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New comment by fabrice_d in "Build Adafruit projects right from Firefox"

fabrice_d — Mon, 25 May 2026 00:06:04 +0000

I don't believe this is a good solution: users will obviously click on that add-on install dialog box without being better informed and protected against malicious / buggy / attacker controlled web sites.

Hopefully they will move to a better solution that offers some integrity guarantees instead, like https://rwc26.waict.dev/ that they have an early implementation of in nightly builds.

New comment by fabrice_d in "'No way to prevent this,' says only package manager where this regularly happens"

fabrice_d — Sat, 16 May 2026 02:10:42 +0000

It has build.rs that will run as soon as you compile the dependency. That's not the same thing but pretty close to a post install script: it's very likely to run.

New comment by fabrice_d in "This Month in Ladybird – April 2026"

fabrice_d — Sun, 03 May 2026 17:10:48 +0000

It's very naive to believe the "no influence" part. I will never give to Ladybird given their closeness with fascists. Is that the kind of influence they expect?

New comment by fabrice_d in "This Month in Ladybird – April 2026"

fabrice_d — Sun, 03 May 2026 17:05:57 +0000

If you are interested in new browsers / web runtimes, Servo publishes binaries monthly: https://servo.org/download/

New comment by fabrice_d in "Firefox Has Integrated Brave's Adblock Engine"

fabrice_d — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 03:25:40 +0000

Probably because they don't leverage cosmetic filtering yet: https://docs.rs/adblock/latest/adblock/struct.Engine.html#me...

Servo Baseline Readiness

fabrice_d — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 17:25:47 +0000

Article URL: https://webtransitions.org/servo-readiness/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47278092

Points: 6

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New comment by fabrice_d in "Boss-CSS: I created another "CSS-in-JS" lib"

fabrice_d — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 22:57:54 +0000

I encourage you to read the short paragraph at https://www.w3.org/TR/html-design-principles/#priority-of-co...

New comment by fabrice_d in "Ladybird adopts Rust, with help from AI"

fabrice_d — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 23:05:28 +0000

> Perhaps, but in fairness the project was started in 2018 when Rust was still new and unproven.

Rust was already proven in 2018, and I'm pretty sure they went with C++ for other reasons.

New comment by fabrice_d in "Ladybird adopts Rust, with help from AI"

fabrice_d — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 16:57:39 +0000

You can't compare the choices made to evolve a >20 years old codebase with a brand new one. Firefox also as Rust support for XPCOM components, so you can use and write them in Rust without manual FFI (this comes with some baggage of course).

The Ladybird devs painted themselves in a corner when choosing C++ for a new web browser, with many anti-Rust folks claiming that "modern C++ was safe". Well...

New comment by fabrice_d in "I’m joining OpenAI"

fabrice_d — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 18:48:13 +0000

Did you factor in the highest cost of life (including housing, healthcare, retirement, etc.) in the US in your 50% ?

New comment by fabrice_d in "Rust at Scale: An Added Layer of Security for WhatsApp"

fabrice_d — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 19:48:47 +0000

WhatsApp was using libsignal (the C version) when I worked on the KaiOS integration in 2017/2018.

New comment by fabrice_d in "Show HN: One Human + One Agent = One Browser From Scratch in 20K LOC"

fabrice_d — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 22:24:22 +0000

This is a cool project, and to render Simon's blog will likely become the #1 goal of AI produced "web browsers".

But we're very far from a browser here, so that's not that impressive. Writing a basic renderer is really not that hard, and matches the effort and low LoC from that experiment. This is similar to countless graphical toolkits that have been written since the 70s.

I know Servo has a "no AI contribution" policy, but I still would be more impressed by a Servo fork that gets missing APIs implemented by an AI, with WPT tests passing etc. It's a lot less marketable I guess. Go add something like WebTransport for instance, it's a recent API so the spec should be properly written and there's a good test suite.

New comment by fabrice_d in "The Resonant Computing Manifesto"

fabrice_d — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 21:26:25 +0000

Some people looked at some of the authors background:

https://gameboat.bearblog.dev/the-resonant-computing-manifes...

There are actually things to be very skeptical about.

New comment by fabrice_d in "Don't fall into the anti-AI hype"

fabrice_d — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 01:46:44 +0000

Some people are also opposed because of the negative externalities when building and running AI systems (environmental consequences, intellectual property theft), even if they understand that agentic coding "works". This is a valid position.

New comment by fabrice_d in "The Mozilla Cycle, Part III: Mozilla Dies in Ignominy"

fabrice_d — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 23:47:37 +0000

Mozilla Corp. has > $1B in the bank. Their pockets are not empty.

New comment by fabrice_d in "Google is killing the open web, part 2"

fabrice_d — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 18:07:25 +0000

The billion laughs attack has well known solutions (basically, don't recurse too deep). It's not a reason to not implement DOCTYPE support.

New comment by fabrice_d in "Android 16 QPR1 is being pushed to the Android Open Source Project"

fabrice_d — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 20:33:33 +0000

> I can get the source of the kernel, including all drivers, running on my android phone with a few clicks and build a custom ROM.

No, most drivers are closed source and you can just extract binary blobs for them. They run as daemons that communicate through the binder ipc - Android basically turned the Linux kernel into a microkernel.

New comment by fabrice_d in "Firefox Forcing LLM Features"

fabrice_d — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 00:47:09 +0000

According to Mozilla's own data at https://data.firefox.com/dashboard/hardware Windows (7, 10 & 11) make up 84% of their user base.

New comment by fabrice_d in "Firefox Forcing LLM Features"

fabrice_d — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 21:59:24 +0000

Most of Firefox user base has always been on Windows, not Linux. What OS do you think the "techies" that promoted Firefox to replace IE in the first place were running?

New comment by fabrice_d in "SailfishOS: A Linux-based European alternative to dominant mobile OSes"

fabrice_d — Sun, 02 Nov 2025 00:47:56 +0000

Indeed, I did not see that!