Thursday, 7 August 2025

New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: Browser AI agent platform designed for reliability

Show HN: Browser AI agent platform designed for reliability
13 by ogandreakiro | 1 comments on Hacker News.
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://ift.tt/3GwzdWf . 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 :)

New top story on Hacker News: GPT-5 for Developers

GPT-5 for Developers
99 by 6thbit | 40 comments on Hacker News.


Monday, 4 August 2025

New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: Mathpad – Physical keypad for typing 100+ math symbols anywhere

Show HN: Mathpad – Physical keypad for typing 100+ math symbols anywhere
15 by MagneLauritzen | 10 comments on Hacker News.
Here's something different than your usual fare: A physical keypad that lets you directly type math! Ever tried typing mathematical equations in your code IDE, email, or on Slack? You might know it can be tricky. Mathpad solves this with dedicated keys for Greek letters, calculus symbols, and more. Press the ∫ key and get ∫, in any application that accepts text. It uses Unicode composition, so it works everywhere: Browsers, chat apps, code editors, Word, you name it. Basically, anywhere you can type text, Mathpad lets you type mathematics. I built Mathpad after getting frustrated with the friction of typing equations in e.g. Word, and what a pain in the ass it was to find the specific symbols I needed. I assumed that a product like Mathpad already existed, but that was not true and I had to build it myself. It turned out to be pretty useful! Three years of solo development later, I'm launching on Crowd Supply. One of the trickiest parts of this project was finding someone who could manufacture custom keycaps with mathematical symbols. Shoutout to Loic at 3dkeycap.com for making it possible! Fully open source (hardware + software): https://ift.tt/2g0DtPB Campaign: https://ift.tt/y2j0PLF Project log: https://ift.tt/PV98DuO