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  • Literally unusable as it is. Some minimal extra features this would need:

    - rainbow dripping arrows

    - angrily pointing arrows

    - flame-surrounded text boxes with particle effects

    - the ability for the agent to play airhorn.wav at max volume, overriding existing volume or mute settings

    EDIT: ayy lmao https://github.com/franzenzenhofer/big-arrow-on-the-screen/p...

    by isoprophlex
  • The README is geared towards technical people (complete with the HN screenshot) but when I see a tool like this all I can think of is how helpful this would be for my mom when I'm trying to tell her how to download and print a document over the phone
    by arshxyz
  • The worst trend in UX in the last decade is the endless "Got it!" popups and feature notifications that distract the user from what they were trying to do.

    I don't know why anyone would ever willingly want this.

    by internet101010
  • SO the point of this is ... what exactly?

    A big arrow to an interface element which ... has a label that explains what it does?

    So...a label for a label?

    by usrbinbash
  • "It is an arrow, so we spent an unreasonable amount of time on how it looks."

    Brilliant. This is exactly the kind of content I seek when I visit Hacker News.

    Truly art.

    by tangotaylor
  • My first reaction was similar to the reaction I'd have if you told me that cockroaches had learned to unlock doors and stand on their hind legs. But then I thought about accessibility, and the ways this could be used to help technologically illiterate or disabled people, and I thought again.

    Do you remember when PCs used to come with a completely soup-to-nuts tutorial that would talk to you like you had never seen a PC before? Things like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ScS4OYDfHE

    This kind of baked-in interactivity could really help in a training or disability context.

    by kogus
  • I tried to read the "Does it need Screen Recording or Accessibility?" part, but it's slopped to the point I have no clue what it's trying to say. But if it can draw on top of permission prompts, what's stopping it from drawing box that hides the "decline" button and changing the "approve" button copy?
    by hn8726
  • Man, just when it seemed like we had it all. Computers were cheap, efficient and powerful. Somehow we figured out a way to accomplish tasks we already had solved except now it's 1000x more expensive, requires the combined electricity of the entire world, is reliant on someone else's rented compute, and now I need a robot to tell me what button to press. What a time to be alive.
    by sicktriple

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