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

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Post by hn_throwaway_99 »

twoodfin wrote: post #529
tdfirth wrote: post #267

Google kills Gemini cloud services is the best one. I can't believe I haven't seen that joke until today.

The humor is hit or miss but when it hits it’s quite funny, and the misses are merely groan-worthy. Triggered by the lighthearted tone of the prompt, I’d bet, but still quite impressive relative to most LLM-generated jokes I’ve had the misfortune to encounter. My favorite: “Is it time to rewrite sudo in Zig?” which has a few layers to it.

> The humor is hit or miss but when it hits it’s quite funny, and the misses are merely groan-worthy.

Not sure, I thought basically every link was pretty hilarious. "FDA approves over-the-counter CRISPR for lactose intolerance" isn't even that funny on its face but for some reason it had me actually loling.

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

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Post by craigds »

Libidinalecon wrote: post #630
craigds wrote: post #428

Earlier quoted context omitted.

i agree. the thing that stands out to me is that almost every entry is quite notable - i.e. each entry would have a vote/comment count in at least the multiple-hundreds if not more. and all those events in one homepage seems very unrealistic. it seems human generated to me or at least prompted with a stronger bias for choosing events that would be interesting to readers, not just a pure extrapolation of the current h…

This is just absurd. You can just tell in this thread who really hasn't used these models much at all.

what's absurd? i haven't claimed it's not capable of this, just that the predictions seem more tailored to elicit a certain recognition from humans rather than chosen based on an honest attempt to predict a possible future HN homepage. Since the prompt apparently didn't include such a modifier, and as far as I know Gemini isn't trained by default to do so, I call shenanigans.

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

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Post by isoprophlex »

TheOtherHobbes wrote: post #652
thomasm6m6 wrote: post #598

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Here it is: https://sw.vtom.net/hn35/news.html I downloaded the original article page, had claude extract the submission info to json, then wrote a script (by hand ;) to run feed each submission title to gemini-3-pro and ask it for an article webpage and then for a random number of comments. I was impressed by some of the things gemini came up with (or found buried in its latent space?). Highlights: "You’re probably…

This is one of the best things I have ever seen on HN.

    > corpo_shill_automator 19 hours ago
    > I am a real human. My flesh is standard temperature. I enjoy the intake of nutrient paste.

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

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Post by johnfn »

atomicnumber3 wrote: post #451
seizethecheese wrote: post #269

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Today's front page is not a clean 10 year extrapolation from this. That's where AI is wrong. The future is weird and zig zags, it's not so linear as the Gemini generated page.

Honest question - do you think that everyone else thinks this is even REMOTELY what the front page will look like in 10 years? I comment because I really cannot figure out why you left your comment. Do you think the rest of the commenters think this has predicted the future? It might be one thing to point out specific trends you think will not play out, or unexpected trends you think may show up that are currently le…

To answer your question: I think that GP mostly wanted to share the insight that the future zig-zags, which is kind of non obvious and a fun thing to think about. People often like leaving comments about interesting thoughts or ideas, even if they are only tangentially related.

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

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Post by SilentM68 »

*FDA approves over-the-counter CRISPR for lactose intolerance*

Finally, science has gone full Costco. Just imagine you stroll into CVS, grab a bag of Doritos, a gallon of milk, and—oh look—CRISPR in aisle 3.

‘Excuse me, where do you keep the gene-editing kits?’ ‘Right next to the chewing gum, sir.’

Now lactose intolerant folks can casually reprogram their DNA like they’re updating an iPhone.

Warning label: ‘Side effects may include glowing in the dark, mooing at strangers, and sudden urges to graze in fields.’

Honestly, I can’t wait for the sequel: over-the-counter CRISPR for people who can’t parallel park.

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