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PowerShell 7.5.0 released
Article URL: https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/releases/tag/v7.5.0
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42808105
Points: 2
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Declassification of records about the assassinations of John F. Kennedy
Adam Brown – Bubble Universes, Black Holes, & Ads/CFT [video]
Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhB3qH_TFds
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42808079
Points: 1
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Galileo Chini – Art Nouveau
Article URL: https://www.tuttartpitturasculturapoesiamusica.com/2022/12/Galileo-Chini.html
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42808067
Points: 1
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Screens Have Taken over Classrooms. Even Students Have Had Enough
Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/schools-phone-screens-technology-research-c268bda5
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42808057
Points: 5
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Show HN: I Wrote an Open-Source Alternative to OpenAI Operator – For Any LLM
Hey HN,
I built browser-use, an open-source alternative to OpenAI’s Operator for browser-use systems, and here’s why I think it’s better:
Flexibility: You can use any LLM with our tool – Gemini, Anthropic, Qwen, Llama, DeepSeek, and more. As new models improve, so does your agent.
Open Source: No need to pay $200/month or endure long waitlists – it’s free and accessible to everyone today.
Custom Automation: Our Python package allows you to build actual web automations. Your LLM can gain new tools, like file uploads.
Cost: Our system is 30x cheaper than Operator, e.g., when used with DeepSeek. Some models are even free, like Qwen or gemini-2.0-exp.
Why it’s different from Operator:
Usability: While Operator’s safety system is impressive, it often sacrifices usability. For example, their demo required logging in and email authentication – our tool connects seamlessly to your real browser.
Full DOM Access: Unlike Operator’s vision-only approach, we process the entire DOM. If you want to extract hidden elements like links or large lists, we handle that directly in the input. Vision will never do that.
Performance: We’ve already outperformed them on one benchmark, WebVoyager. Current benchmarks favor simple interactions, and we’re designed for much more.
Who this is for: Developers who want to build automation or connect AI to the browser.
Check out our browser-use GitHub repo.
I would love feedback on how this fits into your workflows and what is needed for production readiness.
Looking forward to your thoughts!
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42808043
Points: 5
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Rust in Production: Volvo Ships Memory-Safe ECUs in Production Cars
Article URL: https://corrode.dev/podcast/s03e08-volvo/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42807774
Points: 1
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The First Beta of Android 16
Article URL: https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/01/first-beta-android16.html
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42807756
Points: 1
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Data Have a Limited Shelf Life
Article URL: https://hdsr.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/iu26pfw1/release/6
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42807747
Points: 1
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Our tools shape how we write
Article URL: https://www.yetto.app/blog/post/how-our-tools-shape-how-we-write/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42807738
Points: 1
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The online porn free-for-all is coming to an end
Article URL: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/01/supreme-court-online-pornography/681397/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42807726
Points: 1
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Making Sense of Commonality Analysis
Article URL: https://lnalborczyk.github.io/blog/2025-01-07-commonality/index.html
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42807722
Points: 1
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Product Market Fit Collapse: The AI Tipping Point
Article URL: https://www.reforge.com/blog/product-market-fit-collapse
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42807716
Points: 1
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Show HN: Free and open source library for AI object detection in GeoTIFFs
Article URL: https://github.com/uav4geo/GeoDeep
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42807711
Points: 1
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Getting Started with FusionAuth: A Beginner's Guide
Article URL: https://fusionauth.io/docs/get-started/start-here
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42807702
Points: 1
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OrbitDB – Peer-to-Peer Databases for the Decentralized Web
Article URL: https://orbitdb.org/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42807660
Points: 1
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John McAfee 'returns from the dead' to promote a memecoin on Elon Musk's X
Article URL: https://mashable.com/article/john-mcafee-aintivirus-memecoin
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42807658
Points: 3
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The Youth Mind: Rising aggression and anger [pdf]
Article URL: https://sapienlabs.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Sapien-Labs-Report-The-Youth-Mind-Rising-aggression-and-anger-1.pdf
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42807655
Points: 2
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Morse Code in Tubular Bells (2021)
Article URL: https://madpsy.uk/link-between-the-soundtrack-of-the-exorcist-and-amateur-radio/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42807653
Points: 5
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