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

Post by xp84 » Wed, Dec 10, 2025, 4:05 PM UTC

pseudosavant wrote: post #633

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…

SQLite 4.0 Release Notes: https://sw.vtom.net/hn35/pages/90098234.html Another absolute gem: Columns now support "Vibe" affinity. If the data feels like an integer, it is stored as an integer. This resolves the long-standing "strict tables" debate by ignoring both sides. Also: SQLite 4.0 is now the default bootloader for 60% of consumer electronics. The build artifacts include sqlite3.wasm which can now run bare-meta…

Post by locknitpicker » Wed, Dec 10, 2025, 4:20 PM UTC

hbn wrote: post #890

jll29 wrote: post #825

AI professor here. I know this page is a joke, but in the interest of accuracy, a terminological comment: we don't call it a "hallucination" if a model complies exactly with what a prompt asked for and produces a prediction, exactly as requested. Rater, "hallucinations" are spurious replacements of factual knowledge with fictional material caused by the use of statistical process (the pseudo random number generator u…

"Hallucination" has always seemed like a misnomer to me anyway considering LLMs don't know anything. They just impressively get things right enough to be useful assuming you audit the output. If anything, I think all of their output should be called a hallucination.

Post by KalMann » Wed, Dec 10, 2025, 4:26 PM UTC

wafflemaker wrote: post #799

block_dagger wrote: post #778

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This common response is pretty uninteresting and misleading. They simply predict tokens? Oh. What does the brain do, exactly?

It does exactly the same, predicts tokens, but it's totally different and superior to LLMs /s OTOH, brain tokens seem to be concept based and not always linguistic (many people think solely in images/concepts).

Post by locknitpicker » Wed, Dec 10, 2025, 4:32 PM UTC

pseudosavant wrote: post #633

thomasm6m6 wrote: post #598

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

SQLite 4.0 Release Notes: https://sw.vtom.net/hn35/pages/90098234.html Another absolute gem: Columns now support "Vibe" affinity. If the data feels like an integer, it is stored as an integer. This resolves the long-standing "strict tables" debate by ignoring both sides. Also: SQLite 4.0 is now the default bootloader for 60% of consumer electronics. The build artifacts include sqlite3.wasm which can now run bare-meta…

Post by dang » Wed, Dec 10, 2025, 4:42 PM UTC

hn_throwaway_99 wrote: post #666

This is awesome, but minor quibble with the title - "hallucinates" is the wrong verb here. You specifically asked it to make up a 10-year-in-the-future HN frontpage, and that's exactly what it did. "Hallucinates" means when it randomly makes stuff up but purports it to be the truth. If some one asks me to write a story for a creative writing class, and I did, you wouldn't say I "hallucinated" the story.