Selbstbild – What Fable 5 thinks of your HN comment history
Like everyone on HN, I love nothing more than to (re)read my own comments. Getting my intuition that I am among the smartest, most humble, highest quality commenters on here confirmed by an LLM so capable that the US government had to temporarily export restrict it [0] seemed only natural. Having had my perfection confirmed, I decided to share this joy with you as I had a few percent usage left before a reset. I took a few prompts, then did a review of the output which resulted in Selbstbild, a BYOK (Anthropic / OpenRouter) web app that gives you a summary and assessment of your public…
What it does
In the maker’s words, at launch
Like everyone on HN, I love nothing more than to (re)read my own comments. Getting my intuition that I am among the smartest, most humble, highest quality commenters on here confirmed by an LLM so capable that the US government had to temporarily export restrict it [0] seemed only natural. Having had my perfection confirmed, I decided to share this joy with you as I had a few percent usage left before a reset. I took a few prompts, then did a review of the output which resulted in Selbstbild, a BYOK (Anthropic / OpenRouter) web app that gives you a summary and assessment of your public comments by one of our machine Gods, including Fable 5 (provided your can afford that luxury at API pricing). In all seriousness, I have, for a long time, used my own comments on social media (including HN) as part of a personal needle-in-haystack test, simply because I do know my somewhat peculiar style and what I tend to write, but also because I can sometimes write in a slightly confusing manner, making for a decently quick check during a models release window. Lately though, what with long context retrieval at the frontier having become rather robust, the interesting part has become not whether but how a model sifts through this unstructured collection of comments, what is surfaced in which manner, etc. Hence this. * Everything runs in your browser, the only network calls go to Anthropic / OpenRouter and the platform APIs, nothing is proxied through a server, no analytics, no cookies. Feel free to verify via the network tab and source code, I would. * You get a cost estimate before any tokens are spent, so no surprises there. * Caveats: LLMs are not intelligent entities, have no predictive abilities and this is not a tool for professional assessment of your person. This is a horoscope for nerds. * Creation: Fable built essentially all of this itself, my own contribution was a few minutes of prompting, plus review and deployment. * No cookie banner: Turns out you aren’t actually “forced” to display one, just if you are doing something that, in my opinion, users should really be aware of you doing do you actually need one. * Classifier: Depending on your topic, your comments may trigger the Fable 5 classifier. Nothing I can do about this, but it’s transparently communicated. For what it’s worth, my comments did not trigger it. On the state of LLM coding as a whole: My review found a few issues. Deleting from Cloudflare KV did not account for cache initially, so that could lead to content being retained even when users requested deletion, which isn’t ideal. Also, a few “any” snuck in and Fable 5 decided on an ancient version of the Anthropic API. Was caught via a quick read of the code, which is overall as pleasant to review as can be (certainly prefer reviewing Anthropic model output over GPT-5.5 purely from a subjective standpoint) but if such obvious deficiencies can sneak in on such a simple project with such an advanced model, that tells me we are still far from a stage where “no review” is even something we can discuss. These issues would have likely been caught by a second review pass anyways (whether using a review agent, prompting Fable or another model), but it still gives me pause what other issues could sneak in as part of more important and complex code bases. Get yourself assessed by Fable 5: https://selbstbild.eu Repo: https://github.com/Topfi/selbstbild [0] https://www.anthropic.com/news/fable-mythos-access
Does the same job
all alternatives →- IAI asked an HN member for feedback and she blew my mind2010 · ▲453
A few days ago, I responded to a comment by bloggergirl offering to read anyone's web copy and help. I shot off an email hoping for a paragraph or two of feedback on my startup's copy. Instead I received a professional, detailed deck of tons of invaluable well thought out feedback. It must have taken her an entire afternoon. Here's a link to it: http://www.slideshare.net/shereefb/recommendations-for-bettermeans To top it off, this isn't someone with a lot of free time on her hands, she's only days away from launching her own startup (page99test) This community blows my mind!
- HWHN Wrapped 2025 - an LLM reviews your year on HNDec 2025 · hn-wrapped.kadoa.com · ▲313
I was looking for some fun project to play around with the latest Gemini models and ended up building this :) Enter your username and get: - Generated roasts and stats based on your HN activity 2025 - Your personalized HN front page from 2035 (inspired by a recent Show HN [0]) - An xkcd-style comic of your HN persona It uses the latest gemini-3-flash and gemini-3-pro-image (nano banana pro) models, which deliver pretty impressive and funny results. A few examples: - dang: https://hn-wrapped.kadoa.com/dang - myself: https://hn-wrapped.kadoa.com/hubraumhugo Give…
- CHCollapse HN Comments2014 · github.com · ▲141
Little chrome extension I made to collapse comments on HN, feel free to use it if you want.
- ZAZsync, a Reddit Alternative with the Goal to Reward Quality Comments2023 · zsync.xyz · ▲207
I built this last year but never posted it anywhere, but now with Reddit hiatus it seems like the right time to give it a shot. The main goal of zsync is to foster high quality content and discussion. That's it. If it can't accomplish that, then to me it is a failure. I watched Reddit go from having high quality discussion in 2008-9 to devolving into the PC meme dumpster it is today [1]. HN still has the highest discussion quality of any "forum" I know of, but (1) it can sometimes randomly be very hostile/toxic to new tech, the most glaring example being crypto. (2) HN is basically a…
- QAQ&A for HN users2012 · askolo.com · ▲142
- DTDownload the first 10,002,378 HN comments/stories as one archive2015 · ▲90
Magnet link: magnet:?xt=urn:btih:44c65b5779d9d8021e002584fa73740f36d052a6&dn=10m_hn_comments_sorted Go to https://hn-archive.appspot.com/ for the torrent file / source code. I'll be semi-frequently checking the story and answering any questions which may come up.
More ai this month
the category →
I trained a 125M-parameter transformer to autocomplete piano performances in real time (~108 notes/sec on an iPhone 15). The idea is basically GitHub Copilot or Tabnine, except instead of prompting it with code, you prompt it by playing a few notes on a MIDI piano. The model then continues what you played, entirely on-device. The app is free if anyone wants to try it. Happy to answer questions about the model, training, Core ML, or the many things that didn't work.
AI · 17d ago · simedw.com
Astute▲585Automate your B2B brand going viral, with new media creators
AI · 18d ago · company-app.joinastute.com
Hey HN, Henry from Cactus here! We previously released Cactus Needle, a 14MB agentic LLM for tool call, device use, and structured extraction for phones, wearables, smart homes, small robots and microcontrollers. We got really great feedback here, and have now incorporated the suggestions to release Needle 2. The whole model is a single 14MB binary that runs a full session in 28MB of RAM; 45m parameters at 2bit compression. Needle hits 500 tokens/sec decode speed on a Raspberry Pi 5, sits between 400-1,500 tokens/sec on VR devices like Meta Quest 3S and Apple Vision Pro, and ranges…
AI · 27d ago · cactuscompute.com
Launched alongside, July 2026
the whole month →- IR
I might be the only SRE on Earth with his own bowling center. It's a more in-depth gig than you'd think. My family and I bought an abandoned 8-lane bowling center in the rural mid-west. In our small town there weren't many recreation options for families. You've heard of a food desert? This is an R&R desert. It had been abandoned for a good reason. The roof leaks, the electrical system was constantly surging, and my 70-year-old bowling equipment (still) doesn't work perfectly. The system that keeps your score is particularly interesting to me. It's the thing you watch during your game, but…
Life & fun · Jul 2026
- EElevators▲1,680
Life & fun · Jul 2026 · john.fun
- 1W18 Words▲1,160
Life & fun · Jul 2026 · 18words.com
- BA
Over the past few months, our team has been building more and more slidedecks using web frontend technologies with coding harnesses like Claude Code, but a common complaint is to make even small edits we need to edit the code either manually or via the harness. To avoid this loop, I ended up creating Bento, a single HTML file with everything you need in a slide tool including animations and shared editing. There's no install or cloud login, everything works offline. The default deck is around 560 KB and it doesn't need to fetch anything once you got it. Open it in a browser and then you can…
Dev tools · Jul 2026 · bento.page
- GG
A few days ago I found myself trying out GLM 5.2 and was really positively impressed. The capabilities and security I was getting from this LLM are similar to those I've gotten from models like Claude or GPT, and this really surprised me. But then I thought, "I wonder how it would work on a normal computer like mine," and above all, "I wonder if it would work without going into OOM on a computer like mine." So I started working with the help of agents to test this possibility. I started converting the model to int4, understanding MTP usage, and if possible implementing DSA for long context.…
AI · Jul 2026 · github.com
