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Guy gives a negative review to Battlezone after playing 8k hours; He's right (❄️ Score: 153+ in 5 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6hfJF
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6hfJF
Show HN: Aide, an open-source AI native IDE (Score: 150+ in 12 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6hx5c
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6hx5c
Hey HN, We are Sandeep and Naresh, the creators of Aide. We are happy to open source and invite the community to try out Aide which is a VSCode fork built with LLMs integrated.
To talk through the features, we engineered the following:
- A proactive agent
Agent which iterates on the linter errors (powered by the Language Server) and pulls in relevant context by doing go-to-definitions, go-to-references etc and propose fixes or ask for more files which might be missing in the context.
- Developer control
We encourage you to do edits on top of your coding sessions. To enable this, we built a VSCode native rollback feature which gets rid of all the edits made by the agent in a single click if there were mistakes, without messing up your changes from before.
- A combined chat+edit flow which you can use to brainstorm and edit
You can brainstorm a problem in chat by @’ting the files and then jump into edits (which can happen across multiple files) or go from a smaller set of edits and discuss the side-effects of it
- Inline editing widget
We took inspiration from the macos spotlight widget and created a similar one inside the editor, you can highlight part of the code, do Cmd+K and just give your instructions freely
- Local running AI brain
We ship a binary called sidecar which takes care of talking to the LLM providers, preparing the prompts and using the editor for the LLM. All of this is local first and you get full control over the prompts/responses without anything leaking to our end (unless you choose to use your subscription and share the data with us)
We spent the last 15 months learning about the internals of VSCode (its a non-trivial codebase) and also powering up our AI game, the framework is also at the top of swebench-lite with 43% score.
On top of this, since the whole AI side of the logic runs locally on your machine you have complete control over the data, from the prompt to the responses and you can use your own API Keys as well (can be any LLM provider) and talk to them directly.
There’s still a whole lot to build and we are at 1% of the journey. Right now the editor feels robust and does not break on any of the flows which we aimed to solve for.
Let us know if there’s anything else you would like to see us build. We also want to empower extensibility and work together with the community to build the next set of features and set a new milestone of AI native editors.
Trudeau government bans TikTok from operating in Canada (🔥 Score: 157+ in 1 hour)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6hzuU
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6hzuU
Caring for yourself while caring for others (🔥 Score: 151+ in 1 hour)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6hyGX
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6hyGX
What has case distinction but is neither uppercase nor lowercase? (Score: 150+ in 8 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6hwqT
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6hwqT
Show HN: Hacker News frontpage as a print newspaper that you can personalize (Score: 155+ in 5 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6hxbF
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6hxbF
Show HN: SuperSplat – open-source 3D Gaussian Splat Editor (Score: 151+ in 8 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6hwgJ
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6hwgJ
Traceroute Isn't Real (Score: 150+ in 22 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6humd
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6humd
Private Cloud Compute Security Guide (Score: 153+ in 4 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6hwHg
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6hwHg
Every boring problem found in eBPF (2022) (❄️ Score: 150+ in 4 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6hgEV
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6hgEV
U.S. chip revival plan chooses sites (Score: 151+ in 18 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6hukd
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6hukd
New images of Jupiter (Score: 151+ in 5 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6hvj5
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6hvj5
Useful built-in macOS command-line utilities (Score: 150+ in 5 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6hvbz
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6hvbz
Former President Trump is projected to win the presidency (🔥 Score: 165+ in 3 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6hvfr
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6hvfr
Title drops in movies (Score: 153+ in 6 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6hv2v
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6hv2v
Superstreamer – OSS streaming toolkit from video source to player (❄️ Score: 150+ in 4 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6hj3v
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6hj3v
Bitcoin has made a new all-time high price (Score: 151+ in 12 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6hwGV
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6hwGV
Passport Photos (🔥 Score: 162+ in 1 hour)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6hz5G
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WebSockets cost us $1M on our AWS bill (🔥 Score: 154+ in 2 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6hyjm
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6hyjm
What Shapes Do Matrix Multiplications Like? (Score: 151+ in 23 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6huBa
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6huBa
Starship's Sixth Flight Test (🔥 Score: 156+ in 1 hour)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6hyjb
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6hyjb
Learning not to trust the All-In podcast (🔥 Score: 155+ in 2 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6hxLk
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6hxLk
Switch 2 will be backwards compatible with Switch, Nintendo confirms (Score: 152+ in 4 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6hwUb
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6hwUb
Only 5.3% of US welders are women. After years as a professor, I became one (Score: 153+ in 16 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6huRw
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6huRw
Why the deep learning boom caught almost everyone by surprise (Score: 151+ in 11 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6hv6m
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6hv6m
98.css – A design system for building faithful recreations of old UIs (Score: 152+ in 11 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6hv2q
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6hv2q
Unix Programmer's Manual Third Edition [pdf] (1973) (Score: 150+ in 14 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6huBE
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6huBE
Why Companies Are Ditching the Cloud: The Rise of Cloud Repatriation (Score: 150+ in 14 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6hukP
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6hukP
State of Python 3.13 performance: Free-threading (Score: 150+ in 19 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6htcf
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6htcf
Show HN: I wrote an open-source browser alternative for Computer Use for any LLM (Score: 150+ in 16 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6htAi
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6htAi
Hey HN,
I made Browser-Use, an open-source tool that lets (all Langchain supported) LLMs execute tasks directly in the browser just with function calling.
It allows you to build agents that interact with web elements using natural language prompts. We created a layer that simplifies website interaction for LLMs by extracting xPaths and interactive elements like buttons and input fields (and other fancy things). This enables you to design custom web automation and scraping functions without manual inspection through DevTools.
Hasn't this been done a lot of times?
Good question, as a general SaaS tool yes, but I think a lot of people are going to try to make their own web automation agents from scratch, so the idea is to provide groundwork/library for the hard part so that not everyone has to repeat these steps:
- parse html in a LLM friendly way (clickable items + screenshots)
- provide a nice function calls for everything inside the browser
- create reusable agent classes
What this is NOT? An all knowing AI agent that can solve all your problems.
The vision: create repeatable tasks on the web just by prompting your agent and not care about the hows.
To better showcase the power of text extraction we made a few demos such as:
- Applying for multiple software engineering jobs in San Francisco
- Opening new tabs to search for images of Albert Einstein, Oprah Winfrey, and Steve Jobs
- Finding the cheapest one-way flight from London to Kyrgyzstan for December 25th
I’d be interested in feedback on how this tool fits into your automation workflows. Try it out and let me know how it performs on your end.
We are Gregor & Magnus and we built this in 5 days.