His e-reader is now an external e-paper display, jailbroken by one model and coded by another

Jailbroke his Kindle with GPT-5.5 Sol and turned it into an external e-paper display; the project code was written by GPT-5.6 Sol.

How it works

He jailbreaks the e-reader with one model
Turns it into an external e-paper display
The project code written by another model

Why it’s worth knowing

E-paper as a monitor is the calm technology endgame.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on news.ycombinator.com. See the original ↗

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