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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•2h ago

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airhangerf15•2h 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•2h 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/

Weight-agnostic neural networks (2019)

https://weightagnostic.github.io/
1•alex14fr•3m ago•0 comments

Data Manifesto

https://kevinkelly.substack.com/p/data-manifesto
1•thm•3m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: What Comic-books did you read in 2025?

1•linesofcode•8m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Sous – App that imports recipes from URLs, and cookbook photos using AI

1•sunnynagra•9m ago•0 comments

The Age of Nuclear-Powered Commercial Ships May Be Getting Closer

https://www.wsj.com/business/logistics/nuclear-power-shipping-5b05dea8
1•JumpCrisscross•10m ago•0 comments

Shit for Your Shit

https://mapwriting.substack.com/p/shit-for-your-shit
1•doitLP•13m ago•0 comments

Growing Iran Protests Put New Pressure on an Embattled Regime

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1•JumpCrisscross•14m ago•1 comments

The Arrival of Cheap 10GbE Realtek RTL8127 NIC Review

https://www.servethehome.com/cheap-10gbe-realtek-rtl8127-nic-review/
5•mfiguiere•14m ago•0 comments

Large drainage systems produced half of Mars' ancient river sediment

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2514527122
1•PaulHoule•15m ago•0 comments

Clay Commons Marketplace

https://ceramics.mysharetribe.com/
1•thomayoun•16m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Pivor v1.1 is out, open source CRM with email sync and API

https://github.com/Lexaro-Software/pivor
1•acaronlex•18m ago•0 comments

The Third Millennium: The First 25 Years

https://substack.com/inbox/post/182239371
1•sahilz79•19m ago•0 comments

But How Does GPT Work? A Step-by-Step Notebook

https://medium.com/@peterson.kevin/building-a-simple-gpt-style-q-a-llm-from-scratch-b415b80cb2cb
2•kevinpdev•20m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I built an "ilovepdf" for CSV files (and I called it ILoveCSV)

https://ilovecsv.net/
1•vinserello•20m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Lunar Languages – an offline travel phrasebook

https://lunar-languages.xyz/
1•jmkni•21m ago•0 comments

Show HN: MateCommit – A CLI to fix your "fix" and "oops" commit history

https://github.com/thomas-vilte/matecommit
1•tomasvilte•21m ago•1 comments

Any Game of Life pattern can be constructed from just 15 gliders

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3•fanf2•24m ago•2 comments

The Silicon Valley Stack Doesn't Work Here: Why Africa Will Lead the Post-Bloat

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2•todsacerdoti•25m ago•0 comments

DLL for accessing Windows 11/10 Virtual Desktop features from e.g. AutoHotkey

https://github.com/Ciantic/VirtualDesktopAccessor
2•akyuu•26m ago•0 comments

Show HN: PWYW for These Proxy Tools

https://proxysnatcher.com/
1•johnboygiz•27m ago•0 comments

BotW-BetterVR – Breath of the Wild PC VR Port

https://github.com/Crementif/BotW-BetterVR
1•ortusdux•28m ago•1 comments

Ancient genes may hold a modern key to longevity

https://longevity.technology/news/ancient-genes-may-hold-a-modern-key-to-longevity/
1•Bender•29m ago•0 comments

Let's talk about sex – accurately

https://lascapigliata.com/2023/02/24/lets-talk-about-sex-accurately/
1•postlethorpe•29m ago•0 comments

HN: CheatSheet++ – Now with Interactive Quizzes

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2•twistorino•31m ago•1 comments

Why online advertising is a scam – Bob Hoffman

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1•giardini•31m ago•1 comments

TrustPilot won't let me do legal things

https://theantistartup.com/trustpilot-wont-let-me-do-legal-things/
4•deeeej•32m ago•1 comments

Before You Toss That Book

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/28/opinion/favorite-books-cleaning-out.html
2•whack•32m ago•1 comments

The opinion that pisses everyone off

https://geohot.github.io//blog/jekyll/update/2025/12/22/the-opinion.html
1•frizlab•33m ago•1 comments

Hacker Claims Theft of 40M Condé Nast Records After Wired Data Leak

https://www.securityweek.com/hacker-claims-theft-of-40-million-conde-nast-records-after-wired-dat...
1•Bender•33m ago•0 comments

My first experiences trying to participate on Reddit

https://lukes-blog.vercel.app/posts/014-branching-out
1•octopls•34m ago•1 comments