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Show HN: Browser-based light pollution simulator using real photometric data
Hi HN — author here. iesna.eu is a browser-based ecosystem for working with photometric data: parsing standard luminaire files (LDT/EULUMDAT, IES LM-63, Oxytech, ATLA-S001), runnin…
UK drivers' agency shrugs off claims of week-long booking site smashes, blames browser configs
Agency insists everything is working fine, even though users spend days failing to load it The DVSA's driving test booking system has spent the week offline, according to frustrate…
Built a browser games platform, seeing ~16 min avg engagement, struggling with distribution
I built an image compressor that never sees your images published
Every online image compressor I tried had the same problem: they upload your photos to a...…
The Browser That Brought Its Own AI
Not in the Brief, Episode 01 Open chrome://on-device-internals in a new tab. If your machine...…
SOoooo I made an extension
I made two extensions actually. The first one being Polymoji: It's a browser extension that allows...…
I vibecoded my dream game, GeoGuesser for guns, and its making money
Mozilla's opposition to Chrome's Prompt API
Specification title Prompt API Specification or proposal URL (if available) No response Explainer URL (if available) https://github.com/webmachinelearning/prompt-api/blob/main/READ…
LinkedIn is scanning browser extensions
"Show more" in Google search causes high Firefox GPU usage
Has anyone else noticed this? If I do a Google search and an AI response comes up, things are fine. But if I click "Show more" to get more details, the Firefox GPU process starts h…
How can perplexity.com persist on the browser without extension
I talked about this before on Facts: - restarted archlinux yesterday after updates, so browser will start clean - did not open perplexity.com since that restart - on the morning ch…
Show HN: Arc Browser + Agents IDE
You like Claude and Codex? You like Arc Browser? You love ArcNext! ❤️ - armantsaturian/ArcNext…
Show HN: Transparent Tor Proxy – Route all Linux system traffic through Tor
This CLI tool easily routes all Linux traffic through Tor (using nftables). Easy to use and doesn't need configuration. Now it is also published on PyPI, even though pre-built pack…
Built a browser-based 3D modeling tool — 3 month progress
10 Hacks Every Opera Browser User Should Know
From bypassing unskippable video ads to enabling hidden privacy modes, these are the hacks every Opera user should know.…
Readable production browser stack traces, without Sentry.
You can finally trace production browser errors back to your private code without Sentry. We recently released s(ource)mapped-traces: With smapped-traces, you can use OpenTelemetry…
A single HTML file that organizes your PDF pages locally, mobile friendly
Merge, reorder, rotate and delete PDF pages directly in your browser. No upload, no server, 100% private and free.…
OpenAI To 'Promote' Own Products Via Your Browser Cookies 05/04/2026 - MediaPost
Comprehensive up-to-date news coverage, aggregated from sources all over the world by Google News.…
OpenAI To 'Promote' Its Products Through Browser Cookies 05/04/2026 - MediaPost
Comprehensive up-to-date news coverage, aggregated from sources all over the world by Google News.…
Running Adobe's 1991 PostScript Interpreter in the Browser
Gh-relay:share a readonly browser view of your private repo via a temporary URL
Share a private GitHub repo with anyone, no collaborator invite, no paid seat, no cleanup. - soub4i/gh-relay…
Learning my lesson that Python virtual environments aren't always movable
I Built a Free Browser Piano with Tone.js
RoxyPiano is the only free browser-based piano that combines 88 keys, 128 GM instrument sounds,...…
Bouncy – A small Rust web scraper with built-in MCP support
Contribute to maziarzamani/bouncy development by creating an account on GitHub.…
✨ One HTML file. No backend. No sign-up. Your data never leaves your browser.
But here's what makes it different from the 50 other trackers out there: → Real-time broker sync for...…
Firefox maker torches Google for building Prompt API into browser
Mozilla fears wiring an AI API into Chrome will make the web less open Mozilla has reiterated its opposition to Google's decision to build AI plumbing into its Chrome browser, thou…
Riviera – A Reverb plugin for DAWs that you can demo in the browser
The HIPAA Violations Hiding in Your Team's Browser History
Your employees are pasting patient data into ChatGPT right now. Shadow AI in healthcare is not malicious. It is a billing clerk trying to move faster. Most organizations have zero …
AI is moving into your browser. Who controls it?
Rendering Is a Browser Decision, Not a JavaScript One
This is the fifth article in a series on how JavaScript actually runs. You can read the full series...…
26 free browser tools, zero backend: how we built SnappyTools
SnappyTools is a collection of 26 free browser tools for developers, writers, and designers — things...…
Learn, run and test Agentic AI on your browser for free! (Built in prompt library available)
Servo Browser Engine Seeing Progress On FreeBSD Support
Following the recent Servo 0.1 release, the Servo project has published their latest monthly status report to highlight recent development efforts around this modern open-source br…
Show HN: ShareNova – Browser file sharing, no account, no limits, no storage
Transfer files of any size directly between browsers. No signup, no limits, end-to-end encrypted. The free WeTransfer alternative.…
What If Your OS Could Think?
NEXUSos: A 100% sovereign, local AI desktop OS environment. The Neural Body for DAEMON. No cloud, no tracking. - AFKmoney/nexusOS…
I built a free JSON formatter in a single HTML file (no libraries, no backend)
Title: I built a free JSON formatter in a single HTML file (no libraries, no...…
Demo: Animated Favicon
A practical guide to building animated favicons with HTML canvas. Try four working demos right inside this page, see the actual code, and learn the browser support quirks before yo…
I Built a Text Similarity Checker: Compare Two Texts Instantly in Your Browser
Recently I was working on my online tools website toolsonline.run and decided to build a Text...…
PageGuide – a browser agent that grounds AI directly on the webpage
PageGuide is a browser extension that grounds LLM answers directly in the HTML DOM, helping users find information, complete multi-step tasks, and filter distractions — with full i…
I needed to capture network logs from a colleague's browser without asking them to open DevTools — so I built this. Here's how it works..
Network Logger - HAR Exporter (Chrome Extension) Capture network requests across all tabs and export...…
I Stopped Paying for Subtitle Services After Running Whisper in a Browser Tab
Last Tuesday I needed subtitles for a 12-minute product demo. The video was in English, the audience...…
Perplexity just gave its Comet AI browser an upgrade for iPad users with these features
Perplexity has been early to the AI-browsing space with its Comet web browser. Today’s Comet update includes some welcome features...…
Forcing dark mode in PDFs for Firefox
Geomys is a Gopher browser for classic 68000 Macintosh computers
Geomys is a Gopher browser for classic 68000 Macintosh computers. It supports monochrome and 256 colors, System 6 and 7, multi-window browsing, themes, favorites, Gopher+ protocol,…
I made a vanilla js space browser game
I earned nearly $700 by shopping with the Rakuten plugin - 6 tips from a shopping expert
Have you added something to an online cart recently? Don't check out until you read this.…
Gemini can now save your Chrome workflows as reusable skills, and it's the first AI browser feature I absolutely love
Gemini Skills saves my repeated Chrome prompts as reusable workflows, so I can run them from the sidebar without starting from scratch.…
How to Build an AI Agent for Market Research with a Real Browser
Most AI market research starts too late. A founder, marketer, or product manager opens a blank chat...…
The Tools That Convinced Me to Take Browser Security More Seriously
Prevent websites from collecting and selling your data with these browser-safety and online-privacy tools.…
Reddit seems to be blocking mobile browser access for some users
Reddit is testing a new mobile web block that forces users into the official app. But there are some workarounds to bypass it.…
I built a free, private, browser-only AI medical intake tool — no server, no storage, open source
The RL environment platform landscape in 2026
In my last post I wrote about the pain of setting up a local RL environment from scratch. So Update...…
Show HN: VibeBrowser – Give your AI agent your real logged-in browser via MCP
Show HN: VibeBrowser – Give your AI agent your real logged-in browser via MCP…
Running SQLite in the browser with sql.js and WASM — a practical guide with Google Drive sync
Most tutorials on client-side data storage reach for IndexedDB, localStorage, or a third-party sync...…
Why programming for the browser needs a different kind of language
authored by claude, rubber stamped by Bryan MacLee TL;DR: JavaScript wasn't built for today's...…
VRAM.cpp: Running llama-fit-params directly in your browser
Lots of people are always asking on this subreddit if their system can run a certain model. A lot of the "VRAM calculators" that I've found only provide either very rough estimates…
Dillo Browser Release 3.3.0
Extract PDF text in your browser with LiteParse for the web
LlamaIndex have a most excellent open source project called LiteParse , which provides a Node.js CLI tool for extracting text from PDFs. I got a version of LiteParse working entire…