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482 mentions on Hacker News by 376 people: 171 stories, 311 comments · first 2014-11-28 · latest 2026-11-01

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  1. …V8 55. So, simply waiting for v7.3 or v7.4 should be sufficient and it will be enabled by default. https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/9618#issuecomment-264641... Those who are sticking with the LTS release for production will need to wait…
  2. …tps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firebug_(software) 2. https://github.com/node-inspector/node-inspector 3. https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/9028 4. https://nodejs.org/api/debugger.html
    comment by wwalser · 2016-12-14 · in Visual Studio Code 1.8
  3. …better, not worse. Tell that to vim: https://github.com/vim/vim/issues/638 Tell that to node.js: https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/5798 Tell that to WordPress: https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/21022…
    comment by CiPHPerCoder · 2016-11-04 · in The People's Code
  4. https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/9161#issuecomment-2548...
    comment by terink · 2016-10-25 · in Node.js v7.0.0
  5. https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/9161 And more specifically, https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/9161#issuecomment-2545...
    comment by steveklabnik · 2016-10-25 · in Node.js v7.0.0
  6. …Finally, one of my favorite things about Node.js 7.0 is the WhatWG http parser: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/7448 . edit: elaborated on exponentiation operator
    comment by jbergstroem · 2016-10-25 · in Node.js v7.0.0
  7. …repo was invented, and is used by some projects incl. nodejs https://github.com/cgwalters/git-evtag https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/7579 I personally think it's overkill
    comment by ploxiln · 2016-10-19 · in Phasing Out SHA-1 on the Public Web
  8. …executed with it could allocate tons of memory or run forever (despite any configured timeouts: https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/3020 ).
  9. I guess this use the new (Chromium) debugging API in NodeJS !? https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/6792
  10. Note that --inspect has issues with Node 6.4+ at the moment: https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/8155#issuecomment-2504...
  11. Source: https://github.com/nodejs/node/milestone/15
    comment by SparkyMcUnicorn · 2016-09-09 · in V8 JavaScript Engine: V8 Release 5.4
  12. …doesn't provide defense-in-depth), it isn't thread-safe. https://github.com/ramsey/uuid/issues/80 https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/5798 There are also some recent IACR papers (linked in the Node thread), but those are the two biggest…
    comment by CiPHPerCoder · 2016-09-06 · in Umbra Privacy Platform
  13. …but im not sure what the final status is, ill have to read it again later when im not on mobile. https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4765
  14. …you can now use all of DevTools’ powerful debugging features to introspect a Node.js app. See also: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/6792
    comment by k3n · 2016-06-11 · in Chrome DevTools in 2016 and Beyond
  15. I apologize for that and take fault and responsibility, I have a PR waiting on that: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/6439 I'll try to get to that that during the weekend and I humbly apologize :(
    comment by inglor · 2016-06-02 · in Async and Await
  16. A multi-threaded JavaScript also means this becomes more troubling: https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/5798 Node.js uses OpenSSL instead of the operating system's CSPRNG. The biggest argument for "WONTFIX" is "Node.js is single-threaded…
    comment by CiPHPerCoder · 2016-05-05 · in A Taste of JavaScript's New Parallel Primitives
  17. …typical web server does. Compare https://github.com/MagicStack/vmbench/blob/master/servers/as... to https://github.com/nodejs/node/blob/master/lib/_http_outgoin... https://github.com/nodejs/node/blob/master/lib/_http_server....…
    comment by halayli · 2016-05-04 · in Uvloop: Fast Python networking
  18. …this is some NSA conspiracy :-) How does one verify the person behind the blogs? node has similar https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/5798
  19. …that the require mechanism is quite flakey, and they are discussing a new release or even reverting https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/3402#issuecomment-2151...
    comment by gotofritz · 2016-04-28 · in Node.js v6.0 Released
  20. Vote was at: https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/5648
    comment by bmeck · 2016-04-26 · in Node.js v6.0 Released
  21. Release build failed - https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/6383#issuecomment-214844... New one is running, and should be out soon-ish.
    comment by svieira · 2016-04-26 · in Node.js v6.0 Released
  22. …But yeah, I'm not seeing where the 6.0 was cut. It doesn't appear on their releases tab: https://github.com/nodejs/node/releases
    comment by MikeKusold · 2016-04-26 · in Node.js v6.0 Released
  23. …https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nodejs/node/v6.x/CHANGELOG... Notable changes summarized here: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/6383
    comment by dkopi · 2016-04-26 · in Node.js v6.0 Released
  24. …could break some use cases. There's a partial changelog [0] in the v6 release pull request. [0] https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/6383#issue-151012738
    comment by btmills · 2016-04-26 · in Node.js v6.0 Released
  25. The plan is for a Node.js 6.0 release on Tuesday: https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/5766#issuecomment-1983... . This would include V8 5.0.
    comment by ofrobots · 2016-04-23 · in V8 Release 5.1
  26. …a change worth making. Stability is bad if it means remaining insecure. [0] http://semver.org/ [1] https://github.com/nodejs/node/blob/v5.10.1/CHANGELOG.md
  27. …you drill down into their missing test cases, it's largely features that few people care about. [1] https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/5766
    comment by nostrademons · 2016-04-13 · in Adding JavaScript modules to the web platform
  28. …at compile time, it will return whatever it gets from the `uname` system call in `sys/utsname.h`: https://github.com/nodejs/node/blob/master/src/node_os.cc#L5... Microsoft probably hard-codes a response of "Linux" (or whatever would be…
    comment by davesque · 2016-03-31 · in Ubuntu on Windows
  29. …ordeal happened back in January (I think), around the same time as some other npm drama (e.g. https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/3959 and https://github.com/nodejs/TSC/issues/21 and https://github.com/nodejs/NG/issues/26 , leading up to…
    comment by pluma · 2016-03-23 · in I've Just Liberated My Modules
  30. …errors upward more generically: https://nodejs.org/api/domain.html But it was deprecated: https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/66 promises are a very nice way of drying out error handling and cleaning up callbacks for now.
  31. Node.js is easy to compile from sources. Basically when https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5592 gets merged, all that is needed is git clone git@github.com:nodejs/node.git; cd node ; git checkout vee-eight-5.0; ./configure; make; make…
    comment by ilkkao · 2016-03-15 · in V8 Release 5.0 (upcoming)
  32. Something related to debugging? Perhaps you came across this thread? https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/2546#issuecomment-1893...
    comment by s3th · 2016-03-15 · in V8 Release 5.0 (upcoming)
  33. https://github.com/nodejs/node/releases.atom + feedly/slack
  34. Yes, but it breaks some cases. I'd recommend to wait 5.7.1 ( https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/5400 )
    comment by btd · 2016-02-26 · in Node 5.7.0 (stable) released
  35. One of the performance improvements [0] is pretty crazy! Up to an 18,000% performance increase. [0] https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5123
    comment by TheAceOfHearts · 2016-02-26 · in Node 5.7.0 (stable) released
  36. Promises are coming to core: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5020
    comment by olalonde · 2016-02-25 · in The Node.js Event Loop Is a Damn Mess
  37. …assume good intentions". Here is what a comprehensive Code of Conduct looks like (from NodeJS) https://github.com/nodejs/node/blob/master/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.m...
    comment by wkimeria · 2016-02-18 · in The Ruby Code of Conduct
  38. …fix the issues with debugging with babel-node and Node.js v5, we're waiting for this pull request ( https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4231 ) to be merged into Node.js, hope that will happen very soon.
  39. As of 5.4.0 arrow functions are more performant than binding, FYI: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3622
    comment by zackify · 2016-01-22 · in ES6 Cheatsheet
  40. https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4765
    comment by ksp4186 · 2016-01-19 · in ChakraCore GitHub repository is now open
  41. …supported. (No update on Mac OS yet, but I can give them the benefit of the doubt there...) [1]: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4765#issuecomment-172942...
  42. …the API/ABI impact of this change and figure out how we can make the ABI layer more robust." [0] - https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4765#issuecomment-172935...
  43. Looks like that didn't work out well. https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4765#issuecomment-172933... Right above your clone of this comment on the thread. :/
  44. …is to deprecate Buffer(number) whatsoever and replace it with two separate methods. More info here: https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/4660#issuecomment-1712... I will make a separate post about that soon enough.
  45. We are basing it off nodejs/master - https://github.com/nodejs/node
    comment by ksp4186 · 2016-01-13 · in ChakraCore GitHub repository is now open
  46. …very diverse. I don't liken it as much worse than any other platform, and far better than most. [1] https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/3694
  47. You can do this with child processes or you can help with this issue https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2133
  48. …while it's easy to snark at this, that doesn't seem particularly worthwhile. As, for example, https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/3721#issuecomment-1552... shows, it's perfectly possible to disapprove of this idea and to explain why…
  49. …to the changelog [1], the v8 version bump has provided the spread operator and new.target 1. https://github.com/nodejs/node/blob/v5.0.0/CHANGELOG.md
    comment by cadecairos · 2015-10-29 · in Node v5.0.0 (Stable)
  50. …the browser since at least February of this year[2]. [1] https://www.jetbrains.com/webstorm/ [2] https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/14174a95a597cac7b848fe...
    comment by undergrowth54 · 2015-10-20 · in Chrome Devtools Tips and Tricks