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Retrieval Embedding Benchmark (RTEB)

https://huggingface.co/spaces/embedding-benchmark/RTEB
1•fzliu•6m ago•0 comments

Armtrak: Multiplayer space shooting game with images and music

https://github.com/madprops/armtrak
1•Toby1VC•7m ago•0 comments

Trump hits India with punishing 50% tariffs for buying Russian oil

https://www.nbcnews.com/world/india/trumps-tariffs-india-rise-50-punishment-buying-russian-oil-rc...
3•delichon•7m ago•0 comments

Pet Rats Using Paws to Create Masterpieces That Have Sold for over $2,600 Total

https://www.unmc.edu/healthsecurity/transmission/2025/08/27/pet-rats-using-paws-to-create-mini-ma...
1•speckx•7m ago•0 comments

Just Code: Power, Inequality and the Political Economy of IT

https://cse.umn.edu/cbi/just-code-just-published
1•zoenolan•8m ago•0 comments

Another cruise: Re-reading "Moby-Dick" at Ahab's age

https://calebcrain.substack.com/p/another-cruise
1•lermontov•10m ago•0 comments

Learning PostgreSQL Internals

https://blog.cleverelephant.ca/2022/10/postgresql-links.html
1•rjenkins•12m ago•0 comments

In-browser NL2SQL2NL playground: SQLite WASM meets Gemini

https://github.com/arnabdotorg/coquery
1•relantic•16m ago•0 comments

Show HN: TypeKro – TypeScript infra-as-code for Kubernetes built on KRO

https://typekro.run
1•ManWith2Plans•21m ago•0 comments

A Choice of Giants

https://kriskowal.com/giants/
1•dannyobrien•21m ago•0 comments

Science > Panpsychism [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nOtLj8UYCw
1•ieuanking•24m ago•1 comments

AgentQL, a toolkit for extracting data and automating workflows on live websites

https://github.com/tinyfish-io/agentql
1•jinqueeny•31m ago•0 comments

AI2 releases Asta: open‑source ecosystem for trustworthy scientific AI agents

https://www.hpcwire.com/off-the-wire/ai2-launches-asta-a-new-standard-for-trustworthy-ai-agents-i...
1•acossta•34m ago•1 comments

What's the Safest Seat in a Car?

https://www.popsci.com/science/what-is-safest-seat-in-car/
2•wjb3•46m ago•0 comments

Maunder Minimum

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maunder_Minimum
1•wjb3•48m ago•0 comments

Claude's GitHub: two issues closed by AI as "duplicates" – of each other..!

https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/4751
2•hihicoderhi•49m ago•2 comments

Show HN: Seven Dollar Chat- Claude, Llama, DeepSeek and More

https://7chat.sbs/
2•jerrimu•54m ago•0 comments

Goiânia Accident

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goi%C3%A2nia_accident
5•grubbs•1h ago•0 comments

FlightConnections

https://www.flightconnections.com/
4•scapecast•1h ago•1 comments

Optimizing is not only for better performance

3•jaharios•1h ago•0 comments

Tony Blair Attends White House Meeting with Trump on Postwar Gaza

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/aug/27/tony-blair-attends-white-house-meeting-with-trum...
5•NomDePlum•1h ago•0 comments

Engineer as Value Appraiser

https://substack.com/inbox/post/172128430
3•mrev2•1h ago•0 comments

Stop killing games: Demands for game ownership must also include workers' rights

https://theconversation.com/stop-killing-games-demands-for-game-ownership-must-also-include-worke...
6•PaulHoule•1h ago•0 comments

Dead arms test importance of clenched fists (2015)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-34572432
3•austinallegro•1h ago•0 comments

The Rise of Front-Loaded Vesting

https://www.levels.fyi/blog/front-loaded-vesting.html
3•zuhayeer•1h ago•0 comments

The Cybersecurity Psychology Framework: A Pre-Cognitive Vulnerability Assessment

https://cpf3.org
3•kaolay•1h ago•1 comments

DraftKings said it acted properly in voiding Iowa man's $14.2M payout

https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/sports/2025/08/26/draftkings-defends-voiding-iowa-mans-pa...
4•indigodaddy•1h ago•1 comments

Ask HN: What's your current "ecosystem"/dev stack/tools that you use to build?

2•adinhitlore•1h ago•1 comments

What's new in Excel August 2025

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/excelblog/whats-new-in-excel-august-2025/4437351
3•nhatcher•1h ago•0 comments

Anthropic – Detecting and countering misuse of AI: August 2025

https://www.anthropic.com/news/detecting-countering-misuse-aug-2025
2•josephmiller•1h ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Firefox Has Moved to Firefox.com

https://www.firefox.com
117•pentagrama•5h ago

Comments

globular-toast•4h ago
Where was it before? Been using Firefox non stop for 20 years but last time I went to the website was probably when I still used Windows XP.
Insanity•4h ago
Yeah same.. I have no clue where it was hosted and been using it for 2 decades too.
jchw•4h ago
I believe it was getfirefox.com, which I remember primarily from adding banners to websites I ran back in the day. I forgot who previously owned firefox.com but I recall them adding a link to getfirefox.com on it back in the day.
rafram•4h ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20250415002534/https://www.mozil...
notfed•4h ago
In other words, the download page used to be:

    https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/
jraph•3h ago
And mozilla-europe.org in Europe for some reason, a long time ago at least.

At a time when you'd also install spybot and ccleaner.

TheLML•4h ago
Last time I downloaded it it must've been the mozilla website
tech234a•4h ago
I always liked https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/ but that's not the primary consumer page.
aspenmayer•4h ago
I hear that they don’t embed tracking metadata in those builds on the FTP, but I haven’t confirmed that.

The normal download page embeds a unique tracking alphanumeric string in your build that is reported to the organization on a regular basis when the telemetry phones home unless you disable this manually and clear the values.

HelloUsername•3h ago
> I hear that they don’t embed tracking metadata in those builds on the FTP, but I haven’t confirmed that.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1677497#c0

aspenmayer•3h ago
Thanks for that authoritative source.

Is Firefox a honeypot? I can’t see how this serves the user. All telemetry should be opt-in, not opt-out.

We want failsafe, not faildeadly.

bobsoap•4h ago
Finally! No more "You know, you should really get Firefox, it's super easy. First you need to go to this other website though. Yes, I know, I know. Just trust me, okay?"
everfree•4h ago
Chrome = Google.com

Edge = Microsoft.com

Safari = Apple.com

Seems like Firefox is now the outlier, not the other way around.

Now Firefox is the only browser with a home page domain the same as its common name.

(Note: I’m not saying that I think it’s a bad thing.)

Medea•4h ago
chrome.com redirects to www.google.com/chrome/

No one has to download Edge or Safari.

sebastiennight•4h ago
No one wants ...

FTFY

jacobgkau•4h ago
I know you're making a joke, but I enjoyed having Safari installed when Apple made it for Windows too, and would still want to download it today if it was available. You can't, though.
tech234a•4h ago
Technically Edge can also be installed on macOS/Linux/iOS/Android.
ascorbic•3h ago
Ahem https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/edge/mac
_Algernon_•4h ago
chrome.com redirects to https://www.google.com/chrome/ for whatever it's worth.
bobsoap•4h ago
That may be, but mozilla.org isn't exactly a brand like google.com. Most people have never heard of it.

If you're trying to get non-technical people to try an underdog browser, simplicity helps. A single, straightforward brand name is better.

joshmanders•4h ago
Literally everyone I know who isn't technical calls Firefox "mozilla". Including older people.
jacobgkau•4h ago
It includes older people because Mozilla had previous work before Firefox, so they heard that name first. I've never heard anyone my age (27) or younger call it that, including non-technical people who somehow still have a nostalgic and/or ideological affinity for Firefox.
latexr•2h ago
> I've never heard anyone my age (27) or younger call it that

Anecdotally, I’ve heard both people older and younger than you calling it Mozilla. And not tech-illiterate people, either.

itintheory•2h ago
I prefer "Mozzarella Foxfire".
Timwi•2h ago
When the Mozilla foundation took over the Netscape codebase, it was initially called Mozilla, or Mozilla Browser. There was also a Mozilla email client that came from Netscape Communicator.

Then they made a trimmed-down version of the browser with only essential features. That was initially called Phoenix, then Firebird, then Firefox. They did the same with the email client and called it Thunderbird. These existed alongside Mozilla Browser for a while until it was discontinued.

jraph•3h ago
I once heard Mozzarella.

Can you imagine the cheesy user-agent strings we'd have?

hatthew•3h ago
anecdotally, I have never heard anybody call the browser software "mozilla" alone
latexr•2h ago
And Acrobat “Adobe”. I wonder if those mistakes are less prevalent in cultures where the family name comes first.
1718627440•3h ago
It's in the window title in desktop shortcuts and gets appended to every tab in the task bar: -- Mozilla Firefox
jacobgkau•4h ago
Opera had opera.com back when they were an actual browser (they still have it now, too). Vivaldi has vivaldi.com and Brave has brave.com.
ImJamal•3h ago
Opera, Vivaldi and Brave are the names of the companies that own the browser though?
gertlex•3h ago
Sure, but not relevant to a post countering

> Now Firefox is the only browser with a home page domain the same as its common name.

katrinarrlyn•3h ago
hahaha, indeed. but i always can't remember mozilla (i don't even know i spelled it right), the other is really to remember, and automatically you know google has a chrome browser, etc.
oxguy3•3h ago
I mean, doesn't everybody just google the thing they want and click the first result? I don't think I've heard of people just guessing "<some brand name>.com" since back in the days before the browser address bar doubled as a search bar.
1718627440•3h ago
I do, but I also disabled the URL bar doubling as a search bar. When I want to find the official site, I'm using apt show though.
firesteelrain•4h ago
It was on Mozilla.org before redirecting to getfirefox.com. Now, Mozilla has acquired Firefox.com and that’s the new canonical home.

See

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37279788

altairprime•3m ago
[delayed]
Hansenq•4h ago
Seems like up until last month firefox.com redirected to mozilla.org/firefox. Now they're finally using their .com domain!

https://web.archive.org/web/20250201000000*/firefox.com

AdmiralAsshat•4h ago
It was always getfirefox.com for many years. Was someone simply squatting on the firefox.com domain and asking some exorbitant price from Mozilla to relinquish it?
xaerise•4h ago
It was owned by a UK company called Firefox. They actually linked to both Mozilla and Get Firefox for many years as a landing page.

When the company shut down, the owner owned it and redirected it to getfirefox.com instead of making a profit from it.

Traubenfuchs•4h ago
That‘s… commendable… or foolish?

I would have rented or sold it to the highest bidder.

yogorenapan•4h ago
And what, have it serve as malware/phishing? Thankfully most people still seem to have morals and not fallen prey to pure capitalism
Daviey•3h ago
Pretty good place to download Chrome or IE, depending who bought it.
nicce•3h ago
Looking for Firefox? Sorry, it has been officially discontinued. Here is something better.
ToucanLoucan•4h ago
It's my experience that people who look for a way to profit off of every situation they encounter are usually both wealthier than me and also generally quite miserable, lonely folks. Also ironically, they usually are only as wealthy as they are due to generosity given to them earlier in life they would never give to others.

Not said with judgement, just observing.

jacobgkau•4h ago
> Not said with judgement, just observing.

Seems more like speculating than observing. Unless you can elaborate on what proof you have that each of the individuals you've "observed" (which doesn't include GP) were lonely and had handouts.

bryanlarsen•4h ago
Whoever you sold it to would have to have a valid Firefox trademark in a different field like the original owner did, or Firefox would be to snag it via a trademark lawsuit.

Or you could sell it to a malware site, who would lose it fairly quickly but might be able to make some cash in the meantime. I can't imagine they'd earn much though. The old firefox.com didn't have Google juice until after the transition.

The only value in the firefox.com domain is the ability to shake down Mozilla for a sum less than the cost of filing a trademark lawsuit. Which is significant, but not extremely so.

mtmail•3h ago
https://nissan.com/ even after his death didn't sell out to the car manufacturer (https://www.nissan-global.com/).
cAtte_•3h ago
would be pretty difficult to sell out while dead
fencepost•2h ago
Now just has a memorial page for him. Not sure if it'd qualify as an Internet version of a "spite house" but it doesn't seem that far off.
rafark•1h ago
But Firefox is a for profit company worth millions? Why would you just donate it like that to a corporation? For the longest time I thought Mozilla was a non profit org but it doesn’t seem to be the case and they have millions in the bank? I would sell it for a fair price for both parties.
jjmarr•1h ago
Mozilla Corporation is a for-profit entity wholly owned by the Mozilla Foundation. That's why they can keep lots of cash on hand and reinvest it into the business.
ajkjk•4h ago
In this day and age anyone going against profit motive is commendable. the default is "fuck people over but not care because you're abstracted away from them". It's the tragedy of our times. Big respect for anyone who's willing to fight it.
imjonse•3h ago
many times it is rationalized as "fuck people over because even if I don't, someone else will, so I might as well be the one to profit". An attitude that scales well from individuals to big corporations.
nicce•3h ago
I think you don’t find many billionaires with opposite ideology.
firefax•3h ago
>I would have rented or sold it to the highest bidder.

Do you also steal from the library? Mozilla isn't some big bad corporation.

Personally, I'd be a little wary of pissing off the hackers who are fans of that browser using my meatspace name, but hey, you do you. Maybe when you're done you can stroll on down to the local motorcycle bar and kick over some Harleys and see how far that takes you in life.

Gud•3h ago
Relax dude, it’s just a domain name
pmdr•4h ago
So now we can finally expect marketshare to explode all the way up to 3%?
mwcz•3h ago
Am I the only one with deja vu? I distinctly remember a story, shortly after Firefox's initial launch, of a firefox.com domain owner gifting it to Mozilla. Maybe it was getfirefox.com and I'm just getting old and confused.
geor9e•2h ago
People will still search "firefox" and click the first Bing Search Paid Ad to install it