Ask HN: How to make computer browse internet automatically?

2 imvetri 6 9/12/2025, 2:30:35 PM
Its an idea, an abstract concept.

Its not AI, not ML, not NN, not LLMs, not automation scripts like puppeteer or selenium.

End result - the computer program browses internet.

Its a vague idea.

The question is not about technicalities involved.

The intention of the question is to spark the thoughts.

Its a single recursive function.

Its a scattered thought, it would be cool to look such program working, and cooler to build one.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/79763073/how-to-make-computer-browse-internet-automatically

Comments (6)

PaulHoule · 1h ago
imvetri · 1h ago
no
fsflover · 1h ago
Why not?
imvetri · 51m ago
A web crawler requires me to program the logics.

The concept does not require me to program the logics, instead it starts reading a seed page, stores information/knowledge breaks it down to doable actions and performs action one by one.

This design allows the information to direct the concept. Where as, in case of web crawler, me/I will have to direct it.

eimrine · 1h ago
Just power it up, the vendor's spyware will do exactly this for fulfilling some vendor's profits.
imvetri · 1h ago
it would be cool to watch a computer browsing. Cooler to build one.