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Show HN: Spegel, a Terminal Browser That Uses LLMs to Rewrite Webpages

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422 points simedw | 1 comments | 01 Jul 25 12:49 UTC | HN request time: 0.199s | source
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b0a04gl ◴[01 Jul 25 14:31 UTC] No.44434262[source]▶
this is another layer of abstraction on top of an already broken system. you're running html through an llm to get markdown that gets rendered in a terminal browser. that's like... three format conversions just to read text. the original web had simple html that was readable in any terminal browser already. now they arent designed as documents anymore but rather designed as applications that happen to deliver some content as a side effect
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1. worldsayshi ◴[01 Jul 25 14:53 UTC] No.44434477[source]▶
If the web site is a SPA that is hydrated using an API it would be conceivable that the LLM can build a reusable interface around the API while taking inspiration from the original page. That interface can then be stored in some cache.

I'm not saying it's necessarily a good idea but perhaps a bad/fun idea that can inspire good ideas?