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Passport Photos (🔥 Score: 162+ in 1 hour)
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WebSockets cost us $1M on our AWS bill (🔥 Score: 154+ in 2 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6hyjm
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What Shapes Do Matrix Multiplications Like? (Score: 151+ in 23 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6huBa
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Starship's Sixth Flight Test (🔥 Score: 156+ in 1 hour)
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Learning not to trust the All-In podcast (🔥 Score: 155+ in 2 hours)
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Switch 2 will be backwards compatible with Switch, Nintendo confirms (Score: 152+ in 4 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6hwUb
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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
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Why the deep learning boom caught almost everyone by surprise (Score: 151+ in 11 hours)
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98.css – A design system for building faithful recreations of old UIs (Score: 152+ in 11 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6hv2q
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Unix Programmer's Manual Third Edition [pdf] (1973) (Score: 150+ in 14 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6huBE
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Why Companies Are Ditching the Cloud: The Rise of Cloud Repatriation (Score: 150+ in 14 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6hukP
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State of Python 3.13 performance: Free-threading (Score: 150+ in 19 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6htcf
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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
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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.
What if your computer beeps each time it sends data to Google? (🔥 Score: 154+ in 2 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6hv4w
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Tracking down a mysterious skateboarder from 1979 (🔥 Score: 150+ in 3 hours)
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Caring for yourself while caring for others (🔥 Score: 151+ in 1 hour)
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What has case distinction but is neither uppercase nor lowercase? (Score: 150+ in 8 hours)
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Show HN: Hacker News frontpage as a print newspaper that you can personalize (Score: 155+ in 5 hours)
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Show HN: SuperSplat – open-source 3D Gaussian Splat Editor (Score: 151+ in 8 hours)
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Traceroute Isn't Real (Score: 150+ in 22 hours)
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Private Cloud Compute Security Guide (Score: 153+ in 4 hours)
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Every boring problem found in eBPF (2022) (❄️ Score: 150+ in 4 days)
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U.S. chip revival plan chooses sites (Score: 151+ in 18 hours)
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New images of Jupiter (Score: 151+ in 5 hours)
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Useful built-in macOS command-line utilities (Score: 150+ in 5 hours)
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Former President Trump is projected to win the presidency (🔥 Score: 165+ in 3 hours)
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Title drops in movies (Score: 153+ in 6 hours)
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Mozilla is eliminating its advocacy division (Score: 152+ in 7 hours)
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Mozilla Foundation lays off 30% staff, drops advocacy division (Score: 150+ in 8 hours)
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DataChain: DBT for Unstructured Data (Score: 150+ in 1 day)
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