great, it's the 2020s version of amusing ourselves to death.
Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 imagines the HN front page 10 years from now
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#412Earlier quoted context omitted.
Before the AI stuff Google had those pop up quick answers when googling. So I googled something like three years ago, saw the answer, realized it was sourced from HN. Clicked the link, and lo and behold, I answered my own question. Look mah! Im on google! So I am not surprised at all that Google crawls HN enough to have it in their LLM. I did chuckle at the 100% Rust Linux kernel. I like Rust, but that felt like a cl…
I laughed at the SQLite 4.0 release notes. They're on 3.51.x now. Another major release a decade from now sounds just about right.
I wouldn't be surprised if it went towards the LaTeX model instead where there's essentially never another major version release. There's only so much functionality you need in a local only database engine I bet they're getting close to complete.
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#413Just did the same with claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929 https://2035.future-hackernews.workers.dev/news The page looks much more consistent to the original. Only produced the html as output and the thinking in the comment of the html.
All of the usernames being directly related to the headlines is uncanny.
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#414"Right to Human Verification" is something I have actually thought about a lot. I want to able to verify my identity against a system. I also want to be able to not do that . So for instance, on Twitter/X, I could verify myself and filter only other verified people / filter those goverments that have validated the identities of the users. I want to be able to do that. But I also want to be able to log in into Twitter…
Technically EU already has this as a right in the recent DSA legislation to be able to appeal any automated moderation that online platforms hand out.
"computer can never be held accountable. Therefore, a computer must never make a management decision." - IBM, 1979
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#415Re: Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 imagines the HN front page 10 years from now
#416I used the same prompt keepamovin used and changed it to CNN, which produced this: https://realms.org/pics/cnn.html Some interesting similarities.
> Cable News Network. A Warner Bros. Discovery Company.
Most unrealistic prediction :)
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#417Earlier quoted context omitted.
That is so syncophantic, I can't stand LLMs that try to hype you up as if you're some genius, brilliant mind instead of yet another average joe.
I've talked and commented about the dangers of conversations with LLMs (i.e. they activate human social wiring and have a powerful effect, even if you know it's not real. Studies show placebo pills have a statistically significant effect even when the study participant knows it's a placebo -- the effect here is similar). Despite knowing and articulating that, I fell into a rabbit hole with Claude about a month ago wh…
One thing that can help, according to what I've seen, is not to tell the AI that it's something that you wrote. Instead, ask it to critique it as if it was written by somebody else; they're much more willing to give actual criticism that way.
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#418For comparison, here's the frontpage from ten years ago https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2015-12-09
Pretty funny how the top story there references A.I.!
Since /front is a ranked union of all the stories that were on the frontpage over 24 hours, here's an actual snapshot too:
https://web.archive.org/web/20151209195229/https://news.ycom...
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#419Exactly half of these HN usernames actually exist. So either there are enough people on HN that follow common conventions for Gemini to guess from a more general distribution, or Gemini has memorized some of the more popular posters. The ones that are missing: - aphyr_bot - bio_hacker - concerned_grandson - cyborg_sec - dang_fan - edge_compute - founder_jane - glasshole2 - monad_lover - muskwatch - net_hacker - oldti…
Aw, I was actually a bit disappointed how much on the nose the usernames were, relative to their postings. Like the "Rust Linux Kernel" by rust_evangelist, "Fixing Lactose Intolerance" by bio_hacker, fixing an 2024 Framework by retro_fix, etc...