Birbla

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A user showcased turning a reMarkable into a Harry Potter diary using Fable, sparking mixed reactions. Some appreciated the project, while others criticized its purpose or technical aspects.

What the discussion says

  • Some see it as an innovative way to interact with LLMs.
  • Critics mention hallucinations and technical limitations.
  • Others question the utility of such projects.
“I think this is an awesome way to interact with an LLM.”
— dheera
“Fable hallucinations.”
— shevy-java

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  • Amusingly, I made the same thing late last year, though just on an ordinary computer, allowing you to draw in the browser. I used pageflip [0] with styling akin to Riddle's actual diary and a tiny local model crafted for roleplay via ollama. I remember writing "my name is Harry Potter, what is yours?" and getting back Snape, Malfoy, and even Harry Potter back across a number of iterations. After completing my experiment I learned I wasn't the first to think of this idea and found a few other similar AI Riddle diaries out there.

    Incidentally, I have a Remarkable 2 and as of this weekend an m4 iPad air. Maybe I'll test this one out and see what the landscape for running models on iOS looks like.

    0) https://nodlik.github.io/react-pageflip/

    by cml123
  • 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.
    by newspaper1
  • well, yeah, of course
    by stronglikedan
  • If Fable can now create horcruxes, the Commerce Department should seriously consider another time out.
    by delichon
  • yeah, and might as well ban Chinese models too for safety since they can do the same.
    by bel8
  • > No screen glow, no keyboard, no chat UI.

    Is this not just... a chat UI?

    by munificent
  • People are impressed with this and will call LLMs a junk.
    by nonethewiser
  • This is absolutely a chat UI.
    by msftgreed
  • Yes, arguably a worse one because you can’t stop to think.

    Doesn’t stop it from being really cool though.

    by asp_hornet
  • The no x no y no z is absolutely necessary to include.
    by russdill
  • The first sentence already contains an emdash ahah
    by h1fra
  • I speak as I think and I type and as I speak, so I do uses em-dashes. It’s a shame that it’s now a brand of low quality AI-generated content.
    by zahrc
  • Never trust anything that can think for itself, if you can’t see where it keeps its brain
    by alserio
  • “But how do you know you can see where you keep your brain?!” /s
    by antondd
  • But if anything that's truer to how Tom Riddle's diary works
    by frollogaston
  • Which makes me think this would be more impressive with a self-contained local model, not something that talks to the cloud
    by raverbashing
  • 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...

    by jxf
  • From the readme: https://x.com/MaximeRivest/status/2073544461473169432?s=20
    by Dibes
  • > 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.

    by xdennis
  • Is Baby Gronk the new Drip King or was he just getting rizzed up by Livvy?
    by saghm
  • There's a video if you click around...

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

    by josh2600
  • 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.

    by josh2600
  • If a team takes a week to change the color of a button... is not because changing the code is hard.

    Were you the PM on those project btw?

    by Yeask
  • 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.
    by nonethewiser
  • >I love that people can just bang stuff into existence now.

    I need to see if it can build me a fabulous todo app.

    4-5 years ago I spent around a year refining a paper-and-pen daily planner, and I went 100% into it and liked it. The paper planner though had a non-ideal workflow, and so I wanted to look into some automation of it. I got a Kindle Scribe hoping they might grow its capabilities. It had a great "it's like paper" experience, but no automation or tools or apps seemed to come along. So then I tried a fairly high end Boox, I got it and then used it only a couple weeks and then stopped doing that daily planner process entirely.

    But if Fable could build a Boox or reMarkable app, that might be a big win.

    I've tried task warrior, and todoist, and in the end I just keep going back to a straight text file I edit.

    by linsomniac
  • You think technology was the bottleneck?

    Your button was not important and should not consume resources of any kind and definitely not engineering resources. It taking a week was a feature, not a bug. It meant engineering properly evaluated the priority and urgency of tasks.

    Your magic slotmachine will enable a level of shit-producing and warped perception of engineering effort of breathtaking scale. It will have consequences.

    by shajsiisiss
  • Why so many negative comments on this? I find it cool. I showed this to my son and he absolutely loved it. The author is clearly a fan and this by no means is a production-grade product. Just someone tinkering in their free time and gave the DIY guide away for free. I just don’t understand the negativity.
    by longnguyen
  • o_O am I missing something?

    Did you show them the github repo, or the disappointing 5 second video of chat gpt from twitter?

    I was excited too until I saw it actually running and was like… huh. ChatGPT for tablet. Righto.

    What was your son so impressed by?

    by noodletheworld
  • Two of the Internet's most despised (2026) topics combined: AI, and author JK Rowling.

    Especially when the Tom Riddle's diary in question has a defining characteristic of possessing and controlling those who read it.

    by nancyminusone
  • 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.)
    by Tcepsa