--- title: Best Hacker News posts — November 2021 | daily.dev description: The most upvoted Hacker News posts from November 2021, curated by the daily.dev community. canonical: https://daily.dev/sources/hn/best-of/2021/11 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:url: https://daily.dev/sources/hn/best-of/2021/11 og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Best Hacker News posts — November 2021 | daily.dev og:description: The most upvoted Hacker News posts from November 2021, curated by the daily.dev community. og:image: https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--VAY5ToZt--/f_auto/v1724209435/public/daily.dev%20-%20open%20graph --- # Best of Hacker News — November 2021 1. 1 [](https://daily.dev/posts/start-a-new-project-with-one-million-layouts-qek6zi0xc "Start a new project with one million layouts") Article Hacker News · 5y Start a new project with one million layouts 74 8 2. 2 [](https://daily.dev/posts/build-better-websites-sxp863dtg "Build Better Websites") Article Hacker News · 5y Build Better Websites Remix is a seamless server and browser runtime that provides snappy page loads and instant transitions. Built on the Web Fetch API (instead of Node) it can run anywhere. It already runs natively on Cloudflare Workers, and of course supports serverless and traditional Node.js environments. 56 3. 3 [](https://daily.dev/posts/firefox-relay-qyclopnsk "Firefox Relay") Article Hacker News · 5y Firefox Relay Firefox Relay will no longer forward messages sent to ⁨⁩. Once you delete this alias, it cannot be recovered. If you recreate a deleted alias, emails sent to the original alias will continue to be forwarded. You should update your login with a different email address before youdelete this one. 50 1 4. 4 [](https://daily.dev/posts/developer-tools-secrets-that-shouldn-t-be-secrets-cptcp7uhe "Developer Tools secrets that shouldn’t be secrets") Article Hacker News · 5y Developer Tools secrets that shouldn’t be secrets Microsoft Edge’s Console is the most used part of the browser developer tools. There are a few problems with that, and there are better ways to debug scripts. This is a talk that I’ve given at CityJS this September. These are things I encountered during working on the tools and going through user feedback. 49 2 5. 5 [](https://daily.dev/posts/php-php-8-1-0-release-announcement-bo0nblbyd "PHP: PHP 8.1.0 Release Announcement") Article Hacker News · 5y PHP: PHP 8.1.0 Release Announcement 21 6. 6 [](https://daily.dev/posts/automate-your-work-on-any-website-vcqme2sb1 "Automate your work on any website") Article Hacker News · 5y Automate your work on any website 13 7. 7 [](https://daily.dev/posts/microsoft-calls-firefox-s-browser-workaround-improper-will-block-it-ab1i1g7-g "Microsoft Calls Firefox’s Browser Workaround “Improper,” Will Block It") Article Hacker News · 5y Microsoft Calls Firefox’s Browser Workaround “Improper,” Will Block It Windows 11 lets you choose your default browser, but it takes a lot of clicks and Microsoft sometimes forces you to use Edge, anyway. Firefox had a workaround, but Microsoft calls it “improper” and will soon block it. Microsoft made a statement to The Verge where it explained the logic behind its decision. 13 3 8. 8 [](https://daily.dev/posts/the-invisible-javascript-backdoor-certitude-blog-rsyrsfj76 "The Invisible JavaScript Backdoor – Certitude Blog") Article Hacker News · 5y The Invisible JavaScript Backdoor – Certitude Blog The Invisible JavaScript Backdoor. Can you spot it? The script behaves at least with Node.js at least at least 14 characters wider than ASCII characters. This approach cannot be detected through syntax highlighting as characters are not colorized at all. 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