For comparison, here's the frontpage from ten years ago https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2015-12-09
it'd be interesting to feed this into the same AI, and have it predict today's front page
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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…
Why functional programming languages are the future (again)
Top comment:
“The Quantum-Lazy-Linker in GHC 18.4 is actually a terrifying piece of technology if you think about it. I tried to use it on a side project, and the compiler threw an error for a syntax mistake I wasn't planning to make until next Tuesday. It breaks the causality workflow.”
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#743> A 100% Rust kernel is now upstream in Linux 7.4
the future predicted by gemini is already coming true; from 3 hours ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46213585>:
"Rust ... is now a core part of the kernel and is here to stay"
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What about this one: > The micro-transaction joke hits too close to home. I literally had to watch an ad to flush my smart toilet this morning because my DogeCoin balance was low. And the response...
I am nearly in tears after reading this chain of posts. I have never read anything so funny here on HN. Real question: How do LLMs "know" how to create good humor/satire? Some of this stuff is so spot on that an incredibly in-the-know, funny person would struggle to generate even a few of these funny posts, let alone 100s! Another interesting thing to me: I don't get uncanny valley feelings when I read LLM-generated…
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I think that "Show HN: A text editor that doesn't use AI" could easily be a post here today
And it’s just a copy of notepad from windows xp.
Dave Plummer (ex Microsoft) did this on his YouTuve channel recently: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmBd39OwvWg
Would also recommend his back catalogue, if you haven't.
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#747I haven't even looked at the linked page but IMO this is one of the few things where an LLM is good: making up legible gibberish.
I've maintained for ages that the entire multi billion dollar LLM industry is just the worlds most expensive Lorem Ipsum machine.
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It’s an LLM, there was no intention. It’s simply the favoured token given the training set and seed.
This type of response is just stochastic parrotry, rather than displaying evidence of actual . Yet more evidence that LLMs are more similar to humans than we give them credit for.
Never stops fascinating me how folks are arguing this kind of thing. Why make up an explanation for why this obvious mistake is actually some kind of elaborate 4D chess sarcastic "intention"? It's a simple machine, its network just didn't support making up a new Toy Story character. That's it! Simple as that! Occam's Razor anybody?
Or yes, maybe the regex I wrote the other day which also had a bug that missed replacing certain parts also had an "intention". It just wanted to demonstrate how fallible I am as a human, so it played this elaborate prank on me. /s
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#749Not really what hallucinating means. That’s like saying JK Rowling hallucinated Harry Potter. But ok.
Perhaps fabricate is a better word, as suggested elsewhere in this thread?
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#750Big models keep getting better at benchmarks, but reliability under messy real world inputs still feels stuck in place.