Ask HN: How to make computer browse internet automatically?

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

2 points | by imvetri 19 hours ago

4 comments

  • PaulHoule 19 hours ago
    • imvetri 19 hours ago
      no
      • fsflover 19 hours ago
        Why not?
        • imvetri 19 hours 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.

          • giveita 11 hours ago
            You want the system to have learned (discretion, taste...), but it cannot learn from a human programing logic, so it must learn either from

            1. Something like Machine Learning

            or..

            2. Some emergent property of mathematics / computation.

            If you find 2... hell that would be something.

            Maybe genetic algorithms?

          • fsflover 15 hours ago
            A good web crawler can just go through all links it finds, no programming is required.
  • vismit2000 5 hours ago
  • eimrine 19 hours ago
    Just power it up, the vendor's spyware will do exactly this for fulfilling some vendor's profits.
    • imvetri 19 hours ago
      it would be cool to watch a computer browsing. Cooler to build one.
  • geophph 9 hours ago
    Stumbleupon but inside a for loop