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Web & Frontend

The most popular blog posts about web & frontend on Hacker News. 338 posts.

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Mobile Multitasking

In the traditional model, the primary priority is keeping everything open. In this new model, the primary priority is that the system must always be responsive to the user.

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Google's VP8 video codec (and ffmpeg)

Now that the hype is over, let's talk the real deal. How good is Google's VP8 video codec? Since "multiple independent implementations help a standard mature quicker and become more useful to its users", me and others (David for the decoder core and PPC optimizations, Jason for x86 optimizations) decided that we…