Best of 2017

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

Web & Frontend
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Writing a Service Worker

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WebAssembly Raytracer

While teaching a web development class, I wanted to present some benchmarks that show the performance benefits of asm.js as well as WebAssembly. I was unfortunately not able to find a suitable reference. Therefore, I implemented a simplistic raytracer in JavaScript as well as in C++ with a similar code structure while…