arjunchint

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Show HN: Launched free browser agent (the catch: ads)(rtrvr.ai)
2 points by arjunchint 22d ago|0 comments
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by arjunchint 2mo ago
more like they were facing pressure from chinese models, and dropped prices and now their margins are squeezed
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by arjunchint 2mo ago
Deepseek Flash is still much cheaper: - lower input/output token pricing - the cached token price is $0.0028/Million tokens, which is like 50-90% of tokens
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by arjunchint 2mo ago
has claude escaped the lab???
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In-browser agent that bulk enriches any webpage(rtrvr.ai)
1 points by arjunchint 2mo ago|0 comments
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by arjunchint 2mo ago
I am not following a couple of things: - you sell to websites an in-app agent - why not just have them give you API spec, why reverse engineer their APIs? A bit longer term, would you see yourself competing with WebMCP then? Because the web
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by arjunchint 3mo ago
why doesnt meta just use deepseek? honestly better than gemini flash
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by arjunchint 3mo ago
Plenty of screenshots in this thread showing usage. Its the ridiculous cached input token price of $0.00028/1 M https://www.reddit.com/r/DeepSeek/comments/1twesxe/comment/o...
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by arjunchint 3mo ago
There are plenty of US based hosters racing to optimize and drive efficiencies Literal race on twitter posting to increase token throughput and drive down costs on these Chinese open source models
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by arjunchint 3mo ago
There is a wave of users switching over to DeepSeek Flash. There are Reddit threads of users sharing billion token spend for $20. If all of global spend on Anthropic/OpenAI/Gemini APIs just switches over to DeepSeek then easily we
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Show HN: DeepSeek Flash inverted the economics of agent products(rtrvr.ai)
9 points by arjunchint 3mo ago|0 comments
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by arjunchint 3mo ago
its been working fine on LinkedIn/IG, the trick is to make the requests from the main world of the website itself.
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by arjunchint 3mo ago
Honestly with Fable I think anyone is going to be able to reverse engineer a desktop app and get the coding agent to automate it. The Codex computer use functionality actually uses OS level accessibility trees, so thats also possible withou
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by arjunchint 3mo ago
Pretty doubtful about computer use/screenshotting based approaches. With Retriever AI, we construct custom accessibility trees to represent web pages and just switched over to using DeepSeek v4 Flash and its nearing 100x cost decrease.
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by arjunchint 3mo ago
Fable has been gone almost a week. A god-tier coding model got banned with vague “national security” handwaving. Trump administration friends get free passes on environmental laws, but anyone not pushing their narrative is getting curbstomp
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by arjunchint 3mo ago
Who are your primary customers/usecases? What do you think of just reverse engineering the network requests and writing scripts to hit the underlying APIs that the browser is making instead of tackling at the browser automation layer?
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by arjunchint 3mo ago
I am really wondering if Google is just subleasing Anthropic capacity. The terms are suspiciously the same as Anthropic's and Anthropic was supposed to have leased out all of Colossus 1. Maybe with the corp token spending limits and th
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Replacing browser-agent tool loops with eval() in a Chrome sandbox(rtrvr.ai)
2 points by arjunchint 4mo ago|0 comments
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by arjunchint 4mo ago
The hard part about the web is that API's aren't just available even if the website owner wants them exposed (big if). I embedded a Google Calendar widget on my Book a demo page, I don't know the API and Google doesn't e
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by arjunchint 5mo ago
there are no guarantees in life, can look up any random day and see a meteor streaking across the sky and realize that this is the end regardless of "sociopolitical structures". All that matters is sociotechnological progress to b
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by arjunchint 5mo ago
We don't sell user data, and we are in it to build a generational company. We already have 25k+ users and have an opensource extension as well: https://github.com/rtrvr-ai/rover/tree/main/apps/p
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by arjunchint 5mo ago
bro openclaw is dead
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by arjunchint 5mo ago
cool clickbait, why is this useful?
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by arjunchint 5mo ago
Yes exactly imagine now anyone, even non-technical people, can just prompt and interact with this hidden/deeper layer of the web, all in their regular browser!
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by arjunchint 5mo ago
Hey thats a great idea, we will take a look into exploring this export option. But how would it save time by being a Playwright script? Right now since we have a custom sandbox to re-execute the code in, we are using our own syntax and expo
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by arjunchint 5mo ago
We execute the code in a sandbox and proxy the fetch calls through main world!
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by arjunchint 5mo ago
We found Gemini Flash to be the sweet spot for both agentic actions as well as writing code. Even Flash-Lite is too hit or miss. We are thinking through on self healing mechanisms like falling back to a live web agent and rewriting script.
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by arjunchint 5mo ago
The bigger goal is to build and maintain a global library of popular automations. Users can also quickly re-record and recreate the scripts to update. Since it runs inside your own browser, there should be no captchas or challenges. On fail
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by arjunchint 5mo ago
Hey Muchael, we had similar thoughts at Retriever AI of moving from runtime agentic inference to writing scripts combining webpage interactions and reverse engineered site APIs. Compared to your our approach, we are doing this entirely with
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by arjunchint 5mo ago
Yea would love to try out the extension! ITs always interesting to see everyone's design approach. I really don't want to install an app on to my laptop, especially an MITM, so I think extension would be better.

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