Best of 2020

The blog posts Hacker News loved most in 2020. 250 posts.

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Up to 4GB of Memory in WebAssembly

Thanks to recent work in Chrome and Emscripten, you can now use up to 4GB of memory in WebAssembly applications. That’s up from the previous limit of 2GB. It might seem odd that there was ever a limit - after all, no work was needed to allow people to use 512MB or 1GB of memory! - but it turns out that there are some…