Fable turned reMarkable into Tom Riddle's diary from Harry Potter

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jxf•about 2 hours ago

This is one of those ideas that would really benefit from a short video demo, gif, or even a screenshot directly in the README. Otherwise, the title reads like a "Curtains for Zoosha?" meme. [0]

[0]: https://www.reddit.com/r/BrandNewSentence/comments/15hcc4x/c...

josh2600•about 2 hours ago

There's a video if you click around...

https://x.com/MaximeRivest/status/2073544461473169432?s=20

int32_64•about 1 hour ago

I remember for roughly a month after Elon bought twitter he opened the site up again and public viewers could browse it. Now you can't even click play on a video lol.

ekianjo•1 minute ago

You can still open a single post just fine

lrvick•about 1 hour ago

Twitter videos are hard to watch when you do not have an twitter account.

NDlurker•25 minutes ago

I use this website whenever I get sent a Twitter video link that won't load twittervideodownloader.com

punk_ihaq•23 minutes ago

https://xcancel.com/MaximeRivest/status/2073544461473169432?...

For those without X accounts

petesoper•about 1 hour ago

A new high water mark for R T F A.

jxf•about 1 hour ago

Can't use the Twitter links if you don't have a Twitter account. Also, why make the user click away when they're trying to understand if your product does something interesting, and why do they need an account on an unrelated service when an image/gif embed would get the message across in 5 seconds?

saghm•about 2 hours ago

Is Baby Gronk the new Drip King or was he just getting rizzed up by Livvy?

Dibes•about 2 hours ago

From the readme: https://x.com/MaximeRivest/status/2073544461473169432?s=20

dvngnt_•about 2 hours ago

After clicking play, there's a prompt to log in. I had to use a video downloader service to watch it

chickensong•about 2 hours ago

You can just replace x.com with nitter.net, though their bandwidth sucks for media playback.

xdennis•38 minutes ago

> Otherwise, the title reads like a "Curtains for Zoosha?" meme.

This is also why capitalization is important. In the title, "remarkable" refers to "Remarkable Paper Pro", a tablet. Not knowing that "Fable turned remarkable into Tom Riddle's diary" is very hard to parse.

themadturk•25 minutes ago

A Remarkable tablet was the first thing I thought of, but it was still so unclear I had to click through to actually understand (more or less) what was going on.

Tcepsa•about 2 hours ago

I understand that this is kind of beside the point, but it seems like a bad thing to compare inventions to haunted artifacts that mind controlled their users into betraying their friends to a powerfully evil being. (Though since it is being powered by GenAI, which has also driven people to do bad things, perhaps it is an apt comparison.)

CarVac•about 1 hour ago

Sci-Fi Author: In my book I invented the Torment Nexus as a cautionary tale.

Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus.

mikestorrent•about 1 hour ago

At least we're giving out free verification cans

avaer•about 1 hour ago

Why would that comparison be bad if it's accurate?

Also, "sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic". Both can be made good and evil.

p-e-w•about 1 hour ago

It’s not accurate, it’s absurd hyperbole no different from the kind the people who peddle it have arrogantly ridiculed their entire lives.

A mentally unstable person being “made” to do something by a chatbot is no different from other mentally unstable people doing bad things because they saw them in a TV show.

lwansbrough•about 1 hour ago

You don't think there's a difference between passive entertainment and a conversation with a sycophantic enabler?

McGlockenshire•about 1 hour ago

No, actually, an interactive textual conversation is a significantly different thing than a television show.

fjdjshsh•about 1 hour ago

I thought that was part of the appeal of this. There's something spooky and ironic about it.

boothby•about 1 hour ago

> it seems like a bad thing to compare inventions to haunted artifacts that mind controlled their users into betraying their friends to a powerfully evil being.

It's worked pretty well for Palantir?

trhway•about 1 hour ago

Once/if we lose understanding of the tech it will become magic/haunted artifacts.

devmor•about 1 hour ago

You hit on the point at the end… It’s not a bad comparison, it’s an apt one.

josh2600•about 2 hours ago

This is sick, in the 90's Tony Hawk sense of the word.

I love that people can just bang stuff into existence now.

There were times in my life where I would wait for an engineering team to change the color of a button for a day to a week.

We are not in the slow times anymore.

nonethewiser•10 minutes ago

The funny thing is, making the input/output mechanism is way less impressive and especially way less useful than the underlying LLM tech that hackernews loves to deride.

tffrr•about 2 hours ago

There were times in my life where I would wait for an engineering team to change the color of a button for a day to a week.

lolwat

sarcasm surely

glerk•about 1 hour ago

> stylelint beeps you can't just pass hex colors directly, that color is not in our design system, you need to write a design doc for custom color tokens and get approval from the frontend platform team, open a PR in their repo, make sure you have storybook tests covering all the color <cross product> button variants, ask in their slack channel for approve, ask their manager, wait. someone from their team leaves a comment: "we should make this an approved custom colors enum not a string, so if you want to add custom colors you also have to update this enum", fix the PR, staff engineer from sister team drive by request for changes: "we are currently implementing custom themes and changing colors will be done through the ColorSwatch service", ask for timelines, "maybe next week behind a feature flag", give up, close the PR, open a new PR with "stylelint-disable", force-merge it.

dylan604•8 minutes ago

gotta catch 'em at the right time of a sprint cycle

MarkusQ•about 1 hour ago

I remember it taking long enough (they had to wait for another project to need a lot of that color) that we wound up using dope to mock it up. (Regular paint didn't hold and just chipped off.)

delichon•about 2 hours ago

If Fable can now create horcruxes, the Commerce Department should seriously consider another time out.

munificent•about 1 hour ago

> No screen glow, no keyboard, no chat UI.

Is this not just... a chat UI?

nonethewiser•9 minutes ago

People are impressed with this and will call LLMs a junk.

asp_hornet•about 1 hour ago

Yes, arguably a worse one because you can’t stop to think.

Doesn’t stop it from being really cool though.

derektank•38 minutes ago

Incidentally, have any of the major AI provider's solved this problem for voice chats yet? It feels like even something like a simple keyword like “stop” would make having a conversation with an LLM a much better experience than a chat interface on a phone.

newspaper1•about 1 hour ago

I would argue that it does stop it from being really cool, but I'm not a millennial and thus despise Harry Potter.

cheema33•38 minutes ago

Very cool. I don't have a remarkable, but have the Amazon Kindle Scribe. Same idea. Would any of you be so kind to waste your precious Fable tokens on getting something like this working there? I have other plans for my remaining Fable tokens.

adyavanapalli•about 1 hour ago

This is soooo incredibly cool. Beyond the Tom Riddle diary aspect, I love the idea of this as a new medium for interacting with an LLM. You could gift it to someone and they could just write naturally, their thoughts, questions, notes, and get responses back without typing or speaking. It feels less like a chatbot and more like a journal you can communicate through. You could give it a personality and all.

IAmGraydon•32 minutes ago

I mean no offense, but it's kind of crazy that people think that linking handwriting recognition, a technology that was first rolled out 24 years ago in Windows XP, with an LLM is "soooo incredibly cool". I don't get it.

nonethewiser•8 minutes ago

It's cool but it has nothing to do with the tom riddle application.

It's cool because LLMs are actually fucking amazing technology and people are already numb to it.

heyitsguay•8 minutes ago

Products are something other than the sum of their technical parts.

binarymax•about 1 hour ago

This is really cool, but the best part is the response in the twitter post demo had an em-dash.

derektank•31 minutes ago

This is strong “criticism of the man in the arena” energy on my part, but I’m kind of disappointed the text just wipes across, rather than the ink sort of “emerging” from the page like in the movie, with the heavier parts of the font appearing first and the thinner lines appearing last.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9GgYbFVYkow&t=2m40s

marcus_holmes•10 minutes ago

Source code is right there, no need to be disappointed!

Footprint0521•17 minutes ago

What in the click bait? DeepSeek V4 Pro could one shot a three js project better than this

recursive•about 1 hour ago

I've heard of Harry Potter.

ButlerianJihad•about 2 hours ago

Ginevra was my favourite and the most beautiful character in the HP films. Poor Ginny. Relieved that she survived all that. One tough cookie.

newspaper1•about 1 hour ago

For those of us that hate Harry Potter, this apparently takes your written prompt and responds on the Remarkable. I think you'd have to be a fan of the series to care as otherwise this is just a really slow chat interface.

wpm•about 1 hour ago

> No screen glow, no keyboard, no chat UI. Just ink appearing on paper.

No soul. No care. No consideration. Just slop appearing as text. Shut the *fuck* up BOT. How in the hell is this not the most appalling, offensive smell by now? All this says to me is someone proompted some garbage into barely working, didn't even bother to look at what the stupid token machine generated for a readme. How unfathomably embarassing.

I cannot take any project seriously no matter how silly it presents itself as if this sort of obvious slop CRAP makes it into what is presented. Good fucking god give the slightest hint of a fuck if you want me to care at all about what you're throwing into the aether. Rub a few brain cells together, please.

arachnids•about 1 hour ago

This is an unhealthy amount of rage to feel about a random person doing something random on the internet

al_borland•34 minutes ago

I don’t think it’s about this single random person, but the larger trend it represents. It’s everywhere now, and it shows a general lack of care and craft.

Retr0id•35 minutes ago

It might not be a productive emotion, but I think it's completely normal to be experiencing it.

Exoristos•about 1 hour ago

Those who did not lose their minds because they were talked into by AI lost their minds because AI was so grating and ubiquitous.

wrs•about 1 hour ago

I really don't think this project was meant to be taken seriously.

r3trohack3r•about 1 hour ago

You doing okay man?

esikich•about 1 hour ago

Take a walk outside bro.

BoorishBears•about 1 hour ago

Both of you are right of course