Best of 2017

The blog posts Hacker News loved most in 2017. 568 posts.

Web & Frontend
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An Update on Firefox Containers

Containers is now available as a Firefox Extension, accessible to all Firefox users. Download Firefox Multi-Account Containers here. Back in June 2016, we started experimenting with “Containers” as a way to explore Contextual Identities on the web. Firefox Containers are a way for users to isolate their online…

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Modern Front-end in Rails

An opinionated guide to modern, modular, component-based approach to handling your presentation logic in Rails that does not depend on any frontend framework. Follow our three-part tutorial to learn the bare minimum of up-to-date frontend techniques by example and finally make sense of it all. Part 1: goodbye Asset…

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The Case for RSS

For several years now, the trend among geeks has been to abandon the RSS format. RSS, or Really Simple Syndication, is a way to queue up and serve content from the internet. The MacSparky RSS, for example, gives RSS applications a list of all the articles I post here since you last checked int. It... Continue reading →