Pretty sure Clippy is trademarked. Had the same idea but did not go through with it because of the TM.
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#12I love the terrible font rendering! Is it a special font, or some CSS?
Looks like it's a special font provided by https://github.com/jdan/98.css (Which has come a long way in the past couple of years, despite still being 0.1.x)
Although there is a CSS rule for manipulating how fonts are anti-aliased, it was never standardized, and Firefox doesn't implement the vital no-smoothing option: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/font-smooth
Maybe with enough retro revivals it will receive attention.
Re: Show HN: Clippy – 90s UI for local LLMs
#13Pretty sure Clippy is trademarked. Had the same idea but did not go through with it because of the TM.
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#15Pretty fantastic follow-up to https://www.latent.space/p/clippy-v-anton
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#16Super cool. Serious 90s vibes. I also tried to make a super clippy here. https://chatbotkit.com/examples/super-clippy I think I match the color shema perfectly but does not have the same feeling as the original.
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#17This is cool, but does no one even look at what libraries they're shipping anymore? I mean, why does this Clippy-style LLM interface bundle:
- A JavaScript implementation of the Jinja templating language
- A full GitHub API client
- A library that takes a string and tells you if it's a valid npm package name
- A useless shim for the JavaScript Math module
And 119 other libraries? This thing would have taken up 10% of the maximum disk space available on a Windows 95 FAT16 volume.
Re: Show HN: Clippy – 90s UI for local LLMs
#18This is cool, but does no one even look at what libraries they're shipping anymore? I mean, why does this Clippy-style LLM interface bundle: - A JavaScript implementation of the Jinja templating language - A full GitHub API client - A library that takes a string and tells you if it's a valid npm package name - A useless shim for the JavaScript Math module And 119 other libraries? This thing would have taken up 10% of…
Maybe it was vibe coded and the libraries were added while going down paths that turned out to be dead ends and the LLM never cleaned up after itself?
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#19Pretty sure Clippy is trademarked. Had the same idea but did not go through with it because of the TM.
Trademarks have to actually be used to remain enforceable, I think. Not sure MS could claim Clippy after all this time, not that they might not try.
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#20It's weird that when clippy was new I found it to be everything that's wrong with UI design, and today I'm nostalgic for it