SKska80·Jan 19, 2026Submission
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nyxt
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atlas-engineer / nyxt
nyxt
Nyxt - the hacker's browser.
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What it is
Nyxt - the hacker's browser.
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The pre-release AppImages that John Mercouris is working hard on are getting verrry solid, if you get an hour I recommend a play around :)…
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Observed mentions: 2017-10-06 17:46:03 UTC to 2026-01-19 17:46:57 UTC.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 6 | 4 | 2 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 9 | 5 | 4 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 13 | 4 | 9 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 12 | 4 | 8 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 11 | 1 | 10 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 10 | 1 | 9 |
| 2025 | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 2026 (partial) | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
What Hacker News says
68 sourcesThe pre-release AppImages that John Mercouris is working hard on are getting verrry solid, if you get an hour I recommend a play around :)
https://github.com/atlas-engineer/nyxt/releases
In Tell HN: uBlock Origin on Chrome is finally goneJust clustering, which makes sense, as far as I can see peeking at the code. Whole codebase is lisp which I don't have a ton of experience with so caveat emptor.
https://github.com/atlas-engineer/nyxt/tree/master/libraries...
In Nyxt: The Hacker's Browser> The lack of extensions is likely due to its miniscule market share.
It's because they are not implementing support for WebExtensions. Which is of course not that simple, but it's not because of lacking market share.
And it seems they are kinda have it on the list[1], by switching to chromium[2].
[1] https://github.com/atlas-engineer/nyxt/issues/2875
[2] https://github.com/atlas-engineer/nyxt/issues/2989
In Nyxt: The Hacker's BrowserAnother interesting one, about whether or not to build on electron: https://github.com/atlas-engineer/nyxt/issues/2989#issuecomm...
In Nyxt: The Hacker's BrowserYes, but they're trying to add a Chrome-based one:
https://github.com/atlas-engineer/nyxt/issues/2989
They have this repo for Common Lisp bindings to QtWebEngine, but it's been archived:
https://github.com/atlas-engineer/cl-webengine
Seems they're currently trying Electron:
https://github.com/atlas-engineer/cl-electron
In Nyxt: The Hacker's BrowserLike, they are working on it right now. Or the prerequisite, to get electron version of Nyxt working. https://github.com/atlas-engineer/nyxt/issues/3544
In Nyxt: The Hacker's BrowserThey do not leave out WebExtension support, they are working to get there:
> We're focusing on #2989 since it will allow running Nyxt on macOS and support WebExtensions.
https://github.com/atlas-engineer/nyxt/issues/2875#issuecomm...
In Nyxt: The Hacker's BrowserPretty wise comment about web extension support by the main dev here: https://github.com/atlas-engineer/nyxt/issues/2875#issuecomm...
In Nyxt: The Hacker's Browserhttps://github.com/atlas-engineer/nyxt/issues/3386
> The gist is this: we have a lot of tools built in to our analysis library, pagerank, tf/idf, things like this which we can use to generate summaries, extract, keywords etc. There isn't a giant opaque LLM behind everything. These tools are used in logical ways, for example, when you bookmark something, how should you tag it? Nyxt figures out some likely tag candidates and suggests them to you.
In Nyxt: The Hacker's BrowserIf someone invents another browser, Nyxt will be ready to wrap it with Common Lisp: https://github.com/atlas-engineer/nyxt
In Google Common Lisp Style GuideThe code references stochastic modeling[1] for predicting the users next command. There may be other places too.
https://github.com/atlas-engineer/nyxt/pull/2593
In Nyxt: The Hacker's Browser> abstract blog posts
If you refer to the blog post that made Top HN yesterday, it is very much backed by actual experience (https://nyxt.atlas.engineer/) and quite a load of code (https://github.com/atlas-engineer/nyxt/tree/master/source).
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