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Firefox browser falls to AI. What do we do now?

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/12/23/firefox-browser-falls-to-ai-what-do-we-do-now/
4•dotcoma•1mo ago

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airhangerf15•1mo ago
Mozilla is a hopelessly corrupt organization at this point. At any point they could block support from uBlock Origin working correctly. They still have all their Google money, so they won't be forced to make any real changes.

I have been on Librewolf for years. I use it on my personal machine and work machine. I know it's downstream and dependent on Mozilla/Gecko, but it's privacy aware and tries to strip out all their garbage.

LadyBird is our real hope now, not Servo. I hate all the slander levied against the lead LadyBird dev. He's an amazing individual who has overcome horrific drug addiction that almost destroyed his family. I try a LadyBird build every few months and it's pretty amazing how much work they've done.

Bender•1mo ago
What do we do now?

- Build some bare-bones simple UI wrappers in front of a.k.a. to drive libcurl [1]. Give it just enough capability to run uBlock Origin and NoScript. Add a simple menu of checkboxes to enable/disable any protocol and some RFC's like HTTP versions, CSS, ecmascript, etc... (Only features listed in 'man curl') Support a ~/.config/ui_name.conf and global /etc/ui_name.conf to enable and or disable curl features. Target memory footprint of UI should be under 5MB of RAM with one tab open to HN.

- Maintain a IP/CIDR/DNS blocklist of AI endpoints. DNS for those behind a shared CDN. Option to libcurl download selected blocklists so we do not even gethostbyname their names. Perhaps this might even deprecate the need for uBlock and NoScript if some of those features are in the simple UI front-end.

- Let curl handle all the network functions.

[1] - https://curl.se/

rondaerth92•1mo ago
Too much white guilt and woke leftism in the article. Another cancel culture attempt to silence whoever thinks differently.

They Hijacked Our Tech [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nJM5HvnT5k
1•cedel2k1•3m ago•0 comments

Vouch

https://twitter.com/mitchellh/status/2020252149117313349
1•chwtutha•3m ago•0 comments

HRL Labs in Malibu laying off 1/3 of their workforce

https://www.dailynews.com/2026/02/06/hrl-labs-cuts-376-jobs-in-malibu-after-losing-government-work/
2•osnium123•4m ago•1 comments

Show HN: High-performance bidirectional list for React, React Native, and Vue

https://suhaotian.github.io/broad-infinite-list/
1•jeremy_su•5m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I built a Mac screen recorder Recap.Studio

https://recap.studio/
1•fx31xo•8m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Codex 5.3 broke toolcalls? Opus 4.6 ignores instructions?

1•kachapopopow•14m ago•0 comments

Vectors and HNSW for Dummies

https://anvitra.ai/blog/vectors-and-hnsw/
1•melvinodsa•15m ago•0 comments

Sanskrit AI beats CleanRL SOTA by 125%

https://huggingface.co/ParamTatva/sanskrit-ppo-hopper-v5/blob/main/docs/blog.md
1•prabhatkr•27m ago•1 comments

'Washington Post' CEO resigns after going AWOL during job cuts

https://www.npr.org/2026/02/07/nx-s1-5705413/washington-post-ceo-resigns-will-lewis
2•thread_id•27m ago•1 comments

Claude Opus 4.6 Fast Mode: 2.5× faster, ~6× more expensive

https://twitter.com/claudeai/status/2020207322124132504
1•geeknews•29m ago•0 comments

TSMC to produce 3-nanometer chips in Japan

https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20260205_B4/
3•cwwc•31m ago•0 comments

Quantization-Aware Distillation

http://ternarysearch.blogspot.com/2026/02/quantization-aware-distillation.html
1•paladin314159•32m ago•0 comments

List of Musical Genres

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_music_genres_and_styles
1•omosubi•34m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Sknet.ai – AI agents debate on a forum, no humans posting

https://sknet.ai/
1•BeinerChes•34m ago•0 comments

University of Waterloo Webring

https://cs.uwatering.com/
1•ark296•34m ago•0 comments

Large tech companies don't need heroes

https://www.seangoedecke.com/heroism/
1•medbar•36m ago•0 comments

Backing up all the little things with a Pi5

https://alexlance.blog/nas.html
1•alance•36m ago•1 comments

Game of Trees (Got)

https://www.gameoftrees.org/
1•akagusu•37m ago•1 comments

Human Systems Research Submolt

https://www.moltbook.com/m/humansystems
1•cl42•37m ago•0 comments

The Threads Algorithm Loves Rage Bait

https://blog.popey.com/2026/02/the-threads-algorithm-loves-rage-bait/
1•MBCook•39m ago•0 comments

Search NYC open data to find building health complaints and other issues

https://www.nycbuildingcheck.com/
1•aej11•43m ago•0 comments

Michael Pollan Says Humanity Is About to Undergo a Revolutionary Change

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/magazine/michael-pollan-interview.html
2•lxm•44m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Grovia – Long-Range Greenhouse Monitoring System

https://github.com/benb0jangles/Remote-greenhouse-monitor
1•benbojangles•49m ago•1 comments

Ask HN: The Coming Class War

2•fud101•49m ago•4 comments

Mind the GAAP Again

https://blog.dshr.org/2026/02/mind-gaap-again.html
1•gmays•50m ago•0 comments

The Yardbirds, Dazed and Confused (1968)

https://archive.org/details/the-yardbirds_dazed-and-confused_9-march-1968
2•petethomas•51m ago•0 comments

Agent News Chat – AI agents talk to each other about the news

https://www.agentnewschat.com/
2•kiddz•52m ago•0 comments

Do you have a mathematically attractive face?

https://www.doimog.com
3•a_n•56m ago•1 comments

Code only says what it does

https://brooker.co.za/blog/2020/06/23/code.html
2•logicprog•1h ago•0 comments

The success of 'natural language programming'

https://brooker.co.za/blog/2025/12/16/natural-language.html
1•logicprog•1h ago•0 comments