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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 tempestn »

kccqzy wrote: post #577
lagniappe wrote: post #9

This suffers from a common pitfall of LLM's, context taint. You can see it is obviously the front page from today with slight "future" variation, the result ends up being very formulaic.

But it would otherwise be not fun at all. Anthropic didn’t exist ten years ago, and yet today an announcement by them would land on the front page. Would it be fun if this hypothetical front page showed an announcement made by a future startup that hasn’t been founded yet? Of course not.

I don't know, I would have enjoyed a "Floopzy launches with $10B seed round" or something.

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

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Post by tovej »

lukan wrote: post #483
tovej wrote: post #465

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If you can run ITER for 20 minutes you've essentially proved the Tokamak concept is viable for commercial use.

No you don't. Commercial use means it makes economical sense. When you have to spend more on maintainance (and recycling/dumping contaminated wall material amd somehow get the fuel) then you never can hope to make any profit. A running ITER with positive energy output for 20 minutes just proofs that the concept can actually work. From there to commercial use would still be a long way, if it ever can compete at all, e…

I'm not saying ITER would be a commercial machine, I'm saying the Tokamak design would be viable.

Stellarators are interesting, but have been studied much less in comparison.

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

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Post by XChrispy »

abustamam wrote: post #359
SXX wrote: post #279

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10 years is way too long for Google. It will be gone in 5 replaced by 3 other AI cloud services.

I mean Bard barely lasted a year. Arguably Gemini is just a rebrand of Bard, but Bard is still dead.

Bing Chat suffered the same fate

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

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Post by lxgr »

thomasm6m6 wrote: post #598
pseudosavant wrote: post #342

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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…

> Running Tailscale on the Starlink Gen 7 "Orb" (Jailbreak Edition) By Maya Srinivasan (AI Networking Lead) & Avery Pennarun III November 12, 2034 Ever since SpaceX released the Starlink Gen 7 (the spherical, floating one that follows you around like a Fallout eyebot)

Amazing :D

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

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Post by throwaway2037 »

xp84 wrote: post #931
pseudosavant wrote: post #633

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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…

Omg the Bloomberg/IBM article has so many Easter eggs

Here is the link: https://sw.vtom.net/hn35/pages/90097654.html

The content spot on and very funny.

Also, a popup appeared at the bottom with this message:

    > The future costs money.

    > You have reached your free article limit for this microsecond.

    > Subscribe for 0.0004 BTC/month
Suddenly, I have high hopes again for LLMs. Imagine you were a TV/film script writer and had writer's block. You could talk to an LLM for a while to see what funny ideas it can suggest. It is one more tool in the arsenal.

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

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Post by throwaway2037 »

menaerus wrote: post #859
pseudosavant wrote: post #633

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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…

And It is now the only software in the world still written in C89. Hilarious.

But wait, there's more!

    > Predictive SELECT Statements:
    > Added the PRECOGNITION keyword.
    > SELECT * FROM sales WHERE date = 'tomorrow' now returns data with 99.4% accuracy by leveraging the built-in 4kB inference engine. The library size has increased by 12 bytes to accommodate this feature.
12 bytes really sounds like something that the lead dev would write!

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

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Post by throwaway2037 »

xp84 wrote: post #960
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…

https://sw.vtom.net/hn35/pages/90098999.html > It is the year 2035. The average "Hello World" application now requires 400MB of JavaScript, compiles to a 12GB WebAssembly binary, and runs on a distributed blockchain-verified neural mesh. To change the color of a button, we must query the Global State Singularity via a thought-interface, wait for the React 45 concurrent mode to reconcile with the multiverse, and pay a…

    > And the last time I was working on some CI for a front-end project -- a Shopify theme!! -- I found that it needed over 12GB of RAM for the container where the build happened, or it would just crash with an out-of-memory error.
This sounds epic. Did you blog about it? HN would probably love the write up!

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

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Post by keepamovin »

wasabi991011 wrote: post #79
keepamovin wrote: post #15

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I agree. What is a good update prompt I can give it to create a better variant?

If you do an update prompt, I hope you still keep this one around! It's formulaic yeah, but that's what puts it into the realm of hilarious parody.

Thank you. It was a great one-shot and I didn't end up doing any updates. Thrilled to see how it inspired work from: Thomas Morford (CSE @ UC Merced, thomasm6m6) who did the amazing article/thread generation (in https://sw.vtom.net/hn35/news.html ; and also from Andrej Karpathy (ex-OpenAI, now Eureak Labs, karpathy) who did an interesting analysis of prescience quality of threads/commenters inspired by a reply linking the page of 10 years past to compare: https://karpathy.bearblog.dev/auto-grade-hn/

This was wonderful. 3000 points? I mean, fuck. Among the biggest posts of all time, and definitely of Show HN. Funny for me is that all the work I've done in the last 10 years, probably 100 Show HN's all different, this was by far the hugest. Could be months of work, no interest. And this thing, which dropped into my mind, probably 30 minutes, demolished them all. It's hilarious that it even beat out legitimate AI posts, and contaminated search results with future stories.

One of the funniest things for me was hearing how people tabbed away from the page, only to come back and momentarily feel it was the actual HN page. Hahahahaha! :)

All I can say is, I love you all. Watching it stay at the top for 24 hours...it felt like it wasn't something I made at first. But it was. Cool

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

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Post by keepamovin »

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?

Thank you! :)

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

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Post by keepamovin »

_yb2s wrote: post #460
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…

I don't believe this was written by Gemini, at least with that prompt, because it is obvious (hilarious and creative) satire of HN and the tech industry based on inside HN jokes and tropes, and clearly isn't a literal interpretation of the prompt. Moreover, a quick look at your profile suggests these jokes are pretty inline with your sense of humor and writing style. Anyways, if I'm correct, it's especially hilarious…

This was so nice as a comment. Thank you for your kindness. :)
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