JavaScript

Evidence (19)

• 2Hacker News·8/6/2026research
  Photo essay revisits dot-com era web design in London

  The article is a retrospective photo essay about working at a London digital agency during the dot-com boom, highlighting the tools, workflows, and office culture of early web development. It describes hand-coded HTML, JavaScript, and CSS in HomeSite, table-based layouts, spacer GIFs, and the period hardware and software used on the job. The piece is primarily nostalgic and historical rather than announcing a current product or technical release.

• 3Hacker News·8/4/2026open_source
  Browser extension centers content around sidebars and DevTools

  The article describes a CSS/JavaScript approach for centering a page element relative to the visible browser window rather than the page viewport, so layouts remain visually centered when sidebars or docked DevTools are open. It also introduces a small extension, center, actually, that applies the fix on pages the user does not control.

• 3Hacker News·8/4/2026open_source
  HN Show: Algorithm for Generating Diverse Skin Tones

  A Hacker News user shared a color picker and procedural generation method for selecting plausible, diverse skin tones for digital art and game development. The project also includes JavaScript demos and explanatory notes about the color space, with the author noting that the methodology still has room for improvement.

• 5Hacker News·8/4/2026open_source
  Building a minimal UI library without React

  The article describes how to create a small user interface library using plain JavaScript instead of React. It focuses on implementing core UI concepts with minimal dependencies and demonstrates that many common patterns can be built directly in vanilla JS. The post has attracted substantial Hacker News discussion about tradeoffs between simplicity and framework use.

• 8Cloudflare Blog·8/3/2026framework_update
  Cloudflare extends Workers RPC across Python and JavaScript

  Cloudflare says Workers RPC now works across Python and JavaScript, allowing Workers to call methods, pass objects, and exchange functions between languages without custom APIs or extra dependencies. The feature uses Service bindings and combines Pyodide FFI with a custom conversion layer so calls behave like native function calls with low overhead.

• 8Hacker News·8/3/2026regulation
  OpenAI-linked PAC appears to fund AI-generated news site targeting critics

  A report alleges that an anonymously run news site, Acutus/Model Republic, is using AI-generated reporters and articles to target AI industry critics and policy debates. The investigation also claims it may be connected to OpenAI's political spending network through Targeted Victory, based on website code and email evidence.

• 4Simon Willison·8/1/2026framework_update
  Datasette Apps 0.2a0 adds agent debugging and app listing tools

  Datasette Apps 0.2a0 adds a new app_debug() tool that lets Datasette Agent open an app invisibly in an iframe and test it with JavaScript. It also adds app_list() so the agent can find apps the user can edit, enabling more direct edit-and-test workflows.

• 2Hacker News·7/26/2026product_launch
  htmx 4.0 launches as a Game Boy-exclusive release

  The item announces htmx 4.0, presented as the first JavaScript library released exclusively on the Game Boy platform. It is framed as a novelty product with game-like elements, including collectible levels and an unlockable source code challenge.

• 5Hacker News·7/22/2026security
  Reddit requires login for old Reddit due to scraping concerns

  Reddit has begun requiring users to log in to access old.reddit.com, citing abusive scraping and automated traffic. The change affects the plain-HTML legacy interface that many users preferred for its simplicity and lower resource usage.

• 4Hacker News·7/21/2026open_source
  PCjs Brings Classic Computers to the Browser

  PCjs is an open-source JavaScript project that emulates vintage computers and software in a web browser. It includes machines such as IBM PC compatibles, calculators, terminals, minicomputers, and classic games, along with an explorer for browsing preserved software and documentation.

• 7Hacker News·7/15/2026product_launch
  Telegram launches serverless backend for bots and Mini Apps

  Telegram Serverless lets developers run bot and Mini App backend code directly on Telegram’s infrastructure without provisioning servers or containers. It uses JavaScript modules, a V8 sandbox, a built-in SQLite-backed database, and a CLI workflow for deployment and schema migrations.

• 7Cloudflare Blog·7/13/2026product_launch
  Cloudflare launches Precursor for continuous client-side bot detection

  Cloudflare introduced Precursor, a client-side, session-based verification system that uses dynamically injected JavaScript to collect behavioral signals as users interact with an application. The company says it will complement Turnstile and improve bot detection across the full user journey by distinguishing human behavior from automated or agentic traffic in real time.

• 3Simon Willison·7/12/2026open_source
  shot-scraper 1.11 adds JS file loading and longer server startup waits

  shot-scraper 1.11 introduces a --js-file option across several commands, letting users load JavaScript from a local file, standard input, or a GitHub-hosted script instead of passing inline code. It also improves consistency by adding --timeout to some commands and makes video and multi workflows wait up to 30 seconds for target servers to accept connections.

• 5Hacker News·7/12/2026research
  Tao uses AI agents to revive old applets and build new math visualizations

  Terence Tao describes using modern AI coding agents to port two dozen old Java applets to JavaScript, restoring them with minor bug fixes and some visual improvements. He also used the same workflow to build new interactive tools, including a special relativity visualization and a Gilbreath conjecture applet, and says he may add such supplements to future papers.

• 6Hacker News·7/11/2026product_launch
  Ant expands into a JavaScript runtime ecosystem

  Ant is being presented as a broader JavaScript ecosystem built around its own runtime and JavaScript engine. It now also includes a package manager, the ants.land registry, an application hosting/deployment platform, and Ant Desktop for building native desktop apps with web technologies.

• 3Hacker News·7/8/2026framework_update
  WordPress fix removes accidental comment popups on left-thumb scrolling

  A WordPress bug caused comment reply boxes to open unexpectedly when users scrolled on touch devices, but only for some left-handed users whose thumb touched the link area. The issue stemmed from a touchstart listener added to link clicks, and the reported fix simply removes the unnecessary code after the bug lingered for years.

• 4Hacker News·7/7/2026open_source
  Beagle SCM Brings Deterministic Tools to LLM Workflows

  The article argues that LLMs are powerful but still clumsy and non-deterministic, so they work best when paired with fast, reliable tools and formal workflows. It presents Beagle SCM as a system that lets LLMs script routines in JavaScript and integrate with deterministic tooling around source control and code inspection.

• 2Hacker News·7/6/2026research
  Why Learning to Code Still Matters

  The article argues that learning to code remains worthwhile even in the era of LLM-assisted and “vibe” coding. It frames programming as valuable for education, creativity, and meta-skills such as logic, debugging, and composition, not just as a path to a job.

• 4Hacker News·7/5/2026open_source
  Open-source game platform Homegames launched after 8 years of development

  Homegames is an open-source platform for simple games that can be played across devices. The project exposes each game as a JavaScript class, provides source code for every game, and includes an in-browser editor for creating and publishing games from the browser.