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Senators say TSA's facial recognition program is out of control (Score: 151+ in 12 hours)
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RFC 35140: HTTP Do-Not-Stab (2023) (🔥 Score: 152+ in 1 hour)
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Dear friend, you have built a Kubernetes (Score: 151+ in 20 hours)
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Charset="WTF-8" (Score: 150+ in 15 hours)
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Starlink Direct to Cell (🔥 Score: 157+ in 2 hours)
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This website is hosted on Bluesky (🔥 Score: 153+ in 1 hour)
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Howstuffworks.com creator, Marshall Brain, has died (🔥 Score: 153+ in 2 hours)
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1 Dataset. 100 Visualizations (Score: 150+ in 23 hours)
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MaXX Interactive Desktop -- the little brother of the great SGI Desktop on IRIX (Score: 150+ in 1 day)
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Frosted Glass from Games to the Web: HTML glass UI inspired by AAA game dev (Score: 155+ in 5 hours)
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RGFW: Single-header C99 window abstraction library (Score: 151+ in 1 day)
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How to give a senior leader feedback (without getting fired) (Score: 151+ in 9 hours)
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Antenna Diodes in the Pentium Processor (Score: 152+ in 8 hours)
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Show HN: Autotab – Programmable AI browser for turning web tasks into APIs (❄️ Score: 150+ in 3 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/c/6ihV7
Hey HN, we're Alexi and Jonas the co-founders of Autotab (https://autotab.com). Autotab is a chrome-based browser you can teach to do complex tasks, with a simple API for running them from your app or backend.
Here is a walkthrough of how it works: https://youtu.be/63co74JHy1k, and you can try it for free at https://autotab.com by downloading the app.
Why a dedicated editor?
The number one blocker we've found in building more flexible, agentic automations is performance quality BY FAR (https://www.langchain.com/stateofaiagents#barriers-and-chall...). For all the talk of cost, latency, and safety, the fact is most people are still just struggling to get agents to work. The keys to solving reliability are better models, yes, but also intent specification. Even humans don't zero-shot these tasks from a prompt. They need to be shown how to perform them, and then refined with question-asking + feedback over time. It is also quite difficult to formulate complete requirements on the spot from memory.
The editor makes it easy to build the specification up as you step through your workflow, while generating successful task trajectories for the model. This is the only way we've been able to get the reliability we need for production use cases.
But why build a browser?
Autotab started as a Chrome extension (with a Show HN post! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37943931). As we iterated with users, we realized that we needed to focus on creating the control surface for intent specification, and that being stuck in a chrome sidepanel wasn't going to work. We also knew that we needed a level of control for the model that we couldn't get without owning the browser. In Autotab, the browser becomes a canvas on which the user and the model are taking turns showing and explaining the task.
Key features:
1. Self-healing automations that don't break when sites change
2. Dedicated authoring tool that builds memory for the model while defining steps for the automation
3. Control flows and deep configurability to keep automations on track, even when navigating complex reasoning tasks
4. Works with any website (no site-specific APIs needed)
5. Runs securely in the cloud or locally
6. Simple REST API + client libraries for Python, Node
We'd love to get any early feedback from the HN community, ideas for where you'd like the product to go, or experiences in this space. We will be in the comments for the next few hours to respond!
The size of BYD's factory (Score: 153+ in 12 hours)
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Bluesky is on the verge of overtaking Threads in all the ways that matter (🔥 Score: 150+ in 3 hours)
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Full LLM training and evaluation toolkit (Score: 150+ in 9 hours)
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WireGuard: Beyond the most basic configuration (Score: 153+ in 6 hours)
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Denmark will plant 1B trees and convert 10% of farmland into forest (Score: 150+ in 16 hours)
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A Career Ending Mistake (🔥 Score: 151+ in 2 hours)
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OpenMPTCProuter: Aggregate and encrypt multiple internet connections using MPTCP (Score: 150+ in 1 day)
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Mechanically strong yet metabolizable plastic breaks down in seawater (❄️ Score: 150+ in 2 days)
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Playground Wisdom: Threads Beat Async/Await (❄️ Score: 150+ in 5 days)
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Bocker: Docker implemented in around 100 lines of Bash (2015) (Score: 150+ in 7 hours)
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Computer Networking Fundamentals – Learning Series (2023) (❄️ Score: 151+ in 5 days)
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Using GPS in the Year 1565 (❄️ Score: 150+ in 4 days)
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Evidence of oldest known alphabetic writing unearthed in ancient Syrian city (Score: 151+ in 5 hours)
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Oxford accused of relying on young academics employed on gig-economy terms (❄️ Score: 151+ in 6 days)
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