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My favorite new CSS feature is the Custom Highlight API, which allows you to style arbitrary (and potentially overlapping!) text ranges without needing to create ad hoc <span>…

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Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 2:17:07 AM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year730 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2015-11-18 15:52:45 UTC to 2026-10-30 18:10:55 UTC.

0204060801002015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 7 mentions; 2 submissions, 5 comments20152016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 77 mentions; 3 submissions, 74 comments2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 89 mentions; 16 submissions, 73 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 67 mentions; 9 submissions, 58 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 55 mentions; 11 submissions, 44 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 74 mentions; 13 submissions, 61 comments20202021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 67 mentions; 8 submissions, 59 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 49 mentions; 8 submissions, 41 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 67 mentions; 15 submissions, 52 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 60 mentions; 15 submissions, 45 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 59 mentions; 14 submissions, 45 comments2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 59 mentions; 16 submissions, 43 comments. Incomplete calendar period.2026*

* An incomplete calendar period is marked with an outlined bar. Its count is not directly comparable with a full period.

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20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC725
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC77374
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC891673
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC67958
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC551144
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC741361
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC67859
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC49841
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC671552
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC601545
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC591445
2026 (partial)2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC591643

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aragonite·Dec 27, 2023Recommendation phrase
My favorite new CSS feature is the Custom Highlight API, which allows you to style arbitrary (and potentially overlapping!) text ranges without needing to create ad hoc <span> element nodes. MDN Demo: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/CSS_Custom_... Hopefully VSCode will be able to switch to using this API for syntax highlighting in the near future for a performance boost, instead of sticking to the current superposition approach: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/175938
In CSS Is Fun Again
dumbo-octopus·Dec 1, 2023
This has nothing to do with the circle. Rendering animations in Chromium really is just that expensive. VS Code experienced this same issue with the cursor blinking animation and some loading animations - there the best fix after dozens of attempts and some of the best JS perf engineers in the world looking at it was to actually move back to JS to show/hide the cursor on timeout. The only real "fix" for CSS animated things is to set `steps(30)` or whatever other low value to decrease the refresh rate, but that will make the thing stutter. There's no way to have efficient 60fps animations in chromium. https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/138396 https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/22900 If anyone does know a fix, you could save the developer community about a metric ton of battery life hours worldwide if you share it with the a
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