209 stories tagged javascript, newest first.
353 points by speckx | 121 comments
Blog post by Charlie Gerard introducing Overgrown, a Chrome extension that grows plants over neglected browser tabs which users must slash away to access them.
18 points by ingve | 2 comments
GitHub repository for CleanFrame, an MIT-licensed custom minimal home screen app for the Samsung The Frame TV running Tizen, with setup guides and agent instructions.
30 points by chenglou | 11 comments
Project page for Handwired, a tool that compiles ordinary JavaScript code into exact, differentiable neural networks runnable in the browser, with demos like a mini OS.
17 points by nonsence | 3 comments
Interactive demo of the ULDA SDK: a room-planner app whose data is client-side encrypted and synced, with an inspector comparing decrypted JSON to server ciphertext.
283 points by croes | 23 comments
Weball is a browser toy that lets you roll a Katamari-style ball over a website, collecting page elements; shown here on the Katamari Damacy Wikipedia article.
4 points by vismit2000 | 1 comments
Landing page for Handwired, a tool that compiles regular JavaScript code into an exact, differentiable neural network runnable in a browser without training or GPU.
111 points by jcbhmr | 25 comments
A vlt blog post by Darcy Clarke reflecting on Deno joining Cloudflare and winding down its investment in the Deno runtime, praising its impact on JavaScript.
50 points by fagnerbrack | 38 comments
A blog post asking whether web frameworks still matter, and whether new ones should be built, in an era of AI-assisted and agentic programming where React dominates.
235 points by aragonite | 101 comments
Blog post showing a technique to invoke arbitrary JavaScript functions without parentheses using Error.prepareStackTrace and prototype overrides.
91 points by dmit | 36 comments
Blog post by Frank Force announcing that LittleJS, a small open source JavaScript web game engine, now supports 3D in addition to 2D.
21 points by jhuleatt | 20 comments
Official Next.js blog post announcing the Next.js 16.4 release and its new programming model addressing App Router frustrations.
6 points by mattvr | 0 comments
A blog post on Organic Software titled "In Memory of Deno," reflecting on the Deno JavaScript/TypeScript runtime.
1349 points by ilreb | 702 comments
Deno blog post announcing that Deno is joining Cloudflare.
57 points by jinqueeny | 27 comments
GitHub repository for Shaders, an MIT-licensed library of WebGPU shader components for React, Vue, Svelte, Solid, plain JavaScript, and Framer.
304 points by ibobev | 228 comments
Blog post by David Bushell explaining his switch back from Deno to Node.js after using Node on a SvelteKit client project.
304 points by vinhnx | 318 comments
Nolan Lawson blog post examining why web developers often don't "use the platform" and rely on JavaScript instead of built-in browser features.
382 points by sampsn | 164 comments
Svelte team blog post announcing the release of SvelteKit 3.0, with migration via the sv migrate command.
59 points by trekhleb | 5 comments
Blog post by Oleksii Trekhleb explaining how to train a simulated car to self-park using a genetic algorithm in about 500 lines of code.
17 points by BinRoo | 8 comments
A blog post exploring wordplay inspired by Shakespeare's puns, building toward a pun expressed in JavaScript code.
181 points by hxii | 50 comments
Koi.rest is a browser-based virtual koi pond with swimming fish and lily pads, meant as a calming place to relax.
17 points by eustoria | 2 comments
A blog post outlining what developers should know about the JavaScript language and ecosystem in 2026.
47 points by abrax3141 | 12 comments
GitHub repository for a web-based emulator and operating environment for the IBM 1620 Model 2 computer, including IPL-V sample programs.
45 points by maroun-baydoun | 29 comments
Blog post by Maroun Baydoun about the JavaScript ecosystem increasingly turning to younger, faster languages for its tooling and what could go wrong.
352 points by birdculture | 221 comments
A RunJS blog post by Luke Haas explaining music theory concepts for programmers, likely with JavaScript code examples.
408 points by kciter | 141 comments
A devlog post on kciter.so explaining why work on the browser's main thread is costly and how it affects web app responsiveness.
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381 points by keithcarolus | 58 comments
YouTube video from Grow Now! Games showing a walkable ASCII-rendered cyberpunk city built in a single HTML file.
792 points by rmsaksida | 202 comments
Official htmx announcement page for the release of htmx 4.0.0, culminating eight months of work by the htmx team.
940 points by encyclopedism | 212 comments
A page listing dynamic web functionality, such as popovers, that can now be achieved with plain HTML instead of JavaScript, with accessibility caveats.
581 points by automatoney | 99 comments
An interactive write-up defining a custom color space for plausible, diverse skin tones, with a JavaScript color picker and a Python procedural generation algorithm.
393 points by twalichiewicz | 105 comments
GitHub repository for HNewhere, a userscript that shows Hacker News discussions in a side panel alongside any linked article.
467 points by rcy | 158 comments
Product page on the htmx swag store selling a $25 Game Boy cartridge game themed around htmx 4.0, a joke release of the library.
374 points by joahnn_s | 174 comments
Scrapfly engineering blog post explaining how OS-specific libm rounding in Math.tanh, CSS trig, and Web Audio lets anti-bot systems fingerprint a browser's host OS.
670 points by DanRosenwasser | 266 comments
Microsoft Dev Blogs post announcing the release of TypeScript 7.0, a native port of the TypeScript compiler described as 10x faster.
459 points by plasma | 189 comments
GitHub Changelog post announcing upcoming breaking changes in npm version 12.
728 points by kurmiashish | 411 comments
GitHub issue in RedHatInsights/javascript-clients reporting malicious npm releases published under the @redhat-cloud-services scope, citing StepSecurity analysis.
398 points by roflcopter69 | 165 comments
Deno blog post announcing the release of Deno 2.8, the JavaScript and TypeScript runtime.
397 points by eqrion | 150 comments
SpiderMonkey blog post announcing that asm.js optimizations are disabled by default as of Firefox 148, with plans to remove the code entirely.
350 points by theanonymousone | 272 comments
SafeDep blog post analyzing a new Mini Shai-Hulud supply-chain malware campaign that compromised over 300 npm packages.
325 points by alligatorplum | 144 comments
A satirical blog post, in the style of The Onion, mocking npm for recurring supply chain attacks while claiming nothing could prevent them.
1047 points by varunsharma07 | 435 comments
GitHub issue on TanStack Router reporting that several latest npm releases are potentially compromised, linking to a StepSecurity analysis of a self-spreading supply-chain attack.
335 points by mittermayr | 270 comments
Ask HN post describing an apparent UUID v4 collision from the npm uuid package in a database of about 15,000 records, asking if others have seen this.
1891 points by mtud | 763 comments
StepSecurity blog post reporting that a hijacked maintainer account published malicious axios versions 1.14.1 and 0.30.4 on npm that drop a cross-platform RAT.
616 points by Heff | 134 comments
Video.js blog post announcing the v10.0.0 beta, a ground-up rewrite of the open source web video player that is much smaller.
430 points by onlyspaceghost | 250 comments
Blog post by James Garbutt outlining three main causes of npm dependency bloat in JavaScript, such as older runtime support, and how the e18e community addresses them.
487 points by kothariji | 161 comments
Official Vite blog post announcing the release of Vite 8.0, dated March 12, 2026.
742 points by robpalmer | 236 comments
A Bloomberg JS Blog post by Jason Williams recounting the nine-year effort to standardize the Temporal date/time API in JavaScript through TC39.
613 points by mikece | 223 comments
Mozilla Hacks article by Ryan Hunt on why WebAssembly remains a second-class language on the web and how to make it first-class.
425 points by nnx | 147 comments
Cloudflare Blog post by James M Snell arguing that JavaScript's Web Streams API is flawed and proposing a better streams API design.
397 points by ghostwriternr | 151 comments
Cloudflare blog post by Steve Faulkner describing how the team used AI to rebuild Next.js as a new framework, vinext, in one week.
462 points by twapi | 122 comments
Documentation homepage for Oat, an ultra-lightweight (~8KB) zero-dependency semantic HTML/CSS/JS UI component library.
459 points by mdp | 215 comments
GitHub repository documenting how LinkedIn probes for nearly 3,000 Chrome extensions to fingerprint users, with extension ID lists and scripts.
319 points by enos_feedler | 172 comments
Simon Willison's blog post on Paul Kinlan's notes and Co-do demo about using the web browser as a sandbox for running AI coding agents.
731 points by OuterVale | 242 comments
Official jQuery blog post announcing the final release of jQuery 4.0.0, its first major version in nearly 10 years, with breaking changes and modernizations.
913 points by todotask2 | 382 comments
Astro blog post announcing that the Astro web framework team is joining Cloudflare through an acquisition.
430 points by alexanderameye | 177 comments
A Piccalilli article by Mat Marquis explaining why JavaScript's Date object is being superseded by the new Temporal API.
325 points by themanmaran | 59 comments
Dwitter, a community site for sharing and remixing JavaScript canvas demos written in 140 characters or less.
474 points by max_lt | 145 comments
Announcement page for OpenWorkers, an open-source Rust runtime for running untrusted JavaScript in V8 isolates as self-hosted Cloudflare Workers.
618 points by subset | 123 comments
A browser game where you play Snake on the surface of a sphere, controlled with arrow keys or on-screen buttons, with a leaderboard and GitHub source.
677 points by soheilpro | 254 comments
An HTMHell Advent Calendar 2025 article by Aaron T. Grogg on replacing JavaScript functionality with native HTML features.
1460 points by Aissen | 547 comments
GitHub README for MicroQuickJS, a compact JavaScript engine by Fabrice Bellard derived from QuickJS.
494 points by iNic | 402 comments
An opinionated, profanity-laced essay urging web developers to try HTMX instead of choosing between raw JavaScript and heavy frameworks like React.
393 points by bbx | 134 comments
Demo page for picknplace.js, a JavaScript library offering a pick, scroll, and place interaction as an alternative to drag-and-drop for reordering lists.
331 points by tymscar | 193 comments
A blog post by Oscar Molnar describing his experience using the Gleam programming language to solve Advent of Code 2025 puzzles.
561 points by handfuloflight | 126 comments
Patterns.dev is a free online book and resource on design, rendering, and performance patterns for building web apps with vanilla JavaScript or modern frameworks.
331 points by simonw | 93 comments
Simon Willison's blog post describing useful patterns for building single-file HTML/JavaScript/CSS tools, mostly written with LLMs, with examples.
717 points by razzmataks | 173 comments
Bruno Simon's interactive 3D portfolio website, built with WebGL/Three.js, where visitors drive a car around a 3D world.
682 points by pavelai | 342 comments
An open letter to Oracle asking it to release the JavaScript trademark, with a sign-the-letter button and updates on a USPTO cancellation petition.
330 points by OuterVale | 181 comments
GitLab blog post describing a widespread npm supply chain malware attack that includes a "dead man's switch" capable of harming user data.
967 points by mrdosija | 733 comments
HelixGuard blog post reporting that the Shai-Hulud worm returned, infecting over 300 npm packages via a fake Bun runtime within hours.
332 points by vxvrs | 93 comments
GitHub repository for Supercookie, a proof-of-concept that uses favicon caching to fingerprint and track browsers across sessions.
1006 points by bertman | 591 comments
GitHub issue announcing that yt-dlp version 2025.11.12 requires an external JavaScript runtime such as Deno for full YouTube download support.
407 points by rpgbr | 310 comments
Blog post examining why Nextcloud's web interface feels slow, pointing to large JavaScript payloads and long load times shown in browser devtools.
349 points by jnord | 248 comments
Ars Technica article on the PhantomRaven campaign, in which malicious NPM packages that fetch dependencies from untrusted sites were downloaded over 86,000 times.
463 points by pdubroy | 95 comments
SpiderMonkey blog post describing a custom interactive tool for visualizing how the Ion optimizing compiler processes JavaScript and WebAssembly functions.
407 points by signa11 | 138 comments
A blog post by Josh Moody presenting a fictional interview where FizzBuzz is implemented in JavaScript using only S and K combinators.
511 points by nansdotio | 78 comments
A step-by-step interactive guide on the NaN blog to building a key-value database from scratch.
1633 points by pixelmelt | 493 comments
Blog post describing how the author reverse-engineered and bypassed the DRM on Amazon's Kindle web reader to read purchased books outside the official app.
802 points by macote | 88 comments
A web toy that lets you play the classic Snake game rendered inside the browser's URL address bar using Braille characters.
587 points by jgrahamc | 253 comments
Cloudflare blog post by Kenton Varda and Steve Faulkner announcing Cap'n Web, a JavaScript RPC system for communication between browsers and web servers.
1182 points by jamesberthoty | 965 comments
StepSecurity blog post reporting that @ctrl/tinycolor and 40+ npm packages were compromised by self-propagating malware that steals cloud credentials.
640 points by dbushell | 729 comments
A blog post arguing that React's dominance as the default frontend framework carries hidden costs and stifles innovation, urging deliberate framework choices.
410 points by Bogdanp | 138 comments
Bun blog post by Lydia Hallie explaining how bun install works internally and why it runs much faster than npm, pnpm, and yarn.
790 points by WhyNotHugo | 450 comments
Xe Iaso blog post reflecting on the NPM supply-chain compromise of popular packages like chalk and debug, arguing it could have been much worse.
367 points by tosh | 263 comments
GitHub security advisory reporting that DuckDB npm packages (duckdb 1.3.3, node-api, node-bindings, duckdb-wasm 1.29.2) were published with malware, listing patched versions.
1287 points by universesquid | 699 comments
Aikido Security blog post reporting that the popular npm packages debug and chalk were compromised with malicious code in a supply-chain attack.
899 points by mitchivin | 291 comments
A personal portfolio website built as a browser-based recreation of the Windows XP desktop, with sounds, animations, and working apps.
812 points by Bogdanp | 461 comments
A personal blog post by Dominik Meca complaining about the difficulty of setting up production logging and middleware in Next.js.
611 points by yurivish | 126 comments
An interactive web page by Yoav Goldberg showing a yin-yang symbol animation titled Eternal Struggle, with a change-background link.
391 points by todsacerdoti | 221 comments
A blog post on lyra's blog arguing that modern HTML and CSS features can replace much of what JavaScript frameworks are used for on the web.
427 points by longcat | 421 comments
GitHub security advisory from the nrwl/nx repository reporting that malicious versions of Nx and several supporting npm plugins were published.