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Hi HN! It's time for end-of-year giving, and I'm always looking for charitable causes that will put my money to good use. What nonprofits do you support? Personally, I like GiveDir…

I’m a quirky person and wanted to propose to my girlfriend in an unconventional way. I’m also a coder with a long history of making weird websites for good causes. So I turned my p…

Hey underwater, I just wanted to follow up and say thanks. Without doing any other optimization, it seems that switching the ajax request from JSON to a big TypedArray changed Chro…

That's a good idea, thanks! I'd previously thought typed arrays had to be initialized with data that's already in memory, but it looks like I was wrong there. This page is giving s…

I was hoping this blog post would be about the Chrome team speeding up JSON parsing. On a website I made[1] with a ~1MB JSON ajax payload, Chrome takes about 18 seconds to parse th…

Hi HN! I thought this would be a fun and creative take on a marriage proposal. Would love to hear what you think!

Interesting and fun project! Also kind of surprised to see this on HN as I recently launched a vaguely similar project (1$ = 1 pixel in a website image), but raising money for char…

Hey HN! I'm excited to share this website with you all. It's very important to me (obviously), and anything you could do to share it with friends/family/whoever would really mean a…

Hi HN! I've spent the past few months putting together a weird sort of charity/art project. My first submission to HN seems to have been marked as spam, so I'm hoping this one goes…