Hacker News: stnvh

New comment by stnvh in "Firefox introduces Split View: Two tabs side by side, right where you need them"

stnvh — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 00:50:31 +0000

I've always wondered why Firefox don't grab hold of the "renegade" space they already occupy, with confidence through their existing users, an alternative and genuinely independent browser down to the engine. They are the market leaders of non-webkit, a huge strength among chromium copycat popup shops with identical wins and failures... or do I have to write the TV ad as well?

I feel confident to assume the majority of dedicated Firefox users will read and think of this feature release, et al most new features as of late, as trivial. The true benefit of using Firefox in itself isn't "ease of planning camping trips" but something much more.

New comment by stnvh in "Show HN: ANSI-Saver – A macOS Screensaver"

stnvh — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 22:09:59 +0000

This is absolutely brilliant. I've been toying with the codebase and thought this would work really well similar to the 'Macintosh' style animated screensaver present in macOS's more recent updates.

https://youtu.be/gSss24I_y3M

Still a bit rough around the edges. I am currently adding per-character animation so the grid enters like a "wave"

New comment by stnvh in "10% of Firefox crashes are caused by bitflips"

stnvh — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 19:53:16 +0000

Reassuring to hear I'm not the only one, and would consider this a normal use case for the browser, in fact one of the main reasons I use Firefox over chrome as it's simpler to manage than the latter.

I was hinting in my original comment if these cases are contributing to crash reports in any capacity there is a small chance they could be misattributed towards the claims in the post, especially if memory is not freed correctly on shutdown. Even more so if any memory allocation is shared between processes / helpers.

If I quit normally, don't wait for the "timeout" and force quit I still get the crash report UI immediately which suggests to me something funky going on.

10% is a crazy high percentage to claim for bitflips.

New comment by stnvh in "10% of Firefox crashes are caused by bitflips"

stnvh — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 12:40:08 +0000

Long hangs / never closes, crash report screen triggers often. macOS. This occurs for me when launching instances from the about:profiles page and using each instance for what I'd describe as normal use

New comment by stnvh in "10% of Firefox crashes are caused by bitflips"

stnvh — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 23:03:49 +0000

Try running two instances of Firefox in parallel with different profiles, then do a normal quit / close operation on one after any use. Demons exist here.

Does anyone use backspace navigation anymore?

stnvh — Sun, 25 May 2025 23:28:38 +0000

It seems deeply ingrained to me that I can hit the backspace key to navigate to the prior page, maybe something from the "older web". I notice this recently when using a website like github, presented with a "Code view is read-only." when simpy trying to navigate the web after visiting a reference page. Am I alone here?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44092292

Points: 3

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New comment by stnvh in "Populating the page: how browsers work (2020)"

stnvh — Fri, 13 Oct 2023 16:14:15 +0000

The waterfalls match the ones generated by WebPageTest, though they could be using a third party tool themselves

New comment by stnvh in "/r/StableDiffusion – Mod here – My side of the story"

stnvh — Tue, 11 Oct 2022 23:34:36 +0000

Indeed. "Our server got hacked" sounds awfully more dramatic in a self-proclaimed crisis, laying the ambiguous notion of responsibility toward the "service" while maintaining the guise of ownership. Hey ho.

GPT-3 AI Game Prototypes

stnvh — Sat, 10 Sep 2022 14:47:04 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VC_pSgAMbUU

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32791112

Points: 2

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New comment by stnvh in "A small Stripe fraud story"

stnvh — Mon, 05 Sep 2022 22:11:13 +0000

Interesting on stripe's response to this matter. 'Debug environment spew leads to unauthorised api usage' - unfortunate and well worn. Like a good pair of slacks, it was simply your turn to wear them this time

New comment by stnvh in "Microsoft Clipchamp"

stnvh — Tue, 30 Aug 2022 23:25:49 +0000

It seems more like the devs at MS know their code works on Firefox but have been asked by exec to push chromium(-esque) because edge is now webkit.

sidenote: this is a multi-billion $ company, no excuse to ignore any platform with their capacity, front face it looks like they can't build a good app anymore, especially if it works anyway with a simple string change in the browser - heck, web devs had to factor in ie7-8 polyfills built by the community only a few years ago. no excuse.

New comment by stnvh in "Microsoft Clipchamp"

stnvh — Sat, 27 Aug 2022 09:54:56 +0000

Using Firefox with the user agent changed to chrome seems to get around this

New comment by stnvh in "English to Emoji – Yandex Translate"

stnvh — Sun, 05 Dec 2021 13:36:36 +0000

classic emoticons aren't translated though ;)

Google showing animated ships when searching “ever given”

stnvh — Mon, 29 Mar 2021 22:26:51 +0000

Article URL: https://www.google.com/search?q=ever+given

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26629067

Points: 131

# Comments: 51