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YouTube-dl has an interpreter for a subset of JavaScript in 870 lines of Python

Ask HN: Which books do you consider real gems in your field of work/study?

Well written books can serve as eye openers and warp your understanding of a topic when read at the correct time in your life.<p>Can you name a few books of that type that really were of such high value in your field of work or study?

CS 168: The Modern Algorithmic Toolbox

Cognitive ability is related to supporting freedom of speech (2020)

On my resignation as regulator of the Dutch intelligence and security services

Google pays ‘enormous’ sums to maintain search-engine dominance, DOJ says

Visual effects for the Indian blockbuster “RRR”

Visual effects for the Indian blockbuster “RRR”

H.R.2184 – End Oil and Gas Tax Subsidies Act

Accelerate Python code by importing Taichi

Not Your Grandfather’s Perl

Byte Magazine: The C Programming Language (1983)

Byte Magazine: The C Programming Language (1983)

Ask HN: What happened to vanilla HTML/CSS/JS development?

I'm not a web developer, but I dabble in it because I find it interesting. I went through some courses like The Odin Project and others to learn the basics of HTML/CSS/JS, and I thought it made a lot of sense: HTML structures the page, CSS handles the style, and JS handles the functionality.<p>However, after working for software companies for a few years, it seems like almost nobody uses these technologies in the way they're presented on websites like w3schools to make web applications. Instead, they use component-based frameworks like React. To me, these frameworks seem way more complicated than HTML/CSS/JS, and I don't understand what problem they're trying to solve. What makes the trade-off of all that extra complexity and abstraction worth it? Aren't HTML/CSS/JS perfectly fine and time-tested tools for web development on their own?

The Next Chapter for Learning on YouTube

The Next Chapter for Learning on YouTube

It seems that the good times for online Minecraft play are over

Meta cuts Responsible Innovation Team

What's SAP, and why's it worth $163B? (2020)

Steve Jobs emails himself (2010)

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