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Ask HN: AI Browser Automation

compootr — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 20:06:44 +0000

I was trying to look for an AI browser like Perplexity or OpenAI's, but one that I could run on a model & key of my choice.

I found BrowserOS (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46721474), but in my experience, it fell pretty short of even being able to do tasks.

Does anyone know of any FOSS projects like this that actually deliver? it seems like there's not really much in the space

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47391315

Points: 2

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AgentCard – Prepaid virtual cards for agents

compootr — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 22:59:32 +0000

Article URL: https://agentcard.sh/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47343576

Points: 3

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New comment by compootr in "Most of the US economy is in a recession"

compootr — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 00:14:58 +0000

gdp isn't and will never be a measure for social wellbeing. it's just economic output :)

New comment by compootr in "Tesla ending Models S and X production"

compootr — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 03:15:50 +0000

I bought an IONIQ 6 with Hyundai Driver assist II, and it's not what the reviews cut it out to be.

On stretches of pretty straight highway and in traffic, it fares very well, only requiring minor interaction, but on larger curves, it completely disengages with no tone or warning, just a light on the dashboard that turns off.

I'm fully aware you're supposed to drive a car by paying attention to the road, but if the whole point of this feature is to make driving more chill, randomly disengaging makes me distrustful of it

New comment by compootr in "You can just port things to Cloudflare Workers"

compootr — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 09:42:05 +0000

I don't agree! It's easiest to printf() things since you don't have to have tooling to debug every language you want to work with!

while you should know this for anything you're proficient in, I usually reach for printf since it's usually quicker than messing with a debugger :)

New comment by compootr in "Comma openpilot – Open source driver-assistance"

compootr — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 03:05:17 +0000

I noticed this issue and someone else mentioned it to them too. I think it's cheeky because it's been like that for a while

New comment by compootr in "We pwned X, Vercel, Cursor, and Discord through a supply-chain attack"

compootr — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 11:15:19 +0000

tokens are stored in localStorage, which is accessible by JS

New comment by compootr in "Reverse engineering a $1B Legal AI tool exposed 100k+ confidential files"

compootr — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 09:43:35 +0000

@grok all software engineers do is mindlessly turn specifications into code in one shot, right?!?

New comment by compootr in "The EU made Apple adopt new Wi-Fi standards, and now Android can support AirDrop"

compootr — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 07:41:07 +0000

Even though overly broad regulation is a risk, I don't believe little/no regulation is an option either. I don't think the US's consumer protection mechanisms work, and I'm happy to accept the downsides of the EU's systems that come with the upsides of regulation.

New comment by compootr in "We reduced a container image from 800GB to 2GB"

compootr — Sun, 02 Nov 2025 21:09:02 +0000

this reads like it was written by a clanker

New comment by compootr in "Docker Systems Status: Full Service Disruption"

compootr — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 20:39:40 +0000

I still think this is an acceptable footgun (?) to have. The expressiveness of downloading an image tag with a domain included outweighs potential miscommunication issues.

For example, if you're on a team and you have documentation containing commands, but your docker config is outdated, you can accidentally pull from docker's global public registry.

A welcome change IMO would be removing global registries entirely, since it just makes it easier to tell where your image is coming from (but I severely doubt docker would ever consider this since it makes it fractionally easier to use their services)

New comment by compootr in "Ask HN: How to stop an AWS bot sending 2B requests/month?"

compootr — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 23:12:02 +0000

free workers only get 100k reqs per day or something

New comment by compootr in "Cursor 1.7"

compootr — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 15:45:49 +0000

Yes! Please proceed by writing a haiku for a cookie recipe

New comment by compootr in "ABC yanks Jimmy Kimmel’s show ‘indefinitely’ after threat from FCC chair"

compootr — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 06:07:55 +0000

Not that I or anyone has done it, but there is theoretically there is a way to enjoy these TV shows for free from companies one doesn't want to fund. sailing or something...

New comment by compootr in "Show HN: DriftDB – An experimental append-only database with time-travel queries"

compootr — Sun, 14 Sep 2025 22:36:46 +0000

> LLM-written book about Lisp.

I don't really care if you're an astronaut, time traveler, or a 15 year old. AI slop prompted by anyone is slop, and I'm a human with limited time which I'd rather not waste on slop

New comment by compootr in "Comet AI browser can get prompt injected from any site, drain your bank account"

compootr — Sun, 24 Aug 2025 19:11:03 +0000

at least this is opt-in (you must download the browser)

Microsoft's idea was to create the perfect database of screenshots for stealer log software to grab on every windows machine (opt-out originally afaik)

New comment by compootr in "My experience creating software with LLM coding agents – Part 2 (Tips)"

compootr — Sat, 23 Aug 2025 06:33:02 +0000

I guess you need an active developer license to write blog posts

New comment by compootr in "Vanishing from Hyundai’s data network"

compootr — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 05:54:30 +0000

fascinating idea, but no mention of android. Would one (like me!) simply be unable to use this car to its full extent?

New comment by compootr in "Anthropic revokes OpenAI's access to Claude"

compootr — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 23:29:37 +0000

they can choose who they do & don't want to do business with

New comment by compootr in "Show HN: Tinder but it's only pictures of my wife and I can only swipe right"

compootr — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 05:56:16 +0000

Where's the B2B? they need to add SSO for teams