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Re:Relationship Between Artist and Computer on Sunday January 04, 2026 @10:44PM (#46495146)
"The general public, and the artist in particular, have been conditioned to react negatively to computers. The uninitiated artist asks: what can this machine do for me? Really, the question should be: what can I do with this machine?"

-Ruth Leavitt, 1976

Our goal with our dataset is to only focus on the personal web. The search APIs that LLMs use rank a lot of SEO/commercial content highly that we were not interested in :)

To measure that we do better here, we made evaluations based on how real people recommend websites on their blogs/writing/articles. For example, we tend to surface https://every.to/p/invisible-details-of-interaction-design rather than https://userpilot.com/blog/interaction-design-principles/ when searching for advice on getting better at interaction design.

Yikes! We'd never heard of that.

We picked "Browser Buddy" to name our surfing penguin logo.

We originally started with a webapp but found ourselves using it much more on our phones.

Happy to bring back the webapp if there’s strong interest!

We don’t boost any authors/publishers/pieces. We don’t have any specific plan to monetize right now, but many AI-based products seem to work well as paid subscriptions vs using an advertising model.

Launch HN: Browser Buddy (YC W24) – A recommendation system for Internet writing

https://www.browserbuddy.com/

Hey HN! We're Arnav and Jeremy and we're building Browser Buddy, a recommendation system you can chat with to find quality Internet writing based on your interests and aspirations.As we've grown up, this writing was a source of inspiration that helped us discover ideas and opportunities we didn't even know we were looking for (ex. applying to YC because of PG's essays).But despite so many new...

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Re:Show HN: Read Faster with LLMs on Thursday July 31, 2025 @07:14PM (#44751278)
found some cool info about bell labs in this pdf (chapters 1 & 7): https://quello.msu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Memories-N...

Show HN: A recommendation system to explore the non-commercial web

https://www.browserbuddy.com/

Hey HN, thank you for being a part of the internet we love. We’re Arnav, Mo, Jeremy and we’re building an “Internet For-You page” that recommends blogs and essays based on your interests. Try it here [https://www.browserbuddy.com/]! Here’s a video demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kj1bdfJwV0cWe love to discover and learn from personal blogs, essays, and articles on the internet. But despite...

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Show HN: Browser Buddy – Internet For-You Page

https://www.browserbuddy.com/

Hey HN, thank you for being a part of the internet we love. We’re Arnav, Mo, Jeremy and we’re building an “Internet for-you page” that recommends blogs and essays based on your interests. Try it here (https://www.browserbuddy.com/)!We love to discover and learn from personal blogs, essays, and articles on the internet. But despite exciting advancements in language modeling, it’s felt harder to...

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