Best of 2013

The blog posts Hacker News loved most in 2013. 857 posts.

Software Engineering
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Knockout v3.0.0 released

Knockout.js takes backward compatibility seriously. If you’re using a recent v2.x build, you will typically be able to drop in Knockout v3.0.0 without having to make any changes to your application code. Version 3.0.0 is intended to be fully backward-compatible except for a few carefully chosen design changes that…

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Trampolines in JavaScript

A trampoline is a loop that iteratively invokes thunk -returning functions ( continuation-passing style ). A single trampoline is sufficient to express all control transfers of a program; a program so expressed is trampolined, or in trampolined style; converting a program to trampolined style is trampolining…