ANandreasrosdal·Nov 2, 2026
In Show HN: Northstar web browser engine 1.0.40 releasednordstjernen-web
nordstjernen-sol-browser
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nordstjernen-web / nordstjernen-sol-browser
nordstjernen-sol-browser
Nordstjernen Sol web browser. A open source web browser with dual GPL 3+ or NSL license, written from scratch in 2026.
6Distinct people
12Mentions
1Explicit recommenders
232GitHub stars
What to know before exploring
What it is
Nordstjernen Sol web browser. A open source web browser with dual GPL 3+ or NSL license, written from scratch in 2026.
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Where it is used
No documented product use was verified in the last source check.
What people are saying
I love the little netscape style buttons at the bottom of the readme: https://github.com/nordstjernen-web/nordstjernen
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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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HN mentions by week12 dated mentions
Observed mentions: 2026-05-15 17:10:20 UTC to 2026-11-02 06:48:19 UTC. Weeks start Monday, UTC.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| May 11 | 2026-05-11 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-05-18 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| May 18 | 2026-05-18 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-05-25 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| May 25 | 2026-05-25 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Jun 1 | 2026-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-06-08 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 1 | 2 |
| Jun 8 | 2026-06-08 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-06-15 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Jun 15 | 2026-06-15 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-06-22 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jun 22 | 2026-06-22 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-06-29 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jun 29 | 2026-06-29 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-07-06 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 6 | 2026-07-06 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-07-13 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| Jul 13 | 2026-07-13 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-07-20 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| Jul 20 | 2026-07-20 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-07-27 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 27 | 2026-07-27 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-08-03 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Aug 3 | 2026-08-03 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-08-10 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Aug 10 | 2026-08-10 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-08-17 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Aug 17 | 2026-08-17 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-08-24 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Aug 24 | 2026-08-24 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-08-31 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Aug 31 | 2026-08-31 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-09-07 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 7 | 2026-09-07 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-09-14 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 14 | 2026-09-14 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-09-21 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 21 | 2026-09-21 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-09-28 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 28 | 2026-09-28 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-10-05 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 5 | 2026-10-05 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-10-12 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 12 | 2026-10-12 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-10-19 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 19 | 2026-10-19 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-10-26 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 26 | 2026-10-26 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-11-02 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 2 (partial) | 2026-11-02 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-11-09 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
What Hacker News says
12 sourceshttps://github.com/nordstjernen-web/nordstjernen/blob/main/A...
> Don't leave traces that the code has been written by AI LLM, in commit messages and git author and git committer.
Hmmm...
https://github.com/nordstjernen-web/nordstjernen/commits?aut...
In Nordstjernen web browser version 1.0.19 releaseNordstjernen web browser version 1.0.19 release
Nordstjernen Web Browser 1.0.19
A real web browser written from scratch in C.
https://nordstjernen.org/release-1-0-19.html
https://github.com/nordstjernen-web/nordstjernen/releases/tag/1.0.19
2 points · Open discussionAsk HN: What would you do if you had coded a better web browser than Firefox?
Ask HN: what would you do if you had vibe-coded a better web browser than Firefox? Ie. More secure, more maintainable, less surveillance, more cool etc.
https://github.com/nordstjernen-web/nordstjernen
4 points · Open discussionShow HN: Nordstjernen Web Browser 1.0.18
Nordstjernen Web Browser 1.0.18 released.
https://nordstjernen.org/
https://github.com/nordstjernen-web/nordstjernen/releases/ta...
5 points · Open discussionNordstjernen Web Browser 1.0.3
2 points · Open discussionAt that point, I could get Claude to re-create this project if I wanted to. I wouldn't have to wait ten years[1] until 2036 (which is really stupid in its own right) for 1.0.0 — mainly some AI vibed code — to be reforked into a new project.
I get it's a fun little AI toy project, but that license is just silly for one.
[1] https://github.com/nordstjernen-web/nordstjernen/blob/main/L...
In Nordstjernen 1.0I love the little netscape style buttons at the bottom of the readme:
https://github.com/nordstjernen-web/nordstjernen
In Nordstjernen 1.0Nordstjernen Web Browser version 0.8 released
4 points · Open discussionslop is such a poorly defined term that it's very hard to answer your question meaningfully. Is all code generated by AI slop? Many different opinions on this and questions to be answered as LLMs continue to shift the programming landscape.
Having said that, you could have just clicked the link and found https://github.com/nordstjernen-web/nordstjernen/commits/mai... with a bunch of commits by claude. It took longer to write this than it took to figure out whether AI was used.
In Nordstjernen Web Browser