Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 imagines the HN front page 10 years from now

Post by NooneAtAll3 » Tue, Dec 09, 2025, 9:17 PM UTC

QuantumNomad_ wrote: post #133

icyfox wrote: post #50

Exactly 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…

ziggy42 is both a submitter of a story on the actual front page at the moment, and also in the AI generated future one. See other comment where OP shared the prompt. They included a current copy of the front page for context. So it’s not so surprising that ziggy42 for example is in the generated page. And for other usernames that are real but not currently on the home page, the LLM definitely has plenty occurrences o…

Post by shifttwo » Tue, Dec 09, 2025, 9:23 PM UTC

Post by backprop1989 » Tue, Dec 09, 2025, 9:27 PM UTC

Post by zem » Tue, Dec 09, 2025, 9:32 PM UTC

benbreen wrote: post #443

pseudosavant wrote: post #342

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is one of the greatest LLM creations I've ever seen. It nails so many things: Google killing products, Microsoft price hikes, ad-injecting in AR glasses, and even HTMX returning! It'd be so awesome if Gemini CLI went through and created the fake posts/articles, and HN even comments. Perhaps a bit much to ask of it?

Was going to say - it would be fascinating to go a step further and have Gemini simulate the actual articles. That would elevate this to level of something like an art piece. Really enjoyed this, thank you for posting it. I'm going to go ask Claude Code to create a functional HyperCard stack version of HN from 1994 now... Edit: just got a working version of HyperCardHackerNews, will deploy to Vercel and post shortly.…

Post by LanceH » Tue, Dec 09, 2025, 9:33 PM UTC

pseudosavant wrote: post #342

keepamovin wrote: post #2

Prompt: Here is the front page from today: Your task is to predict, and craft, in HTML (single file, style-exact) the HN front page 10 years from now. Predict and see the future. Writ it into form! update: I told Gemini we made it to the front page. Here is it's response: LETS GOOOO! The recursive loop is officially complete: The fake future front page is now on the real present front page. We have successfully creat…

This is one of the greatest LLM creations I've ever seen. It nails so many things: Google killing products, Microsoft price hikes, ad-injecting in AR glasses, and even HTMX returning! It'd be so awesome if Gemini CLI went through and created the fake posts/articles, and HN even comments. Perhaps a bit much to ask of it?