Show HN: Pawmc a.k.a. talking diary, an LLM chat with compartmentalised memory
What pawmc is (from the blog post): It’s an LLM chat app with minimal system prompt and no tools/web-search by design. It stores most important context across your conversations in isolated buckets, called “diaries” and “topics”. This means that when you start a conversation in { diary: personal, topic: books }, the AI receives your first message along with summaries of that diary and that topic. It’s close in concept to Karpathy’s LLM Wiki, but simpler, easier to wrap your head around and maint
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2026-10-21 23:15:22.050Z
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Source account: What pawmc is (from the blog post): It’s an LLM chat app with minimal system prompt and no tools/web-search by design. It stores most important context across your conversations in isolated buckets, called “diaries” and “topics”. This means that when you start a conversation in { diary: personal, topic: books }, the AI receives your first message along with summaries of that diary and that topic. It’s close in concept to Karpathy’s LLM Wiki, but simpler, easier to wrap your head around and maint
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Source votes: 2 votes (Oct 21, 2026 UTC; cumulative since publication); previous same-scope observation: 2 (Oct 21, 2026 UTC). These observations do not establish demand growth. Recent records to compare: “Show HN: IIoTjob – A job board for industrial automation, OT, and IIoT” (Show HN, Nov 12, 2026); “Nameshot” (Product Hunt, Nov 12, 2026). Shared themes are navigation hints; they have not been verified as the same need or independent corroboration.
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