Nordstjernen Web Browser
1 points by bt
1 points by bt
i would be extremely (!!) wary to entrust something as sensitive as my entire web browsing experience to a wholly LLM-generated piece of software.
Same here, though not because there is an AGENTS.md and CLAUDE.md. Generally I try to not jump to conclusions about the quality purely because for some code a LLM might be involved. However, in this case the insanely frantic commit history since the project was put in a git repository 7 hours ago did quickly convince me not to try this out. And yes, the commit history only goes back 7 hours, at that point some version of the browsers was committed. Everything before that is a development black hole.
The website lists earlier versions but those 404 so I am not even sure what is going on there. I can find some earlier tagged releases so there is some commit history there. But clearly that has been erased on the main branch. It just doesn't give the right... vibes I guess.
I don't want to assume bad faith, but the website is giving an impression of a well established project that has been going for a while but in reality this project is either a few hours old or a few months old.
Edit:
Also, no note at all why it is written in C in the year 2026. I'd expect a project to be opinionated about a choice like that.
Edit2:
It just struck me that it is also rather ironic to slap a "built in Norway" label on it when the work is mostly done by models from US companies.
It would be something if this was written in a safe language, but to build a new browser, in this day and age (vibecoded), and then not using something better than C, I can't wrap my head around it.
I'll give a single point for transparency:
The whole engine is about 109,000 lines of C written by Claude and Codex
But what is that license?