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Ask HN: What are your predictions for 2026?
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#32game over
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#33Politics
- New major armed conflict starts.
Space
- Artemis II succeeds.
- Starship makes first fully reusable orbital flight.
Other tech
- One of the fusion startups demonstrates net energy.
- AI bubble pops, OpenAI gets acquired by Microsoft.
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#34Household name AI Company will IPO. Existing safety work will further deprioritize in favor of maximizing shareholder value.
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#36- Major disruptions on the financial markets due to the USD losing value. Commodities go up. Not certain about Bitcoin/Crypto as it is backed mostly by the USD itself. - US goes on the offensive on tokenization moving bonds, stocks, transfers, etc. to the blockchain. China opens up its eCNY to the grand public. - AI bubble pops. Companies decide that LLM-coding is not worth it after accounting for the downsides. LLMs…
By going the way of pipedpiper do you mean Son of Anton?
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#37I predict certain political factions in the US will spend much of 2026 looking for ways to introduce a delay in the 2028 elections, such as pursuing a war so that Congress can postpone elections until they can be held safely. Which has never happened before, but who knows what absurdities will be given the OK these days?
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#38Engagement bait will get amplified even more, with the goal of gathering human generated data and user retention.
Lots of new subreddits have been popping up this year, in different languages, that are flooded with AI generated rage and engagement bait posts. Facebook is feeding boomers with the same kind of slop.
We will see the repercussions of this on society.
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#39A driverless car will be involved in a fatal accident
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#40The Independent Variation Principle, the unifying software design meta-principle, becomes widely known, recognized and applied across the industry and academic world.