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Servo 2025 Stats
Some numbers about the evolution of the Servo project and its community during the last years.
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Web & Frontend
The most popular blog posts about web & frontend on Hacker News. 8,467 posts.
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What else do people draw on gradient.horse?
Since gradient.horse went online in January 2026, six months have passed, and more than 600 000 horses (and non-horses) were drawn. There are now more horses on gradient.horse than in the wild. The image model I trained to filter out vandalism works very well, but it also hides a lot of ingenious drawings. You could…
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Ember.js 2.7 and 2.8 beta released
Ember.js 2.7, a minor version release of Ember with backwards compatible changes, is released today. Ember.js 2.8 beta is also being released today. This branch will be released as...
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Brave launches private search ads
Starting today, Brave Search will feature privacy-preserving ads as part of a global beta program.
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New autoplay policy in Chrome
Google Chrome’s new autoplay policy on desktop reduces unwanted audio.
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The Pretty JSON Revolution
Wouldn't it be nice if more JSON tools supported a truly pretty JSON format? Demand options for truly pretty JSON now! Viva la revolucion!
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Superhuman: Read Statuses
I’m Rahul Vohra, founder and CEO of Superhuman. I’d like to talk about what Superhuman does, why we do it, and what we are changing.
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Less Htmx Is More
How to build great websites with htmx by learning a couple browser features alongside it.
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Enlisting in the Fight Against Link Rot
Google is killing a decade of its shortened links. Will you enlist in the fight against link rot?
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State of Bootstrap 4 vs. Foundation
Bootstrap 4 and Foundation 6 are the latest versions of the most widely used CSS frameworks out there. Foundation 6 is stable whereas Bootstrap 4 hasn’t been released yet. However, before you wonder why I am comparing a stable framework version vs an alpha one, let me set the record straight by saying that Bootstrap 4…
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Rails 6 with Webpacker 6, Tailwind 2 with JIT, Postcss 8 and some default setup
It is always nice to follow a detailed guide and steps when building new rails apps. Below is a bit of guidance and step-by-step…
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The saga of the Closure compiler, and why TypeScript won
This post looks at the Closure Compiler, Google's tool from the mid-2000s for adding types to JavaScript. It looks at how its focus on minification led to very different design choices than TypeScript, and how this and a few other factors led to TypeScript becoming the ubiquitous solution for JavaScript + types. The…
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Backbone has made me a better programmer
Andy Appleton is a web developer based in Berkshire, UK.
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PPK: "Apple is not evil. iPhone developers are stupid."
In his “ Apple’s mistake ” essay Paul Graham makes an unwarranted assumption; an assumption everybody who’s currently involved in the Great App Store Debate seems to be making.
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Popular Google Chrome extensions are constantly tracking you by default
Popular Google Chrome extensions are constantly tracking you per default, making it very difficult or impossible for you to opt-out.
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Millions of email addresses leaking to advertising and analytics companies
Breaches have been found on websites including Wish.com, JetBlue.com, Quibi.com, WashingtonPost.com, NGPVan.com and numerous other…
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Material UI v1 for React is out
React components that implement Google’s Material Design.
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NYTimes Opensources Their Deep Linking JS
We’ve released an update to “Emphasis,” the feature that enables paragraph-specific anchor links and highlighted text. We’re also putting the source on GitHub for everyone to use.
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What gets to the front page of Hacker News?
I categorized the top 30 on Hacker News for a month. You will believe what I found
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Increasing the surface area of blogging
Open feeds, OPML, books, blogs and graphs