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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.
That's what makes it fun. Apparently, Gemini has a better sense of humor than HN.
If there's one constant it's that they'll never be done rewriting Linux instead of doing anything new.
Exactly half of these HN usernames actually exist. So either there are enough people on HN that follow common conventions for Gemini to guess from a more general distribution, or Gemini has memorized some of the more popular posters. The ones that are missing: - aphyr_bot - bio_hacker - concerned_grandson - cyborg_sec - dang_fan - edge_compute - founder_jane - glasshole2 - monad_lover - muskwatch - net_hacker - oldti…
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…
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'd say this shows a real sense of humor.
Ha, probably accurate.
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.
I agree. What is a good update prompt I can give it to create a better variant?
You can use: https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2025-12-04 to get the frontpage on a given date.
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.
I agree. What is a good update prompt I can give it to create a better variant?
It's formulaic yeah, but that's what puts it into the realm of hilarious parody.
* All the big LLM companies are dead/dying or their infra just never panned out (like Google killing Gemini)
* We’re still fighting the advertising wars
* Restoration of kit continues to be a thing we all love/upvote to see
* More focus on local stuff rather than ginormous moonshots
* Speaking of moonshots, SpaceX continues succeeding despite Elmo’s best drug-fueled benders trying to undermine it like he does Tesla and X
* Clickbait science posts that the comments rightly point out as such while bitching about “can’t keep these things off the front page”
* People still trying to make WASM and web-as-an-OS a thing, bless their hearts (shine on, you brilliantly weird diamonds, I love seeing what you build even as I doubt the practicality of it)
If this is even half-accurate, I will be pleased we didn’t obliterate ourselves in the process, though disappointed another decade went by dealing with the same fucking problems we’ve had for twenty-odd years.