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Re:Firefox will have an option to disable all AI features on Thursday December 18, 2025 @03:03PM (#46317885)
I think the UI code is not open source (so you can't build the browser yourself).

https://vivaldi.com/blog/technology/why-isnt-vivaldi-browser...

Re:The Dingo's Fate on Sunday March 30, 2025 @10:25PM (#43530145)
To be honest, I don't think I buy this. I'm from NZ and we have a number of introduced species (possums, stoats) which have a dramatic impact on the native wildlife.

A lot of bird species in NZ are unique and only found here. They're almost all critically endangered or at risk [1], as they evolved with no natural predators.

I'd rather we try and control these introduced species so we can keep (at least some of) our native birds.

[1]: https://www.doc.govt.nz/nature/conservation-status/threatene...

Re:Tell Mozilla: it's time to ditch Google on Wednesday March 12, 2025 @07:12PM (#43348706)
Brave is definitely open source [1] (under the MPL)? The source for Safari is closed, but their rendering engine is completely open source [2].

[1]: https://github.com/brave/brave-core

[2]: https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit

Re:Notepad Tab on Monday May 27, 2024 @06:16PM (#40495274)
Yeah, you can do something like that with a ServiceWorker - it does require some JavaScript though.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Progressive_web...

Re:Show HN: A simple game and physics engine I wrote on Sunday February 20, 2022 @06:56PM (#30410452)
The source code is here: https://github.com/fallaciousreasoning/bombs-away

I use webpack for compiling the Typescript but everything else is from scratch.

Re:Hacker News RSS on Friday October 01, 2021 @02:30AM (#28715314)
I made https://readr.nz/ which works pretty well for me. Source code is here https://github.com/fallaciousreasoning/progrssive
Re:The Search for a Free/Open Source Mobile Operating System on Wednesday August 25, 2021 @02:09AM (#28298507)
I wrote a PWA for reading RSS feeds. It works fully offline and should be installable in Chromium based browsers (I develop in Firefox, but Chromium definitely has better PWA support).

https://readr.nz

Re:Back to the Future with RSS on Saturday July 03, 2021 @04:50AM (#27720264)
Cool project! I completely agree, it's my go to playground for tryi g out new ideas.

Mine is here: https://github.com/fallaciousreasoning/progrssive

Re:Back to the Future with RSS on Saturday July 03, 2021 @04:47AM (#27720254)
I wrote https://github.com/fallaciousreasoning/progrssive for this reason(and for offline support). It's free, and should be trivial to selfhost (there's also a live version at https://readr.nz)