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The most popular blog posts about web & frontend on Hacker News. 8,469 posts.
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Django 1.1 release candidate available
Posted by James Bennett on July 21, 2009
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Critical Security Vulnerability in React Server Components
The library for web and native user interfaces
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Putting What Little We Actually Know About Chrome OS Into Context
The future of computing probably is in the direction of thin clients connecting to network services for storage and software, but my hunch is that Chrome OS is too thin.
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iReddit: The official Reddit iPhone app arrives
Get the latest product news, company announcements, and user insights from the official Reddit blog.
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High Performance Web Sites: Crockford, webhosting, online dating, JSON, alert
Wow, Doug added an alert() to http://www.json.org/json2.js which just alerted a LOT of people on the Internet. Proving a point on hotlinks?
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Public key pinning coming in Chrome 13
Starting with Chrome 13, we'll have HTTPS pins for most Google properties. This means that certificate chains for, say, https://www.google.com , must include a whitelisted public key. It's a fatal error otherwise. Credit goes to my colleague, Chris Evans, for much of this.
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5M+ Wordpress sites use “Classic Editor” plugin
Enables the previous "classic" editor and the old-style Edit Post screen with TinyMCE, Meta Boxes, etc. Supports all plugins that extend this screen.
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Rails versus Django
Stress free and easy shopping experience. Simple and speedy service.
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Reddit, Stumbleupon, Del.icio.us and Hacker News Algorithms Exposed
It is greatly ironic that algorithms, the quintessential example of all that is not human, would be so fundamental to social media. Last week I wrote a post about how Google gathers user data. This week I continue by exposing how popular social media websites use algorithms to ut...
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Why I still prefer Prototype to jQuery
Like most programmers who’ve done Rails development, I’ve become very familiar with the Prototype library for JavaScript. Even apart from being b...
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Patch to fix RSS feed for News.YC
I’m an avid reader of news.yc , but it’s annoyed me for some time that the RSS feed is rather broken. So, I decided to dust off my Lisp skills and give it a go. The biggest chunk was adding code to do conversion from UNIX timestamps to UTC in Arc. Significant stuff that works now:
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Making Rails 12X Faster
They told you it can't be done, they told you it has no scale. They told you lies! What if you suddenly had the ability to serve mutliple co...
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Stop Password Masking
Usability suffers when users type in passwords and the only feedback they get is a row of bullets. Typically, masking passwords doesn't even increase security, but it does cost you business due to login failures.
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John Resig on TraceMonkey
I’ve been waiting to blog about this for a long time now. A fantastic new improvement to Mozilla’s JavaScript engine (SpiderMonkey) has landed. Code-named TraceMonkey this engine utilizes a techniques, called trace trees (PDF), which adds just-in-time native code compilation to SpiderMonkey.
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The Rails 3 router: Rack it up
In my previous post about generic actions in Rails 3, I made reference to significant improvements in the router. Some of those have been covered on other blogs [http://rizwanreza.com/2009/12/20/revamped-routes-in-rails-3], but the full scope of the improvements hasn't yet been