Best of 2014

The blog posts Hacker News loved most in 2014. 217 posts.

Web & Frontend
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Effectively Managing Memory at Gmail Scale

While JavaScript employs garbage collection for automatic memory management, it is not a substitute for effective memory management in applications. JavaScript applications suffer from the same memory related problems that native applications do, such as memory leaks and bloat, yet they must also deal with garbage…

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Build hybrid apps with the Ionic Creator

By now, the cat’s out of the bag on Ionic Creator, our upcoming drag-and-drop development tool for building beautiful hybrid apps with Ionic and AngularJS. For those that have been following our company‘s history over the last few years, you know that we have a passion for making development simpler and faster through…