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

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422 points simedw | 2 comments | 01 Jul 25 12:49 UTC | HN request time: 0.435s | source
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qsort ◴[01 Jul 25 13:12 UTC] No.44433579[source]▶
This is actually very cool. Not really replacing a browser, but it could enable an alternative way of browsing the web with a combination of deterministic search and prompts. It would probably work even better as a command line tool.

A natural next step could be doing things with multiple "tabs" at once, e.g: tab 1 contains news outlet A's coverage of a story, tab 2 has outlet B's coverage, tab 3 has Wikipedia; summarize and provide references. I guess the problem at that point is whether the underlying model can support this type of workflow, which doesn't really seem to be the case even with SOTA models.

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1. TeMPOraL ◴[01 Jul 25 18:34 UTC] No.44436819[source]▶
> tab 1 contains news outlet A's coverage of a story, tab 2 has outlet B's coverage, tab 3 has Wikipedia; summarize and provide references.

I think this is basically what https://ground.news/ does.

(I'm not affiliated with them; just saw them in the sponsorship section of a Kurzgesagt video the other day and figured they're doing the thing you described +/- UI differences.)

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2. doctoboggan ◴[01 Jul 25 21:13 UTC] No.44438059[source]▶
I am a ground news subscriber (joined with a Kurzgesagt ref link) and it does work that way (minus the wikipedia summary). It's pretty good and I particularly like their "blindspot" section showing news that is generally missing from a specific partisan new bubble.