"Why I still write raw code instead of prompting the compiler" and "Show HN: A text editor that doesn't use AI" are my two favorite ones.
"Playing GTA VI on a RISC-V cluster" sent me
Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 imagines the HN front page 10 years from now
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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…
"Ask HN: How do you prevent ad-injection in AR glasses", comments: visual_noise_complaint 7 hours ago Is anyone else experiencing the 'Hot Singles in Your Area' glitch where it projects avatars onto stray cats? It's terrifying. cat_lady_2035 6 hours ago Yes! My tabby cat is currently labeled as 'Tiffany, 24, looking for fun'. I can't turn it off. "Europe passes 'Right to Human Verification' Act", from the article: "F…
That demo even has a hidden easter egg when you move one of the sliders to max. If that was all AI originated it's rather impressive
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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?
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…
"It's scary stuff. Radically advanced. - I mean, it was smashed, it didn't work, but it gave us ideas, took us in new directions, things we would've never Th..."
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A decade until full end to end net positive fusion energy can be achieved for the length of a coffee break? I don't get why you think that's dark comedy, it seems about right.
Why not? It's been a decade away for the past 20 years.
In Sim City 2000 (released 1993) the fusion power plant became available in the game year 2050.
The joke used to be that fusion power was always 50 years away, now you're saying it's perpetually only 10 years away, that's real progress! :)
They are certainly making very real gains and it's hard to predict when commercial viability is, but the progress path is getting clearer and the number of future decades promised shorter and shorter.
I wouldn't be at all surprised if that skunk works tiny fusion project or something substantially similar was actually successful and it's just being held as a secret competitive advantage.
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#965Prompt: 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 the best thing I've seen all month. I'm actually blown away at just how accurate it is in making up the potential front page posts.
> This is the best thing I've seen all month. I'm actually blown away at just how accurate it is in making up the potential front page posts.
Hold on. The future hasn't happened yet.
I think what you mean is that you are blown away at just how plausible of a prediction it is. Probably meaning that something about it meshes with ideas already kicking around your head.
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FYI, this quote was meant to be the ramblings of a drunk who says something that sounds deep but is actually meaningless.
It’s actually referencing Nietzsche referencing Empedocles, but your point works as well I guess
haha thats both not true, and still works as drunk nonsense.
But good job googling this and getting fooled by an LLM
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#968"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…
Worldcoin was supposed to do that.
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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…
Love the faux Nature article: https://sw.vtom.net/hn35/pages/90098000.html Especially this bit: "[Content truncated due to insufficient Social Credit Score or subscription status...]" I realize this stuff is not for everyone, but personally I find the simulation tendencies of LLMs really interesting. It is just about the only truly novel thing about them. My mental model for LLMs is increasingly "improv comedy." They…
And below the social credit score:
> © 2035 Springer Nature Limited. A division of The Amazon Basics™ Science Corp.
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#970The biggest mistake it makes is how interesting the frontpage is. It should have more obscure things and filler.