"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.
"raw code" is going into my permanent lexicon.
Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 imagines the HN front page 10 years from now
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#572This is super fun! I tried something similar a few months ago using: https://websim.com/
Had it do HN main feed, HN jobs and Product Hunt. It didn’t follow consistent styling but did generate articles and comments for each post. Some screenshots are in this post: https://world.hey.com/haws/the-ai-time-machine-7833669d
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#573Just did the same with claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929 https://2035.future-hackernews.workers.dev/news The page looks much more consistent to the original. Only produced the html as output and the thinking in the comment of the html.
I did a similar one for predicting "The Onion" headlines: https://sethjano.github.io/fun-scripts/
This one’s hilarious. What was your prompt?
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#574Is "hallucinates" a synonymn for 'generates output following prompt', now?
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#575Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
If you look at web traffic when making Gemini web requests, you'll see that Bard is still in the URL (so are LaMDA (pre-bard) and Assistant (pre-GenAI)):
gemini.google.com/_/BardChatUi/data/assistant.lamda.BardFrontendService/StreamGenerate
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#577This 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.
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#578"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.
I think that "Show HN: A text editor that doesn't use AI" could easily be a post here today
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#579> “Why functional programming is the future (again) (haskell.org)”
Ouch, that hurts!
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#580I have hard time believing this is AI-generated. Every headline looks like a hand-crafted ironic nod to some long-running HN topic, sci-fi trait, or meme. But it is, of course, more trendy (and more ironic) to proclaim an AI the author.
You haven't used Gemini 3.0 Pro if so, this is very much in its range of abilities.
I can believe. But such texts are not patches to a crufty legacy codebase, they are fun to craft by hand! :)