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HACKER NEWS: FRONT PAGE

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…

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THE REGISTER

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…

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#technology#transportation#web-issues
R/SAAS

Built a browser games platform, seeing ~16 min avg engagement, struggling with distribution

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DEV.TO (TOP)

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...…

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#image compression#web development#privacy
DEV.TO (TOP)

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...…

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#ai#privacy
DEV.TO (TOP)

SOoooo I made an extension

I made two extensions actually. The first one being Polymoji: It's a browser extension that allows...…

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#browser extensions#web development#typography
HACKER NEWS: NEWEST

I vibecoded my dream game, GeoGuesser for guns, and its making money

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#gaming#firearms#geography
GITHUB

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…

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#web standards#browser technology#machine learning
HACKER NEWS: BEST

LinkedIn is scanning browser extensions

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#browser fingerprinting#privacy policy#data collection
HACKER NEWS: ASK HN

"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…

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#firefox#gpu usage#google search
YCOMBINATOR

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…

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#browser security#privacy#network monitoring
GITHUB

Show HN: Arc Browser + Agents IDE

You like Claude and Codex? You like Arc Browser? You love ArcNext! ❤️ - armantsaturian/ArcNext…

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#terminal#ai agents
HACKER NEWS: SHOW HN

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…

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#privacy#linux#networking
R/WEBDEV

Built a browser-based 3D modeling tool — 3 month progress

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LIFEHACKER

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.…

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#browser tips#opera browser#productivity hacks
𝚓𝚊𝚟𝚊𝚜𝚌𝚛𝚒𝚙𝚝

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…

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PRIVATEPDF

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.…

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#pdf editing#privacy#mobile friendly
GOOGLE NEWS

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.…

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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.…

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HACKER NEWS: FRONT PAGE

Running Adobe's 1991 PostScript Interpreter in the Browser

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#postscript#emulation#retrocomputing
GITHUB

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…

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#github#developer-tools#security
UTORONTO

Learning my lesson that Python virtual environments aren't always movable

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#web security#crawling#browsers
DEV.TO (TOP)

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,...…

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#virtualpiano#piano#javascript
GITHUB

Bouncy – A small Rust web scraper with built-in MCP support

Contribute to maziarzamani/bouncy development by creating an account on GitHub.…

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#web scraping#rust#headless browser
DEV.TO (TOP)

✨ 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...…

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#opensource#personalfinance#webdev
THE REGISTER

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…

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#ai integration#web standards#browser competition
SURGE

Riviera – A Reverb plugin for DAWs that you can demo in the browser

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THREE GATES

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 …

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#hipaa compliance#ai security#protected health information
QUARTZ

AI is moving into your browser. Who controls it?

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DEV.TO (TOP)

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...…

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#web development#javascript#browser rendering
DEV.TO (TOP)

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...…

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#web development#javascript#productivity tools
R/PROMPTENGINEERING

Learn, run and test Agentic AI on your browser for free! (Built in prompt library available)

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PHORONIX

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…

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#browser engine#freebsd#open source
SHARENOVA

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.…

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#file sharing#peer-to-peer#privacy
GITHUB

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…

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#artificial intelligence#operating systems#browser technology
DEV.TO (TOP)

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...…

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#web development#javascript#tools
FAVICON

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…

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#animated favicon#web development#browser tab
DEV.TO (TOP)

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...…

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#text similarity#web development#javascript
GITHUB

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…

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#ai assistant#browser extension#web usability
DEV COMMUNITY

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...…

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#chrome extension#network logging#har exporter
DEV COMMUNITY

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...…

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#webassembly#javascript#ai
9TO5MAC

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...…

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#ai#ipad#web browser
DRGRIZZ

Forcing dark mode in PDFs for Firefox

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#firefox#accessibility#dark mode
MACINTOSHGARDEN

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,…

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#gopher#macintosh#68000
𝚓𝚊𝚟𝚊𝚜𝚌𝚛𝚒𝚙𝚝

I made a vanilla js space browser game

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ZDNET

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.…

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#rakuten#cash back#online shopping
XDA

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.…

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#gemini#chrome#ai skills
DEV COMMUNITY

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...…

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#ai agents#market research#browser automation
CNET

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.…

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#browser security#online privacy#tracking prevention
PIUNIKAWEB

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.…

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#reddit#mobile browser block#app promotion
WEBDEV: REDDIT FOR WEB DEVELOP

I built a free, private, browser-only AI medical intake tool — no server, no storage, open source

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DEV COMMUNITY

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...…

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#reinforcement learning#ai agents#rl environments
VIBE BROWSER

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…

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#browser automation#ai agents#mcp
DEV COMMUNITY

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...…

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#sqlite#webassembly#google drive
DEV COMMUNITY

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...…

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#web development#programming languages#javascript
REDDIT

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…

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DILLO-BROWSER

Dillo Browser Release 3.3.0

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#software update#open source
SIMON WILLISON'S WEBLOG

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…

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#pdf parsing#browser tool#ocr
WAKAMOLEGUY

Reviving BrowserID in 2026

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#authentication#browserid#identity