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Our approach to advertising and expanding access to ChatGPT | OpenAI

Fri, 16 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT

OpenAI introducing ads to ChatGPT. Discuss on Hacker News

Wikipedia at 25

Thu, 15 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Wikipedia turns 25.

I Hate Github Actions with Passion

Wed, 14 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT

'I don’t even remember hating any other piece of technology I used.' - Things that make GitHub Actions painful to work with. Discuss on Hacker News

Code Is Cheap Now. Software Isn’t. — Chris Gregori

Mon, 12 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT

AI has made generating code cheap. Architecture, maintenance, and knowing what to build haven’t gotten easier. Discuss on Hacker News

Apple picks Google's Gemini to run AI-powered Siri coming this year

Mon, 12 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Apple is bringing Google's Gemini to power Siri rather than building their own model. Discuss on Hacker News

Google: Don’t make “bite-sized” content for LLMs if you care about search rank - Ars Technica

Sun, 11 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Google warns that writing short LLM-optimized content can hurt search rankings. Their systems still reward depth. Discuss on Hacker News

Improving the trustworthiness of Javascript on the Web

Fri, 17 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMT

WAICT is a W3C-backed spec for cryptographically verifying JavaScript integrity and consistency. It targets the supply-chain risk from third-party scripts. Discuss on Hacker News

Reflections on 2 Years Running Developer Relations

Mon, 13 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMT

Pedram Navid on running DevRel at Dagster: a three-pillar framework (awareness, engagement, education). Discuss on Hacker News

Good News! Germany's Schleswig-Holstein Completes Massive Migration to Open Source Email Systems

Sun, 12 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMT

Schleswig-Holstein moved ~30,000 employees from Microsoft Exchange to Open-Xchange and Thunderbird in October 2025. Discuss on Hacker News

How a Shared Test Suite Fixed the Web’s Biggest Problems - The New Stack

Wed, 01 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMT

The story of Web Platform Tests (WPT), the ~2-million-test shared suite that transformed browser interoperability over the last decade.

Diff Algorithms - flo.znkr.io

Tue, 30 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMT

A walkthrough of diff algorithm design decisions: API flexibility, multiple operation modes, and performance tradeoffs, using a Go diff library as the example. Discuss on Hacker News

LOADMORE

Mon, 29 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMT

A curated archive of 385 experimental mobile-first website designs, emphasising unconventional interactions and positive friction. Discuss on Hacker News

Chrome DevTools MCP

Sun, 28 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMT

MCP server that lets AI agents control and inspect Chrome for debugging, performance analysis, and automation. Discuss on Hacker News

Why I gave the world wide web away for free | Technology | The Guardian

Sun, 28 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMT

Tim Berners-Lee on releasing the web without patents or royalties. Discuss on Hacker News

SSH3: SSH over HTTP/3

Sat, 27 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMT

An experimental re-implementation of SSH over HTTP/3 and QUIC with modern auth. Discuss on Hacker News

typst/typst: A new markup-based typesetting system that is powerful and easy to learn.

Sat, 27 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMT

The Typst repo: markup-based typesetting with integrated scripting, incremental compilation, and a web editor. Discuss on Hacker News

Typst: a possible LaTeX replacement [LWN.net]

Sat, 27 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMT

An introduction to Typst, a Rust-based typesetting system with simpler syntax, faster compilation, and better error messages than LaTeX. Discuss on Hacker News

Giving users choice with Cloudflare’s new Content Signals Policy

Wed, 24 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMT

An extension to robots.txt letting site owners express preferences for how their content is used: search, AI training, or real-time AI applications. Discuss on Hacker News

vb.lk: vibe link

Wed, 24 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMT

A link containing a natural language query that will redirect to a best guess at the most relevant web destination. Discuss on Hacker News

Python on the Edge: Fast, sandboxed, and powered by WebAssembly · Blog · Wasmer

Wed, 24 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMT

Wasmer Edge now runs Python, including FastAPI, Django, and Streamlit, on WebAssembly infrastructure with near-native performance. Discuss on Hacker News

PayPal Ushers in a New Era of Peer-to-Peer Payments

Sun, 21 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMT

PayPal soon to allow P2P Bitcoin, Ethereum, PYUSD, transfers.

Hosting a Website on a Disposable Vape

Sun, 21 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMT

Can you host a website on a vape? I guess you can! Discuss on Hacker News

NotebookLM

Sun, 21 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMT

"I led design for NotebookLM, shaping the product’s core user experience, brand identity, and visual system from experiment to launch." Discuss on Hacker News

I'm Not a Robot

Sun, 21 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMT

Another horrific, interactive project challenging you to prove you're human. Don't do it. Discuss on Hacker News

Your vs My in User Interfaces

Fri, 19 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMT

Discussion on the semantics of 'your' vs 'my' in UI language and its impact on user perception. Discuss on Hacker News

Apple's Private CSS Liquid Glass Effect

Wed, 17 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMT

There's a hidden CSS property to create liquid glass effects in WebKit-based browsers. Discuss on Hacker News

GitHub Actions AI Labeler & Moderator

Mon, 15 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMT

GitHub have a new inference API they're rolling out with demos that run issues and PRs through GitHub Models for AI moderation.

Changing ruby-overhang values does not trigger layout (WebKit Bug #295694)

Wed, 03 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMT

I found a bug in Safari where changing CSS ruby-overhang values weren't triggering layout. It got fixed already, so that's cool.

Pull Request Files-Changed Public Preview Experience (Aug 21)

Mon, 01 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMT

'Files changed' view gets a new look and some new features.

The Architecture of Open Source Applications

Thu, 28 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMT

Open-source book exploring case studies of large software systems and their structure. Discuss on Hacker News

Teletext in North America

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMT

History and culture of teletext services in the U.S./Canada. Discuss on Hacker News

HN Overlooked Posts - Find Recent Hidden Gems

Tue, 19 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMT

A tool designed to surface HackerNews threads that flew under the radar. Discuss on Hacker News

You no longer need JavaScript

Sat, 16 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMT

Author here argues that most sites (or features) can be built with little to no JavaScript. Discuss on Hacker News

Make Your Website Conversational for People and Agents with NLWeb and AutoRAG

Wed, 13 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMT

Cloudflare are promising 'One-Click to Make Your Site Conversational' with tooling that combines RAG and natural-language query support via NLWeb. This simplifies the process of adding an AI-powered search or chat layer to web projects because you don't need to build or manage multiple complex systems.

Intel Files Patent for Software-Defined Super-Cores

Sun, 10 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMT

Interesting patent that suggests CPUs could reconfigure cores dynamically under software control. Discuss on Hacker News

Thoughts on (Amazonian) Leadership

Thu, 07 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMT

Critique and reflections on leadership principles at Amazon and what they mean in practice. Discuss on Hacker News

Google Chrome at 17 - A history of our browser

Mon, 04 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMT

Addy Osmani reflects on Chrome history and possible futures. Discuss on Hacker News

Things you can do with a debugger but not with print debugging

Fri, 01 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMT

Debuggers vs traditional print-based debugging and how they improve introspection. Discuss on Hacker News

Doomscrolling: The Game

Fri, 25 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMT

Passive feed consumption is the game mechanic here. Discuss on Hacker News

JiraTUI

Tue, 22 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMT

Experience the pleasure of Jira right from your terminal! Discuss on Hacker News

The rise of async programming

Sat, 19 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMT

'Async' here is used by the author to describe handing off work to an AI agent and coming back later to evaluate the results. Discuss on Hacker News

Stations & Transfers

Wed, 16 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMT

Visual catalogue / topology of European public transit stations and transfers. Discuss on Hacker News

TwoSlice

Sat, 12 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMT

A font that's **2px tall** that's also somehow still (somewhat) readable. Discuss on Hacker News

Picket Right font

Wed, 09 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMT

A font that's **2px wide** but still (somewhat) readable. Discuss on Hacker News

Writing Code Was Never The Bottleneck

Sat, 05 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMT

The cost of creating code is approaching zero. Have costs of code shifted somewhere else? Discuss on Hacker News

Four different ways to speed up your code

Sat, 05 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMT

How to apply performance practices; eliminating redundant calculations, using a compiled language, leveraging parallelism, and optimizing process management. Discuss on Hacker News

Single pull request for Dependabot (multi-ecosystem support)

Wed, 02 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMT

Another fancy way to group noisy PRs from the bot you hate to love.

Figma Registration Statement for Proposed IPO

Wed, 02 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMT

Figma stonks about to go brr. Discuss on Hacker News

From Googlebot to GPTBot: who's crawling your site in 2025

Tue, 01 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMT

Analyzing recent trends in web crawling, which now has a crucial and complex new role with the rise of AI. Discuss on Hacker News

Introducing pay per crawl: enabling content owners to charge AI crawlers for access

Tue, 01 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMT

Could this model offset some of the impact of AI scrapers/training? Discuss on Hacker News

CodeQL support for Rust now in public preview

Tue, 01 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMT

Make your super safe code even safer for the laugh. Discuss on Hacker News

What Does a Post-Google Internet Look Like

Tue, 01 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMT

"With the rise of the internet came the need to find information more quickly. The concept of search engines came into this space to fill this need, with a relatively basic initial design." Discuss on Hacker News

The new Search Console Insights report is here

Mon, 30 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMT

Google is starting to roll out a new UI for exploring search console performance.

Bloom Filters by Example

Sun, 29 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMT

A Bloom filter is a data structure designed to tell you whether an element is present in a set. You can use Bloom filters for many use cases and they often have outsized performance impact on your projects when used appropriately. Discuss on Hacker News

An AI model with a finger on the time series pulse

Sun, 29 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMT

IBM have built a new AI model for time series for forecasting, backfilling missing data, classification, and pattern detection.

A short history of web bots and bot detection techniques

Sat, 28 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMT

Overview of modern bot detection techniques, covering everything from basic bot behavior and IP reputation to advanced fingerprinting (TCP, TLS, JavaScript), proxy detection methods, headless browser detection, CAPTCHA strategies, and behavioral analysis. Discuss on Hacker News

Improved pull request files changed experience now in public preview

Fri, 27 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMT

There's some fancy new stuff on the pull request files page. You can try out the public preview now.

Finding Dead Websites @ marginalia.nu

Thu, 19 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMT

"This post details the implementation of a system for detecting when servers are online, to avoid serving dead links and improve data quality, and for detecting when websites have significant changes including ownership transfers and parking." Discuss on Hacker News

How the GitHub CLI can now enable triangular workflows

Wed, 18 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMT

The GitHub CLI now supports Git configurations used in triangular workflows. Explore triangular workflows, how they function, and how to set them up for your projects. Discuss on Hacker News

Resources and Tools

Wed, 18 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMT

Front-end development tools and guides, including a color contrast checker, a CSS specificity calculator, an HTML form inspector, and a guide to CSS media queries.

no hello

Tue, 17 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMT

"Please dont say just hello in chat." Discuss on Hacker News

Spurious Correlations

Mon, 16 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMT

Excellent diagrams illustrating that correlation is not causation. Discuss on Hacker News

Year 2038 problem

Sun, 01 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMT

The year 2038 problem (a.k.a. Y2038, Y2K38, or the Epochalypse) is a time computing problem that leaves some computer systems unable to represent times after 03:14:07 UTC on 19 January 2038. Discuss on Hacker News

Internet Phone Book

Sun, 01 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMT

"An annual publication for exploring the vast poetic web, featuring essays, musings and a directory with the personal websites of hundreds of designers, developers, writers, curators, and educators. Published since 2025." Discuss on Hacker News

Push Ifs Up And Fors Down

Thu, 29 May 2025 00:00:00 GMT

A short note on two related rules of thumb. Discuss on Hacker News

JavaScript's New Superpower: Explicit Resource Management

Thu, 29 May 2025 00:00:00 GMT

The Explicit Resource Management proposal introduces a deterministic approach to explicitly manage the lifecycle of resources like file handles, network connections, and more. Discuss on Hacker News

Important Changes are Coming to Glitch

Thu, 22 May 2025 00:00:00 GMT

We've got an important update for the Glitch community today: We'll be ending web hosting for your apps on Glitch. In this message, we'll explain what that means for you and for the Glitch community. Discuss on Hacker News

Now you can watch the Internet Archive preserve documents in real time

Mon, 19 May 2025 00:00:00 GMT

The feed offers a close-up look of how microfiche — the sheets of films that store multiple documents — are digitized and uploaded to the Archive. Discuss on Hacker News

Stack overflow is almost dead

Sun, 18 May 2025 00:00:00 GMT

The fall of the once-great Q&A platform has steeply accelerated with number of new questions asked slumped to levels last seen when Stack Overflow launched in 2009. Discuss on Hacker News

ARIA collection

Sun, 18 May 2025 00:00:00 GMT

"I made a collection of 100+ CodePens related to ARIA. It's neither polished nor a collection of best practices. Just some examples for testing most (all?) properties, states, and roles. This could be something for your bookmarks." Manuel Matuzović

An interactive guide to color & contrast

Sat, 17 May 2025 00:00:00 GMT

A comprehensive guide for exploring and learning about the theory, science, and perception of color and contrast. Discuss on Hacker News

XKCD's "Is It Worth the Time?" Considered Harmful

Fri, 16 May 2025 00:00:00 GMT

Automating the easy things is how you build the skills, mindset, and muscle-memory to automate the hard things. Discuss on Hacker News

Ports that are blocked by browsers

Wed, 14 May 2025 00:00:00 GMT

This address is restricted. This address uses a network port which is normally used for purposes other than Web browsing. Firefox has canceled the request for your protection. Discuss on Hacker News

Plain Vanilla

Sun, 11 May 2025 00:00:00 GMT

An explainer for doing web development using only vanilla techniques. No tools, no frameworks — just HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Discuss on Hacker News

The 512KB Club

Thu, 08 May 2025 00:00:00 GMT

The 512KB Club is a collection of performance-focused web pages from across the Internet. Discuss on Hacker News

From: Steve Jobs. "Great idea, thank you."

Tue, 06 May 2025 00:00:00 GMT

Brief, direct feedback from Steve Jobs. Discuss on Hacker News

Launch HN: Exa (YC S21) – The web as a database

Tue, 06 May 2025 00:00:00 GMT

Exa Websets [is] an embeddings-powered search engine designed to return exactly what you're asking for. For example, get results for complex queries like “all startups working on open-source developer tools based in SF, founded 2021-2025”.

Interop Unites Browser Makers To Smooth Web Inconsistencies

Wed, 30 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMT

Coordinating enhancements to inconsistent browser implementations.

You Wouldn't Download a Hacker News. (TLDR: I Did Download It)

Wed, 30 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMT

And here's how it's done. Discuss on Hacker News

Wasm 2.0 Completed

Sun, 27 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMT

As of December 2024, release 2.0 of the Wasm specification is “official”! Discuss on Hacker News

Darwin's Children Drew All Over the On The Origin of Species Manuscript

Thu, 17 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMT

Some aspects of life will never change. Discuss on Hacker News

Restructuring Announcement

Wed, 02 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMT

Automattic laying off 16% of employees (280 people). Discuss on Hacker News