- 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
by JumpCrisscross
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- 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...
by longnguyen
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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 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.
- 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.)
- 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.
- 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...
- The first sentence already contains an emdash ahah
- Never trust anything that can think for itself, if you can’t see where it keeps its brain
by munificent
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- > No screen glow, no keyboard, no chat UI.
Is this not just... a chat UI?
- If Fable can now create horcruxes, the Commerce Department should seriously consider another time out.
- > 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"
- 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 adyavanapalli
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- 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.
- This is really cool, but the best part is the response in the twitter post demo had an em-dash.
- 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.
by tomasyany
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- 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.
- 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?
by red_admiral
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- AI goals, it seems: (1) the babel fish (2) the torment nexus (3) Horcruxes.
About that alignment issue ...
- Just curious, is there anything here that requires Fable? I mean, can't you build the same thing with Opus/GPT-5.5?
by Footprint0521
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- What in the click bait? DeepSeek V4 Pro could one shot a three js project better than this
by dev_l1x_be
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- Finally we have a strong use case for Fable.
- 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.
- 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
by derektank
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- 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
- 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
by Findecanor
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- 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?
by cybrexalpha
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- 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.
- 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.
- Nice. I did the same thing with Qwen3.5 27b and my Supernote Nomad
by newspaper1
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- 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 smusamashah
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- 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
- One day we are going to have flying broomsticks and I cannot wait. Hopefully I wont be 90 years old though
by loaderchips
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- dont pay any attention to the negative comments. u have done a good project.
- I've heard of Harry Potter.
- That's why i pay anthropic for. Cool project.
- It looks cool! i'm trying to port to rM2!
by languagehacker
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- The idea is cool, and it'd be a lot cooler without the terf book getting mentioned
- any pointers on how to make it work for boox color e-ink device (it runs android) ?
by jshandling
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- Completely missing the point of the product lol
by msftgreed
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- 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".)
- Criminal lack of a demo video in the github
by cactusplant7374
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- Was this built with the remarkable SDK?
- cool stuff, wonder if i can build for kindle
by psychoslave
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- There we are, "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarke's_three_laws
by shevy-java
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- Fable hallucinations.
by ButlerianJihad
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- Ginevra was my favourite and the most beautiful character in the HP films. Poor Ginny. Relieved that she survived all that. One tough cookie.
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- 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!
- 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.
- 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.
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