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You can chat with Copilot in Firefox now - and Windows users get an extra perk

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2025-09-19 21:51:19

Lance Whitney / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Firefox 143 is now available to download. Update includes 2 big changes and other features. It could win back some users who've left. Mozilla is back with another release of Firefox, and this time, some features might make you come back (if you've left). These two features, along with a few other updates and the usual bug fixes, might make Firefox 143 attractive to a cer

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Google’s new Windows desktop app brings a Spotlight-like search bar to PC

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-09-21 21:32:10

is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Google is testing a new search app for Windows. A blog post on Tuesday said the app, currently available on personal accounts via Google’s Search Labs, will allow you to use an Alt + Space shortcut to search for information from the files on your computer, in yo

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Webinar: Your browser is the breach — securing the modern web edge

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-09-22 12:01:08

The web browser has quietly become one of the most critical components of enterprise infrastructure—and one of the most dangerous. On September 29th at 12:00 PM ET, BleepingComputer and SC Media will co-host a live webinar with browser security experts from Push Security, exploring how modern web browsers have become the primary attack surface for identity-based intrusions, SaaS abuse, and session hijacking. The webinar "Your Browser Is the Breach: Securing the Modern Web Edge" will explore th

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I wish my web server were in the corner of my room (2022)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-20 03:05:05

Back in college I used to run part of my website from a Linux box in my room. I made it into a speech synthesiser, and people could connect to the machine to talk into my flat. (Retrospective apologies to my flatmates.) This is way back in 2000 so before smartphones, and before texting, and before always-on internet (college was an exception), and before camera phones or being able to reliably email photos let alone video. Decent text-to-speech still felt novel. We had a friend who was travell

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Disney and Webtoon’s Partnership Is Leading to a Massive New Comics App

gizmodo.com James Whitbrook 2025-09-23 05:15:00

Last month, Webtoon announced a major new deal with Disney to bring a litany of original licensed stories and past comics from across Marvel’s library to the scrolling format that has made Webtoon a significant force in the comics space. Today, however, the two companies confirmed that those plans are actually much, much bigger. Today Webtoon Entertainment confirmed that Disney would be acquiring a 2% equity interest in the company as part of a non-binding term sheet that will also see the two

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Apple has a private CSS property to add Liquid Glass effects to web content

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-24 08:49:00

I have an incredibly boring summer hobby: looking at the changelog for the WebKit Github repo. Why? Because I spend a chunk of my professional life working with webviews inside mobile apps and I like to get an early peek into what's coming in the next version of iOS. Since Tim Cook has yet to stand up at WWDC and announce "one more thing... Service Worker support in WKWebView, provided you add the correct entry to the WKAppBoundDomains array in your Info.plist " (and you know what, he should) ma

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Gemini (2023)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-25 00:04:53

What is Gemini? Gemini is a new way of using the Internet, separate from the World Wide Web you are familiar with. Compared to the WWW, it is intended to be: Simpler – Gemini pages aren’t programs that run in your browser like most modern websites are; they’re just text with a little formatting, so there are no surprises. Once you know how one Gemini page works, you know how they all work. Human Scale – Gemini servers and clients aren’t written by big, monopolistic software companies the way

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Why do browsers throttle JavaScript timers?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-25 20:35:08

Posted August 31, 2025 by Nolan Lawson in performance, Web. Tagged: timers. 9 Comments Even if you’ve been doing JavaScript for a while, you might be surprised to learn that setTimeout(0) is not really setTimeout(0) . Instead, it could run 4 milliseconds later: const start = performance.now() setTimeout(() => { // Likely 4ms console.log(performance.now() - start) }, 0) Nearly a decade ago when I was on the Microsoft Edge team, it was explained to me that browsers did this to avoid “abuse.” I.

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Rails on SQLite: new ways to cause outages

news.ycombinator.com André Arko 2025-09-27 19:58:22

Rails on SQLite: exciting new ways to cause outages This post was originally given as a talk for Friendly.rb. The slides are also available. Between Litestack and the Rails 8 trifecta of Solid Cable, Solid Cache, and Solid Queue, it’s easier than ever to spin up a Rails app that doesn’t need a database service, or a redis service, or a file storage service. It’s great to simplify things, but even after 20 years of deploying Rails apps I was still caught out by some of the ways things are diffe

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Launch HN: Ghostship (YC S25) – AI agents that find bugs in your web app

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-28 01:06:32

Hi HN, we're Jesse and Gautham. We're building Ghostship ( https://tryghostship.dev/ ). Ghostship lets you find bugs in your web app by entering in your URL and describing a user journey. Here's a video of Ghostship in action: https://www.loom.com/share/dec264ae32f94d50adb141c9246837c3?.... For over half our lives, we've been developers and we've done tons of user-facing projects like a coding competition I built called CerealCodes or freelancing projects on Upwork. The biggest problem we fac

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Show HN: Making a cross-platform game in Go using WebRTC Datachannels

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-27 06:30:37

(The following was adapted from a talk I gave at DWeb Weekend 2025 at the Internet Archive in San Francisco on August 17, 2025) Simplifying WebRTC Datachannels for Games First of all, to get some stuff out of the way, instead of using the “super complicated” WebRTC datachannels, why don’t we use something simpler? Why Not Use Websockets? Too slow : Most games use UDP with a reliability layer on top. : Most games use UDP with a reliability layer on top. Suitable for turn-based games : Fine f

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The Rise and Demise of RSS (2018)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-25 04:46:36

This post was originally published on September 16th, 2018. What follows is a revision that includes additional information gleaned from interviews with Ramanathan Guha, Ian Davis, Dan Libby, and Kevin Werbach. A version of this post was also published by Vice News. About a decade ago, the average internet user might well have heard of RSS. Really Simple Syndication, or Rich Site Summary—what the acronym stands for depends on who you ask—is a standard that websites and podcasts can use to offe

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Native ACME support comes to Nginx

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-28 09:28:13

NGINX and Let's Encrypt share a common vision of an open and secure web. Now, with built-in support for ACME, the world's most popular web server, reverse proxy and ingress controller for Kubernetes can simplify certificate management for everyone. From the home lab to scaled-out, mission-critical enterprise deployments. Our ideal has always been that server software could get and renew Let’s Encrypt certificates automatically, with minimal human intervention. Over time, more and more web serv

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The Rise and Demise of RSS

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-25 19:46:36

This post was originally published on September 16th, 2018. What follows is a revision that includes additional information gleaned from interviews with Ramanathan Guha, Ian Davis, Dan Libby, and Kevin Werbach. A version of this post was also published by Vice News. About a decade ago, the average internet user might well have heard of RSS. Really Simple Syndication, or Rich Site Summary—what the acronym stands for depends on who you ask—is a standard that websites and podcasts can use to offe

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Google Says the Open Web Is Now in "Rapid Decline"

futurism.com Unknown 2025-09-30 04:17:29

In a major change in tune, Google has admitted that the "open web is already in rapid decline" — despite being adamant for months that the "web is thriving." As first spotted by The Verge, the tech giant attempted to dissuade regulators from breaking up its advertising tech business, arguing that doing so would harm publishers who rely on advertising revenue. Google argued that splitting up its ad business would "only accelerate" the open web's disintegration ahead of an antitrust trial in a D

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AI's free web scraping days may be over, thanks to this new licensing protocol

zdnet.com Steven Vaughan-Nichols 2025-10-01 09:48:00

iweta0077/iStock/Getty Images Plus Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Media companies announced a new web protocol: RSL. RSL aims to put publishers back in the driver's seat. The RSL Collective will attempt to set pricing for content. AI companies are capturing as much content as possible from websites while also extracting information. Now, several heavyweight publishers and tech companies -- Reddit, Yahoo, People, O'Reilly Media, Medium, and Ziff

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A cryptography expert on how Web3 started, and how it’s going

news.ycombinator.com Dina Genkina 2025-10-01 15:47:44

The term Web3 was originally coined by Etherium cofounder Gavin Wood as a secure, decentralized, peer-to-peer version of the Internet. The idea was to build an Internet based on blockchain technology and a peer-to-peer network, without the need for large data centers or third-party providers. These days, however, blockchain is most famous as the tool enabling cryptocurrencies. Most recently, the Trump administration has taken on a pro-cryptocurrency stance, boosting blockchain’s popularity and m

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The Dying Dream of a Decentralized Web

news.ycombinator.com Dina Genkina 2025-10-02 16:47:44

The term Web3 was originally coined by Etherium cofounder Gavin Wood as a secure, decentralized, peer-to-peer version of the Internet. The idea was to build an Internet based on blockchain technology and a peer-to-peer network, without the need for large data centers or third-party providers. These days, however, blockchain is most famous as the tool enabling cryptocurrencies. Most recently, the Trump administration has taken on a pro-cryptocurrency stance, boosting blockchain’s popularity and m

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In court filing, Google concedes the open web is in “rapid decline”

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-05 01:29:40

Is the web thriving or faltering? Google has an unexpected take in a new legal filing. Google is heading back to court soon in hopes of convincing a judge that it should not have to split up its ad business. The company lost its adtech antitrust case earlier this year, and now it's up to the court to decide on remedies for the illegal conduct. In its response to the DOJ's requested remedies, Google made a startling claim: "The fact is that today, the open web is already in rapid decline." Googl

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Google admits the open web is in ‘rapid decline’

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-10-05 13:50:20

is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. For months, Google has maintained that the web is “thriving,” AI isn’t tanking traffic, and its search engine is sending people to a wider variety of websites than ever. But in a court filing from last week, Google admitted that “the open web is already in rapid

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Google gets away almost scot-free in US search antitrust case

news.ycombinator.com More This Author 2025-10-05 17:32:46

What was Judge Amit Mehta thinking? When he ruled a year ago that Google violated the Sherman Antitrust Act by stifling search competition, we thought Google was truly in hot water. Boy, were we wrong! After Mehta’s initial ruling, the Department of Justice (DoJ) demanded that Google divest itself of the Chrome web browser and/or the Android operating system, and also be blocked from exclusive distribution contracts that had placed Google Search as the default on almost all devices and web brow

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Campfire: Web-Based Chat Application

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-06 10:40:55

Campfire Campfire is web-based chat application. It supports many of the features you'd expect, including: Multiple rooms, with access controls Direct messages File attachments with previews Search Notifications (via Web Push) @mentions API, with support for bot integrations Campfire is single-tenant: any rooms designated "public" will be accessible by all users in the system. To support entirely distinct groups of customers, you would deploy multiple instances of the application. Runn

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The "impossibly small" Microdot web framework

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-06 04:38:30

The "impossibly small" Microdot web framework Benefits for LWN subscribers The primary benefit from subscribing to LWN is helping to keep us publishing, but, beyond that, subscribers get immediate access to all site content and access to a number of extra site features. Please sign up today! The Microdot web framework is quite small, as its name would imply; it supports both standard CPython and MicroPython, so it can be used on systems ranging from internet-of-things (IoT) devices all the way

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Show HN: Lightweight tool for managing Linux virtual machines

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-06 06:30:16

flint — Modern KVM Management UI A sleek, self-contained, drop-in web UI, CLI and API for KVM virtualization. flint is a single binary, fully self-contained KVM management solution designed for developers, sysadmins, and advanced home labs. Manage virtual machines efficiently without the overhead of complex platforms. Core Philosophy Single Drop-In Binary — No installers or dependencies(other than libvirt). Self contained 8.4mb binary including web UI. Run it and you’re operational. — No in

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Gym Class VR (YC W22) Is Hiring – UX Design Engineer

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-06 17:00:26

Role Summary Gym Class is the top rated social sports game on Meta Quest - millions of downloads, 79,000+ reviews, and a 4.9-star rating. We’re hiring our founding UX Design Engineer to drive the development of our upcoming mobile web app (embedded in native), and web surfaces inside our flagship, social VR experience. You’ll own key UX surfaces end-to-end - crafting in Figma, then building responsive, production-grade UI with React/Node/CSS - and you’ll set a clear quality bar for speed, poli

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How Atlassian's $610 million AI browser acquisition puts knowledge workers first

zdnet.com Webb Wright 2025-10-07 05:23:00

SOPA Images/Contributor/LightRocket via Getty Images Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Atlassian has acquired The Browser Company, maker of Arc and Dia. The company's new browser will be designed for knowledge workers. Like Dia, it will leverage agentic AI to take action on behalf of users. The race to build the next generation of web browsers is heating up. Atlassian, the software company behind Trello and Jira, announced on Thursday that it ha

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Got a great browser interoperability idea? Apple wants to hear from you

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-10-09 05:55:47

Entries are now open for Interop 2026, a yearly effort where anyone, from users to web developers, can submit their best ideas to improve cross-browser interoperability. Here’s how to participate. Interop started in 2022, when Apple, Bocoup, Google, Italia, Microsoft, and Mozilla came together “to commit to improve interoperability in 15 key areas that will have the most impact on web developer experience.” The project, which stemmed from Google’s Compat initiative, gained enough traction to b

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Say Bye with JavaScript Beacon

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-07 19:38:35

Sometimes we want to send a piece of data to our servers when user leaves our website or webapp. Maybe it’s for for analytics or even auto-logout when they leave the website. But do you know what is a reliable way of doing it? Most of you might say use XMLHTTPRequest (or fetch) in beforeunload or unload events. Like, window . addEventListener ( "beforeunload" , () => { fetch ( '/analytics' , { method : "POST" , headers : { "Content-Type" : "application/json" , }, body : JSON . stringify ({ eve

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Apple's Assault on Standards

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-12 11:55:37

Apple's Assault on Standards Will we notice? And what can be done? TL;DR: Market competition underlies the enterprise of standards. It creates the only functional test of designs and functions as a pressure release valve that enables standards-based ecosystems route around single-vendor damage. Without competition, standards bodies have no purpose, and neither they, nor the ecosystems they support, can retain relevance. Apple has poisoned the well through a monopoly on influence which it has pa

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Lit: a library for building fast, lightweight web components

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-13 06:14:22

Simple Skip the boilerplate Building on top of the Web Components standards, Lit adds just what you need to be happy and productive: reactivity, declarative templates and a handful of thoughtful features to reduce boilerplate and make your job easier. Every Lit feature is carefully designed with web platform evolution in mind. Fast Tiny footprint, instant updates Weighing in at around 5 KB (minified and compressed), Lit helps keep your bundle size small and your loading time short. And renderin

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You can chat with Copilot in Firefox now - and Windows users get an extra perk

Google’s new Windows desktop app brings a Spotlight-like search bar to PC

Webinar: Your browser is the breach — securing the modern web edge

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Disney and Webtoon’s Partnership Is Leading to a Massive New Comics App

Apple has a private CSS property to add Liquid Glass effects to web content

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The Rise and Demise of RSS

Google Says the Open Web Is Now in "Rapid Decline"

AI's free web scraping days may be over, thanks to this new licensing protocol

A cryptography expert on how Web3 started, and how it’s going

The Dying Dream of a Decentralized Web

In court filing, Google concedes the open web is in “rapid decline”

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Lit: a library for building fast, lightweight web components

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