MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
Agentic web browsing can't scale with cloud LLMs
by djh1995 | 2025-10-11 15:29:17+00:00
TLDR:

- Agentic web browsing can’t scale if every page action triggers an LLM.

- Small language models can power most interactive AI experiences.

- The browser is the ideal runtime being open, GPU-accelerated, and everywhere.

- Agentary.js is an open-source SDK for building agentic workflows that run locally, in the browser.

Repo URL: https://github.com/agentary-ai/agentary-js

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Most agentic browsing today sends every click, scroll, or query to a cloud LLM. This doesn’t scale, economically or technically. Each DOM action becomes another API call that is slow and expensive, not to mention a compromise to user privacy.

Agentic behavior belongs inside the browser, not round-tripped to the cloud.

NVIDIA Research even published a paper (https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.02153) arguing that most agentic tasks don’t need generalist LLMs. They need fast, specialized SLMs running close to the user.

I wanted to build an open-source SDK to support a future where agentic workflows are not only built and owned by the website, but powered by SLMs. With the expansion of WebGPU, the browser is now the perfect runtime.

I put together a simple demo that uses Agentary.js, so feel free to check it out and share feedback: https://demo.agentary.ai

I'd love to collaborate with other engineers in the community to make this future a reality, and importantly open-source!
by jmward01 | 2025-10-11 15:29:37+00:00
Cascadia has become a little bit of an obsession for me. I had my house retrofitted to help it withstand the inevitable next really big one that is coming because of what I have learned about it (I am also well above the tsunami flood zone). Subduction zones are crazy powerful but it looks like we are finally starting to learn important things about them. The challenge though is getting people to accept that they are real and will happen and entire cities need to move because of them (I'm looking at you Ocean Shores).

Side note, any actual geologists in the room? The recent Philippians 7.6 looks like it may be following a growing pattern of megathrust forshocks to my -deeply- untrained eye. Does someone with actual knowledge and training have a take on that?
by paulwilsonn | 2025-10-11 15:29:56+00:00
That’s a really fair point, building genuine relationships takes years, and warm intros are always going to have higher context and trust.

But I’ve also noticed more founders (especially first-time or solo ones) who just don’t have that network yet, even though they’re building solid products. For them, the challenge isn’t skipping relationships - it’s getting that very first foot in the door.

I think there’s space for both approaches: earn long-term trust and make the discovery + outreach part a bit less painful or random. Warm intros will always be gold - but not everyone starts with access to the mine.
by hearsathought | 2025-10-11 15:30:11+00:00
> You get flooded by info that you never need in your daily life or in near future.

Who does the flooding? It surely ain't the people.

> Every news channel would inundate you with global news as if all that is happening in your neighborhood.

Not all global news. Just some global news. And framed in a particular manner for effect.

> This is partly the reason why governments of the western world are forced to act on everything that happens on other side of the world.

You have it backwards. These governments and the elites who control these government want to act and use media to generate popular support.

> Because people feel that their government should do something about it.

No. People generally want their governments to not get involved. For example, no war the US was involved in was a result of "the people putting pressure on the government".
by hylaride | 2025-10-11 15:30:22+00:00
JunOS from Juniper is also based off of FreeBSD (I think they're moving to Linux, though) as (were?) NetApp filers (they made heavy use of the Berkley FFS snapshots back in the day).

FreeBSD was popular for many appliances, especially in the late 1990s and early 2000s, as it was generally rock-solid, had very mature networking, and the legal departments at the time liked the more permissive licence.

It's getting less and less common to see it, though. Sheer market share numbers mean performance, driver support, user familiarity, and companies no longer being afraid of the GPL mean that has Linux pretty much taken over.

It makes me a bit sad, but the OS on most Juniper gear is just a control plane for ASICs nowadays and NetApp has moved on to more advanced filesystems. Finding developers to write drivers/software for Linux is probably an order of magnitude easier.
by paulwilsonn | 2025-10-11 15:30:37+00:00
Totally agree - accelerators and local founder meetups are underrated for building real investor relationships. Even a few genuine connections can open surprising doors.

That said, I’ve seen a lot of early-stage founders outside major hubs (or first-time builders) struggle to access those same circles. For them, even getting visibility with the right investors is tough.

Warm intros are always best, but it feels like founders today need a mix — network where you can, and use smarter tools or systems to fill the gap when geography or timing works against you.
by andsoitis | 2025-10-11 15:30:58+00:00
> , if it falls by the same amount once per week for 16 weeks should we still not be concerned?

Correct, you should not be concerned.

Time in market is more important than timing the market.

Remember that when the market falls, you have not lost money, not unless you sell. You may even judge it to be a good buying opportunity since you might assess the new lower price to be more reasonable. Over time, a diversified portfolio will expand in value due to compounding, unless you are not a believer that the future will be better than the past.

Take a look again at the charts - they spell it out clearly.
by array_key_first | 2025-10-11 15:31:19+00:00
I can see the difference in all of those. I can even see the difference between 120hz and 240hz, and now I play on 240hz.

Ray tracing looks almost indistinguishable from really good rasterized lighting in MOST conditions. In scenes with high amounts of gloss and reflections, it's a little more pronounced. A little.

From my perspective, you're getting, like, a 5% improvement in only one specific aspect of graphics in exchange for a 200% cost.

It's just not worth it.
by jakub_g | 2025-10-11 15:31:34+00:00
[September 29, 2025]

> Over the next five weeks, we will:

> Revoke all existing legacy classic tokens for npm publishers.

> Disable legacy classic token generation on npmjs.com permanently.

> If you use classic tokens for npm, you must immediately take the following actions:

> Generate new npm granular access tokens with appropriate scoped permissions.

> Update all automation, CI/CD pipelines, and local configurations.
by paulwilsonn | 2025-10-11 15:32:02+00:00
Fair point - resourcefulness absolutely matters, and I agree that building a startup requires persistence far beyond cold outreach.

That said, I think the line between “resourcefulness” and “access” is thinner than it seems. A lot of early founders are putting in the effort - they’re just not starting from networks where investor intros are even possible.

Warm intros are ideal, but discovery shouldn’t depend entirely on who you already know. Sometimes a founder just needs a way to start genuine conversations - even if it begins cold.
by paulwilsonn | 2025-10-11 15:32:35+00:00
Totally agree - traction changes everything. Once you have proof that people actually want what you’re building, intros, investor replies, and even partnerships start to flow naturally.

But early traction itself often needs a bit of capital or network to get started - kind of a chicken-and-egg problem for first-time founders. That’s why I think discovery and outreach still matter early on, just to get those first few conversations going before traction compounds.
by cmollis | 2025-10-11 15:33:25+00:00
It seems to me that if I were actually the Antichrist, the first thing I would do is identify the antichrist as someone else. Then, I would give a lot of pseudo scientific reasons why I think that the antichrist is someone other than me, so the idiots who listen to my bs will give me their money so I can continue my work as the antichrist.
by assimpleaspossi | 2025-10-11 15:33:55+00:00
I like to compare today's web to radio in the late 1800s and early 1900s.

Back then, if you could piece together a transmitter and throw an antenna up, you were a broadcaster and many broadcast whatever they felt like. Just like today's internet.

Social media is the CB radio of the 1970s and 80s when anyone could buy a small rig and do all kinds of weird and wild things for cheap.

But, eventually, something had to reign in all that and the FCC along with international laws and standards came up to calm all that down. In the same way, I think the internet will eventually become licensed and regulated.
by sharkweek | 2025-10-11 15:34:04+00:00
I just visited NYC for the first time a few months ago, and had the most amazing time, one hell of a city and I can’t wait to get back.

I could ramble for hours about all the things I loved about the trip, but one of the things that stuck out was all the young kids taking the subway by themselves or in small packs of friends out pretty late etc. They all seemed so much more street smart and independent than my own similar aged kids (we live in a quiet neighborhood in Seattle). I also grew up fairly sheltered in the suburbs where I had very little exposure to the “real world” as they say…

I’d be fascinated to hear more about what it’s like to grow up in such a massive city.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-10-11 15:34:07+00:00
Death comes for us all. It’s okay to cultivate emotional fortitude to die on own terms, at the place and time of our choosing, with grace. Would you rather them remember you as a shell of who you were, long dead mentally while the body continues on? Death is a part of life we cannot avoid, nor should we.

> If you wait until a life is "obviously no longer worth living", it is already too late —- Kahneman

Live your life in a way that it is worth living until you no longer can, I suppose. To exist is hard, do your best.
by Keyframe | 2025-10-11 15:34:19+00:00
not all games need horse power. We've now past the point of good enough to run a ton of it. Sure, tentpole attractions will warrant more and more, but we're turning back to mechanics, input methods, gameplay, storytelling. If you play 'old' games now, they're perfectly playable. Just like older movies are perfectly watchable. Not saying you should play those (you should), but there's not kuch of a leap needed to keep such ideas going strong and fresh.
by gdubs | 2025-10-11 15:34:25+00:00
I'm biased because I develop Vision Pro apps but, it's wild to see how the rumors build upon rumors and then people just talk about them like they're facts.

Last year's rumor was that the platform was abandoned. And then WWDC happened and there was a ton of software investment in the platform. New content announced like the NBA live-streaming immersive etc.

Apple themselves never announced a Vision Pro "air" — that was also a rumor. And at the time that rumor surfaced, the claim was that the Pro had been halted so they could focus on the Air.

Now the rumor is that the Air has been halted, but we're supposedly going to see an updated Pro with an m5 chip, etc...
by cy_hauser | 2025-10-11 15:34:32+00:00
Because the incentive is now there. Maybe they don't get enough paid customers and want more money. This puts a bit of pressure to move a new feature that is really handy into the paid level. Then another and another. Might not happen but it could.

Most people using Datastar will not necessarily be smart enough to fork it and add their own changes. And when Datastar makes a new release of the base/free code people will want to keep up to date. That means individuals have to figure out how to integrate their already done changes into the new code and keep that going. It's not a matter of if something breaks your custom code but when.

Finally, many people internalize time as money with projects like this. They're spending many hours learning to use the framework. They don't want to have the effort made useless when something (ex: costs or features) changes outside of their control. Their time learning to use the code is what they "paid" for the software. Doesn't matter if it's rational to you if it is to them.
Ask HN: What's missing in today's fundraising tools for founders?
by paulwilsonn | 2025-10-11 15:34:32+00:00
Most founders I talk to still manage their entire fundraising process with a mix of Sheets, Gmail, and Notion. Even with so many “AI” tools out there, the experience still feels broken - messy follow-ups, outdated investor data, and no clear pipeline view.

Curious what others think:

1. What do you wish fundraising tools did better?

2. What part of investor outreach or tracking do you still handle manually?

3. Have you found any tools that actually make the process smoother?

Would love to hear what’s working (or what you’d build differently)- especially for early-stage founders raising their first or second round.
by shantara | 2025-10-11 15:34:33+00:00
The quoted number was in the range of 70-100 GB if I recall correctly, which is not that significant for modern game sizes. I’m sure a lot of people would opt to use it as an option as a trade off for having 2-3x higher framerate. I don’t think anyone realistically complains about video game lighting looking too “gamey” when in a middle of an intense combat sequence. Why optimize a Doom game of all things for standing still and side by side comparisons? I’m guessing NVidia paid good money for making RT tech mandatory. And as for shortened development cycle, perhaps it’s cynical, but I find it difficult to sympathize when the resulting product is still sold for €80
by zdragnar | 2025-10-11 15:35:03+00:00
Bingo. Take the swapping of periods and commas between US and maybe Germany.

If you see a price in Euros and there's a chance the browser converts the number to my locale, then the price becomes completely ambiguous. Information is lost unless I change my locale just to see if the number changed.

If, on the other hand, the browser doesn't apply such formatting, then the number is probably the number.

What's more, wouldn't you need to specify an origin locale so the browser knows how to correctly interpret the value?
by kayodelycaon | 2025-10-11 15:35:38+00:00
It’s basically getting rid of somebody when they become an inconvenience to others. Outside the bubble of HN, I suspect most people that talk about it as humane for the person actually mean humane for them.

Many countries hesitate to execute criminals despite very clear criteria that could be used to justify it. (Many countries banned entirely.)

Why would we have a lower bar for someone who hasn’t committed any crimes?
by Lancetnik | 2025-10-11 15:35:48+00:00
We’ve finally released version 0.6, and that means we can start adding support for new brokers again

This update brings major internal improvements, a cleaner API, and sets the stage for expanding the ecosystem even further.

Check out the full release notes: https://github.com/ag2ai/faststream/releases/tag/0.6.0

And the documentation of course: https://faststream.ag2.ai/0.6/getting-started/

Exciting things ahead
by burnt-resistor | 2025-10-11 15:35:51+00:00
Motion is relative, so firing a chicken at a static target is also a possibility.

The trouble would be imparting and spreading enough energy through the entire mass uniformly enough to have something remain.

It likely wouldn't work in the real world because the result would obliterate bones resulting in something worse than Chicken McNuggets, and not cook it sufficiently long to be safe from bacterial contamination.

If attempting such a feat, it would generate visible light. There's a good chance of generating some long-wave UV at the energies involved (several MJ, which would be a chicken flying at about 2 km/s. It would instantly disintegrate.)
by gus_massa | 2025-10-11 15:36:25+00:00
Have you tried compression?

For example instead of storing, x1, x2, x3, x4, x5, you can store x1, x2-x1, x3-x2, x4-x3, x5-x4 Using few decimals it may compress better with the standard algorithms.

Assuming almost constant speed, you may guess x3 from x2 and x1 and x3=~ 2*x2-x1, so instead of x3, x4, ... you store x3-2\x2+x1, x4-2\x3+x2, and compress it.

For a car, I'd assume constant acceleration and if I didn't make a mistake, x4=~ 3x3-3x2+x1, so you store x4-3x3+x2-x1 and compress the sequence.
by IlikeKitties | 2025-10-11 15:36:50+00:00
> Im still watching 720p movirs, video games.

There's a noticeable and obvious improvement from 720 to 1080p to 4k (depending on the screen size). While there are diminishing gains, up to at least 1440p there's still a very noticeable difference.

> Somewhere between 60 hz and 240hz, theres zero fundamental benefits. Same for resolution.

Also not true. While the difference between 40fps and 60fps is more noticeable than say from 60 to 100fps, the difference is still noticeable enough. Add the reduction in latency that's also very noticeable.
by dj_mc_merlin | 2025-10-11 15:37:34+00:00
BTW, despite disagreeing with you on this topic, I read other parts of your blog and, as somebody else who experiences manic episodes, I actually more or less 100% agree with your "Core Beliefs" section. I've seen this before in other people I've met like me, but it does make me wonder about the nature of manic states and nature/nurture. Do these beliefs trigger individuals to enter manic states, or is predisposition to manic states something that makes individuals adopt this set of beliefs? The subtitle of your blog is "wired differently", but the weird part is many people are wired differently but in vastly similar ways.
by superboum | 2025-10-11 15:38:03+00:00
As we say in data analytics, "garbage in, garbage out". These ranking based on internet users perceived insecurity have been identified many times for their lack of relevance and their bias.

First bias is "perception", which is influenced by how media want to communicate and who own them - in France, mostly right wing billionaires. There is no actual correlation with actual, real, statistics.

Second, by who answer the survey - often people concerned about insecurity, which is a topic from the right.

Finally, there is no control on how many times you can vote, and some people demonstrated that with very few knowledge, you can completely change the results by sending thousands of vote [1].

The fact that Nantes is deemed highly insecure in France is also the consequence of this city being socialist and the place where police killed a guy named Steve during a party. So these attacks on Nantes being dangerous can also be interpreted as a backlash[2].

Please Hacker News, you're better than this, don't fall in this trap...

[1]: https://xcancel.com/dbertho/status/1574761634840592384 [2]: https://www.index.ngo/en/news/steve-maia-canico-trial-of-pol...
by teiferer | 2025-10-11 15:38:10+00:00
> it totally sours everyone's view of you.

That's just as much failure of everybody as it is of him. This was dementia speaking and society needs to learn that.

You wouldn't tell somebody with a broken leg to get it together and it's just their personality that they can't walk. Nor should you treat dementia like that. Yes, people seem to shift personalities and anger others. But those others need to understand that it's a medical condition, an untreatable and fatal one, so should have even more sympathy than with somebody who broke a leg (cause that will likely just be temporary). Not alienate the person and speak ill of them.
by array_key_first | 2025-10-11 15:38:19+00:00
I agree, but the kicker is that most websites can be server side rendered trivially. Most web "apps" are not applications. They are forms and pages.

The client side logic is, usually, just to make the developers happy because developers love complexity.

Obviously there are many exceptions. But not every application is exceptional. We all hate to admit we're working on simple or trivial things but... We are. Often.
by itrummer | 2025-10-11 15:39:15+00:00
Well, it definitely goes beyond a traditional DBMS, but yes :-) If processing the same amount of data via pure SQL versus SQL with LLM calls, it will be slower and more expensive when using LLMs. Note that 600s is just the default timeout, though. It's typically much faster (and you can set the timeout to whatever you like; ThalamusDB will return the best result approximation it can find until the timeout). More details in the documentation: https://itrummer.github.io/thalamusdb/thalamusdb.html
by jmulho | 2025-10-11 15:39:23+00:00
There was at least one additional murder. Louis DiBono, who held a lucrative contract to fireproof the steel beams of the towers, was murdered in the parking lot under the North tower on Oct 4, 1990. John Gotti was convicted for the murder (and four other murders). The FBI, eavesdropping on Gotti, overheard the order, but misheard the name and thus failed to warn DiBono. Also, there was no video surveillance or witnesses, and the body wasn’t found for three days, all indicating a lack of security. The Feb 26, 1993, bombing was apparently done from the same parking lot 2+ years later.

https://npdf1.org/crime-scene-world-trade-center/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gotti
by shantara | 2025-10-11 15:39:47+00:00
So what stops the developers from iterating on a raytraced version of the game during development, and then executing a shadow precalcualtion step once the game is ready to be shipped? Make it an option to download, like the high resolution texture packs. They are offloading processing power and energy requirements to do so on consumer PCs, and do so in an very inefficient manner
by raw_anon_1111 | 2025-10-11 15:39:59+00:00
My issue is, anyone with half a clue should know that a formerly nice respected man doesn’t automatically turn into a mean guy that “pisses them off” because he wants to be. They should have known that he had dementia and it wasn’t his fault.

I’ve never been close to anyone who had dementia. My grandparents on both sides died with their mental facilities in tact and my parents who are 83 and 81 are independent and just as of 6 months ago passed a cognitive test. I can imagine if they started acting out of character and being mean to me or forgot who I was that I would be hurt, overwhelmed etc. But not pissed.
by spankibalt | 2025-10-11 15:40:07+00:00
> "Maybe I'm a curmudgeon but most of these types of blogs feel like marketing pieces with the important bit is that so much is left unsaid and not shown, that it comes off like a kid trying to hype up their own work without the benefit of nuance or depth."

C'mon, such self-congratulatory "Look at My Potency: How I'm using Nicknack.exe" fluffies always were and always will be a staple of the IT industry.
by watwut | 2025-10-11 15:40:18+00:00
It might be weird thing to say, but I eventually ended up finding tariffs and everything related to it "boring". It is getting into "yet again" category. It is announced, re-announced, changed, removed, added again and I dont care about the process of it. It will eventually settle somewhere.

Stock market either react or dont based on how they feel. It has little to do with actual economical impact on companies, it does not seem to care about fundamentals either. It was fine for years with overpriced companies and itches to create yet another bubble.

I get that everybody is hurt in the long term. But until actual investor billionaires class is actually really hurt financially, the rollecoaster will go round and round.