skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Efficient for Musk's personal galactic ambitions.
HN was in the same uproar after Musk reformed Twitter. Minor disruption? “The sky is falling!” Brief outage? “It’s malice!” “You see! Musk is obviously driving it into the ground.”

Could there be a world in the middle where maybe the government is bloated and irresponsibly spending money and republicans aren’t just myopic nitwits and do care for our country? And they’re executing on cleaning things up but in a way you disagree with?

Why is it always malice and ruin? It’s tiring. Twitter BTW pulled 1.25B in profit last year…
Right ok, to me extensions don't count as Firefox itself having better UI, but sure.
Yarvin and Nick Land were always explicitly associated with neo-reaction (NRx), not conservatism, so this strikes me as a strange comment.
I mean Musk is carrying out a coup, and Cuban is trying to invest in some programmers. I think there's some day light here.
the solution to this "problem" was mentioned: "get rid off the free press, dismantle USAID - this has already happened. NGOs and Universities are next."

History never had such powerful tech as we have now (or soon). Look at how it works in China, now add on top of this some AI which can better monitor your thoughts / education / etc. Future generations will be better "formatted" than we are
This is what happens when a wrong narrative takes root and you don't nip it in the bud. Many programming communities have embraced the wrong narrative, and if you approach those communities and challenge them, all they can respond with is, "everyone else says so, so you must be wrong".
Intelligence to Nick Land is explicitly not about logic or things that further human values (he is, in fact, explicitly anti-human, which is an intellectual honesty that I have to respect a lot more than the people who have taken his ideas and run with them).

It's about how a system can observe changes, react to them, make decisions to further itself (not any particular values), and act on those decisions. Think about a cybernetic OODA loop. Systems that do so will outcompete and replace those that don't.

Capitalism is all about that. If there's a dollar on the ground, someone will pick it up quicker than someone who has to petition some other agent to acquire a lock. And if two agents can engage in a mutually productive trade, they will not only fire together but also modify the system such that they will wire together in the future to more efficiently acquire limited resources.

All that is solid melts into distributed representations. In a way, he takes all the smartest critiques of capitalism and decides, well, capitalism is going to win, so we might as well embrace the state it converges to. Or not, but it doesn't really matter.
There are Firefox derivatives, listed in the article, whose goals are roughly that. But I don’t think they can be successful long-term, meaning other than for a 0.1% niche, if they don’t keep up with web standards. And currently Mozilla is doing the heavy lifting for that.
> But annotations are much less powerful than Python decorators.

Coming from Java and seeing what kind if stuff is practically done there with annotations (looking at you, Spring), Python decorators actually feel more constrained than annotations, in a fully beneficial sense.

Yes, Python decorators run arbitrary code, but at least, there is a straight-forward relationship between the decorator and the location of that code. Decorators are just syntactic sugar for a function call that takes the decorated function as an argument - so you just have to look up the definition of the decorator to find out what it does.

In contrast, a Java annotation does exactly nothing by itself - it's literally a piece of metadata stapled to a function or field or argument, etc.

This metadata is accessible either at compile-time using compiler postprocessors, or at runtime using reflection. The code that accesses the annotation and implements its behavior can be essentially anywhere in your class path. In the worst case, you'll have to go through every single usage site of the annotation to find the place where its behavior is defined.

(As a bonus, annotations can be annotated themselves, too - so you'll potentially have to repeat the process recursively)
> The web is heading in a shitty direction anyway, so moving slower is better.

I completely agree, though what I believe would happen if Firefox went to maintenance mode is that fewer and fewer websites would work on it. It's already the case that I sometimes need to switch to Chromium to do some things because those shitty websites only work on Chromium.
https://m.xkcd.com/3056/
I've been using LibreWolf for about a year, and I have not experienced endless / non-functional captchas.

As far I know this is because LibreWolf pretends to be Firefox. Looking in the devtools confirms that Librewolf is sending a firefox UA.
…which seems like not the worst idea?

The very fact that it takes such a battle to even get read only access to analyze where the money is going is evidence enough that there is insanely baroque levels of waste and unnecessary services happening here.

If it’s that important it can be put back.

Why is it so scandalous that conservatives want a smaller government, got elected, and are now making the government smaller?
Yeah, I would much rather he put money into supporting constitutional amendments to make crystal clear the executive branch does not set spending and Citizens United is explicitly rejected.

You could call it a Big Beautiful Amendment.
Probably they do not even think about it. Have big secluded houses, lot of security, armed guards, cameras etc. They probably do not think about what if power grid will be destroyed/disabled, without power most of security will not work. Armed guards most probably will not throw away their life for them because they have their own life and families to think about when attacked by hundreds of people. Or think that they will be protected by police or military. But those are also rather common folk so probably would rather side with people instead of those techno-nobles. Finally they might think that they will be able to run with helicopter or plane. But you need people to operate those too. And those people may not exactly be willing to help at that time. Or just the road to the airport may be blocked.
In short I would say that they just do not comprehand the idea of world do not working in they favour. Of people not willing to do what they want.
But the get to that point life for vast number of people would have to get really unbearable.
Tyrian purple can and should be extracted from live snails not crushed dead ones. You pluck them off a rock, poke them with a stick, they spit dye on to your skein, and you put them back, annoyed, but ready to make more. This is how it's done in America. I don't know what's wrong with Europeans that they can't figure this out.
Nitpick: Chrome removed V2 Manifest support, not V3. Firefox still supports it.
yeah I had to step back from this when I saw it* on my feed because I was so disenchanted by how positive the replies were. Not even sure what their issues with DOGE are if they think this is a great solution...

ETA: I'm on about his bluesky post, to be clear, not this thread
I don't think the US government is the largest employer in the world unless we aren't counting other countries governments. China seems to have around 50M government employees, 10 million civil servants and 30-40 million in other government jobs.
Yeah, it's almost as if Elon doesn't have the country's best interest at heart.
I am not recommending it, because it’s hard to get and the experience lasts a full day and is rough - compared to the living experience of mushrooms - but the granddaddy of all psychedelics - Mescaline - is how I learned to understand what people meant by visuals.
I don’t think they’re similar at all.

Musk is cutting things left and right, creating large messes and giving himself hand outs. He is making things less efficient (vs more).

Cuban sees the mess, and an opportunity to make some money while also providing value to the government.

I guess they’re similar in taking advantage of the moment and looking to make money, but I don’t see how Cuban’s proposal is destructive, unlike Musk’s actions.
My wording was poor.

What I meant was: a release that doesn't require building from source.

Also 'close' may have come across like 'days away' which is not what I meant.
> Or hackers finding vulnerabilities and no one to fix them?

That's apparently no longer a concern.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/28/trump-russia...

The Trump administration has publicly and privately signaled that it does not believe Russia represents a cyber threat against US national security or critical infrastructure, marking a radical departure from longstanding intelligence assessments.

...

A recent memo at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (Cisa) set out new priorities for the agency, which is part of the Department of Homeland Security and monitors cyber threats against US critical infrastructure. The new directive set out priorities that included China and protecting local systems. It did not mention Russia.

A person familiar with the matter who spoke to the Guardian on the condition of anonymity said analysts at the agency were verbally informed that they were not to follow or report on Russian threats, even though this had previously been a main focus for the agency.

The person said work that was being done on something “Russia-related” was in effect “nixed”.
Government by philanthropy and éminence grise.
The important thing here is the hyphenlessness of the word technocapital. While Marc Andreessen is using techno-capital in his Techno-Optimist Manifesto, Land's hyphenless technocapital points to his main thesis that capitalism and AI are (teleologically) identical. [0]

[0] https://retrochronic.com/
At this point, I don't see why it should matter if it's criminal negligence or malice.

They know what they are doing is illegal. Or, if they don't, it's because they are actively insisting on not learning it, what shouldn't make any difference.
A Firefox that doesn't keep up with new features gradually becomes more and more useless as websites use the new features.

You may want the web to stay the same but it isn't going to
i hear you but people are going to vote anyway as surely as they drink and drive. many voters vote on “vibes”.

we need an actual populist party that gives people more to vote for. As it is, both parties support the “elites” and that leads to a disillusionment with democracy and a slide towards fascism.
Why not stow? Am I missing out? I dont use Windows so not sure I need the cross platform.
Support for ad blocking is by far the largest reason. Containers are also hard to imagine google allowing in chrome.

I hide most of the UI in either browser so your concern just doesn't make much sense to me.
Mull, it's like librewolf, but for Firefox-android:

https://gitlab.com/divested-mobile/mull-fenix
I can’t wait until Servo has spun up sufficiently. https://servo.org/
An async event loop doesn't have anything to do with the GIL or threads.

Async is all about cooperative concurrency where a task yields in places that it would normally block. The tasks can all run in a single thread.
The majority use Firefox, contrary to the title. All but two use Chromium or Firefox.

One is hoping to release something usable next year. The other one is Gnome Web.
Agree. Maybe another way to say it: write when you feel the urge but without worrying about form, time constraints, structure, etc.

Big fan of shower idea in particular. Also, carrying a little notebook at gym and jotting things as they pass through my brain in between or during sets.
China is happy to just move into the sphere of influence Trump has vacated. His strategy only works if China plays ball to form a new colonially divided world, but they are probably way too smart to walk into that trap.

Just watching the US push their closest allies and trade partners into their arms is worth more than any “picking off” hillbilly states would do.
login.gov is one of the few government services that as a private sector techie I'm in awe of. They really knocked it out of the park with login.gov, and I can only assume it was politics that had the IRS use ID.me instead of login.gov.
18f has(d) really smart people. who gave up higher wages in the private sector to serve the public. then idiots like musk come along.

damage from musk n co will be monumental in the years to come.
I have a sibling who was deported from the US (long, stupid story). There was a 6 month gap from when we'd been told he'd been deported, to when he was actually deported. And this was 15-20 years ago, it's not a recent change.

It is absolutely a system that's designed to disappear people. It's just headcount for income, no-one cares who those heads belong to.
Heh, I’ve used that test to guess if someone was running npm.
but the core problem to me feels like “billionaires in charge of what should be government functions.” this is still that bad for that reason even if Cuban is funnier on Bluesky
> If your argument is that they're trying to make agencies die, and you're using the above as evidence for this, then you'd have to convince me that they want the government to lose control of nuclear bombs or bird flu.

I'm saying they want to get rid of government:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starve_the_beast

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43218884
> Having 25 developers trying to manage a CSS stylesheet together

Your comment suggests you mean 25 developers simultaneously

2 developers per year can easily maintain a coherent stylesheet.
This is exactly what the people who shut down 18F want: a shrunken government reliant on private contractors for basic service needs.

There’s a famous Reagan quote that the nine most terrifying words are “I’m from the government and I’m here to help”. That soundbite influenced a generation of small-government conservatives who ignored the big qualifier that followed — he was actually announcing more government support for farmers, a big handout to a mostly-Republican constituency: https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/archives/speech/presidents-new...
the issue with Elon Musk's involvement is the WAY these things are being done. If what was previously funded through coercion -- tax dollars -- can be funded through voluntary charity of a billionaire that is 100% a good thing and we can still be upset about the rule of law and all that while being happy that billionaires are stepping up to pay their fair share when the tax money is taken away.

HOWEVER Congress has NOT reduced the budget so everything I just said is bullshit and hypothetical until some of that money starts coming back into our pockets.

But I am trying to remain optimistic. These are challenging times.
Nvidia Is Finding Great Success with Vulkan Machine Learning
I guess I meant "fuck everyone" money, my mistake.
That’s where drones and robots come in.
> Peter Thiel stated this as early as 2009, in a lecture for a libertarian-oriented think tank:

> “I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible. (…)

> The 1920s were the last decade in American history during which one could be genuinely optimistic about politics.

> Since 1920, the vast increase in welfare beneficiaries and the extension of the franchise to women — two constituencies that are notoriously tough for libertarians — have rendered the notion of “capitalist democracy” into an oxymoron.”

Is this a common stance so called libertarians take now? That personal freedom eventually entails eating everyone else’s?

I guess I get why it’s popular for wanna be oligarchs. But I don’t see why anyone else would be in favor of it. Designing political systems to benefit yourself almost exclusively is pretty shallow on the intellectual scale.
They acquired Anonym and hired a series of ad tech execs over the past ten years with a commitment to becoming an ad network.
Privatization is what a lot of people believe is the answer, thinking that there is so much waste and useless things the Federal government does. These people must have never worked at a large corporation. I have a relative in the federal government and we would share stories because the dysfunctions are basically the same.

Any large organization of humans working uses a pyramid organization since like the middle ages (or even well before). There will be inept people, waste, corruption, people stealing, etc. but there will also be the vast majority trying to do a good job and feel satisfaction in their work. It doesn't matter if its the federal government or a private corporation, its simply a trade-off of the organization structure. I don't think we, as humans, know of a better/different way to organize that would be more effective.
FAA Officials Ordered Staff to Find Funding for Elon Musk's Starlink
One of the browsers listed in GNU IceCat. They are one of the few organizations that can probably be trusted not to join the ad blob. So, that could be an interesting option.
1 month time out of 4 years is not really representative, by any statistical means. And as pointed out in the article, controlling information and removing anything which stands in between is key to success:

> Bureaucracy and the press are two entities of the “Cathedral” that, in the new vision, obstruct accelerationism.
If these elements disappear (or are totally discredited), it will very likely be the turn of the universities and NGOs.

> All these institutions are considered outdated, and there will be attempts to replace or reinvent them with parallel institutions that use more Artificial Intelligence, and are run like private companies.
The question is what would you do if you were Cuban?
> IMO there is no alternative to supporting Mozilla, and also keeping them accountable and criticizing them where criticism is due.

If there is no alternative to supporting Mozilla, how do we keep them accountable? If they know that they're the only hope for a cross-platform browser that isn't developed by Google, then they know that any outrage is a bluff that can't have teeth because they're indispensable.

> They are still roughly the good guys, even if sometimes misguided.

There aren't any good guys here, there are just people doing people things.

Mozilla is more than sometimes misguided, they've been essentially permanently distracted from Firefox as the core mission for more than ten years now. Their organization is designed in a way that makes funding Firefox directly impossible, and they haven't made any moves to fix it. Instead they set up failed side project after failed side project and repeatedly alienate their core with ads, while insisting that donations couldn't possibly work in spite of the fact that Thunderbird clearly shows that they can—as long as the project is unshackled from the mess that is Mozilla.

It might well be that the best thing that could happen for Firefox would be for it to get evicted from Mozilla like Thunderbird was.
I don't think so. Many of those sites are routinely down or inaccessible. Eventually, you have to pick up the phone and wait on hold, hoping you don't get disconnected.
Using the www less is also an option. Wikipedia works fine as a mobile app.
Welcome to Phase 2 everyone.
I'd rather have a stable government that doesn't have billionaires funding and/or running specific departments when it suits them.
The fact that this is your conclusion made about Cuban offering this as a gesture to how talented and critical these people are, says more about you than Cuban
It’s a paper clip optimizer. RL. With a single goal.
Put Mark Cuban to the side for a bit, I think the general idea of 18f going private is a good one and was my first reaction when I heard they were getting dissolved.

EDIT: I think it's a good idea in the context of them getting dissolved. I would much prefer if they continued to exist within the govt, but if the choice is between going private and ceasing to exist, I would prefer they go private and I think it's a good idea in terms of salvaging what they had already built as an org
> I normally defer to Hanlon's Razor, but with this administration it's 50/50 if their actions are due to incompetence or malice.

The incompetent people were hired / appointed[1] as a form of malice against the "Deep State" (read: civil service) specifically, and government and civil society in general.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spoils_system
Firefox on Linux?
there’s an underlying consistency. 1) authoritarianism. 2) christian nationalism 3) dismantle the government (except for military spending.)
When OpenAI released voice mode originally, I got early access. I used it a __ton__. I must have been 99.9th percentile of usage at least.

Then they started updating it. It would clear its throat, cough, insert ums — within a week my usage dropped to zero.

To me emotionality is an anti feature from a voice assistant. I’m very well aware I’m talking to a robot. Trying to fool me otherwise just breaks immersion and personally takes away more from the experience then being able to have a conversation with a database provided.

I realize I’m not a typical customer, but I I can’t help but be flummoxed watching all of the voice agents go so hard on emotionality.
Live my best life in the wilderness and never have to hear about politics again
Understanding Doge as Procurement Capture
I’d wager almost everyone on HN drinks alcohol regularly.
No there isnt. This claim is pretty much 100% bullshit. All the housing that people want is pretty much full.
When I first encountered login.gov several years ago I rolled my eyes and thought, "there's absolutely no way that anybody in the government got all these different organizations to have any sort of effective common logon scheme." Yet, three years later, I'm always amazed that it works effectively as it does across so many systems. The worst offender is probably EFTPS, for doing payroll taxes, that has additional obscure and inscrutable login stuff on top of login.gov, but the login.gov part of it works well for everything science related I do.
Turns out Mozilla’s abandonment was a blessing in disguise.
But are they hiring?
Interesting, it begs the question. Why block a small monetary pay out to the citizens when they have green lit a multi trillion dollar tax cut for those of us with wealth? Fiscal conservationism seems to be conveniently and selectively used.
> does not scale

CSS already has @layer; and @scope is coming (waiting for firefox).

There are naming conventions like bem. There are also tools to guarantee unique class names (css modules, 'single-file components' in various js frameworks).

There are design systems to standardize and reduce the amount of CSS.

There are web components, with their styles encapsulated in the shadow DOM.
There's even more FUD about Brave than there is about Mozilla. Brave downloads all ads and decides on what it shows you locally; the data never leaves your machine. You also have to opt-in into this system, it is disabled by default.
API calls which go through Akamai all return their default "access denied" or "something went wrong" html, my 1Gbps internet is fine.
Hate to tell ya, but unless you’re already pretty rich, the money won’t be coming back to you
Leave for another country, enjoy the rest of their days in luxury. Truly an excruciating sentence. /s

There's a lot more logistical options for them these days. You'd only catch them if they made a serious blunder.
Why couldn’t they go out and pitch their services to agencies?
LVT doesnt decrease housing prices by itself. It transfers the rent from landlords to the government but without housing expansion rent price doesnt change.
I feel like political discourse would not be in the state it currently is if it wasn’t boiled down to a facile comparison between good (the party you support) and evil (the party you don’t support) and that, ultimately, neither of them succeed without being in collusion.

It’s very much a false dichotomy based on Hollywood superhero slop.