Show HN: Bloby – Clippy on Steroids Chrome Extension Using Chrome AI and Ollama
BlobyShareExtensionEntertainmentAdd to ChromeOverviewClippy on steroidsMeet Bloby—your adorable, floating AI sidekick living right inside your browser! Think of Clippy, but supercharged with modern AI, total local privacy, 100x more squishiness, and best of all—it's 100% free with absolutely zero ads! Whether you're shopping, reading, or navigating complex web apps, Bloby sits comfortably on your screen, ready to react to your clicks, execute voice commands, and browse the web for you hands-free.
- ▪BlobyShareExtensionEntertainmentAdd to ChromeOverviewClippy on steroidsMeet Bloby—your adorable, floating AI sidekick living right inside your browser!
- ▪Think of Clippy, but supercharged with modern AI, total local privacy, 100x more squishiness, and best of all—it's 100% free with absolutely zero ads!
- ▪Whether you're shopping, reading, or navigating complex web apps, Bloby sits comfortably on your screen, ready to react to your clicks, execute voice commands, and browse the web for you hands-free.
Hacker News (AI / LLM) files mainly under ai. We currently carry 7,343 of its stories.
Story provenance
Source · retrieval · rights · ranking — open for full record
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Story provenance
Attribution is not the same as permission. This drawer separates discovery metadata, excerpts, WeSearch-generated summaries, reuse status, and whether the publisher receives the visit. Nothing here claims a legal grant the publisher has not made.
Record
| Original publisher | |
| Canonical URL | https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/bloby/afmebijmdlfldmndinggmjdjmhjjhhcd |
| Publication time | Fri, 02 Oct 2026 15:02:09 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-10-02T16:25:50.375Z |
| Last seen | 2026-10-02T16:25:50.375Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | mqcGX1RNvdhE · 1 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
Opening excerpt (first ~120 words) tap to expand
BlobyShareExtensionEntertainmentAdd to ChromeOverviewClippy on steroidsMeet Bloby—your adorable, floating AI sidekick living right inside your browser! Think of Clippy, but supercharged with modern AI, total local privacy, 100x more squishiness, and best of all—it's 100% free with absolutely zero ads! Whether you're shopping, reading, or navigating complex web apps, Bloby sits comfortably on your screen, ready to react to your clicks, execute voice commands, and browse the web for you hands-free. WHAT MAKES BLOBY SPECIAL? • 100% Free & Zero Ads: Enjoy a premium AI companion experience with zero cost, no hidden paywalls, and absolutely no annoying ads or ad-trackers.
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Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at Google.
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