Fable turned reMarkable into Tom Riddle's diary from Harry Potter(github.com)
492 points by modinfo 12 hours ago | 315 comments
tl;dr: A developer built "riddle," a Rust app that turns a reMarkable Paper Pro (in developer mode) into Tom Riddle's diary: handwritten ink fades from the page, gets sent as a PNG to a vision LLM (any OpenAI-compatible API or a local `pi` backend), and the streamed reply is rendered back in flowing Dancing Script handwriting. It achieves ~1s to first ink by taking over the vendor e-ink engine directly via a shim over `libqsgepaper.so`, bypassing the normal UI for minimal latency.
HN Discussion:
  • Enthusiastic appreciation for the project as a fun, creative demo of rapid DIY building
  • Uncomfortable with framing an AI tool as a mind-controlling haunted artifact given real chatbot harms
  • Demo inspired them to actually consider buying a reMarkable device
  • Criticism of the HN post's title being reversed/AI-generated versus the original repo
  • Defending the project against negativity as harmless free tinkering