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Show HN: I Wrote an Open-Source Alternative to OpenAI Operator – For Any LLM
Hey HN,

I built browser-use, an open-source alternative to OpenAI’s Operator for browser-use systems, and here’s why I think it’s better:

Flexibility: You can use any LLM with our tool – Gemini, Anthropic, Qwen, Llama, DeepSeek, and more. As new models improve, so does your agent.

Open Source: No need to pay $200/month or endure long waitlists – it’s free and accessible to everyone today.

Custom Automation: Our Python package allows you to build actual web automations. Your LLM can gain new tools, like file uploads.

Cost: Our system is 30x cheaper than Operator, e.g., when used with DeepSeek. Some models are even free, like Qwen or gemini-2.0-exp.

Why it’s different from Operator:

Usability: While Operator’s safety system is impressive, it often sacrifices usability. For example, their demo required logging in and email authentication – our tool connects seamlessly to your real browser.

Full DOM Access: Unlike Operator’s vision-only approach, we process the entire DOM. If you want to extract hidden elements like links or large lists, we handle that directly in the input. Vision will never do that.

Performance: We’ve already outperformed them on one benchmark, WebVoyager. Current benchmarks favor simple interactions, and we’re designed for much more.

Who this is for:
Developers who want to build automation or connect AI to the browser.

Check out our browser-use GitHub repo.

I would love feedback on how this fits into your workflows and what is needed for production readiness.

Looking forward to your thoughts!
Every bits of the demo video is awesome. I want to make friends with you.
I got an offer of a "code review" like that once for an authentication system and never heard back; it was open source anyway so anybody could have downloaded it and found my rookie mistakes like

signed_token = content + MD5(secret_key+content)

which doesn't stop anyone from appending to the content (might not have really been exploitable, but any honest review from somebody who knew more than me would have turned it up)
extremely unlikely. it's much more likely elon would quit before it ever became like that
Mobile app only and no source code? I appreciate the effort but I'll stick with Mastodon for now.
Can you cite any trans person who publicly agrees with your description of them as "HSTS"?
What a great story & ending. I’m very happy for you - congratulations!
The chain is spazzing out in every shot like it's tightening and loosening over and over again. Mid drives already wear out chains quickly. Seems like this is just asking to snap a chain
> The risks, for you, are very high.

Is the creator in the UK? Or do they visit regularly? It wasn't mentioned in the original post.
Today, we're a team of 250+ people and seen that initial "Show HN" grow into a $20mn+ bootstrapped business (no VC funding). If anyone's interested in reading more, I've blogged this journey (from launch to now) on our website [0]

from: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23466470 (2020)

[0] clicky: https://vwo.com/blog/vwo-evolution-10-years/
Well, LLMs are also remarkably good at generalizing. Look at the datasets, they don't literally train on every conceivable type of question the user might ask, the LLM can adapt just as you can.

The actual challenge towards general intelligence is that LLMs struggle with certain types of questions even if you *do* train it on millions of examples of that type of question. Mostly questions that require complex logical reasoning, although consistent progress is being done in this direction.
The lowest IQ thing you can do is be obsessed with IQ.

There are known knowns, there are known unknowns, and there are unknown unknowns. The wise man knows he cannot know what he does not know and that it'd be naive to presume he knows when he cannot know how much he doesn't know. Therefore, only the unintelligent man really _knows_ anything.
not even as part of a background check on someone you know?
Funnily enough even negative one is not singular. A debt of a single dollar is negative one dollars in your account.
The generous hypothesis, here, is that this is so they can automate the benchmarking itself. If that is true, then this is likely a result of the test authors being too clever for their own good and over-optimizing. If an LLM can't figure out on their own that "how many" is asking for a number, it has failed at a much more basic level.

You should be able to easily accept answers like "four" and "4" as equivalent, for example. I doubt there will be that many frontier models running against this test at any time, and a simple glance at the answers from any human should be enough to catch edge cases like this one.
That's a nifty idea! I need the extra Flask for some other unrelated stuff, so it's OK as it is, but if it was on GH pages (like you say) that would be super useful.
If you actually want to write software without bugs:

Assume that your code will have bugs no matter how good you are. Correct for that by making careful architecture decisions and extensively test the product yourself.

There’s no silver bullet. If you put in enough time and make some good decisions, you can earn a reputation for writing relatively few bugs.
> it's because the federal legislature passed legislation carving out an exception for California to do that

I’m talking about the influence beyond it’s borders as mentioned by the Wikipedia article:

“The law also prevents states from setting standards that are more strict than the federal standards, but carves out a special exemption for California… The California standard was adopted by twelve other states,”

Other states without that exception can still have California standards.

> Trademarks are already regional.

Regions that often cross state boundaries. People regularly register federally even if they are only using it within a state. It’s not that someone in the middle of Texas cares about companies in Hawaii, it’s that someone on the border of most states could be 1 mile from a competitor in another state.

> That's not what happened in Wickard.

I didn’t say it did, I said that’s part of why the argument was convincing.

> but that's not what the commerce clause is supposed to be for.

They explicitly used commerce NOT trade. Thus from a pure textual standpoint the scope was absolutely intended to be broader than just trade.
> In Greek mythology, who was Jason's maternal great-grandfather?

These tests are getting ridiculous (especially when you take into account the name they choose for them...).

For me things are quite simple. I witness the limitations of LLMs every day. What this benchmark checks if what data it was trained on, that's pretty much it. No need to get "humanity" involved into this.
Galileo Chini – Art Nouveau
I discovered about Chini when I visited an exhibition of Mucha in Florence. A the end, there was a small spot dedicated to this artist, that until then I didn't even know existed.

His paintings are less visually opulent than say, the golden backgrounds used by Mucha. However, they're still very alluring to me
I’m just gonna let you know that most Americans actually hate this. Most women don’t like men sitting in the wait and hoping the woman will catch feelings back. They want someone who is forward with their intentions from the get go.

It’s a different culture today than what you’re describing. The amount of people I know who started as “friends first” is incredibly small. I’ve met more billionaires than I have met people with that story.

Women are also incredibly bad at setting people up. I’ve known hundreds of women and never had them set me up. The only people who ever did me a solid in that way were gay men. As straight men burn their bridges with every woman that is remotely attractive.
I'm curious what is the percentage of the population that prefers 3000k warm light. I personally disliked it. My mind constantly notices the distortion in color accuracy, and it's an unpleasant feeling. My preference is 5000k "day" light.
For those watching at home: being harsh is not the same thing as being truthful.
McDonald's already tried having AI take orders and stopped when the AI did things like randomly add $250 of McNuggets or mistake ketchup for butter.

Note - because this is something which needs to be pointed out in any discussion of AI now - even though human beings also make mistakes this is still markedly less accurate than the average human employee.
Social media is rapid fire short cuts and videos.

Destroys our imagination and creativity. Instant satisfaction.

When we imagine things we are exploring a tree of possibilities and following the branches that give us satisfaction.
Lidar and some sort of algorithm probably. It seems to work ok but not perfectly and depending on your area the lidar point cloud could be almost 10 years old.
Adam Brown – Bubble Universes, Black Holes, & Ads/CFT [video]
Disconnect the LTE antennas, and terminate the antenna ports with 50 ohm loads. As far as the car is concerned, it's outside cell coverage.

If the car can't work without cellular coverage, then you've made a very poor life decision in buying it.
You can use browser-use as open-source alternative for Operator
I am building GitHub-Copilot style AI autocomplete in any text field on your Mac. The point is to have the AI fill in all the redundant words required by human language, while you provide the entropy (i.e. the words that are unique to what you are trying to express). It is kind of a "dance" between accepting the AI's suggested words and typing yourself to keep it going in the right direction.

Using it, I find myself often writing only the first half of most words, because the second part can usually already be guessed by the AI. In fact, it has a dedicated shortcut for accepting only the first word of the suggestion — that way, it can save you some typing even when later words deviate from your original intent.

Completions are generated in real-time locally on your Mac using a variety of models (primarily Qwen 2.5 1.5B).

It is currently in open beta: https://cotypist.app
The way you described is only one technique, and lucid dreams obtained with this technique have a false positive rate higher than wake-induced (WILD) methods. These false-positives are normal dreams masquerading as lucid. An example is flying like superman “because you know you are in a dream and you can do anything” in order to get the milk from supermarket because your dream-wife told you there is no milk in the kitchen. See the logic error?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loose_lips_sink_ships
There's an easy legal argument to make that discrimination in hiring, or otherwise, on the basis of race is illegal.

So I'm not surprised that companies with policies promoting specific subgroups are worried about legal consequences.

e.g. from the article

[Amazon]
"The deletion of previous statements pledging to commit to “equity for Black people”"
That watch looked pretty cool. The exploding part, though...
Declassification of records about the assassinations of John F. Kennedy
That has not been the case in the three cities and health systems (edit: in the US) in which I've had transgender care over the past decade.
Versions aren't a concept in most languages at all, so they're bound to be imposed by some external system, be that NPM or CDN.

It's part of the language that you can specify a complete URI in an import statement, and a URI for a library really should include a version number somehow.
As long as they don't use `#[tokio::main]` or any other attribute that wraps main into an async function!
You can just try with browser-use. Its open-source and connects to your real browser. So you can just decide for your own safety system.
As for me - it's a no go.
Looks like more of an idea than usable compiler. Generated parser and all.
> Tesla and X shares keep soaring, signaling that the political investment is reaping material dividends.

We talking about the same companies? Tesla has been down/flat recently and Twitter is not a public company. Which makes that a fairly hot take on things.
Indeed, but there's AvaloniaUI for this luckily. You could say it isn't blessed but works everywhere. There are case studies where rewriting WPF applications in Avalonia was solving memory and performance issues.
I don't like this design, thought I get why they did it. Personally I think this is very 'side effecty', and it reads like you'd be returning the file contents and not a URL.

Even so, what would bother you about exposing the bucket? It's also a presigned URL so it doesn't have broad access utility.

I'd prefer an API like this where it's explicit:

Response((file(...).getPresignedURL()))

Alternatively, the option to set an env variable or bun config which turns this behaviour on
> POSIX fs APIs and associated semantics

Well I think that's the actual problem. POSIX gives you an abstract interface but it essentially does not enforce any particular semantics on those interfaces.
MDF is considered premium now, when they even substitute screws with plastic.
In 2024 I went on a bit of a dating spree and I had first dates with 6 other trans women. 1 cis woman ghosted me.

I think most cis women-who-love-women do like trans women, but they just have more options.
It's almost analogous to having a video game totally completed for you in a way. Everything is "done" for you essentially since you just buy your way out of problems at that point.

Before coming into that amount of money, you can be distracted by the survival aspects of living in society where you're just trying to make money and live comfortably. There isn't any necessity to have to figure out what you truly want out of life or what your passions are.

Once you do have money, now you have to face that. You have to truly find who you are. Otherwise, you're depressed or you go and blow all the money on things to distract you from finding who you are.
Any moderation should show who did it. Flagging should show who flagged.

Seems like a simple and transparent way to show how unbiased and well run HN is.
PowerShell 7.5.0 released
Facebook, Cambridge Analytica, Sponsoring a genocide… the moral differences between the US and the CCP are imaginary.
I think readers of hacker news That find the original post interesting might enjoy this as well:

https://bimotal.com/

It's a different product for a different market, but a really cool idea and the people who have been working on it are super smart.
Assessing AI's progress toward replicating the full breadth and depth of human intelligence is a deceptively hard problem. A paper by François Chollet, who was until recently a researcher at Google, called "On the Measure of Intelligence" is the best overview of the challenges I've read. Highly recommended.

https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.01547
I believe Slovenian is the only living official Slavic language that still retains this feature.

EDIT: I know that some dialects of coastal croatian still retain this feature. But there may be more
The better question is why do we refer to quantities as plural if they do not necessarily need a plurality?
Subaru's in-vehicle entertainment technology has long been criticized, even before features like CarPlay became standard. Take my 2012 WRX, for example—its Bluetooth reception was the worst I've ever experienced in a Bluetooth-equipped vehicle. Audio feeds would randomly pop and drop out during podcasts, even when the phone was within a two-foot radius of the deck.

Over the years, I tried multiple iOS and Android phones, but nothing improved the situation. Ultimately, the only solution was a complete deck replacement. Now, I’m using a "Joying" Android head unit with a rip-off version of CarPlay, which has finally resolved these issues.
So are those functional languages. The really cool SIMD code I see people writing now is by people like Lemire using the latest extensions who do clever things like decoding UTF-8 which I think will always take assembly language to express unless you are getting an SMT solver to write it for you.
This reminds me of another recent story, which was schools reintroducing writing by hand. A prior discussion on that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37479472
Sadly for me it'd pay half my debt off

edit: with that in mind, leanfire is on my mind since I'm single/don't actually need much to live
It is insane to propose that people do not deserve worker protection, because the only way their jobs can be done at reasonable prices is if the workers are abused.

Either something is wrong or it isn't and if it is wrong it should be stopped. If that means you have to go get your food yourself and the worker has to work a real job, with a real salary where his employer can not abuse him at his whim, then so be it.

You can not argue a moral point by pointing out some economic consequences.
> This guy is a national treasure

Agreed but he's an international treasure (his Github profile states Bulgaria).
The law has ridiculous overreach, that's true. And we haven't seen what international enforcement of it looks like yet. But to deal with the facts as they are now, the law states that it applies if you have UK users, and that the personal liability for officers of the company can be up to £18M... The overreach continues because it also covers "harmful but not illegal" content.

The app publishing didn't exclude the UK, it probably should.
I think this article completely misses the point. “Just be better” is only useful advice to the extent that you hear “don’t ship things that you know to suck”, which, let’s face it, many of us probably have at one time or another.

In order to really prevent bugs, you need actual engineering.

This means understanding the constraints on a system, where bugs are likely to occur (perhaps not even in code your company writes - your OS can have bugs too!).

Shipping stuff that you subjectively feel is high quality is a good start, and it’s enough for a lot of industries, but it doesn’t mean “bug free”.
Lil tray
At least we no longer have to cite a private email to convince people that "Scott Alexander thinks black people are much stupider than white people and part of the difference is probably genetic"
Whatching Apophis approach Earth is very interesting.

However, boo for not including Pluto even after including Ceres!!! /s
I Have to Do What to Climb Up the Corporate Ladder?
Like, 'Soldier picking berry from tree' does not seem to have a 'Retreat through mud carrying wounded' counterpart.

But yes the pictures are certainly fine and useful for historians.
The argument seems to be that C isn't suited to SIMD because some functions (exp, for instance) are not. But it then talks about how exp is implemented in hardware, in a way that forces it to be a non-SIMD calculation. That's not a C issue, that's a CPU issue. No language can save you there (unless it uses a software-only function for exp).

Is this article really confused, or did I misunderstand it?

The thing that makes C/C++ a good language for SIMD is how easily it lets you control memory alignment.
I guess the proper way for the movements is to not make it advantageous then. Because it’s a well-known phenomenon and forcing a change this way never worked, despite all the make believe.
Why would i? "Analogue" (pure mechanical) tech is king.
"Low-cost slave-labor factory located. Enjoy your widgets!"
I see, thanks. I wasn't aware of the reference :)
> whereas if he was only guilty of running a website,

Yes, he was guilty of running a website, which on the face of it seems innocent right? Sure thats an argument. "i'm just providing an online location for this to happen, but I don't know whats going on"

Apart from he was _also_ running an escrow service, Now to run an escrow service you need to create a contract with conditions to allow money to be released. The problem is that to say "oh he didn't know what was going on" is a provable lie, because to keep the escrow trustworthy, you need to arbitrate, to arbitrate requires knowing what was supposed to be delivered and why it didn't get delivered.

Now, escrow isn't free, you're taking a risk holding that money. So Ross takes a cut.

But the problem is, that money comes from illegal activities. He knows this, so he needs to find a way to make the money legit. This means fraudulently laundering it.

The problem there is that when you combine laundering money and drugs trafficking, you get compound sentences. see https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/operation-foxhound-nets-47...

which has:

> Those arrested face sentences of 10 years to life in prison for the narcotics violations and up to 20 years for the money laundering violations.

However

I want to find agreement, because I want to make sure that understand I'm not saying your viewpoint is wrong, I think your anger is directed in the wrong place.

The sentence is within tolerance for the scale and combination of offences, the murder allegations are a red herring, and didn't materially affect the sentence.

For a large number of drug users, silkroad provided a safer way to obtain drugs, both in terms of violence and quality.

The people that ultimately set the bounds for these sentences are congress. They have chosen the war on drugs, which I think we can agree has caused more violence that it has stopped. The courts did exactly as they are supposed to do with the laws that they had at their disposal. The way the court operated was correct.

What is not correct is the federal governments approach to drugs.
Granted this photosphere [1, best on desktop, not mobile browsers] is not the view you would have whilst walking around, but it does evidence some sheep-accessible urban environs

[1] https://www.bristol.ac.uk/virtual-tour/#s=pano26
The HSTS / AGP dichotomy is not taken seriously among trans people or care providers, don't listen to this person.
One of the best features.

Just import everything! Nuget packages, local dlls, other F# script files, you name it. It's so good. No extra ceremony. And when you open it in VS Code with Ionide - you get full support of the language server, documentation and syntax highlighting to know that your script is correct.

Night and day difference with standard scripting languages.
The list of things people who deserves more credit is endless, for all intents and purposes. People make kernels, drivers, file system, drivers, languages, compilers, container systems, security infrastructure, and the list goes on. It’s literally an xkcd comic.

Instead of suggesting ollama folks get too much credit, perhaps simply acknowledge the people you feel are undervalued. Because by packaging together the various bits into an easy to use system with good documentation, the ollama folks have done a lot a good for me and any attention and credit they get is richly deserved.
To me, comments like yours prove that goal posts are constantly moved every day.
I think what really made Rothfuss special was how he would slip into poetic prose without overtly signaling the reader, and that this would be hard to mimic.

Same with his parallel construction of lore using repetition of similar but distinct stories.

Simply saying "this is the truth" or "this is what happened" would not be the same, and I dont think many fanfic authors could pull it off convincingly.
this is the most insane thread I have ever seen on hn.

"no good deed goes unpunished" comes to mind
I've never heard a doctor say those words, I think you're a troll