Window Sweaters(github.com)
69 pointsby nickswalker3 hours ago9 comments
  • StilesCrisisan hour ago
    Feels like a weird omission to show zero screenshots of what it actually looks like. All the images are synthetic empty windows in a void.
    • dvhan hour ago
      Waterluvian's Law:

      > The more an article would benefit from photos, the less likely it’ll have them.

    • simlevesque18 minutes ago
      There's a video demo now.
    • Hamukoan hour ago
      Guess they forgot to add it to the prompt.
      • gordic_sara23 minutes ago
        That's actually exactly what happened
  • lnrdan hour ago
    Not necessarily related to this or the author, but with all the supply chain attacks going on this year I sadly lost all trust in running something from a new GitHub repo that doesn't come from some trusted person/entity.

    Love the idea btw, reminds me of a similar app that added xmas light to the dock.

    • mtrovoan hour ago
      Maybe it's about time we stop sharing vibe coded app binaries and start an app store for trading prompts to run on our own local coding LLMs instead.
      • skinfaxi44 minutes ago
        So we all duplicate work and give more money to model providers? Both the code and the prompts should be shared.
      • jameshartan hour ago
        Yes, the terrible urge people have to publish the results of their vibecoding is the problem - it’s why itch.io and steam and GitHub are overflowing with slop projects.

        I love seeing that someone built a thing like this! It’s a fun idea, and it is inspiring to see what kind of thing it’s possible to code up with AI assistance!

        But be honest, it’s not ship-ready. You aren’t going to handle bug reports and maintenance long term - it’s a toy you built that you’ll bore of and cast aside in a few weeks. You don’t want other people installing it and using it and bugging you to modify it.

        Share that you did it. Share what it looks like. Share some of the story of how you prompted it into existence. But don’t publish it as if the result is some sort of product.

        • GaryBluto10 minutes ago
          LLM-generated or not, I think anybody should be free to publish source code that they have no plans to maintain, although it would be better if clearly stated. I have found great value in abandoned repositories over the years.
        • gordic_sara14 minutes ago
          All fair points, this was a completely new experience for me. I’m a product designer and wanted to see if Claude/Codex could help me make this real; I posted about it on X (https://x.com/saragordic/status/2098916110787916219?a=sJ1QQB...), and so many ppl liked it that I just wanted to open-source it immediately. It’s not a polished product, but I use it every day and I’m still fixing things when I can. And it made a lot of people happy + I met so many amazing people because of it!
  • jahala22 minutes ago
    All my life, never did I know, that I was missing "window sweaters"

    Whats next? Folder mittens?

  • gordic_sara25 minutes ago
    heeey, I'm the author of this! can’t believe this made it to Hacker News lol. thank you for posting it!

    a bit of context: I’m a product designer, and this was my very first open source project. I made it purely for fun, here’s where it started: https://x.com/saragordic/status/2098916110787916219

    screenshots: I added the little video now; you can see many more screenshots on X, a lot of ppl shared their own

    trust: totally fair; if you’d rather not run my binary you can build it yourself with the steps in the README.

    the “send it to your coding agent” install line: that’s for ppl like me :D

    I’ve learned a tooon by open sourcing this; thank you all for the feedback!!

    • nico5 minutes ago
      So cool, thank you for the context. And love the window sweaters!

      Also, excellent quick reaction posting the video, it was a great addition to have in the README to show it off

    • furyofantares12 minutes ago
      I'd love rain jackets in the spring and autumn, and hawaiian prints in the summer.
  • gourneau2 hours ago
    These are cute, it pairs well with my app for macOS that turns your menu bar into an Aurora :)

    https://aurora.radiantmachines.com/

  • lowonkarmaan hour ago
    Just imagine getting your computer compromised by these cute sweaters
  • verandaguy44 minutes ago
    Is it just me or do the install steps really seem a bit silly? Who's using an agent to automate a brew two-liner?
  • dumberquestions2 hours ago
    Just in time for winter.
  • SrslyJosh2 hours ago
    > You can just send this repo to your coding agent and ask it to install Window Sweaters for you

    Lazy and wasteful. Why do this when the process is running two commands?

    > brew trust saragordic/tap > brew install --cask saragordic/tap/window-sweaters

    What is the point here? This just seems like virtue signaling.

    • jumpkick2 hours ago
      What virtue is being signaled?
      • xattt2 hours ago
        Blind acceptance of Hygge culture.
    • amunozo14 minutes ago
      Most things we do are lazy and wasteful. For a lot of people writing in a CLI is totally alien.
    • drusepth22 minutes ago
      Congratulations, you fell for the engagement trap.