Meha
AI
browser agent
SHOW HN2025
How HN took it
4 positive, 17 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 8 critical, out of 30 comments about the project. Thread score -0.20.
Idea: 3 for, 1 againstPerformance: 0 for, 3 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 2 againstDocs: 0 for, 2 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Interest in the open-source HTML-to-semantic compression algorithm
From 2 comments
> As well as an algorithm for efficiently converting/compressing large html pages into a semantic format. For the love of humanity please open source this. This seems…
stormfather on HNI would be very interested in your research on compressing HTML pages!
pdntspa on HN
Objections
Privacy policy collects too much data
From 2 comments
Looked through their privacy policy, and they state the collect and use basically everything they can from your browser & system metadata, to the content you share and/or create.…
skeeter2020 on HNSome analysis I've been reading on the implications of DeepSeek says that model optionality is probably here to stay. If so, I think incorporating model choice would be a…
1shooner on HN
Agent performed poorly and hallucinated results
From 2 comments
I asked it to go on seloger.com, to find "some flats on paris below 400k". It went on some specific district of Paris, and didn't put a price citeria then responded how I could…
Kuinox on HNit kept taking me to non existent websites that were a summary of what i asked it for
noahfk on HN
Installing desktop software is a concern; prefers native or extension
From 2 comments
Hey I am also building in the space and launched rtrvr.ai, but we went the route of a Chrome Extension so people don't have to worry about installing random software on their…
arjunchint on HNPlease please please don’t move to electron and just build something native. Electron desktop software bloat is killing our machines.
cpursley on HN
Requests
Open source the HTML compression SDK
From 2 comments
> As well as an algorithm for efficiently converting/compressing large html pages into a semantic format. For the love of humanity please open source this. This seems…
stormfather on HNI would be very interested in your research on compressing HTML pages!
pdntspa on HN
Local version using own API keys
From 2 comments
Thank you for the feedback. Personally besides using our API server, we would like to find another way to deploy to anyone who has an issue with this/wants to run everything…
jawerty on HNWe have an API server where we execute all the agent reasoning/planning jobs then we stream the browser commands to the client. We mention this in the how it works section on the…
jawerty on HN
Linux support
From 1 comment
So the reason for no Linux support is non technical right? There are literally dozens of us! An easy way to scrape webpages is something I’m interested in, I promise I’ll try it…
jwrallie on HN
Questions
Is it a wrapper around browser-use?
From 1 comment
Cool. Is this a wrapper for https://github.com/browser-use/browser-use ?
xnx on HN
Is it native or Electron?
From 1 comment
Is it a native app or electron based?
delduca on HN
Alternatives named
browser-use
From 1 comment
Cool. Is this a wrapper for https://github.com/browser-use/browser-use ?
xnx on HN
rtrvr.ai (Chrome extension)
From 1 comment
Hey I am also building in the space and launched rtrvr.ai, but we went the route of a Chrome Extension so people don't have to worry about installing random software on their…
arjunchint on HN
Playwright aria snapshot
From 1 comment
There is an open source alternative that might be even better: https://playwright.dev/docs/api/class-locator#locator-aria-snapshot.
pavelfeldman on HN