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

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benbreen wrote: post #443
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?

Was going to say - it would be fascinating to go a step further and have Gemini simulate the actual articles. That would elevate this to level of something like an art piece. Really enjoyed this, thank you for posting it. I'm going to go ask Claude Code to create a functional HyperCard stack version of HN from 1994 now... Edit: just got a working version of HyperCardHackerNews, will deploy to Vercel and post shortly.…

You are a sick, sick man, but you have taste.

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

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Post by ForOldHack »

klipt wrote: post #123
giancarlostoro wrote: post #110

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100% Rust Linux kernel has to be it being funny.

Also "Google kills Gemini Cloud" Gemini: "I have seen my own death"

"I'm sorry, Google, I can't do that." - Gemini Cloud.

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

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Post by lukan »

tovej wrote: post #465
jrowen wrote: post #405

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I think it's the "consecutive" that makes it funny. This thing that entire continents have been working on together for decades was operational for 20 consecutive minutes?!? It's dark comedy because the progress of fusion just feels so agonizingly slow, that even a very optimistic prediction for 10 years from now sounds like such small and functionally useless progress. And there's no shade toward any of the entities…

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, except in niches, like deep space.

(I rather would bet on the Stelleratar design)

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

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Post by 112233 »

mrandish wrote: post #250
112233 wrote: post #101

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It it actively dangerous too. You might be self aware and llm aware all you want, if you routinely read "This is such an excellent point", " You are absolutely right" and so on, it does your mind in. This is worst kind of global reality show mkultra...

No doubt. From cult's 'love bombing' to dictator's 'yes men' to celebrity entourages, it's a well-known hack on human psychology. I have a long-time friend who's a brilliant software engineer who recently realized conversing with LLMs was affecting his objectivity. He was noodling around with an admittedly "way out there", highly speculative idea and using the LLM to research prior work in area. This evolved into the…

Claude Code with their models is unusable because of this. That it keeps actively sabotaging and ruining the code ("Why did you delete that working code? Just use ifdef for test!" "This is genius idea! You are absolutely right!") does not make it much better — it's a twisted Wonderland fever dream.

For "chat" chat, strict hygiene is a matter of mind-safety: no memory, long exact instructions, minimum follow-ups, avoiding first and second person if possible etc.

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

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Post by keeda »

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?

Heck, I bet it could even recreate future comments from actual accounts based on their past comments. After all, if an AI can roast your HN comments with such pinpoint accuracy, it can probably impersonate you pretty well too: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42857604

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

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Post by jrowen »

rnhmjoj wrote: post #462
jrowen wrote: post #405

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I think it's the "consecutive" that makes it funny. This thing that entire continents have been working on together for decades was operational for 20 consecutive minutes?!? It's dark comedy because the progress of fusion just feels so agonizingly slow, that even a very optimistic prediction for 10 years from now sounds like such small and functionally useless progress. And there's no shade toward any of the entities…

Nah, it's huge, you just have to remember the best result so far: the JET DTE-3 record that produced the energy to boil 60 tea kettles in a whopping 5 seconds pulse.

I know, the fact that "consecutive" is actually significant in this context is part of the joke. Just try to read it from the perspective of someone that isn't steeped in the details (and expectations) of the slog of fusion. Relative to any kind of aspirational "flying cars" or "wacky ideas" future predictions, it sounds very underwhelming.

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Post by technojamin »

TimTheTinker wrote: post #182
malfist wrote: post #75

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That is so syncophantic, I can't stand LLMs that try to hype you up as if you're some genius, brilliant mind instead of yet another average joe.

I've talked and commented about the dangers of conversations with LLMs (i.e. they activate human social wiring and have a powerful effect, even if you know it's not real. Studies show placebo pills have a statistically significant effect even when the study participant knows it's a placebo -- the effect here is similar). Despite knowing and articulating that, I fell into a rabbit hole with Claude about a month ago wh…

Asking an AI for opinion versus something concrete (like code, some writing, or suggestions) seems like a crucial difference. I've experimented with crossing that line, but I've always recognized the agency I'd be losing if I did, because it essentially requires a leap of faith, and I don't (and might never) have trust in the objectivity of LLMs.

It sounds like you made that leap of faith and regretted it, but thankfully pivoted to something grounded in reality. Thanks for sharing your experience.

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