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nanobrowser / nanobrowser

nanobrowser

Open-source AI agent for web automation. Use your real, logged-in browser to automate daily tasks.

7Distinct people
12Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
14.3KGitHub stars
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What it is

Open-source AI agent for web automation. Use your real, logged-in browser to automate daily tasks.

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 5:04:57 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by month12 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2025-03-04 23:49:48 UTC to 2025-10-21 22:57:26 UTC.

01232025-03-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-04-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 commentsMar 20252025-04-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-05-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-05-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-06-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments2025-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-07-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 2 submissions, 1 commentsJun 20252025-07-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2025-08-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-09-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-09-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-10-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2025-10-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-11-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsOct 2025

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Mar 20252025-03-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-04-01 00:00:00 UTC211
Apr 20252025-04-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-05-01 00:00:00 UTC000
May 20252025-05-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-06-01 00:00:00 UTC303
Jun 20252025-06-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-07-01 00:00:00 UTC321
Jul 20252025-07-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-08-01 00:00:00 UTC202
Aug 20252025-08-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-09-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Sep 20252025-09-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-10-01 00:00:00 UTC101
Oct 20252025-10-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-11-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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got my interest on hierarchical display of information driven by today's attention mechanism for the actual brain's attention mechanism (also known a Saliency). then I'am developing an interface to create a blurring interface that blurs out of the screen the regions that doesn't matter for the user. Meaning the internet is full of information overload, narratives, and marketing, guiding the user away towards true interpretration and fullfilment of informational needs. In order to create this system we will first answer the question how can we blur non-relevant regions in the screen with LLMs? after that how can the process of it be sufficiently cheap to implement on a continual level (i.e for 2 hours straight without consuming enormous amounts of tokens/compute). Some references I could find to explain more what I mean: https://sci-hub.se
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/https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2636240.26... https://arxiv.org/pdf/2109.01980v1 https://github.com/paco1127/Pure-Blur (uses advanced content analysis algorithms and machine learning models to identify sensitive areas or objects and apply real-time blur effects) https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.14769 system that dynamically filters web content based on user- specified goals using large language models to identify and prioritize relevant elements while minimizing distraction - Repo is empty tho just a readme https://github.com/nanobrowser/nanobrowser/tree/master/chrom... chrome extension like Manus'AI that automates web interaction, might need to look at how to locate elments in DOM
In Blurring interfaces that redirects user's attention with LLM
Forwarding tech co founder Alex's note to HN community: Hi HN, I'm Alex, technical co-founder of Nanobrowser. We have been working on this project to make web automation more accessible, powerful, and open. In building Nanobrowser, we leveraged open source library such as browser use (https://github.com/browser-use/browser-use) , and Chrome Extension Boilerplate (https://github.com/Jonghakseo/chrome-extension-boilerplate-r...) We completely rewrote the DOM processing part of browser-use with Typescript, built a multi-agent system and implemented the extension frontend with React, Vite and Typescript. We hope you like tinkering with Nanobrowser! Checkout out our repo (https://github.com/nanobrowser/nanobrowser), create issues or open a pull reqeusts. Thanks for taking a look! I'm excited to see what the HN community thinks. (Alex was not
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able to send this comment out because he only registered his account today. )
In Show HN: We Built Open-Source Alternative to OpenAI's Operator, Runs in Chrome
casslin·Mar 4, 2025Submission

Show HN: We Built Open-Source Alternative to OpenAI's Operator, Runs in Chrome

Hi HN, I'm one of the creators of Nanobrowser, an open-source Chrome extension that lets you automate web tasks using AI agents. We were inspired by the potential of tools like OpenAI's Operator, but we wanted something that was: -Open-Source:You can see the code, modify it, and contribute to the project. -Browser-Based:No complex setups or server deployments. It runs directly in your browser. -Customizable:You can tailor the agent's behavior to your specific needs. -BYO LLM:Bring your own large language model API key (OpenAI, Anthropic,or even local models), No vendor lock-in. -Privacy focused:All runs in your local browser. So we built exactly that, also with a multi-agent system to optimize performance and cost efficiency. We're launching today:https://github.com/nanobrowser/nanobrowser we hope you like tinkering with it, and love you
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