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Yamanot.es: A music box of train station melodies from the JR Yamanote Line

https://yamanot.es/
115•zdw•4h ago•35 comments

Malicious versions of Nx and some supporting plugins were published

https://github.com/nrwl/nx/security/advisories/GHSA-cxm3-wv7p-598c
310•longcat•1d ago•365 comments

Altered states of consciousness induced by breathwork accompanied by music

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0329411
17•gnabgib•1h ago•1 comments

The National Design Studio Is a Scam

https://www.chrbutler.com/the-national-design-studio-is-a-scam
98•delaugust•49m ago•11 comments

Toyota is recycling old EV batteries to help power Mazda's production line

https://www.thedrive.com/news/toyota-is-recycling-old-ev-batteries-to-help-power-mazdas-productio...
192•computerliker•4d ago•97 comments

Google has eliminated 35% of managers overseeing small teams in past year

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/27/google-executive-says-company-has-cut-a-third-of-its-managers.html
256•frays•4h ago•107 comments

Unexpected productivity boost of Rust

https://lubeno.dev/blog/rusts-productivity-curve
270•bkolobara•10h ago•278 comments

Show HN: Meetup.com and eventribe alternative to small groups

https://github.com/polaroi8d/cactoide
48•orbanlevi•4h ago•14 comments

Launch HN: Bitrig (YC S25) – Build Swift apps on your iPhone

112•kylemacomber•10h ago•81 comments

About Containers and VMs

https://linuxcontainers.org/incus/docs/main/explanation/containers_and_vms/
15•Bogdanp•2d ago•1 comments

VIM Master

https://github.com/renzorlive/vimmaster
211•Fluffyrnz•10h ago•73 comments

The Therac-25 Incident (2021)

https://thedailywtf.com/articles/the-therac-25-incident
394•lemper•18h ago•232 comments

Using information theory to solve Mastermind

https://www.goranssongaspar.com/mastermind
85•SchwKatze•3d ago•23 comments

Implementing Forth in Go and C

https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2025/implementing-forth-in-go-and-c/
127•Bogdanp•12h ago•15 comments

A failure of security systems at PayPal is causing concern for German banks

https://www.nordbayern.de/news-in-english/paypal-security-systems-down-german-banks-block-payment...
210•tietjens•8h ago•144 comments

Object-oriented design patterns in C and kernel development

https://oshub.org/projects/retros-32/posts/object-oriented-design-patterns-in-osdev
192•joexbayer•1d ago•118 comments

How to slow down a program and why it can be useful

https://stefan-marr.de/2025/08/how-to-slow-down-a-program/
132•todsacerdoti•14h ago•48 comments

Reverse-engineering the Globus INK, a Soviet spaceflight navigation computer (2023)

https://www.righto.com/2023/03/reverse-engineering-globus-ink-soviet.html
15•trymas•2d ago•2 comments

Efficient Array Programming

https://github.com/razetime/efficient-array-programming
72•todsacerdoti•10h ago•12 comments

3D printing a building with 756 windows

https://jero.zone/posts/cbr-building
27•jer0me•4d ago•5 comments

'Rocks as big as cars' are flying down the Dolomites

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250819-why-italys-beloved-ancient-monolith-is-falling
89•bookofjoe•3d ago•49 comments

Lago – Open-Source Usage Based Billing – Is Hiring in Sales, Eng, Ops (EU, US)

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/lago/jobs
1•AnhTho_FR•8h ago

Bring Your Own Agent to Zed – Featuring Gemini CLI

https://zed.dev/blog/bring-your-own-agent-to-zed
129•meetpateltech•13h ago•36 comments

Internet Access Providers Aren't Bound by DMCA Unmasking Subpoenas–In Re Cox

https://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2025/08/internet-access-providers-arent-bound-by-dmca-unmas...
130•hn_acker•3d ago•16 comments

Monodraw

https://monodraw.helftone.com/
544•mafro•14h ago•173 comments

Typepad is shutting down

https://everything.typepad.com/blog/2025/08/typepad-is-shutting-down.html
148•gmcharlt•9h ago•67 comments

Areal, Are.na's new typeface

https://www.are.na/editorial/introducing-areal-are-nas-new-typeface
94•g0xA52A2A•2d ago•71 comments

SDS: Simple Dynamic Strings library for C

https://github.com/antirez/sds
104•klaussilveira•2d ago•36 comments

What we find in the sewers

https://www.asimov.press/p/sewers
56•surprisetalk•12h ago•26 comments

Show HN: Spart – A Rust library for fast spatial search with Python bindings

22•habedi0•2d ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Firefox Has Moved to Firefox.com

https://www.firefox.com
119•pentagrama•6h ago

Comments

globular-toast•6h 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•6h ago
Yeah same.. I have no clue where it was hosted and been using it for 2 decades too.
jchw•6h 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•6h ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20250415002534/https://www.mozil...
notfed•6h ago
In other words, the download page used to be:

    https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/
jraph•5h 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•6h ago
Last time I downloaded it it must've been the mozilla website
tech234a•6h ago
I always liked https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/ but that's not the primary consumer page.
aspenmayer•5h 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•5h 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•4h 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•6h 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•6h 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•6h ago
chrome.com redirects to www.google.com/chrome/

No one has to download Edge or Safari.

sebastiennight•5h ago
No one wants ...

FTFY

jacobgkau•5h 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•5h ago
Technically Edge can also be installed on macOS/Linux/iOS/Android.
ascorbic•5h ago
Ahem https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/edge/mac
_Algernon_•6h ago
chrome.com redirects to https://www.google.com/chrome/ for whatever it's worth.
bobsoap•6h 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•5h ago
Literally everyone I know who isn't technical calls Firefox "mozilla". Including older people.
jacobgkau•5h 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•4h 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•4h ago
I prefer "Mozzarella Foxfire".
Timwi•4h 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•5h ago
I once heard Mozzarella.

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

hatthew•4h ago
anecdotally, I have never heard anybody call the browser software "mozilla" alone
latexr•4h ago
And Acrobat “Adobe”. I wonder if those mistakes are less prevalent in cultures where the family name comes first.
pix128•1h ago
Acrobat Reader was called "Adobe Reader" for a good number of years.
1718627440•4h ago
It's in the window title in desktop shortcuts and gets appended to every tab in the task bar: -- Mozilla Firefox
jacobgkau•5h 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•5h ago
Opera, Vivaldi and Brave are the names of the companies that own the browser though?
gertlex•4h 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•5h 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•5h 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•4h 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•6h 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•1h ago
When did Firefox Sync start using accounts.firefox.com for their login site? One assumes they’ve owned it since at least then, if not before. https://github.com/search?q=repo%3Amozilla-firefox%2Ffirefox... says 2014? So probably earlier than that, though I don't know for sure when.
Hansenq•6h 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•6h 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•6h 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•6h ago
That‘s… commendable… or foolish?

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

yogorenapan•6h 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•5h ago
Pretty good place to download Chrome or IE, depending who bought it.
nicce•5h ago
Looking for Firefox? Sorry, it has been officially discontinued. Here is something better.
ToucanLoucan•6h 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•5h 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•5h 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•5h ago
https://nissan.com/ even after his death didn't sell out to the car manufacturer (https://www.nissan-global.com/).
cAtte_•4h ago
would be pretty difficult to sell out while dead
fencepost•3h 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•3h 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•3h 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•5h 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•5h 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•5h ago
I think you don’t find many billionaires with opposite ideology.
firefax•5h 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•4h ago
Relax dude, it’s just a domain name
pmdr•6h ago
So now we can finally expect marketshare to explode all the way up to 3%?
mwcz•4h 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•4h ago
People will still search "firefox" and click the first Bing Search Paid Ad to install it