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Show HN: Clippy – 90s UI for local LLMs

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1122 points felixrieseberg | 3 comments | 06 May 25 15:02 UTC | HN request time: 1.859s | source
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tzury ◴[06 May 25 16:46 UTC] No.43907123[source]▶
This is a clear case of "Build Something People Want".

After all it was requested almost daily over at x.com

https://x.com/search?q=ai%20bring%20clippy%20back&src=typed_...

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xyc ◴[06 May 25 19:58 UTC] No.43909009[source]▶
Actually this is a good way to find product ideas. I placed a query in Grok to find posts about what people want, similar to this. Then it performs multiple searches on X including embedding search, and suggested people want stuff like tamagotchi, ICQ etc. back.
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1. drilbo ◴[07 May 25 05:48 UTC] No.43912609[source]▶
I feel like these are all great examples of things people think they want. Making a post about it is one thing, actually buying or using a product, I think the majority of nostalgic people will quickly remember why they don't actually want it in their adult life.
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2. worldsayshi ◴[07 May 25 06:03 UTC] No.43912679[source]▶
Yeah this is not even faster horses. It's horses that can count like Clever Hans.
3. npunt ◴[07 May 25 06:28 UTC] No.43912797[source]▶
I see this a lot in vintage computing. What we want is the feelings we had back then, the context, the growing possibilities, youth, the 90s, whatever. What we get is a semi-working physical object that we can never quite fix enough to relive those experiences. But we keep acquiring and fixing and tinkering anyway hoping this time will be different while our hearts become torn between past and present.