Sometimes people assume the low character count usernames are taken and don't even try. I've snagged some cool twitter accounts this way (not low though but like regular words).

I can confirm that. I grabbed "odb" back in the day from a squatter (no repos or activity)

I always loved downloading them DRM-free. Because it felt like I had actually owned it instead of just reading it from some website that could snatch it back at any second. I know Library Genesis is still up and running fine, but this is a warning of things that could happen.

I'm curious, how hard would it be to make a Firefox extension out of this?

I can, but unfortunately I don't have time as I do it for hobby purposes.

Agreed. It really takes me back to the old days of the Internet, with fun little easter eggs like this!

Google is evil, today. They didn't even have to change their site.

Yep. It's got all you could want from Firefox -- Mozilla free. (+more)

Except it's just another blink repackage. I think the really important thing is web standards, which means supporting gecko or webkit.

This is awesome. I've been looking for color palette generating sites for a while, and this one is pretty good.

Saw another HN user's comment about automatic battle-bot features. Maaaybe it's not the best idea in this case!

I'm all for robots taking over the world, that is, if I get my tacos.

I mean it's a kind of lazy luxury predicted by e.g. the Jetsons, Wall-E, even Star Trek if you're being generous.