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I Switched to Brave Browser

https://kevquirk.com/i-switched-to-brave-browser
19•mindracer•52m ago

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vincent-uden•48m ago
I've tried helium as a chrome-based ad-blocking browser alternative and found it nice to not have to hide the crypto/AI-nonsense since it doesn't exist. Everything beyond the Crypto/AI stuff is indeed pretty damn good in Brave.

At the end of the day it's basically just a uBlock-Origin preset for chromium, but that's really all I'd want from Brave regardless.

vovavili•10m ago
You might like Brave Origin then. If hidable crypto integration is what keeps Brave free, I am personally content with it.
LollipopYakuza•6m ago
I haven't heard of it before, and the crypto ads was the reason I lost interest for Brave. I will have a look, thanks!
mjorgers•6m ago
It may be better in the shorter term, but using yet another Chromium based browser doesn't really improve the current situation with Google's browser monopoly. I'm personally using Firefox Nightly, and so far it has served me well.
PorciiVorbesc•2m ago
>but using yet another Chromium based browser doesn't really improve the current situation with Google's browser monopoly.

Not everyone wants to be a martyr/activist to change their habits in order to support a political cause they don't understand. Most people just want the best, frictionless and most familiar experience to the product they already know.

atraac•4m ago
Also been using Brave for a while. All the crypto stuff needs to be turned off but besides that for me, it's just better Chrome. Firefox always felt slower to me, Safari is just a weird kid from the neighborhood I could never get to like. I LOVED Arc. I think its a near perfect browser, but lack of proper mobile browser and Browser Company dropping Arc in favor of the new rebranded Arc with AI just left me with distrust. Brave just works, I can use it on all my devices, OSes, I can have uBlock Origin on it and vertical tabs. I don't really need anything else at this point.
montroser•3m ago
> I had some messing around to do up front, like hiding all the crypto and AI nonsense...

Switching to Brave from Firefox due to AI and ethical concerns seems like a lateral move at best if being generous.

karol•3m ago
It still amazes me that in California if someone donates to anti-gay marriage initiative they can be openly called "absolute scumbag" and people just roll with it. It's called having political views.
fragmede•1m ago
Annoyingly, Cursor dumped a ton of tokens into creating FastRender, but won't answer my request for a license on their code, so we can't go anywhere with it.

Ask HN: JEV for K1 Tax Forms

1•GoRudy•54s ago•0 comments

Updated Google Maps shows destruction of the city of Rafah

https://twitter.com/AliAbunimah/status/2103890594137309425
1•slowin•57s ago•0 comments

Investigating Jev's architecture and how to scale it

https://www.lowlevelml.com/blog/deciphering-jev
1•gowindone•1m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Agentic Engineered Social Connections and Travel App

https://www.viamour.app
2•jaidarukiya•2m ago•0 comments

Stop letting your agent's scripts die in /tmp

https://github.com/pfcoperez/scriptify
2•pfcoperez•2m ago•0 comments

What a sports medicine doctor wants patients to know about peptides

https://www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/2026/09/28/sports-medicine-doctor-heres-what-i-want-you-k...
2•brandonb•3m ago•0 comments

Concern mounts over slow-moving, planetary-scale Kelvin wave heading for Calif

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/28/california-kelvin-wave
2•howard941•4m ago•0 comments

We Build a Digital World, Then Dream About a Garden

https://idlefy.medium.com/we-build-a-digital-world-then-dream-about-a-garden-62bdf6326afe
2•Idlefy_platform•4m ago•0 comments

How to Connect Your Drone or IP Camera Feeds to Red5

https://www.red5.net/blog/how-to-connect-drone-or-ip-camera-feeds-to-red5/
2•mondainx•4m ago•0 comments

Echoleak Beaten - almost

https://huggingface.co/ApolloRaines/Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct.immunized.v1
1•Apollo_R•4m ago•0 comments

Cf: The Agentic CLI for the Cloudflare API

https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-cf-cli-launch/
1•macleos•5m ago•0 comments

Macrocyclic peptides: a new third drug class?

https://www.empirical.health/blog/macrocyclic-peptides/
1•brandonb•5m ago•0 comments

The hottest new hangout for middle schoolers is NPR's comment section?

https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/25/the-hottest-new-hangout-for-middle-schoolers-is-nprs-comment-se...
1•mooreds•6m ago•0 comments

Dutch Police Arrest 'Reformed' Hacker in Shiny Hunters Investigation

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/09/dutch-police-arrest-reformed-hacker-in-shiny-hunters-investig...
1•CR1337•7m ago•0 comments

A case of Muse leaking personal information and keeping it for itself

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/28/muse-ai-agent/
1•mseri•8m ago•0 comments

Kudu

https://pixabay.com/it/images/search/kudu/?pagi=2
1•ArthurFischerp•8m ago•0 comments

SpaceX's Starship Reaches Orbit for First Time in Major Test

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-28/spacex-to-stage-first-ever-starship-flight-to-...
3•mooreds•8m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Android-on-Device Harness – N8N Meets Tasker Meets AI

https://github.com/ankurCES/Mahout
1•ankurCES•9m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Short film made using MiniMax H3 on my home PC

https://chrisbeach.co.uk/space-adventure/
1•cbeach•9m ago•0 comments

Defeating Satellite Spoofing with Galileo's Encryption

https://hackaday.com/2026/09/27/defeating-satellite-spoofing-with-galileos-encryption/
1•mooreds•9m ago•0 comments

Elevation map of the world with dynamic color scale

https://relief.bertspaan.nl/world
1•idbnstra•9m ago•0 comments

The great CI bottleneck of 2026

https://dagger.io/blog/the-great-ci-bottleneck-of-2026/
3•shykes•10m ago•0 comments

Towards RL for Superhuman Text: Unslopping AI

https://facebookresearch.github.io/RAM/blogs/unslop/
2•simonpure•11m ago•0 comments

Could Addis Ababa become a prosperous megacity without becoming car-dependent?

https://substack.com/@michaelhillaert1/note/c-347817407
1•michaelhillaert•12m ago•0 comments

Show HN: HN.watch – Videos of all Hacker News posts

https://hn.watch/
3•mrborgen•17m ago•0 comments

Lexxy: A modern rich text editor for Rails

https://www.jorgemanrubia.com/presentations/2026-09/rails-world-lexxy/
1•ksec•17m ago•0 comments

Free log storage with a time machine

https://antithesis.com/blog/2026/retrologging/
1•giaour•17m ago•0 comments

Quine's Paradox

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quine%27s_paradox
1•Curiositry•18m ago•0 comments

One Quarter of Global Data Centers Are Located in Water-Stressed Areas

https://pubs.acs.org/esthag/article/doi/10.1021/acs.est.6c08088/5437283/One-Quarter-of-Global-Dat...
1•wrxd•18m ago•1 comments

Skill Acquisition

https://elijahpotter.dev/articles/skill-acquisition
2•chilipepperhott•19m ago•1 comments