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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

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 2mo 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?
- longnguyen 2mo 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.
  - noodletheworld 2mo ago
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    - Yiin 2mo ago
      okay squidward, stuff from 20 years ago that seemed magic being replicated today with technology is unremarkable and children are just too dumb to understand how boring this is, we get it
      - noodletheworld 2mo ago
        Whatever man. If you slap chat GPT on a tablet or a website or a watch or a smart fridge you can make a song and dance about how great it is. …but bluntly, it would have been impressive 20 years ago. It is not impressive today; at least, not to me. I’m not 6.
        mlrtime 2mo ago
        You're entitled to your opinion just like any other hacker here, however for the sake of others please just keep your negative comments that provide 0 value to yourself.
      - antondd 2mo ago
        Replicating handwriting recognition that has been around for 20+ years and arguably doing a worse job at it is a low bar for “magic”
  - DrewADesign 2mo ago
    I think they were referring to HN commenters who seem to skew above six, if not downright post-pubescent.
    - lpapez 2mo ago
      Source?
- jstanley 2mo ago
  How have we so rapidly got to the point where a self-writing tablet is no longer impressive technology?
  - allthetime 2mo ago
    Self writing? It mechanically presents fonted text letter by letter like a type writer. This is a gimmick at least as old as geocities
    - jstanley 2mo ago
      Yeah self writing. If you can show me a comparable project from 5 years ago I'll eat my hat. You can't because LLMs that can hold a conversation didn't even exist 5 years ago, let alone automatically hooking themselves up to a bidirectional handwriting interface. You can't just point at one part of this and say it is as old as geocities and think that that makes the whole project uninteresting. The project is greater than the sum of its parts. I can't believe so many people in this thread are so critical of it.
nancyminusone 2mo 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.
- archagon 2mo 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.

noodletheworld 2mo 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?

longnguyen 2mo 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.
- noodletheworld 2mo ago
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  - Yiin 2mo ago
    okay squidward, stuff from 20 years ago that seemed magic being replicated today with technology is unremarkable and children are just too dumb to understand how boring this is, we get it
    - noodletheworld 2mo ago
      Whatever man. If you slap chat GPT on a tablet or a website or a watch or a smart fridge you can make a song and dance about how great it is. …but bluntly, it would have been impressive 20 years ago. It is not impressive today; at least, not to me. I’m not 6.
      - mlrtime 2mo ago
        You're entitled to your opinion just like any other hacker here, however for the sake of others please just keep your negative comments that provide 0 value to yourself.
    - antondd 2mo ago
      Replicating handwriting recognition that has been around for 20+ years and arguably doing a worse job at it is a low bar for “magic”
- DrewADesign 2mo ago
  I think they were referring to HN commenters who seem to skew above six, if not downright post-pubescent.
  - lpapez 2mo ago
    Source?
jstanley 2mo ago
How have we so rapidly got to the point where a self-writing tablet is no longer impressive technology?
- allthetime 2mo ago
  Self writing? It mechanically presents fonted text letter by letter like a type writer. This is a gimmick at least as old as geocities
  - jstanley 2mo ago
    Yeah self writing. If you can show me a comparable project from 5 years ago I'll eat my hat. You can't because LLMs that can hold a conversation didn't even exist 5 years ago, let alone automatically hooking themselves up to a bidirectional handwriting interface. You can't just point at one part of this and say it is as old as geocities and think that that makes the whole project uninteresting. The project is greater than the sum of its parts. I can't believe so many people in this thread are so critical of it.

nancyminusone 2mo 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.

archagon 2mo 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.