{"slug": "show-hn-an-oss-browser-and-work-environment-for-humans-and-agents", "title": "Show HN: An OSS browser and work environment for humans and agents", "summary": "A developer released Zephium, an open-source browser and work environment built in Rust on a forked Wry WebView, sized at 40 MB and not a Chromium fork, with native adblocking via a forked adblock-rust and support for major Chrome extensions. Zephium adds a \"Work mode\" canvas where users and AI agents browse, research and build together, with live browser sessions and parallel sub-agents, and AI can be disabled in one click; the browser ships with no telemetry and supports bring-your-own-key and local models. The project was posted to Hacker News as a Show HN with 1 point and 0 comments.", "body_md": "Fast, private, fully-featured, built in Rust (forked Wry, system's WebView). 40 MB. Not a Chromium fork. Native adblocking (forked adblock-rust), major Chrome extension support, deeply integrated productivity tools, a custom agentic browsing engine, and a lot more. It's not just another wrapper built in a few days.\n\nAnd... Work mode: a shared environment where you and AI agents can browse, research, build, and get real work done together. Live browser sessions, parallel sub-agents, tools, files, components, and interactive results, all in one canvas.\n\nAI is optional (disable in one click). No telemetry. BYOK support and local models.\n\nWebsite: [https://zephium.app](https://zephium.app)\nLaunch video: [https://youtu.be/QbSarcWspvw](https://youtu.be/QbSarcWspvw)\nX: [https://x.com/CryntaDev](https://x.com/CryntaDev)\n\nComments URL: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50227943](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50227943)\n\nPoints: 1\n\n# Comments: 0", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-an-oss-browser-and-work-environment-for-humans-and-agents", "canonical_source": "https://github.com/zephium-browser/Zephium", "published_at": "2026-10-25 03:16:39+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-10-25 03:42:26.595520+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-agents", "ai-tools", "developer-tools", "artificial-intelligence"], "entities": ["Zephium", "Rust", "Wry", "adblock-rust", "Chromium", "Hacker News"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-an-oss-browser-and-work-environment-for-humans-and-agents", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-an-oss-browser-and-work-environment-for-humans-and-agents.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-an-oss-browser-and-work-environment-for-humans-and-agents.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-an-oss-browser-and-work-environment-for-humans-and-agents.jsonld"}}