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19 positive, 56 neutral or asking, 3 mixed, 13 critical, out of 91 comments about the project. Thread score +0.07.
Idea: 12 for, 8 againstExecution: 3 for, 2 againstPrivacy: 1 for, 3 againstDesign: 2 for, 0 against
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Useful for recovering past thought process and research
From 3 comments
I have been recording, what I type, or copy, or windows titles of applications I interact with for past 15 years. And it has helped recover stuff that wouldn't have been possible…
xeonax on HNAn easy one for me is programming. This kind of approach the only way I know how to be able to go back in time and recognize / resurrect your thought process. But there's little…
jasonjmcghee on HNUsed to do this a several years back but on a windows machine and without any of the AI stuff obviously. One use case I found is for tracking down unpredictable and seemingly…
aragonite on HN
Open source and local-first approach
From 2 comments
I really, really want something like this that is truly multiple platform and local. Linux and Windows are a must. Must be 100% offline so that it is useable without Internet.…
jadbox on HNCongrats on getting this off the ground, and thank you for putting it out there for us to learn from! I've been curious how Rewind worked under the hood because I've been playing…
koopuluri on HN
Objections
Storage and battery use are high
From 1 comment
- disk storage: depends what you're doing, but seems to be about 150MB / hour. This is WAY too much in my book. I think we could get this way down. I'd love help here too :D -…
jasonjmcghee on HN
Privacy risk of capturing secrets and scams
From 2 comments
“pretty scary stuff” indeed! This would inevitably end up ingesting secrets, right? Like say from my password manager? Or API keys in my terminal? Lots of ways for this to go…
lexh on HNCan also see this being used by scammers/malware. Not saying it shouldn’t exist. It’s really cool. Just scary. Great job.
majikandy on HN
Requests
Support for Linux and Windows
From 2 comments
I really, really want something like this that is truly multiple platform and local. Linux and Windows are a must. Must be 100% offline so that it is useable without Internet.…
jadbox on HNVery cool demo OP. Not sure why it's only for Apple Silicone, is it because of it's superior ML support compared to windows? Side oservarion, Olama is not available for Windows.…
mattfrommars on HN
Local LLM and Ollama integration
From 2 comments
Does it do inter-frame compression at all? Also, integrating with Ollama.ai or some other local LLM with an API server would be fantastic.
pmarreck on HNYou should also post this to https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/, since it may be useful with local LLMs.
SkyMarshal on HN
Questions
Why Apple Silicon only
From 2 comments
> Note: Relies on Apple Silicon, and configured to only produce Apple Silicon builds. Just curious, what is relying on apple silicon?
nmjohn on HNVery cool demo OP. Not sure why it's only for Apple Silicone, is it because of it's superior ML support compared to windows? Side oservarion, Olama is not available for Windows.…
mattfrommars on HN
How it compares to Rewind.ai
From 1 comment
How similar is this to rewind.ai (https://www.rewind.ai)?
ilumanty on HN
Alternatives named
Rewind.ai
From 2 comments
How similar is this to rewind.ai (https://www.rewind.ai)?
ilumanty on HNDon’t show the VCs that invested $27.9M into https://rewind.ai this They will be very upset
tremarley on HN
TimeSnapper
From 1 comment
Copying text from the saved footage is wild! I had a poor man's version of this with TimeSnapper Classic, a free Windows utility that takes a screenshot every n seconds then lets…
andai on HN
arbtt
From 1 comment
Not quite the same thing (no screen grab) but there is a non-visual cousin, http://arbtt.nomeata.de that records X11 data and provides a query language to produce summaries of…
frumiousirc on HN