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Re:Cursor's latest "browser experiment" implied success with... by callc on Friday January 16, 2026 @10:05PM (#46654873)
Welcome to HN, thanks for sharing. That’s a very sad story, I hope you aren’t traumatized still.

A reasonable framework does exist. Since the claim is “we made a web browser from scratch” the framework is:

1. Does it actually f*** work?

2. Is it actually from scratch?

It fails on both counts. Further, even when compiled successfully, as others have pointed out, it takes more than a minute to load some pages which is a fail for #1.

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Re:Cursor's latest "browser experiment" implied success with... by Shaanie on Saturday January 17, 2026 @04:47AM (#46656720)
If it loads pages, then it clearly works. Nobody claims it's a practical, competitive browser.
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Re:Cursor's latest "browser experiment" implied success with... by callc on Saturday January 17, 2026 @06:48AM (#46657284)
“I built a car from scratch”

…

“Nobody said it has brakes.”

Taken at face value, everyone assumes when you say statement #1 that you are not speaking like a lawyer.

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