Look, Another AI Browser • Hacker News Board

Re: Look, Another AI Browser

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Post by floren » Wed, Oct 22, 2025, 6:20 PM UTC

jackblemming wrote: post #18

Why would they build their own browser from scratch? That would be dumb without a significantly compelling reason. The author of this post reminds me of one of those guys who writes an entirely new game engine instead of using an off the shelf product and ends up never completing the game..

Surely they should just be able to prompt their code assistant to write a complete browser and come back in a couple days to find it running, right?

Re: Look, Another AI Browser

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Post by glenstein » Wed, Oct 22, 2025, 6:20 PM UTC

bengoodger wrote: post #10

Genuinely curious - what do people want to see from a new/different rendering engine? The web is crazy complex these days because it is an entire app platform. The incentive for anyone building a browser is to use the platform that gives you the best web compat especially at the outset when you don’t have enough users of your app to be able to make big changes to the platform. Even Chrome didn’t start from scratch -…

I think the concerns are not about feature requests but about leveraging embrace-extend-extinguish dynamics to push the web as a whole closer to being locked into dependence on Google as a platform. There are mountains of articles on the topic, ranging from ad blockers to privacy to DRM. But the critiques are old news to anyone who's been following the topic for a while.

Re: Look, Another AI Browser

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Post by deciduously » Wed, Oct 22, 2025, 6:20 PM UTC

ngruhn wrote: post #6

Most of what most people do, who sit 8h a day in front of a computer, is in the browser. So I see where this product idea is coming from...

Is this true? Most of mine is in a text editor. In a previous role, it was in Excel. My partner spends her day in Power BI, etc etc. Are we outliers? What jobs are mostly in browsers instead of task-oriented specific other software tools?

Re: Look, Another AI Browser

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Post by hashim-warren » Wed, Oct 22, 2025, 6:21 PM UTC

bengoodger wrote: post #10

Genuinely curious - what do people want to see from a new/different rendering engine? The web is crazy complex these days because it is an entire app platform. The incentive for anyone building a browser is to use the platform that gives you the best web compat especially at the outset when you don’t have enough users of your app to be able to make big changes to the platform. Even Chrome didn’t start from scratch -…

I would like scratch made browser to focus on performance.

Chromium browsers eat my RAM and drain my computer battery.

Re: Look, Another AI Browser

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Post by ztratar » Wed, Oct 22, 2025, 6:22 PM UTC

This is a funny post. Shows how deeply technical folks fail to understand business, risk, and open source.

Chromium is great. Why exactly should they innovate their first? A v1 should take whats available and not seek to reinvent the wheel.

Re: Look, Another AI Browser

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Post by guluarte » Wed, Oct 22, 2025, 6:24 PM UTC

companies are just riding the hype of the last tool, last season was cursor, then clis and now browsers

Re: Look, Another AI Browser

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Post by didip » Wed, Oct 22, 2025, 6:25 PM UTC

Why the negativity? A browser is the gateway between end user and technology/information/AI themselves.

Of course everyone with money is racing trying to control it. It makes sense.

Re: Look, Another AI Browser

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Post by stalfosknight » Wed, Oct 22, 2025, 6:26 PM UTC

nextworddev wrote: post #9

phplovesong wrote: post #3

Its not "AI slapped on top" but AI slopped on top. I will use an "AI browser" over my dead body.

until your company rolls it out

Please don't give the pointy-haired boss ideas.

Re: Look, Another AI Browser

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Post by mathieudombrock » Wed, Oct 22, 2025, 6:26 PM UTC

bengoodger wrote: post #10

Genuinely curious - what do people want to see from a new/different rendering engine? The web is crazy complex these days because it is an entire app platform. The incentive for anyone building a browser is to use the platform that gives you the best web compat especially at the outset when you don’t have enough users of your app to be able to make big changes to the platform. Even Chrome didn’t start from scratch -…

I think Google has proven with their recent actions concerning android that they really can't be trusted with big, critical open source projects.

Re: Look, Another AI Browser

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Post by SoKamil » Wed, Oct 22, 2025, 6:28 PM UTC

thelastgallon wrote: post #19

So, Atlas, Comet, Edge, Dia, Brave, Opera, etc are all Chromium. And any browser on iOS uses the safari engine under the hood? Looks like we are down to two browsers.

>any browser on iOS uses the safari engine under the hood?

Literally every browser on iOS. Up until iOS 17.4 you were not even allowed to have alternative browser engine. And that still holds true outside EU.

https://developer.apple.com/support/alternative-browser-engi...