Not Your Run of the Mill Chromium Based Browser

Posted2 months agoActive2 months ago

darinf

15 points

5 comments

openai.comTechstory

calmpositive

Debate

20/100

Artificial IntelligenceBrowser DevelopmentChatgpt

Key topics

Artificial Intelligence

Browser Development

Chatgpt

The story discusses OpenAI's blog post on building ChatGPT Atlas, and HN users share their thoughts on the potential applications and implications of AI-powered browser development.

Snapshot generated from the HN discussion

Discussion Activity

Light discussion

First comment

N/A

Peak period

0-1h

Avg / period

1.7

Key moments

01Story posted
Oct 30, 2025 at 4:02 PM EDT
2 months ago
Step 01
02First comment
Oct 30, 2025 at 4:02 PM EDT
0s after posting
Step 02
03Peak activity
3 comments in 0-1h
Hottest window of the conversation
Step 03
04Latest activity
Oct 31, 2025 at 12:22 AM EDT
2 months ago
Step 04

Generating AI Summary...

Analyzing up to 500 comments to identify key contributors and discussion patterns

Discussion (5 comments)

Showing 5 comments

vikinghckr

2 months ago

1 reply

Very interesting read! One question I have is, since the architecture involves quite a thick client on top of base Chromium, and the client seems to be platform-specific (Swift/OSX in this case), how is the team thinking about the overhead of building all this for each platform -- Windows and Android specifically, but also perhaps iOS?

darinfAuthor

2 months ago

Mobile is a different story for sure and for many reasons. We will be bringing this same architecture to Windows. It will fit it well there, and in many ways Windows is already well suited for multi-process configurations. It always has been.

brazukadev

2 months ago

1 reply

They recreated Electron.

darinfAuthor

2 months ago

Electron works differently. It runs in process, similar to how a normal Chromium embedding works (like Chrome itself).

darinfAuthor

2 months ago

Glad to finally be able to share Atlas with the world last week! There's a lot of novelty under the hood. While Atlas is using Chromium, it's not built on top of Chromium in the usual way.

As one of the engineers who designed and built Chromium's multi-process architecture back in the day, it is really cool to take it to the next level.

View full discussion on Hacker News

ID: 45764640Type: storyLast synced: 11/20/2025, 2:35:11 PM

Want the full context?

Jump to the original sources

Read the primary article or dive into the live Hacker News thread when you're ready.

Open link View on HN