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241 pointsby davidbarkertoday at 4:12 PM206 commentsview on HN

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LudwigNagasenatoday at 4:41 PM

Looks like a novelty item made with the purpose of testing their hardware production capabilities before producing a real product.

Also, translated pages transform newlines into \n.

Marciplantoday at 6:34 PM

Finally, a profitable product for OpenAI.

vcarricotoday at 6:58 PM

Seems like they're just throwing spaghetti at the wall.

Topfitoday at 7:22 PM

Is this a joke? Instantly thought of this: https://www.reddit.com/r/claude/comments/1s7m8ld/this_is_the...

Things you do if you definitely are focused on the a Trillion USD industry and SuperDuperUltraMega AGI is 100% possible and what you are fully committed to. Next they’ll spend Millions on a podcast that fails to get 50k hits on YouTube or a design firm whose biggest claim to fame is creating a Ferrari whose interior looks like a Magic Mouse. Say what you want about Anthropic, their Aquihires and interpretability investments at least make sense for an LLM lab.

qwertytyyuutoday at 4:42 PM

We march ever closer to the cntl c v keyboard!

__mharrison__today at 4:41 PM

Where's the Stream Deck emulation layer?

fwlrtoday at 5:00 PM

Post a picture of one of these with the “X” key conspicuously removed and you’d probably get a repost from Sam

quacky_bataktoday at 5:08 PM

I like the teenage engineering style, but is that the hardware that they were stealing Apple secrets for?

_doctor_lovetoday at 8:06 PM

This is partially an on-ramp for young people. No experience? Not sure where to start? Buy this gadget! Hook it up to your machine then take lessons on how to use it. All in the OpenAI ecosystem, of course.

Best outcome for OpenAI is that this becomes a status symbol / cool shiny thing that "leet" devs have.

For someone with a lot of experience already, this looks semi-retarded. For a newbie / newcomer it looks like someone finally thought of them.

hyperbovinetoday at 6:44 PM

Is it April already?

Romario77today at 6:24 PM

what happened to the Jonny Ive and them purchasing his agency?

6.5 billions paid, nothing so far, this was such a sus transaction, sounded like the way to get money out of OpenAI.

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inferhaventoday at 4:54 PM

Lol this is trippy, although not sure how much use I really would get outta this thing

sscarduziotoday at 7:13 PM

Damn, OpenAI really jumped the shark

LetsGetTechnicltoday at 4:53 PM

$230 for essentially a fancy numpad that's only useful for one tool? Welcome to the AI revolution

Sidiotoday at 6:46 PM

This was not worth getting sued by Apple

mcrktoday at 6:41 PM

Is it compatible with Apple cloth though?

throwaw12today at 4:37 PM

Is this the reason OpenAI decided to steal Apple hardware secrets?

Regardless, device looks nice

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bertilitoday at 4:56 PM

AGI is almost here, but first, one more thing... a keyboard controller!

dvduvaltoday at 4:44 PM

Presentation is not clear to me. How is it superior to using my keyboard?

__stoday at 7:26 PM

Or just order any macropad

robotswantdatatoday at 5:01 PM

Ordered. Not sure will beat my streamdeck modules, but YOLO

mrnotcrazytoday at 5:05 PM

This is the lamest possible implementation, exactly what I would expect from openAI. Nothing about it is interesting or unique or really leverages the power of LLMs to make a new experience.

dofmtoday at 6:09 PM

This device should have been a blog post about how you can make this device with an Arduino/Pico and a 3D printer and Codex.

numberstoday at 4:47 PM

wow, great partnership for Work Louder but man, I have a micropad from work louder, it's basically just a weird layout for a macropad.

Havoctoday at 6:48 PM

They made a streamdeck?!?

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ofjcihentoday at 4:49 PM

Is this the moat?

Aboutplantstoday at 4:52 PM

Wow, they are going to sell dozens of these!

chronogramtoday at 4:47 PM

So it's like a more limited Streamdeck.

vatsachaktoday at 6:42 PM

Literally just keymaps

semiinfinitelytoday at 6:44 PM

they would prefer that you never words type manually again

stogottoday at 8:03 PM

So this is why Apple is suing OpenAI and Johnny I’ve? A stream deck with LEDs?

rvztoday at 5:07 PM

It's just a keyboard.

Nothing to see here.

isoprophlextoday at 7:05 PM

One step closer to desks with a monitor and a single big red pushbutton to nudge the token spend forward.

I'd personally like one that says "slop me up", or maybe plays an airhorn sample or whatever...

system2today at 4:52 PM

Why not a Stream Deck? I own 3 stream decks, and they are incredibly useful. Not only for coding, but windows controlling, shortcuts for anything. And the best part is that there are small screens you can customize.

cphoovertoday at 5:04 PM

Seems a bit silly (especially given how easy LLM's make building such an accessory)

lvl155today at 7:13 PM

If this is a sign of what’s to come from OAI, it’s going to be worse than Meta devices.

Orastoday at 4:58 PM

I had to check the calendar as I thought it’s April fool. What’s the point of this? Isn’t that like the meme of stackoverflow keyboard?

Rudybegatoday at 7:49 PM

This feels like a missed opportunity for an OpenAI Nintendo Power Glove collab. Smh.

jdw64today at 6:32 PM

I want to make my frontend look clean and pretty like this too.

The developers who build OpenAI's UI seem really skilled.

onlyrealcuzzotoday at 4:54 PM

Is this the Jony Ive device?

It looks very sus like an Apple product.

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dominotwtoday at 7:28 PM

i guess they were stealing pricing logic from apple

whalesaladtoday at 4:51 PM

I ordered one because I lack impulse control.

zuzululutoday at 6:38 PM

i guess this is cool if you are going to expense it as a business but $250 is insane. I'm going to wait for the temu version with the usual hidden mic and phone-home feature

superultratoday at 7:39 PM

This is the kind of stuff that happens when there’s too much money

niyazpktoday at 5:59 PM

1. looks nice, want.

2. lol, why is this $230

adamrezichtoday at 4:45 PM

> Flick the joystick to launch common Codex workflows like reviewing a PR, debugging an error, or refactoring code.

Uh… what?

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