Best of 2018

The blog posts Hacker News loved most in 2018. 244 posts.

Web & Frontend
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Repl.it Multiplayer

Today we're announcing the most-significant evolution of our platform — something we've been building towards for a long time that we're thrilled to share with you. Introducing Multiplayer: code with friends in the same editor, execute programs in the same interpreter, interact with the same terminal, chat in the IDE…

42

Firefox 60 released

Firefox 60 offers something for everyone and a little something extra for everyone who deploys Firefox in an enterprise environment . This release includes changes that give you more content and more ways to customize your New Tab/Firefox Home. It also introduces support for the Web Authentication API, which means you…

49

Firefox 59 released

If you’re a regular reader of Firefox release notes (and thank you if you are!) you’re probably aware of just how much we’ve invested in the performance of Firefox Quantum . We launched an entirely new engine in November , made significant improvements to graphics rendering in January , and are continuing to post…

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Microsoft Edge and open source collaboration

For the past few years, Microsoft has meaningfully increased participation in the open source software (OSS) community, becoming one of the world’s largest supporters of OSS projects. Today we’re announcing that we intend to adopt the Chromium open source project in the development of Microsoft Edge on the desktop to…

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Firefox 58

With this release, we’re building on the great foundation provided by our all-new Firefox Quantum browser . We're optimizing the performance gains we released in 57 by improving the way we render graphics and cache JavaScript. We also made functional and privacy improvements to Firefox Screenshots. On Firefox for…