Show HN: Spegel, a Terminal Browser That Uses LLMs to Rewrite Webpages

Posted by simedw 7/1/2025

Show HN: Spegel, a Terminal Browser That Uses LLMs to Rewrite Webpages(simedw.com)

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nartho 7/1/2025|

I think the project itself is really cool, that said I really don't like the trend of having LLMs regurgitate content back to us. That said, this kinda makes me think of Browsh, who took the opposite approach and tries to render the HTML in the terminal (without LLMs as far as I know)

https://github.com/browsh-org/browsh https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZq86XfBoRo

hirako2000 7/1/2025||

That would also keep your wallet or GPU rag coller

sammy0910 7/1/2025||

I built something that did this a bit ago

https://github.com/sstraust/simpleweb

sammy0910 7/1/2025||

something I found challenging when I was building was -- how do you make the speed fast enough so that it still creates a smooth browsing experience?

I'm curious how you tackled that problem

4b11b4 7/1/2025|||

https://github.com/sstraust/simpleweb/blob/79294b461b2e67a24...

Not the answer to your question but here's the prompt

simedw 7/1/2025|||

That's a cool project.

I think most of it comes down to Flash-Lite being really fast, and the fact that I'm only outputting markdown, which is fairly easy and streams well.

busssard 7/1/2025|||

what does it do about javascript?

ghaering 7/1/2025||

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jannniii 7/1/2025||

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willm 7/1/2025||

Why not just use ncurses?

jannniii 7/1/2025||

Gopher is back!

Bluestein 7/1/2025|

Gosh. Lovely project and cool, and - likewise - a bit scary: This is where the "bubble" seals itself "from the inside" and custom (or cloud, biased) LLMs sear the "bubble" in.-

The ultimate rose (or red, or blue or black ...) coloured glasses.-

wayeq 7/2/2025|

... what?

rrnechmech 7/3/2025||

I think OP means that this "filtering" the on the fly conversion does can amplify the content bubbles we live in