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Show HN: Clippy – 90s UI for local LLMs
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#293Earlier quoted context omitted.
You sure wouldn't want them spying on you, stealing your data, chewing up your resources for shady profit schemes, or making your machine unbootable. Better to leave that to the experts at Microsoft and FAANG since all those features come preinstalled nowadays. Snark aside, given the context, this really seems like a baseless attack on independent open source developers, who represent a significant potion of this sit…
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It is clearly directed at this specific project, given that it is attached to this specific HN item. And grow some manners.
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#294Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thanks! Sounds like a reasonable prediction. To me, crazy animated stuff in the wrong context is a component of bad UX. Though I learned web design by interning under a literal Nazi, so my design opinions may be a bit...extreme. Perhaps I could make room in my heart some day for animated cats on personal sites. Clippy is still pushing it. More because of a bunch of bad memories of trying to support people who were in…
Sounds like you were a bit traumatized, I can see how clippy could become the stuff of nightmares! Recently I've been playing with webgl, Three JS, SVG and CSS animations - it's all so accessible with AI coding that one's creativity naturally becomes the main thing. Sometimes even vibe coding on my phone - it's a lot of fun, and so yes I'm sure we're also going to get a lot more annoying stuff that gets in the way.
You're not entirely wrong, though I was also playing it up a little. Meant to be read more like a standup comedy bit, some part honest opinion and some part exaggeration. Someone told me a long time ago that laughing at my own jokes isn't funny, and ever since, nobody including me is ever quite sure how serious I am or not. :)
I'm not so opposed to vibe coding as recreation. Though if you're ever interested, those are all pretty easy and fun things to work with directly in my opinion, at least at hobby scale. Well, maybe not bare webgl, but that's why three.js is in the list.
AI sure does it a lot faster than I can though. I totally get your point that it lowers the bar to entry, and that the speed and near-instant mutability is more conducive to creativity. I'm more opposed to the semantically inscrutable term "vibe coding", but it seems pretty well entrenched already.
Re: Show HN: Clippy – 90s UI for local LLMs
#295Such a great theme, I missed it. I don't see ollama support tho :(
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#296Earlier quoted context omitted.
It tends to randomly barge into your UI when you thought you dismissed/disabled it. And never provides any useful information or suggestions.
"It looks like you’re trying to write a term paper at 2am the night before it’s due, do you want me to just put out some LLM slop and hope for the best?"
That might actually be a good idea.
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#298Earlier quoted context omitted.
It is clearly directed at this specific project, given that it is attached to this specific HN item. And grow some manners.
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Review the guidelines; this type of slander is well afoul of them. Go ahead and get the last word in if that's important to you, as I won't be wasting any more of my time on this thread or your destructive attitude. Comparing different opinions is acceptable but mean-spirited emotionally driven personal jabs are not.
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I'm late to this, but we can do without this kind of comment on Hacker News, as it falls under the guidelines about generic tangents and tangential annoyances. It led to a hostile exchange down-thread, which is exactly the kind of thing we're trying to avoid here, but is what happens when people take threads away from the main topic.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Given we're a technology-focused site, Hacker News readers can be reasonably assumed to be technically proficient, and aware of the importance of taking normal security measures.
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#300Earlier quoted context omitted.
It is clearly directed at this specific project, given that it is attached to this specific HN item. And grow some manners.
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There's a bit of gatekeeping from multiple participants in this subthread, but I think it was fair enough of raydiak to push back on a bit of alarmism in the root comment.
Regardless, your comments were needlessly hostile and not in keeping with the style of discussion the guidelines ask of us.