 1 released
Posted by Tim Graham on Sept. 23, 2015
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Is It Time for the JavaScript Temporal API?
Date handling in JavaScript is a pain, it's time for a proper Temporal API
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Markdown in /src
In this essay, Carson Gross argues that Markdown is now an important source artifact for software systems built with LLMs, and that, following the principle of locality, it should live in /src, alongside the code it produces.
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React Router v5
React Corporate Workshops, Training, and Consulting
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GitHub Pages with a custom root domain is slow
GitHub Pages with a custom root domain is terribly slow. It will make 35% of your visitors go away.
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Firefox 49 fixes sites designed with WebKit in mind, and more
Several recent articles on the Hacks blog explain why web developers should care about cross-browser compatibility and how great web developers achieve it. Web developers have a critical role in ...
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Don't publicly expose .git (2015)
Sebastian participated in a CTF (capture the flag) a couple of months ago. One challenge he faced was the task of restoring a git repository from a …
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Turnstile: privacy-preserving alternative to CAPTCHA by Cloudflare
Any website can use a simple API to replace CAPTCHAs with our invisible alternative, whether they’re on the Cloudflare network or not.
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Swagger is now the OpenAPI Specification
A while back I wrote an OSS Spotlight post about the Swagger project. In short, Swagger is “the world’s most popular API tooling”. It’s a powerful open source framework back…
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How JPEG XL compares to other image codecs
The JPEG XL is a powerful codec – find out how it compares to other codecs, including JPEG XL vs HEIC and JPEG XL vs JPEG.
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Malvertising on Microsoft Edge's news feed pushes tech support scams
While Google Chrome still dominates as the top browser, Microsoft Edge, which is based on the Chromium source code, is gradually gaining more...
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WP Engine is banned from WordPress.org
Pending their legal claims and litigation against WordPress.org, WP Engine no longer has free access to WordPress.org’s resources.
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Securing your API: a modern alternative to CSRF tokens
Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) allows an attacker to make unauthorized requests on behalf of a user. We tackle CSRFs while allowing a subset of Cross-Origin requests.
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PeerTube 5.1
Version 5.1 of PeerTube has been released! On the menu: moderation of account creation, a button to resume live broadcasting, improved management of e...
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Compression efficiency with shared dictionaries in Chrome
Compression on the web is getting a big boost from shared dictionary compression. Learn what they are, how they work, and how they could substantially reduce load times even further than standard compression for both static and dynamic resources on the web.
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A Proposal for Type Syntax in JavaScript
Today we're excited to announce our support and collaboration on a new Stage 0 proposal to bring optional and erasable type syntax to JavaScript. Because