Best of 2012

The blog posts Hacker News loved most in 2012. 114 posts.

Design & UX
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Animated GIFs the Hard Way

When doing the new website for the Sublime Text 2.0 launch, instead of just screenshots, I wanted to have animations to demonstrate some of its features. One of the criteria was that the animations should work everywhere, from IE6 to an iPad. This ruled out two common video options, Flash and the <video> element…