<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: refsab</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=refsab</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2026 12:05:00 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=refsab" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by refsab in "Local Wikipedia: Wikipedia, but only for things a half hour walk from you"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Very cool. Obvious in hindsight with every location having coordinates.<p>Found an abbey around my place in Western Bavaria I didn't know existed</p>
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<p>I think I'll keep making TUIs but thanks.<p>Easier to test too. Try testing your beautiful claude design React app end to end</p>
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<p>A few others have commented about that. But I think there are tools that already, right? From my limited search.<p>If you mean command line tui tools then yeah maybe that is a niche</p>
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<p>yes they do. I thought you meant I should have a larger default. When you configure any model the context size that's reported is detectable</p>
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<p>Got 4 emails in my email inbox. I suspect all from the same guy. Weird rants about how ai is going to eat peoples brains how I'm going to hell and calling me a bunch of nasty names. Probably not wrong but you know he could have said it nicer.<p>Removed the email address from the homepage just in case.<p>Appreciate your reply thank you.</p>
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<p>I also built a webui but it's not very fleshed out.<p>After all this hate I'm thinking about stripping out the ai parts of the webui and making it a manual writing tool maybe. Keep the branching and tree visualizations</p>
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<p>I'd love to hear some ideas about non ai tooling. I do write myself (terribly).<p>Maybe the tree system and branch switching would still work without attaching it to an LLM backend.<p>But the editor would have to be more advanced I think.<p>Would be cool to try and build something like that.</p>
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<p>haha thank you. Would love to see your project. I could use a few fresh ideas myself</p>
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<p>Thank you. I didn't think this would be so controversial. A few people are in my email inbox with nasty comments. I've removed my email from the website. I'm not used such visceral hate.<p>Anyway I have children myself. They play, they write, they draw. And occasionally we do tech stuff like this. I use it as a choose-your-own-adventure with them. We also make up our own stories for bedtime. I don't see these things as exclusive</p>
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<p>>but haven't managed to find the best way to visualise them in a UI, so I'm excited to see what you settled on<p>yes exactly. My main motivation for writing this was to try my hand at it. I'm not happy yet. First started looking at loom interfaces but all have the same problem of how you visualize it.<p>My try is a in the map (m) if you want to check it out. I feel like the path view works reasonably well but tree and mass not so much.<p>This is really difficult to solve.<p>Happy to hear your ideas or see your solutions</p>
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<p>Should be more? I envisioned the user of this as kind of local koboldcpp or lmstudio users with limited resources</p>
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<p>This is really cool. Like a q/a system you can plug on top of your own files. I starred and will be trying it on some of markdown files. Thanks of the tip</p>
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<p>I did add an aside mode that I use for this. Where I ask questions about the storyline, remind me about characters, give me feedback or generate a prompt for the next chapter.<p>Would be interesting to split this out into a separate app that only does this</p>
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<p>Thank you. I added different themes but I liked this one the best</p>
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<p>As for the hate I think it's because I called it AI writing tool that brings is a crowd that I really didn't want to address or ever envision as users.</p>
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<p>Yes. But SillyTavern didn't work for me.<p>I didn't like the character focused chat interaction. You can configure it for novel writing.<p>The way it treats alternate takes feels wrong to me. It's not branching off of alternates if you know what I mean.</p>
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<p>Yeah not wrong. But as I said this is not a replacement tool for my writing but another hobby, akin to roleplaying maybe</p>
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<p>Context window depends on the model used. I used gemma4 I think and set it to 32k so startup is faster. I think even gemma supports up to 200k</p>
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<p>This was also tied pretty much to my process. Just publish it. Would love to exchange ideas.<p>The only thing I would avoid is calling it an AI writing tool haha. I didn't realize this was such a sore topic. Probably naive of me</p>
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<p>Thank you. Really appreciate it. Makes me feel better.<p>Yeah I spent a lot of time thinking about this problem. Wanted to make it easy to navigate multiple takes and multiple branches.<p>It's a difficult UX problem. I feel like the path view of the map works reasonably well but tree/mass not so much. Needs more thinking</p>
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