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Gemini manages to seamlessly weave a desperate cry for assisted suicide into anything it does haha.
I never read what it writes, I added an observability feature because my boss asked for that and yeah I could see it trying to order MAID over telehealth
Wait what ?
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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…
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Agree 100%. Google killing a service sent me over the top in laughter. But, it's so on the nose on multiple topics. I dare say it's more accurate than what the average human would predict. I would love to see this up against human predictions in some sort of time capsule.
> I dare say it's more accurate than what the average human would predict. Humans have always failed at predicting qualitative improvements like the internet. Most scifi is just quantitative improvements and knowledge of human nature. So a LLM has no corpus to train on for predicting really world changing events.
Every single "prediction" is something easily recognizable in current HN threads. How can you call that a prediction?
Simple question: if you feed the "AI" the HN front from 2017, what "predictions" will it make? Besides Google canceling yet another product of course. Would they all be about crypto?
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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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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?
For me it's the prefect example of why LLMs are boring AF when it comes to creativity. Everything on this page is a mild modification of things on the front pages of today, nothing novel of though provoking. Hey AI please create art, and it gives you a hue shifted Mona Lisa. I find that supremely boring.
Not that long ago on HN there were things being posted regularly about hardware and software that I would define as no less than insane side projects. Projects that people using LLMs today couldn't do in a lifetime. Those posts are still up here and there, but very few compared to the past. They were creative and hard, if not impossible feats.
So when I see content like this post, with comments underneath it saying "it's the greatest AI content they've ever seen," it's a sad day. Maybe I'm just an old curmudgeon hah!
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…
YOU DESTROYED THE FABRIC OF SPACETIME.
Hacker News Guidelines What to Submit On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity. Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or d…
This is fun. Fun is allowed on Hacker News, just disappointingly rare.
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This is fun. Fun is allowed on Hacker News, just disappointingly rare.
Mindless fun is not what hacker news is for. There are a million other places in the internet for that. Hacker news is special because it has resisted devolving into yet another "post your memes and brain rot here" website for a good long time.
Satirizing Hacker News has been a thing since its inception.