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prompt-api

💬 A proposal for a web API for prompting browser-provided language models

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💬 A proposal for a web API for prompting browser-provided language models

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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, 10:02:42 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by month12 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2024-07-02 21:13:55 UTC to 2026-04-30 14:07:24 UTC.

01232024-07-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 1 submissions, 2 commentsJul 20242024-08-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-09-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-09-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-10-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-10-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-11-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments2024-11-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-12-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-12-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-02-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-02-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-03-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-03-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-04-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-04-01 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): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsMay 20252025-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-07-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-07-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments2025-08-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-09-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2025-09-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-10-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-10-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-11-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2025-11-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-12-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-12-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-02-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2026-02-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-03-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-03-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-04-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-04-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-05-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 commentsApr 2026

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
Jul 20242024-07-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-08-01 00:00:00 UTC312
Aug 20242024-08-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-09-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Sep 20242024-09-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-10-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 20242024-10-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-11-01 00:00:00 UTC110
Nov 20242024-11-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-12-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Dec 20242024-12-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
Jan 20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-02-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Feb 20252025-02-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-03-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 20252025-03-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-04-01 00:00:00 UTC000
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 UTC000
Jun 20252025-06-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-07-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jul 20252025-07-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-08-01 00:00:00 UTC110
Aug 20252025-08-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-09-01 00:00:00 UTC202
Sep 20252025-09-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-10-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 20252025-10-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-11-01 00:00:00 UTC101
Nov 20252025-11-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-12-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Dec 20252025-12-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jan 20262026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-02-01 00:00:00 UTC101
Feb 20262026-02-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-03-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 20262026-03-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-04-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Apr 20262026-04-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-05-01 00:00:00 UTC202

What Hacker News says

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westurner·Oct 17, 2025
W3C specs are written with respec: ReSpec docs: https://respec.org/docs/#w3c-documents W3C Process document > 3.4. Chartered Groups: Working Groups and Interest Groups: https://www.w3.org/policies/process/#GAGeneral There's WebGPU, WebNN, window.ai, Prompt API, Summarizer API, Writer API, Rewriter API, Language Detector API, Translator API ; and now WebMCP WebNN: https://www.w3.org/TR/webnn/ webmachinelearning/prompt-api > "Explainer for the Prompt API": https://github.com/webmachinelearning/prompt-api https://developer.chrome.com/docs/ai/built-in : > Standardization effort: We're working to standardize all of these APIs for cross-browser compatibility. > The Language Detector API and Translator API have been adopted by the W3C WebML Working Group. We've asked Mozilla and WebKit for their standards positions. > The Summarizer API, Writ
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er API, and Rewriter API have also been adopted by the W3C WebML Working Group. We've asked asked Mozilla and WebKit for their standards positions. webmachinelearning/webmcp: https://github.com/webmachinelearning/webmcp jasonjmcghee/WebMCP: https://github.com/jasonjmcghee/WebMCP Having worked on at least one web app with a name that started with "Web", I'm not surprised. /? mcp chrome: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu... : - "Show HN: We packaged an MCP server inside Chromium" (today) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45618536 re: browseros-mcp: https://github.com/browseros-ai/BrowserOS/blob/main/docs/bro... - "Chrome DevTools (MCP) for your AI agent" https://developer.chrome.com/blog/chrome-devtools-mcp .. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45412734 (September 2025) .. : > We're launching today a public preview for the new Chrome DevTools Model Context Protocol (MCP) server, bringing the power of Chrome DevTools to AI coding assistants. > Coding agents face a fundamental problem: they are not able to see what the code they generate actually does when it runs in the browser. They're effectively programming with a blindfold on. > The Chrome DevTools MCP server changes this. AI coding assistants are able to debug web pages directly in Chrome, and benefit from DevTools debugging capabilities and performance insights. This improves their accuracy when identifying and fixing issues. How could the Chrome DevTools MCP be integrated with the Gemini Computer Use model? From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45543923 : > Competency Story: The customer and product owner can write BDD tests in order to validate the app against the requirements > Prompt: Write playwright tests for #token_reference, that run a named factored-out login sequence, and then test as human user would that: when you click on Home that it navigates to / (given browser MCP and recently the Gemini 2.5 Computer Operator model) "Introducing the Gemini 2.5 Computer Use model" (October 2025) https://blog.google/technology/google-deepmind/gemini-comput... Could this help with accessibility reviews? "Lighthouse accessibility score" https://developer.chrome.com/docs/lighthouse/accessibility/s... awesome-a11y > Tools: https://github.com/brunopulis/awesome-a11y/blob/main/topics/...
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