Nordstjernen Web Browser(www.nordstjernen.org)
13 pointsby roschdal8 hours ago3 comments
  • b0in3 hours ago
    I'm...suspicious. 10 months ago this account was whinging about the evils of AI and this is heavily AI driven code. README claims to be a Norwegian developed browser but account is in Qatar. Andreas Røsdal has two github accounts, both andreasrosdal and andreasrosdalw, one of which has forked a project from the other or I would just think "oh two people with the same name".
    • roschdal2 hours ago
      I am making this web browser, ask me anything. I have two GitHub accounts, one for private and another for work. I am using Claude to make this web browser. I live in Norway now, I used to live in Qatar before.
      • b0in2 hours ago
        Are you ok?
        • roschdal2 hours ago
          Yes, thank you.
          • b0in2 hours ago
            aha. 'w' for work. got it.
            • roschdal2 hours ago
              What do you think about this fine new web browser?
  • Asraelite4 hours ago
    > Copyright © 1997 the Nordstjernen project

    Did this project exist in some form since 1997? The Wayback Machine shows that the website was previously completely different - a fan site for someone connected to the Norwegian royal family.

    • 2 hours ago
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  • d3Xt3r7 hours ago
    > An independent web browser written in C.

    Cool! We need more indie browsers.

    > No Blink, no Gecko, no WebKit, no JIT. No telemetry, ever.

    Excellent. This person speaks my language.

    > UI: GTK 4

    WTF?! Why?! Why do people keep defaulting to that bloated turd of a toolkit, even in the era of LLMs? The dev is clearly using Claude, they could've very easily vibe coded to use a better toolkit. I can't fathom what made them choose GTK out of all things, especially considering they're going for the minimalism thing.

    • roschdal7 hours ago
      GTK 4 completely overhauled its rendering pipeline. It finally ditched the old CPU-bound Cairo rendering in favor of a modern scene graph (GSK) that natively leverages OpenGL and Vulkan. This browser is C, while Qt needs C++ normally. Maybe I will make my own toolkit, like the Chrome Aura.