Best of 2017

The blog posts Hacker News loved most in 2017. 526 posts.

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Hello WebAssembly

We have been experimenting with a couple of approaches to bring Mono to the web using WebAssembly - a technology that can efficiently and safely execute code in web browsers without being limited to Javascript. Running code written in C or C++ inside the browser has been a big motivator, but most major programming…