Hacker News with Generative AI: Browsers

Webvm: Virtual Machine for the Web (github.com/leaningtech)
This repository hosts the source code for https://webvm.io, a Linux virtual machine that runs in your browser.

Virtual Machines, Web Development, Open Source, Linux, Browsers

198 points by thunderbong 1 day ago | 53 comments

New iOS 18.2 beta marks WebGPU as stable and enabled by default in Safari (twitter.com)

New Releases, iOS, WebGPU, Browsers

12 points by astlouis44 9 days ago | 0 comments

This month in Servo: faster fonts, fetches, and Flexbox (servo.org)
This month in Servo: faster fonts, fetches, and flexbox!

Web Development, Performance Optimization, Browsers

10 points by infotainment 10 days ago | 0 comments

Show HN: Intelligent Browser for Web Automation Powered by AI (airtop.ai)
Effortlessly scrape and control any site with cheap and scalable AI-powered cloud browsers

Web Automation, Artificial Intelligence, Browsers, Software, Cloud Computing

25 points by danielsht 14 days ago | 8 comments

Show HN: I wrote an open-source browser alternative for Computer Use for any LLM (github.com/gregpr07)

Open Source, Browsers, Software

180 points by gregpr07 16 days ago | 73 comments

Mullvad browser: the privacy of Tor, with the perks of a VPN (2023) (techradar.com)

Privacy, VPN, Browsers, Security

6 points by dotcoma 26 days ago | 0 comments

Firefox Is Now "More Than 75X Faster" Running WebAssembly (howtogeek.com)

WebAssembly, Browsers, Performance, Firefox

78 points by hochmartinez 35 days ago | 5 comments

Search Engine Shortcuts in Firefox (jamesg.blog)
Firefox has a feature that lets you map a character or sequence of characters typed in the Firefox address bar to a custom search engine.

Firefox, Search Engines, Browsers, Web Development, Productivity

9 points by zerojames 38 days ago | 3 comments

This month in Servo: Android nightlies, right-to-left, WebGPU, and more (servo.org)
This month in Servo: Android nightlies, right-to-left, WebGPU, and more!

Web Development, Mobile Development, Browsers, Software, Open Source

23 points by AndrewDucker 48 days ago | 0 comments

Ask HN: How does WebKit ITP work? (ycombinator.com)
I recently heard about a feature of WebKit, ITP(Intelligent Tracking Prevention)[0] and I'm curious as to how it works.

Web Development, Privacy, Browsers, Security, WebKit

5 points by d-z-m 55 days ago | 1 comments

Firefox tracks you with “privacy preserving” feature (noyb.eu)
Today, noyb filed a complaint against Mozilla for quietly enabling a supposed “privacy feature” (called Privacy Preserving Attribution) in its Firefox browser. Contrary to its reassuring name, this technology allows Firefox to track user behaviour on websites. In essence, the browser is now controlling the tracking, rather than individual websites. While this might be an improvement compared to even more invasive cookie tracking, the company never asked its users if they wanted to enable it.

Privacy, Browsers, Mozilla, Tracking, User Consent

156 points by robin_reala 57 days ago | 130 comments

Safari 18.0 Release Notes (apple.com)

New Releases, Software, Browsers

5 points by ksec 61 days ago | 0 comments

Gaining access to anyones Arc browser without them even visiting a website (kibty.town)

Security, Browsers, Hacking

1469 points by xyzeva 62 days ago | 498 comments

Why no (se)L4 microkernel/hypervisor based browser? (ycombinator.com)
For example, Microsoft's Gazelle and Illinois Browser OS build their browsers based on a secure kernel, so why no (se)L4 microkernel/hypervisor based browser?

Operating Systems, Browsers, Security, Microkernels

10 points by iloveappleman 64 days ago | 6 comments

Building a browser using Servo as a web engine (servo.org)
Building a browser using Servo as a web engine!

Web Development, Browsers, Open Source, Servo

140 points by TangerineDream 71 days ago | 13 comments

Show HN: Browserbased (Serverless Headless Browsers) (github.com/yevbar)
Open-source serverless headless browsers

Open Source, Web Development, Browsers, Serverless

8 points by yevbar 73 days ago | 1 comments

Gophie — Open Source Gopher Browser (gophie.org)

Open Source, Browsers, Programming, Software

35 points by layer8 80 days ago | 2 comments

A browser for debugging ActivityPub and the Fediverse (browser.pub)