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Youssuff Quips
Personal blog · quippd.com/writingprogrammingai
Youssuff Quips's personal blog at quippd.com covers programming and ai. Since 2010, 15 different Hacker News readers have linked it 42 times, most often “Unofficial Subreddit Migration List (Lemmy, Kbin)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-04, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Youssuff Quips' posts on Firefox, Mozilla's terms of use, MBNA ending Firefox support, and lists of subreddit alternatives. Comments give the links without judging the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Blogging since 2021.
Most-linked posts?
- Unofficial Subreddit Migration List (Lemmy, Kbin)3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-06-16
- AI's Unpaid Debt: How LLM Scrapers Destroy the Social Contract of Open Source2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-12-19
- Google Is Killing uBlock Origin. No Chromium Browser Is Safe2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-10-17
- Mozilla's new terms of use are out of step with Firefox's direct competition2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-02-27
- AI Code Is Hollowing Out Open Source, and Maintainers Are Looking the Other Way2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-04-08
What Hacker News says?
https://www.quippd.com/writing/2024/10/16/google-is-killing-...
Comment linking /writing/2024/10/16/google-is-killing-uBlock-origin-no-chromium-browser-is-safe.html
on “How to Firefox”Submitted Mozilla's new terms of use are out of step with Firefox's direct competition as a story · 179 points
HN discussion> Yes browsers share your data, it's a browser... That's not the problem people have with Firefox. One of the issues right now is that there are people who have intentionally opted-in to sharing "technical data" to Mozilla for the sole purpose of improving the browser, when in fact, it's not just for that but also for improving ad-tech which was never an intent those power users had in mind: https://www.quippd.com/w…
Comment linking /writing/2025/03/12/mozilla-has-been-sharing-aggregated-firefox-data-with-advertisers-since-2017-when-it-enabled-telemetry-by-default.html
on “A look at Firefox forks”Submitted AI's Unpaid Debt: How LLM Scrapers Destroy the Social Contract of Open Source as a story · 63 points
HN discussionNot a bad idea to move towards a browser that allows for similar functionality: https://www.quippd.com/writing/2022/03/13/youtube-vanced-is-...
Comment linking /writing/2022/03/13/youtube-vanced-is-dead-how-to-replace-it-with-firefox.html
on “Vanced has been discontinued”Submitted Google Is Killing uBlock Origin. No Chromium Browser Is Safe as a story · 24 points
HN discussion> Is there some secret menu I have to go to or something? Kind of. See the setup section: https://www.quippd.com/writing/2022/01/26/most-wanted-add-on...
Comment linking /writing/2022/01/26/most-wanted-add-ons-firefox-android-part-1.html
on ““UBO Minus (MV3)” – An Experimental uBlock Origin Build for Manifest V3”Submitted Google Is Killing uBlock Origin. No Chromium Browser Is Safe as a story · 21 points
HN discussionYou can enable translation on Firefox Nightly - I blogged about this (and other) extensions: https://www.quippd.com/writing/2022/01/26/most-wanted-add-on...
Comment linking /writing/2022/01/26/most-wanted-add-ons-firefox-android-part-1.html
on ““UBO Minus (MV3)” – An Experimental uBlock Origin Build for Manifest V3”Submitted Japanese Mozilla volunteers quit over AI plans as a story · 10 points
HN discussionFWIW, people that want to run extensions can either use Fennec (the F-Droid fork, not the old Firefox for Android) or Nightly versions. There are developers targeting this stuff - I wrote about some here: https://www.quippd.com/writing/2022/01/26/most-wanted-add-on...
Comment linking /writing/2022/01/26/most-wanted-add-ons-firefox-android-part-1.html
on “Add-on support in new Firefox for Android (2021)”Submitted Mozilla Likely Been Sharing Aggregated Firefox Data with Advertisers Since 2017 as a story · 10 points
HN discussionI wonder how this affects thunderbird? Mozilla’s New Terms of Use: https://www.quippd.com/writing/2025/02/26/mozillas-new-terms... Both on the desktop, and in android. I've had pretty severe misgivings about the mozilla foundation for years now, in spite of my multi-decade love-hate relationship with thunderbird. (it still has over 10 year old bugzilla entries for basic IMAP folder shortcomings) Maybe when cketti ge…
Comment linking /writing/2025/02/26/mozillas-new-terms-of-use-are-out-of-step-with-firefoxs-direct-competition.html
on “Goodbye K-9 Mail”Submitted Reddit Is Trying to Sow Division in Mod Teams Thats Because Protest Is Working as a story · 5 points
HN discussionhttp://quippd.com (Full disclosure, I'm a founder). Check out the about page: http://quippd.com/about/intro
Comment linking /about/intro
on “Ask HN: more sites like HN”Submitted AI Code Is Hollowing Out Open Source, and Maintainers Are Looking the Other Way as a story · 4 points
HN discussionMore details[1] [1] https://www.quippd.com/writing/2022/07/19/MBNA-stops-support...
Comment linking /writing/2022/07/19/MBNA-stops-supporting-firefox-in-august-best-alternatives-to-their-credit-cards.html
on “Firefox will no longer be a supported browser – service.mbna.ca”Submitted AI Code Is Hollowing Out Open Source, and Maintainers Are Looking the Other Way as a story · 3 points
HN discussionNot really true - you can see my post for details https://www.quippd.com/writing/2021/10/10/firefox-suggest-an...
Comment linking /writing/2021/10/10/firefox-suggest-an-anatomy.html
on “What’s Vivaldi’s business model?”Submitted Google's Gemini AI Is Overwriting Volunteer Work on Support Mozilla as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI actually have. We announced the site here http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1454934 as well. The novel idea of quippd is to allow users to add/correct links/headlines/content in an effort to cut down the gaming -- no story is just about a single provider of content (optimally). Check out our coverage of the burning of qur'ans story for instance -- many articles being referenced, not a single source. http://quipp…
Comment linking /show/2994/reply/4389/Florida_Church_plans_Quran-burning_event
on “Digg v4's Problems are not Technical”Submitted The Mozilla Firefox New Terms of Use Disaster: What Happened? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSince you are looking -- http://quippd.com Disclaimer, it is my project ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1454934 ) but I'm trying to stock it with good stuff. Hope you browse.
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on “The best sites for content”Submitted Wikipedia Turned on Its Volunteers. Now It's Coming for Its Workers as a story · 2 points
HN discussionAttempted to make a slightly better summary: http://quippd.com/show/4540/The_North_County_Gazette_a_blog_...
on “Local newspaper boasts ultimate passive-aggressive paywall policy”Submitted Firefox's AI Kill Switch Is a Trap: How Mozilla Made AI Your Problem as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThis article is a bit of a slog (but well worth reading) -- I summarized the most interesting part to me (birthrates and why) here: http://quippd.com/show/4304/Where_have_all_Europes_babies_go...
Comment linking /show/4304/Where_have_all_Europes_babies_gone
on “No Babies? -- Causes for the aging population of Europe”Submitted How Firefox Loses When It Tries to Copy Chrome as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI read this post with great interest, since I am developing a social news site that I hope will solve the same problems that you refer to. My twist on the model is twofold: One, like Twitter, we rely extensively on "following" -- you don't have to see the "poison" in the ecosystem if you don't want to. It is ultimately very hard (without censoring, as you point out) to keep low quality content out of the stream -- a…
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on “The Decline of Reddit, Hacker News, and the United States”Submitted Google I/O 2010 coverage: WebM, Google Wave, Chrome web store, storage, webfonts as a story · 2 points
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