OUOuterVale·Oct 13, 2026Submission
Tilefinch – An experimental web browser for the Sony PSP
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tilefinch
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tilefinch
An experimental modern web browser for the Sony PSP: on device with no proxy with video decoded entirely on device
2Distinct people
2Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
86GitHub stars
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What it is
An experimental modern web browser for the Sony PSP: on device with no proxy with video decoded entirely on device
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Where it is used
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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, 3:56:07 PM UTC.
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Mentions over time
HN mentions by 3-hour interval2 dated mentions
Observed mentions: 2026-10-11 18:47:29 UTC to 2026-10-13 11:14:13 UTC.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| Oct 11, 18:00 | 2026-10-11 18:00:00 UTC | 2026-10-11 21:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Oct 11, 21:00 | 2026-10-11 21:00:00 UTC | 2026-10-12 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 12, 00:00 | 2026-10-12 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-10-12 03:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 12, 03:00 | 2026-10-12 03:00:00 UTC | 2026-10-12 06:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 12, 06:00 | 2026-10-12 06:00:00 UTC | 2026-10-12 09:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 12, 09:00 | 2026-10-12 09:00:00 UTC | 2026-10-12 12:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 12, 12:00 | 2026-10-12 12:00:00 UTC | 2026-10-12 15:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 12, 15:00 | 2026-10-12 15:00:00 UTC | 2026-10-12 18:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 12, 18:00 | 2026-10-12 18:00:00 UTC | 2026-10-12 21:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 12, 21:00 | 2026-10-12 21:00:00 UTC | 2026-10-13 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 13, 00:00 | 2026-10-13 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-10-13 03:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 13, 03:00 | 2026-10-13 03:00:00 UTC | 2026-10-13 06:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 13, 06:00 | 2026-10-13 06:00:00 UTC | 2026-10-13 09:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 13, 09:00 | 2026-10-13 09:00:00 UTC | 2026-10-13 12:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
What Hacker News says
2 sourcesShow HN: Tilefinch – a from-scratch* web browser for the PSP (333Mhz, 64MB RAM)
I picked up my PSP for the first time in about a decade and wanted to find out three things: how far the hardware could be pushed, how much of the modern web fits on it, and what today’s coding agents can do. A web browser tests all three.
Tilefinch runs entirely on a PSP-3000: networking, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, layout and rendering, over Wi-Fi, with no proxy or companion computer. The style, layout, paint, media and UI layers are new C code and a patched QuickJS runs the JavaScript.
Each page gets a single 32 MB budget covering DOM, JavaScript, CSS, images, layout and tiles.
A few things that work: logged-out ChatGPT rendering a response; YouTube and HTML video through the PSP’s hardware decoder, at up to 360p; Canvas 2D and WebGL 1 on the PSP’s graphics chip (the repo includes a new 3D tank game as a demo). There's also modern browser f
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eatures like Reader mode, dark mode, an ad blocker, language packs and in-app updates.
However, some sites are too large (in which the browser offers a "Basic" mode) and most are slow to render.