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SectorC: A C Compiler in 512 bytes

https://xorvoid.com/sectorc.html
86•valyala•4h ago•16 comments

Brookhaven Lab's RHIC concludes 25-year run with final collisions

https://www.hpcwire.com/off-the-wire/brookhaven-labs-rhic-concludes-25-year-run-with-final-collis...
23•gnufx•2h ago•17 comments

The F Word

http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2026/02/friction.html
35•zdw•3d ago•4 comments

Software factories and the agentic moment

https://factory.strongdm.ai/
89•mellosouls•6h ago•172 comments

Speed up responses with fast mode

https://code.claude.com/docs/en/fast-mode
49•surprisetalk•3h ago•52 comments

I write games in C (yes, C)

https://jonathanwhiting.com/writing/blog/games_in_c/
133•valyala•4h ago•100 comments

Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly

https://www.spritely.institute/hoot/
143•AlexeyBrin•9h ago•26 comments

Stories from 25 Years of Software Development

https://susam.net/twenty-five-years-of-computing.html
96•vinhnx•7h ago•13 comments

OpenCiv3: Open-source, cross-platform reimagining of Civilization III

https://openciv3.org/
850•klaussilveira•23h ago•257 comments

First Proof

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.05192
66•samasblack•6h ago•51 comments

The Waymo World Model

https://waymo.com/blog/2026/02/the-waymo-world-model-a-new-frontier-for-autonomous-driving-simula...
1092•xnx•1d ago•618 comments

Al Lowe on model trains, funny deaths and working with Disney

https://spillhistorie.no/2026/02/06/interview-with-sierra-veteran-al-lowe/
64•thelok•5h ago•10 comments

Show HN: A luma dependent chroma compression algorithm (image compression)

https://www.bitsnbites.eu/a-spatial-domain-variable-block-size-luma-dependent-chroma-compression-...
4•mbitsnbites•3d ago•0 comments

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself

https://jesperordrup.github.io/vocal-guide/
234•jesperordrup•14h ago•80 comments

Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)

https://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2009/commands-with-comma/
516•theblazehen•3d ago•191 comments

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback

https://rlhfbook.com/
94•onurkanbkrc•8h ago•5 comments

Selection Rather Than Prediction

https://voratiq.com/blog/selection-rather-than-prediction/
13•languid-photic•3d ago•4 comments

Show HN: I saw this cool navigation reveal, so I made a simple HTML+CSS version

https://github.com/Momciloo/fun-with-clip-path
30•momciloo•4h ago•5 comments

We mourn our craft

https://nolanlawson.com/2026/02/07/we-mourn-our-craft/
337•ColinWright•3h ago•403 comments

Coding agents have replaced every framework I used

https://blog.alaindichiappari.dev/p/software-engineering-is-back
254•alainrk•8h ago•415 comments

The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/07/ai-spending-economy-shortages/
183•1vuio0pswjnm7•10h ago•254 comments

France's homegrown open source online office suite

https://github.com/suitenumerique
613•nar001•8h ago•270 comments

72M Points of Interest

https://tech.marksblogg.com/overture-places-pois.html
35•marklit•5d ago•6 comments

A Fresh Look at IBM 3270 Information Display System

https://www.rs-online.com/designspark/a-fresh-look-at-ibm-3270-information-display-system
47•rbanffy•4d ago•9 comments

Unseen Footage of Atari Battlezone Arcade Cabinet Production

https://arcadeblogger.com/2026/02/02/unseen-footage-of-atari-battlezone-cabinet-production/
124•videotopia•4d ago•39 comments

Where did all the starships go?

https://www.datawrapper.de/blog/science-fiction-decline
97•speckx•4d ago•111 comments

History and Timeline of the Proco Rat Pedal (2021)

https://web.archive.org/web/20211030011207/https://thejhsshow.com/articles/history-and-timeline-o...
20•brudgers•5d ago•5 comments

Learning from context is harder than we thought

https://hy.tencent.com/research/100025?langVersion=en
211•limoce•4d ago•117 comments

Show HN: Look Ma, No Linux: Shell, App Installer, Vi, Cc on ESP32-S3 / BreezyBox

https://github.com/valdanylchuk/breezydemo
287•isitcontent•1d ago•38 comments

Show HN: Kappal – CLI to Run Docker Compose YML on Kubernetes for Local Dev

https://github.com/sandys/kappal
32•sandGorgon•2d ago•15 comments
Open in hackernews

Show HN: Browser AI agent platform designed for reliability

https://github.com/nottelabs/notte
76•ogandreakiro•6mo ago
We’re very excited to share something we’ve been building. Notte https://www.notte.cc/ is a full-stack browser agent platform built to reliably automate a wide range of workflows.

Browser agents aren’t new, but what is still hard is covering real-world flows reliably. The inspiration for Notte was to make a full-featured platform that bridges the agent reliability gap. We’ve packaged everything via a singe API for ease of use:

- Site Interactions - Observe website states, scrape data and execute actions

- Structured Output - Get data in your exact format with Pydantic models

- Stealth browser sessions - built-in CAPTCHA solving, proxies, and anti-detection

- Hybrid workflows - Combine scripting and AI agents to reduce costs and improve reliability

- Secrets vaults - Credential management to store emails, passwords, MFA tokens, SSO, etc.

- Digital personas - Digital identities with unique emails, phones for account creation workflows

With these tools, Notte allows you to automate difficult tasks like account creation, form filling, work on authenticated dashboards. Close compatibility with Playwright allows you to cut LLM costs and improve execution speed by mixing web automation primitives and include agents only for specific parts that require reasoning and adaptability.

Here’s a short YouTube demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1CzmfpdzaQ

If any of this sounds interesting, you can run your first agent following our quickstart on GitHub https://github.com/nottelabs/notte. Or play around with our free plan through our Notte Console: https://console.notte.cc/

We’d love to hear if there’s anything else required before you’d try or trust it on your own workflows :)

Comments

monoid73•6mo ago
for the hybrid workflows, curious how do you decide which parts need AI reasoning vs can be hardcoded? is it adaptive or manual config?
ogandreakiro•6mo ago
right now it's hardcode - you write a web automation script where at some parts you have a very specialized agent to take the very few steps in your workflow that require reasoning/adaptability. Future: we're trying to make this process automatic.
defied•6mo ago
Looks good, excited to try this together with the CDP feature. If it works well we can add it to our (TestingBot) integration/documentation.
ogandreakiro•6mo ago
Hey! Sure happy to create a shared integration with TestinBot - shoot me an email so we can discuss andrea@notte.cc :)
Jommi•6mo ago
just tried to use it to extract data from hyatt.com

completely failed

another hype but actually doesn't work browser agent.

ogandreakiro•6mo ago
hey - thanks for trying out. not sure what you're trying to extract from hyatt.com but just naively tested the most basic agent (https://github.com/nottelabs/notte?tab=readme-ov-file#run-in...) with simple prompt task="scrape data from hyatt.com landing page" and it worked perfectly:

answer=Successfully navigated to hyatt.com and closed the cookie consent. The page content includes navigation links (Explore, Offers, Meetings & Events, Loyalty Program, Language, Sign In or Join), a search form with inputs for City/Address/Landmark/Airport/Hotel, Check-in and Check-out dates, and options for rooms/guests and special rates. Below the search form, there are sections for 'Earn bonus points at new hotels', 'Limited-Time Offer: Earn 2 Free Nights + 25,000 Bonus Points', 'More Places to Discover' with specific hotel examples (Park Hyatt Auckland, Hyatt Regency London - The Churchill, 7Pines Resort Ibiza, Hyatt Centric Murano Venice), 'Join World of Hyatt' with benefits, and various promotional sections like 'Incredible offers, incredible places', 'Plan a summer of more', 'Outdoor adventure awaits', and 'Wellbeing your way'. The page also lists different Hyatt brands categorized into Luxury, Lifestyle, Inclusive, Classics, and Essentials. At the bottom, there are links for Reservations, Customer Service, Corporate Sites, Explore More, and Connect with Hyatt (social media links), along with legal information (Privacy Policy, Terms & Conditions, Cookie Center, Security & Safety, Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking, Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information)

jaflo•6mo ago
The pricing page mentions how many credits you get but not what a credit does or gets you. Could you elaborate on that?
ogandreakiro•6mo ago
Oh thanks for pointing this out. Pricing is explained on our landing https://notte.cc.

It’s 500 free credits. Pro plan $79/mo for 10K credits/mo. You can do additional top up 1K credits for $10 when in Pro plan.

If you need more it’s a custom enterprise deal - we work a lot with volume discounts.

GoatInGrey•6mo ago
To reiterate, "what a credit does or gets you" is not explained by your pricing page.

I'll operate on the assumption that it takes roughly 500 credits to scrape a single page for now.

ogandreakiro•6mo ago
Oh - missed that too. We had this somewhere in the docs and got lost.

- 1 scrape URL : 1 credit ~ $1c - 1 agent step : 2 credits ~ $2c - 1 min browse-time: 1 credit ~ $1c

Meaning if you run an agent for a 10-steps task for a minute it'll cost ~ $21c

doesnt_know•6mo ago
It's simple! For $50 a month we give you a thousand smeckles which you can use to crank the floba. A very good deal.
ogandreakiro•6mo ago
Just explained below what you can do with the 10K smeckles - that's 10K URL scrapes or 5K agent steps or 10K minutes of browsing :)
ogandreakiro•6mo ago
Update- https://www.notte.cc/#pricing
anonzzzies•6mo ago
But with AI it never tells you that. I pay $xxxx for the Claude API, half of the time it breaks it's own code and just does things explicitly told it NOT to do; I think I want to be refunded for the time wasting and frustration, but that's not happening. So you pay credits and you get 'stuff' that 'might work'; that's the reality. I'm gonna say this is basically not even allowed for consumers in the EU, but I don't know that for sure.
ogandreakiro•6mo ago
Pricing credits - dollars is explained below. +We were thinking about not charging credits whenever one of our agents fails because of a random error on our side (not too frequent, but still). This makes it more reasonable to start exploring and building with us.
anonzzzies•6mo ago
Makes sense, thanks.
alstonite•6mo ago
How well does it handle captchas?
ogandreakiro•6mo ago
There’s no magic here unfortunately. We’re working hard to make anti-detection as good as possible with proxies to avoid captchas in first place. When they get there - we can solve ~60% of providers right now (incl reCAPTCHA, Cloudflare, and main ones) and some others are still work in progress.
Bluestein•6mo ago
Just want to congratulate all involved for the obvious amount of care that has gone into thinking this through ...

I really hope it succeeds through the roof.-

ogandreakiro•6mo ago
Thanks - that’s nice to hear! :)
Bluestein•6mo ago
I've got to say - and this in a way makes sense: The model seems to be very "URL-oriented" ...

... as in (at least in the demo, the search one) if you ask it to visit a site by name (ie. "Go go Altavista and ...," ...

... it will complain "no URL" has been provided.-

It probably has to do with the "special instructions" given to the AI for this one program/demo ...

... still.-

ogandreakiro•6mo ago
Yeah - the search demo (https://search.notte.cc/) is just an attempt to showcase what one can do with a scraping agent embedded in a served LLM with an MCP server. We have a sys prompt pushing the LLM to request an URL to make sure it's scraping what you want to scrape - but I've played with it a bit and it can also come up with it's own URLs to be scraped.
zekdk•6mo ago
does your scraping endpoint also provide stealth mode?
ogandreakiro•6mo ago
Yes! We just added stealth support for our scraping endpoint. The docs should be updated soon but you can set proxies now
xena•6mo ago
Do you support robots.txt so administrators can opt-out of your service?
ogandreakiro•6mo ago
Not yet - this is a TODO and we'll try to do it asap!
Disposal8433•6mo ago
Avoiding captchas and disrespecting robots.txt. How does it feel to advertise your spam service? Are you proud?
AlexeyBelov•6mo ago
The pricing page was higher in priority
ogandreakiro•6mo ago
We added the pricing breakdown here: https://www.notte.cc/#pricing
ogandreakiro•6mo ago
Hey- we built Notte for legitimate workflows like testing and approved automation; not abuse. Like other session provider tools (Browserbase, Hyperbrowser, Anchor, etc.), we encourage respecting site terms and robots.txt, and we’re adding built-in support for it soon to enforce this policy inside Notte.
xena•6mo ago
You should also support Web Bot Auth and make it required to have a customer-specific abuse contact in the user-agent header so that people can send invoices to those customers for when your customers cause downtime due to excessive scraping.
ogandreakiro•6mo ago
Yes, that’s a very good point! We’ll look into this for SDK usage. What do you recommend for the public repo where it's harder to enforce runtime headers?
xena•6mo ago
No compliance? No support.
revskill•6mo ago
Credit based pricing is broken. No way u produce shiy then user get out of credit to get nothing done.
meowtimemania•6mo ago
There needs to be a way to purchase "X" more credits then it works IMO
ogandreakiro•6mo ago
There is!
ogandreakiro•6mo ago
There's a way to top-up 1K credits for $10 in our Pro plan. But if someone needs more then the 10K/mo + manual topups - I'd suggest moving to a custom deal. We can unlock any credits you need with custom rate limits and volume discounts.
revskill•6mo ago
You missed the point. What i mean, is your pricing scheme is a scam because u never know if your bot response would solve customer issue. Stop this madness, ok >?
ogandreakiro•6mo ago
we’re working on fail-credit refunds so charges only apply to successful runs
android521•6mo ago
no typescript support?