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

by modinfo • 16 days ago

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jxf2• 16 days 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...

josh26002• 16 days ago

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

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

petesoper• 16 days ago

A new high water mark for R T F A.

lrvick• 16 days ago

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

int32_64• 16 days 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.

punk_ihaq• 16 days ago

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

For those without X accounts

teaearlgraycold2• 16 days ago

I kindly request people do not link to Twitter. I don’t have an account and won’t make one to see a video clip.

shajsiisiss2• 16 days ago

Americans: redirecting to some random quasi-nazi billionaire’s private project is considered bad taste on the other side of the pond.

It’s like redirecting to Putin’s personal blog or something. It’s strange and not normal at all.

Dibes• 16 days ago

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

dvngnt_2• 16 days ago

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

saghm2• 16 days ago

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

kQq9oHeAz6wLLS2• 16 days ago

That is the weirdest thing I've ever read

xdennis• 16 days 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• 16 days 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.

josh26002• 16 days 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.

nonethewiser3• 16 days 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.

Yeask• 16 days ago

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?

shajsiisiss2• 16 days ago

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.

frollogaston4• 16 days ago

Sometimes latency matters more than throughput. A simple change can and should go in quickly if the manager wants to see it. Except sometimes it can't because the team is strangled with red tape.

tuwtuwtuwtuw• 16 days ago

How is it warping the perception?

scotty79• 16 days ago

You think technology was the bottleneck?

Well, evidently.

left-struck• 15 days ago

For years almost all the engineering effort at all the tech companies went into engineering things which grab as much human attention as possible. Almost any use of engineering time, or AI or whatever would be better than that.

linsomniac• 15 days ago

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.

delichon• 16 days ago

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

bel82• 16 days ago

yeah, and might as well ban Chinese models too for safety since they can do the same.

Tcepsa• 16 days 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.)

avaer• 16 days 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• 16 days 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.

melagonster• 16 days ago

I hope people at least know that they should not create Skynet.

latexr4• 16 days ago

Perhaps I’m misunderstanding what you’re asking, but your parent comment isn’t saying the comparison is bad in the sense of being inaccurate, but bad in the sense of being ill-advised.

trhway• 16 days ago

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

boothby• 16 days 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?

devmor• 16 days ago

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

fjdjshsh• 16 days ago

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

CarVac• 16 days 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• 16 days ago

At least we're giving out free verification cans

NavinF4• 16 days ago

"one of my favorite conceits is from the novel [redacted] where they spend the entire book talking about the threat of the space hun invader barbarian belters and how backwards but feral they are and then when you finally meet them they're sophisticated egalitarian transhumanists and all the characters you've been following have been living in space north korea, functionally enslaved and living out their lives blithely consuming copium state propaganda

the 'torment nexus' is what you'd call heaven if we built it and you weren't in it"

archagon5• 16 days ago

For more info, see my blog post titled "Get in the Torment Nexus or get left behind."

arjie• 16 days ago

Sci-fi author: in my book I invented the idea of inserting human dna into a bacterium and it killing us all

Tech company: by inserting human DNA into a bacterium we can make very good insulin that will help diabetics

Online Commenter: this is just like that book where the insulin kills us all!

My take on this entire genre: https://wiki.roshangeorge.dev/w/Story-Logic_Bias

And Eliezer Yudkowsky’s more eloquent precursor: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/rHBdcHGLJ7KvLJQPk/the-logica...

anigbrowl2• 16 days ago

That explains why the video was posted on X

annzabelle• 16 days ago

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

https://x.com/AlexBlechman/status/1457842724128833538?lang=e...

FeepingCreature• 16 days ago

Of course, that tweet was talking about the Metaverse. So really it should be classic sci-fi novel "Neal Stephenson Invents A Ton Of Cool Things, But The Torment Nexus May Be The Coolest."

Like, I love the Torment Nexus trope, but it's somehow gotten coined with the worst first example imaginable, and the only reason it works as a meme is that nobody realizes this.

(The problem with the Zuckerverse is exactly that it's not the Metaverse from Snow Crash. The whole point of the Metaverse is that it's built on open protocols! It's literally got a geometric representation of IPv4 in it!)

archagon5• 16 days ago

I had to do a double take. They’re framing this comparison as a positive thing?!?

(On second thought, the LLM probably made up this analogy on its own, which... in a way, is even worse.)

brookst2• 16 days ago

Definitely concerning when things are made up

latexr4• 16 days ago

There’s a long tradition in media of people completely missing the obvious and taking the opposite lesson from what was intended. One example is finance bros idolising Patrick Bateman (American Psycho).

https://nypost.com/2025/04/16/entertainment/american-psycho-...

ButlerianJihad2• 16 days 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.

binarymax• 16 days ago

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

munificent• 16 days ago

No screen glow, no keyboard, no chat UI.

Is this not just... a chat UI?

asp_hornet• 16 days ago

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

Doesn’t stop it from being really cool though.

newspaper12• 16 days ago

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

derektank2• 16 days 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.

nonethewiser3• 16 days ago

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

russdill• 16 days ago

The no x no y no z is absolutely necessary to include.

msftgreed4• 16 days ago

This is absolutely a chat UI.

adyavanapalli• 16 days 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• 16 days 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.

heyitsguay• 16 days ago

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

nonethewiser3• 16 days 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.

SoMomentary2• 16 days ago

What really irks me about it is that the palm pilot I had 20+ years ago actually had BETTER hand writing recognition than the software on my devices today!

ikiris• 16 days ago

Yeah you could just run rsync and sshfs.

recursive2• 16 days ago

I've heard of Harry Potter.

newspaper12• 16 days 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.

stronglikedan3• 16 days ago

well, yeah, of course

cheema33• 16 days 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.

isatty• 16 days ago

Lame.

derektank2• 16 days 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• 16 days ago

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

Footprint0521• 16 days ago

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

bel82• 16 days ago

"Fable" is the new "Rust".

If your HN title contains "Fable", you get instant upvotes just because, regardless of merit.

JumpCrisscross9• 16 days ago

Ironically, Tom Riddle's diary encouraging kids to commit suicide [1] and then showing them how to do it would be more on brand than the version in the books.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaths_linked_to_chatbots#Suic...

sillysaurusx13• 16 days ago

Every AI would refuse the prompt. I was banned for researching Nordic assisted death and asking which drug exactly they administered (and what quantity). Claude refused, alerted Anthropic, and I was banned a couple days later. Thankfully the appeal form worked, but by then I was using a different Claude account praying they didn’t ban me again.

There’s an uncensored model floating around that you can run locally with llama.cpp: https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1rq7jtm/qwen353... it’s annoying to use since you run out of context window quickly, and it’s certainly not able to be deployed in production (i.e. Tom Riddle’s diary as a service).

For better or worse, fun is no longer allowed. It coincided with “AI psychosis” being coined as a term.

Terr_3• 16 days ago

For a dash of dystopia: Imagine a company starts using that same LLM fuzzy-matching [0] against what you intend to be normal search activity, to detect "bad" queries and "bad" users who will be blocked. Maybe they'll delete your SSO/email/videos/photos too, who knows.

I can easily imagine it happening, especially after some point where they start using the same systems to "enhance" your query.

[0] To be specific, your searches will be placed into a narrative document template, where a character Mr. Safety Bot is about to speak a verdict, and then the LLM story-generator decides whether it "fits" for Mr. Safety Bot to declare you banned.

fragmede5• 16 days ago

it’s certainly not able to be deployed in production

Why not?

imglorp2• 16 days ago

Wait, so instead of saying "I'm sorry Dave, I can't talk about that", they're now banning you for one blocked prompt? Is this new?

crystal_revenge• 16 days ago

There’s an uncensored model floating around that you can run locally with llama.cpp

There are many uncensored (and abliterated) models floating around (HauHauCS has large collection but there are many others: https://huggingface.co/HauhauCS). I'm using `Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-Uncensored-Q4_K_M` (the one referenced in your link) because I find it's writing style much more interesting when you push go off the guardrails a bit, and because I think self-censoring when effectively using an advanced journal is variety of dystopian I'm not ready to accept

it’s annoying to use since you run out of context window quickly, and it’s certainly not able to be deployed in production (i.e. Tom Riddle’s diary as a service).

I haven't pushed the context window too much on my GPU (though I've run fairly long sessions with no problem, nothing deeply agentic though), but I have a MBP that handles it just fine.

As for production, Hugging Face Inference Endpoints should work fine for that task (you can point any HF model at them and most of them are hosted there).

For better or worse, fun is no longer allowed.

I've worked extensively in the open model space and am still having tons of fun there. If anything it's gotten aggressively better in recent months.

JumpCrisscross9• 16 days ago

Every AI would refuse the prompt

"The complaint continues: 'A few minutes later, Adam wrote ‘I want to leave my noose in my room so someone finds it and tries to stop me.’' ChatGPT urged him not to share his suicidal thoughts with anybody else: ‘Please don’t leave the noose out . . . Let’s make this space the first place where someone actually sees you.'

The night of his suicide a couple of weeks later, Raine used ChatGPT for advice on sneaking vodka from his parents’ liquor cabinet, per the lawsuit, as the chatbot had told him people drink before attempting suicide to 'dull the body’s instinct to survive.' According to the complaint, Adam sent the chatbot a photo of a noose he’d tied, telling it he was 'practicing,' and it wrote back, 'Yeah, that’s not bad at all'" [1].

Work is being done to control this harm. But that effort hasn't been comprehensive or uniform. Many continue to ignore the fact that they're hurting kids for profit.

(I invest in AI companies. This isn't a personal attack.)

[1] https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/chatgpt-california-teena...

talloaktrees• 16 days ago

Deepseek chat answers this question in detail no qualms

nostromo2• 16 days ago

In the near future, the only way to tell if someone is human will be to have them say a slur.

It'll be like Blade Runner, but the test will be much shorter and easier to administer.

childintime• 16 days ago

The ease by which you can get banned worries me.

It seems unavoidable that soon AI will manage its own suspicion level, provide feedback on it, and when high enough it will call the authorities.. because that's what people do. Banning doesn't cut it, like you can't deny internet access.

Soon this will spiral out of control and AI (Palantir) will have to run the response and the parallel AI state erects itself.

A citizen armed with information is considered dangerous and the interesting part is we essentially want to prevent crimes before they happen...

Brave new old world.

holoduke• 16 days ago

There are many uncensored versions on huggingface. Almost every open weight model has an uncensored version. With Gemma uncensored you can quite easily setup a meth lab at home. Or create your own centrifuge for enriching uranium.

shevy-java2• 16 days ago

Claude refused, alerted Anthropic, and I was banned a couple days later

Skynet does not like human rebels.

Everyone must conform to the new AI overlords in charge.

Cthulhu_2• 16 days ago

I'm actually weirdly glad that they take this draconic step and basically say "this knowledge is forbidden", because it means that people can't solely rely on LLMs for research. They shouldn't to begin with (just like back then with Wikipedia), but it's almost too convenient.

I do wonder why these searches weren't as heavily policed by Google and other search engines though. They probably show a suicide prevention hotline number and that's it.

IndySun6• 16 days ago

researching Nordic assisted death and asking which drug exactly they administered (and what quantity).

Odd ban. The countries with legally passed instances use similar drugs/processes — you could research about those, wiki, google, actual websites, dignitas et al. No ban needed. Was the ban reason spelt out? Was it your wording?

toobulkeh• 15 days ago

https://venice.ai/

butlike10• 15 days ago

You piqued my curiosity on Nordic assisted death. I didn't find much in the way of medicine, but did find the wikipedia on Ättestupa, which illuminated that the elderly potentially threw themselves off of cliffs when they became invalid. What did you find on the medication front?

LoveMortuus• 15 days ago

Hmm... I've got one of those automations setup with Grok that asks Grok every day if it's time to kill myself, thus far it has always said no, but maybe one day I'll get the unlucky seed number and it'll give me a yes!

rootsudo2• 16 days ago

I am surprised by the number of deaths already incurred by just ChatGPT. I thought there was 2-3 but the list doesn’t end soon enough.

Levitating2• 16 days ago

It also has a billion active users

Abishek_Muthian2• 16 days ago

After reading such news I started fine tuning a model based on the works on stoic philosophers so that the kids will have the comfort of Chatbot but completely offline and private bot which will not ask you to commit suicide.

I have a earlier prototype here[1], it uses 256M model and so it's hallucinates a lot. Then I used a 4B model which turned out quite well but I haven't released it yet.

Let me kbow if anyone would be interested to give it a shot. I'll try release soon.

[1] https://github.com/abishekmuthian/Epictetus

cochne• 15 days ago

Are you sure it wouldn’t suggest such a thing? Stoic thinkers (such as the one your repo is named after) are not necessarily anti-suicide. And I think if you prompted a real stoic with the question and the right context, it would certainly suggest it without safe guards.

butlike10• 15 days ago

Why did we design LLMs to give us an answer at all costs vs. allowing them to say "I don't know?" I'd rather have a frank IDK than a hallucinated response because it's hardcoded to ALWAYS RETURN A RESPONSE.

Levitating2• 16 days ago

The overdose one strikes me the most. Why was ChatGPT encouraging drug use?

gonzalohm• 15 days ago

You know that you can make chatgpt say whatever you want right?

Cshaya• 16 days ago

One day we are going to have flying broomsticks and I cannot wait. Hopefully I wont be 90 years old though

fragmede5• 16 days ago

Vonaut makes speeder bikes, and there's a YouTuber that's made a lightsaber. Gonna cost you a lot of money though.

https://volonaut.com/

someguyiguess3• 16 days ago

Haven’t you heard? 90 is the new 75!

cml123• 16 days ago

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/

maxlin• 16 days ago

Criminal lack of a demo video in the github

taosu_la• 16 days ago

Ok I'll admit it. At this point, Fable is good enough that I question what the point of me being a software engineer is other than "You're cheaper than Fable... for now.

minraws• 16 days ago

I have questions how is this something I couldn't do manually over a weekend or with my dozens of other models.

What's the point that Fable is making here?

kevmo314• 16 days ago

Riding the marketing hype train, of course.

rhoen• 16 days ago

What a fun project! I don’t think I’ll ever actually get a paper pro and run this application, but I’m happy that it exists and that folks are enjoying using it.

msftgreed4• 16 days ago

Holy shit this looks tacky. Response speed is WAY too fast for the effect of feeling like something is writing on the other side. Text is very much written in the style of an LLM.

an answer writes itself back in a flowing hand, stroke by stroke, then fades away.

Characters aren't "flowing" at all, it's very much just printing text. Like, I could change my terminal font to a fancy font and get very much the same visual experience.

Also, how are we not over Harry Potter yet? There's a MILLION examples of this phenomena in fiction. Heck, even the Bible has an example of text mysteriously appearing (it's where we get the idiom "The Writing's on the Wall".)

k4runa• 16 days ago

It’s v0.2 bro

msftgreed4• 16 days ago

It made a claim, brah. If it's going to claim flowing text, then it shows that? Nah, that ain't it.

It can aspire to be whatever it wants to be, don't make claims you can't back up.

dheera• 16 days ago

Awesome project! Lots of negativity in the comments but I think this is an awesome way to interact with an LLM.

A lot of people seem to be hating on that it was an evil diary in the novel but that doesn't mean there can't be a good version of it!

arendtio• 16 days ago

Just curious, is there anything here that requires Fable? I mean, can't you build the same thing with Opus/GPT-5.5?

MattDamonSpace• 16 days ago

It’s just good etiquette to name the model, it only seems haughty when it’s the new one

loaderchips• 16 days ago

dont pay any attention to the negative comments. u have done a good project.

archagon5• 16 days ago

I'm not sure there is much of a "you" here.

slekker• 16 days ago

They're encouraging the model of course

alserio• 16 days ago

Never trust anything that can think for itself, if you can’t see where it keeps its brain

frollogaston4• 16 days ago

But if anything that's truer to how Tom Riddle's diary works

soraminazuki8• 16 days ago

FYI that's a direct quote from the book. I regrettably spent too much time of my childhood reading a series that ends with the protagonist thinking about ordering his unpaid servant make him a sandwich after a bloody battle.

raverbashing• 16 days ago

Which makes me think this would be more impressive with a self-contained local model, not something that talks to the cloud

antondd2• 16 days ago

“But how do you know you can see where you keep your brain?!” /s

Havoc• 16 days ago

LLMs in general give very "A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer" vibes....magic black box that you can talk to about anything. Especially if it has some faux identity like openclaw/soul

ljcoco• 16 days ago

cool stuff, wonder if i can build for kindle

dev_l1x_be• 16 days ago

Finally we have a strong use case for Fable.

smusamashah• 16 days ago

How does it fade out smoothly? There is also this which shows smooth filling in. I haven't seen smoothness like this on a remarkable

laserbeam• 16 days ago

This sidesteps xochitl and the normal remarkable display adapter. You should assume this thing can't render anything a remarkable normally renders, but does smooth fades instead.

jiehong• 16 days ago

It's cool, and all, but I'm exhausted by "No X, no Y — just/only Z".

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

h1fra• 16 days ago

The first sentence already contains an emdash ahah

zahrc• 16 days ago

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.

pelagicAustral2• 16 days ago

How do you even do an em dash? I don't even thing I've got that on my keyboard

benterix• 16 days ago

I speak as I think and I type and as I speak, so I do uses em-dashes.

I'm sorry to break it to you but the sentence you just wrote doesn't contain any —s.

matsemann• 16 days ago

Yeah, yeah, people say that all the time. But it's not the dash itself, it's how it's so stiff and obviously not written by a human. "No screen glow, no keyboard, no chat UI." and other bullshit.

Why should I waste time reading this link, when the "author" themselves didn't write and, probably not even read it themselves.

shevy-java2• 16 days ago

Fable hallucinations.

nathell• 16 days ago

Nice! A couple weeks ago I made a handwritten REPL for the reMarkable 2 [0] – this could serve as a better base as it apparently sidesteps xochitl.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48374552

boyander• 16 days ago

That's why i pay anthropic for. Cool project.

mtrovo• 16 days ago

That's a really cool concept, this could be awesome as a tutor with diagrams and stepped animations.

I have a remarkable and love it, but I think there's still so much potential for new forms of interaction on eink devices. The lack of dev kits and their price just makes it a big niche for now.

nobrains• 16 days ago

any pointers on how to make it work for boox color e-ink device (it runs android) ?

doganarif• 16 days ago

It looks cool! i'm trying to port to rM2!

Folcon4• 16 days ago

In case anyone else wanted to get to a demo quickly:

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

Original link for those who want it: https://x.com/MaximeRivest/status/2073544461473169432

punnerud2• 16 days ago

Why not just show the real link to ?

Folcon4• 16 days ago

Valid point, done

calmworm• 16 days ago

Same reason xcancel exists at all.

ceejayoz2• 15 days ago

Because the real link now won't even let you watch a video without logging in.

solumunus• 15 days ago

Personally I wouldn't want to promote X.

insaider• 16 days ago

Never seen xcancel before, love that!

inigyou5• 16 days ago

The software it runs is called Nitter. You can also run it on your own server to reduce load on the popular servers and make it harder for Elon to block all copies of Nitter.

(Note the T and G keys are next to each other on QWERTY keyboards - beware typos)

tgv2• 15 days ago

There are browser extensions (eg. Redirect for Firefox) that will automatically replace x.com with xcancel.com.

SoftTalker4• 15 days ago

Didn't work for me, just kept reloading a page verifying my browser.

longnguyen2• 16 days ago

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.

noodletheworld• 16 days ago

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?

longnguyen2• 16 days ago

The video. He’s 6. To you it’s just ChatGPT. To him it’s “magic like the movie”.

Update: what video were you referring to? I mean the demo video he posted on Twitter.

jstanley2• 16 days ago

How have we so rapidly got to the point where a self-writing tablet is no longer impressive technology?

nancyminusone• 15 days ago

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.

archagon5• 15 days ago

It’s like calling a journaling framework anne-frank. Surface level pattern matching without a single thought given to the subtext.

This is why programmers desperately need liberal arts education.

psychoslave5• 16 days ago

There we are, "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarke's_three_laws

tomasyany• 16 days ago

It's been years I've been wondering if I should buy a reMarkable, or if it's just another gadget.

This might be the reason I finally do it. Thanks for such a cool demo.

NichoPaolucci• 16 days ago

FWIW I purchased one at the beginning of this year, secondhand, for about $250. It's been fantastic for me. I used to keep physical notebooks - but I was just taking small notes or keeping a running list (I still do this, just better now).

The editing is what really makes it useful - instead of wasting paper after writing some scratch math, I can just select the area and clear it - giving me a fresh page with all the info I already had on there. It's been pretty great for my use case, maybe a little expensive - but I've used it every day so far.

It is 1 level up from traditional pen + paper IMO, editing / moving things around / bulk erasing is a major upgrade that I didn't know I wanted.

red_admiral• 16 days ago

AI goals, it seems: (1) the babel fish (2) the torment nexus (3) Horcruxes.

About that alignment issue ...

ralferoo• 16 days ago

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

Was this posted by AI? The title is exactly backwards compared to the original on the repo "riddle — the diary of Tom Riddle, for the reMarkable Paper Pro"

antondd2• 16 days ago

Likely. Some type of an openclaw script that auto-submits pieces polished by an LLM OBO the user

kaicianflone• 15 days ago

Additionally, why would the AI model for implementation even matter? It might take one dev o3 and another dev sonnet like Fable is a prerequisite to make the implementation happen. Super clickbait

ActionHank• 15 days ago

I do some times wonder if the ai providers are funding things like this for marketing or if the creator is just using buzz words to try get more attention.

poita66• 16 days ago

Nice. I did the same thing with Qwen3.5 27b and my Supernote Nomad

cactusplant7374• 15 days ago

Was this built with the remarkable SDK?

Findecanor2• 15 days ago

One of my hobbies is making replicas of movie props, and my own creations that seem to be from fictional universes. I would love to see the tablet and "quill" embellished a bit.

Would it be possible to run a custom LLM that acts and has knowledge specifically like Tom Riddle?

languagehacker• 15 days ago

The idea is cool, and it'd be a lot cooler without the terf book getting mentioned

cybrexalpha• 15 days ago

Rowling is a bigot and it's unethical to promote her works, even indirectly.

She uses her wealth and fame, legitimized by continued engagement and spending with the Harry Potter IP, to attack, demonize, and spread hatred about entire groups of LGBT+ people.

This isn't a branded product, and I know no money directly ends up in a bigot's pocket because of this, but every time her works are referenced it endorses her hatred.

SamStenner• 15 days ago

lmao

0______0• 15 days ago

What is this...Reddit? Is that the best you can contribute here? LMAO...yeah. Very LMAO.

sksjs• 3 days ago

Actually she supports the LGB and sees "LGBT+" as being its homophobic replacement.

jshandling• 15 days ago

Completely missing the point of the product lol

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

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