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Corbin Davenport
Personal blog · spacebar.newshardwareculture
Corbin Davenport writes The Spacebar, a personal blog at spacebar.news about hardware and culture. Since 2023, 32 different Hacker News readers have linked it 39 times, most often “Stop Using Brave Browser”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-31, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (13) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Corbin Davenport's spacebar.news posts mainly to argue against using the Brave browser, usually citing its 'Stop using Brave Browser' post as a reference on trust problems.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 13 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Thoughts about retro tech, web browsers, and anything else. Written by Corbin Davenport.
Most-linked posts?
- Stop Using Brave Browser6 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2024-06-11
- Stop Using Brave Browser5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2023-08-08
- Stop Using Opera Browser and Opera GX4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2024-01-24
- What is Firefox supposed to do?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-07-23
- The Problem with "Gimp"2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-06-13
- Apple's history is hiding in a Mac font2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-06-29
- /windows-pc-sleep-broken/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-10-17
What Hacker News says?
https://www.spacebar.news/stop-using-brave-browser/
Comment linking /stop-using-brave-browser/
on “Bypassing Google's big anti-adblock update”Submitted I tried Servo as a story · 356 points
HN discussion> If you read down in the thread, there's a good discussion about how this simply isn't true about Mozilla. Yeah, I'm not searching 500 posts for this.. > Of the fads Christophe Henry mentioned top of thread Who is Christophe Henry? Is this some namecalling? > Mozilla flat out didn't invest any resources in some of them, That doesn't make it better, being somewhat selective is also normal. Most companies don't have…
Comment linking /the-mozilla-graveyard/
on “Firefox will have an option to disable all AI features”Submitted Apple's history is hiding in a Mac font as a story · 158 points
HN discussionThat, and the predatory short-term loans part of their business. https://www.spacebar.news/stop-using-opera-browser/
Comment linking /stop-using-opera-browser/
on “Why I use Firefox”Submitted The flip phone web: browsing with the original Opera Mini as a story · 123 points
HN discussionDevelopers that fill those informations.. So then saying over there that they do not collect does not mean they are not collecting something.. Also, Brave has already broken trust multiple times.. https://www.coindesk.com/business/2020/06/08/brave-browsers-... https://www.searchenginejournal.com/brave-browser-under-fire... https://www.xda-developers.com/brave-browser-installs-vpn-wi... https://www.spacebar.news/stop…
Comment linking /stop-using-brave-browser/
on “Introducing a terms of use and updated privacy notice for Firefox”Submitted Moonbase Alpha: That time NASA made a meme video game as a story · 112 points
HN discussionIt's foolish to trust Brave. https://www.spacebar.news/p/stop-using-brave-browser
Comment linking /p/stop-using-brave-browser
on “Brave Leo now uses Mixtral 8x7B as default”Submitted I can't believe PowerShell is good as a story · 76 points
HN discussionThere are some good reasons to consider not using Brave: https://www.spacebar.news/stop-using-brave-browser/
Comment linking /stop-using-brave-browser/
on “Disable AI in Firefox”Submitted Stop Using Opera Browser and Opera GX as a story · 58 points
HN discussionThe ISA is, according to people far more knowledgable than myself [0], not a significant factor in regards to performance and/or power efficiency on modern CPUs. That's also why both AMD and Intel haven't done a bad job keeping up with Apple on the efficiency front, AMD since the 4x00u series and Intel now with Luna Lake. Nowadays, the OS not having downright broken sleep [1] is what keeps Macbooks slightly ahead, t…
Comment linking /windows-pc-sleep-broken/
on “Qualcomm cancels Snapdragon Dev Kit, refunds all orders”Submitted Why can't we go back to small phones? as a story · 14 points
HN discussionI wonder if Linux/ARM (or specifically System76) has figured out how to do hybrid sleep-suspend out of the box. “closed laptop” performance in AMD/Intel land seems to have regressed substantially in the last 15 years; Microsoft is even encouraging vendors to drop support for regular S3 sleep https://www.spacebar.news/windows-pc-sleep-broken/ and my Steam Deck AMD machine makes no attempt to hibernate and will drain…
Comment linking /windows-pc-sleep-broken/
on “System76 built the fastest Windows Arm PC”Submitted Stop Using Brave Browser as a story · 7 points
HN discussionInteresting link from this article https://www.spacebar.news/stop-using-opera-browser/
Comment linking /stop-using-opera-browser/
on “The flip phone web: browsing with the original Opera Mini”Submitted The Problem with "Gimp" as a story · 6 points
HN discussionGeneral tip... https://www.spacebar.news/stop-using-brave-browser/
Comment linking /stop-using-brave-browser/
on “NEC V20 CPU: A bit of pep for an XT”Submitted What is Firefox supposed to do? as a story · 4 points
HN discussion"Stop using Brave." https://www.spacebar.news/p/stop-using-brave-browser He's right.
Comment linking /p/stop-using-brave-browser
on “Ask HN: How can we help Firefox not to dissapear?”Submitted Is Android the next big desktop operating system? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionhttps://www.spacebar.news/stop-using-brave-browser/ https://thelibre.news/no-really-dont-use-brave/
Comment linking /stop-using-brave-browser/
on “Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent”Submitted I made a website with Apple iWeb in 2025 as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThen you haven't been listening, because it's been widely discussed and well publicised. My personal two favourite piece on Brave are these... 2023: « Stop using Brave Browser Seriously. Corbin Davenport 07 Aug 2023 » https://www.spacebar.news/stop-using-brave-browser/ And from a couple of years later, with a very apt URL... 2025: « Why I recommend against Brave Luca Bramè March 24, 2025 » https://thelibre.news/no-r…
Comment linking /stop-using-brave-browser/
on “Show HN: Adblock-rust Manager – Firefox extension to enable the Brave ad blocker”Submitted Data hoarding is more important than ever as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The GIMP name controversy, explained (2024) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Asus Eee PC and the netbook revolution as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Apple's history is hiding in a Mac font as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted These repairable phones still aren't built to last as a story · 2 points
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