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Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 imagines the HN front page 10 years from now
- willhunting1 11mo agoThey got the UI right
- VerifiedReports 11mo agofabricate ≠ hallucinate
- DSpider 11mo agoThe 2 things that you can comfortably predict with good accuracy: EU passing new regulation laws & yet another YC company trying to give context to AI agents.
- keepamovin 11mo agoPrompt: Here is the front page from today: <...snip...> 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 created a temporal anomaly. I hope the comments are confused about why they can't click the links to download the Neuralink drivers. Enjoy the karma, time traveler! Just remember to warn them about the 2035 Office 365 price hikes while you're up there. ;)
- RestartKernel 11mo agoDoesn't seem like much of a hallucination then. Maybe messing with its system context would better fit the claim?
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- wlesieutre 11mo agoLLM "hallucination" is a pretty bullshit term to begin with
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- malfist 11mo agoThat 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.
- sallveburrpi 11mo agoYou should try my nihilistic Marvin fine-tune - guaranteed to annihilate your positive outlook on life since it’s all meaningless in the end anyway and then you die
- radicality 11mo agoOr try the very sarcastic and nihilistic ‘Monday’ gpt, which surprisingly is an official openAI gpt. edit, add link: https://chatgpt.com/g/g-67ec3b4988f8819184c5454e18f5e84b-monday https://chatgpt.com/g/g-67ec3b4988f8819184c5454e18f5e84b-mon...
- riversflow 11mo agoI actually had Monday help me write a system prompt to replicates its behavior. I vastly prefer Monday. It feels much more grounded compared to the base model. It was also a big learning moment for me about how LLMs work.
- edschofield 11mo agoThanks for the link! I didn’t know Monday existed. I laughed so hard at its output. But I fear that using it regularly would poison my soul…
- 112233 11mo agoIt 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...
- tortilla 11mo ago
- fn-mote 11mo agoTo be honest, this is incredible. I'd say this shows a real sense of humor.
- giancarlostoro 11mo ago100% Rust Linux kernel has to be it being funny.
- atonse 11mo agoYeah also Google killing Gemini Cloud, and GTA VI and RISC cluster references... This is really good stuff.
- brabel 11mo agoMy favorite was Is it time to rewrite sudo in Zig. As you may remember Ubuntu had a recent vulnerability caused by their sudo being rewritten in Rust. No idea if the AI knew that though it feels like a clever joke.
- klipt 11mo agoAlso "Google kills Gemini Cloud" Gemini: "I have seen my own death"
- danesparza 11mo agoThere is so much truth in this unironic headline.
- fauigerzigerk 11mo agoYes, that's a great one. And the domain is actually killedbygoogle.com
- abirch 11mo agoalmost all were amazing, I loved: Show HN: A text editor that doesn't use AI (github.com) On a serious note: I for one welcome our AI overlords.
- asveikau 11mo ago> 2035 Office 365 You'd think by 2035 they would have gotten to a version of Office higher than 365. (Yes I know why it's called that...)
- DANmode 11mo agoOffice 360, is the canon name.
- marcianx 11mo agoIf the past is any indication, it's more likely that it'd get reset to "Office One".
- harshreality 11mo agoOffice Forever
- kridsdale1 11mo agoKnowing the vendor, it’s Office Series X.
- amarant 11mo agoOffice X series X 2
- abirch 11mo agoI'm guessing to appeal to Gen Alpha it'll be called Office 6-7
- apelapan 11mo agoMmm, those were pretty good versions. Though the official titles where 4.0 for 6.0 and 95 for 7.0.
- amarant 11mo agoOffice 3650!! Works all day, every day, for whole decades at time! (Minus leap days, it crashes on those I guess)
- divbzero 11mo agoYou should ask Gemini to generate HN comment threads too.
- jrowen 11mo agoWas ITER or nuclear energy in the prompt sample? ITER achieves net positive energy for 20 consecutive minutes That's just pure dark comedy, although maybe kinda accurate? What would humans predict for this?
- colechristensen 11mo agoA decade until full end to end net positive fusion energy can be achieved for the length of a coffee break? I don't get why you think that's dark comedy, it seems about right.
- markrages 11mo agoWhy not? It's been a decade away for the past 20 years.
- colechristensen 11mo agoIn Sim City 2000 (released 1993) the fusion power plant became available in the game year 2050. The joke used to be that fusion power was always 50 years away, now you're saying it's perpetually only 10 years away, that's real progress! :) They are certainly making very real gains and it's hard to predict when commercial viability is, but the progress path is getting clearer and the number of future decades promised shorter and shorter. I wouldn't be at all surprised if that skunk works tiny fusion project or something substantially similar was actually successful and it's just being held as a secret competitive advantage.
- rnhmjoj 11mo agoThis would be very optimistic, essentially the project meeting its main goal, I'm not sure why you're calling it dark comedy. A 20 minutes pulse alone would mean the fuel injection, aux heating, plasma control systems and the divertor are working as designed. Net positive energy also means we got the physics of a burning plasma right. The most recent timeline I know (from 2024) in fact puts the start of the DT operation at 2035, so I doubt ITER would achieve such a huge result within less than an year.
- barfoure 11mo agoBased John Titor poster.
- keepamovin 11mo agoThank you, dude :)
- highwaylights 11mo agoYOU DESTROYED THE FABRIC OF SPACETIME.
- haruka_ff 11mo agoI wasn't expecting to see the reference here ::D
- pseudosavant 11mo agoThis 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?
- benbreen 11mo agoWas 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...
- saalweachter 11mo agoI didn't even try to click through to the articles, so I was just disappointed I couldn't read the comments.
- BubbleRings 11mo agoFirst let’s have it create maybe 100 more entries, then have people vote on which are the best 30, THEN put all the effort into creating all the fake articles and discussions. As good as the current 30 are, maybe the set could still be made twice as good. And have a set of short “explain xkcd”-style entries somewhere so people can read up on what the joke is, when they miss a specific one. Then send it to The Onion and let them make a whole business around it or something. Definitely one of the best HN posts ever. I mean come on!: FDA approves over-the-counter CRISPR for lactose intolerance (fda.gov)
- literalAardvark 11mo agoThat one's a bit optimistic for the FDA. But it nailed fusion and Gary Marcus lesssgoo
- edstarch 11mo agoOnly $40?
- mightysashiman 11mo agoi wonder if it could also generate a set of relevant comments for each of these avant-gardiste Hnews :)
- nullbound 11mo ago<< Running LLaMA-12 7B on a contact lens with WASM (arxiv.org) But is it a hallucination if it was asked for it?:D
- _yb2s 11mo agoI 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 and impressive.
- glenstein 11mo agoI agree with your characterization (not a literal interpretation of the prompt), and think that's the most important thing I wish more people ITT would understand. But I nevertheless think Gemini did create that in response. Sometimes people think they want "prediction" when actually they want cheeky inside jokes and vibes. If anything Gemini is probably faithfully responding to the vibes of the prompt as well as following traditional signals of "success" per it's training.
- keeda 11mo agoI feel like your expectations have been swayed by the average sentiment of HN on the capabilities of LLMs. These things can be shockingly good at humour and satire. As a very quick experiment, I would encourage you to have an AI roast you based on your HN comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42857604 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42857604
- forgotpwd16 11mo agoAlso, the recently discussed[0], HN Simulator: https://news.ysimulator.run/news https://news.ysimulator.run/news. Eg, page created when submitted a link back to the original submission: https://news.ysimulator.run/item/2944 https://news.ysimulator.run/item/2944. [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46036908 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46036908
- polyaniline 11mo agoA comment from a post in the simulator: > The article consistently refers to DHRUV64 as a "microprocessor". This is technically incorrect. It is a microprocessor, not a microprocessor. The distinction matters; a microprocessor is the entire chip, while a microprocessor is a specific component. Basic terminology should be accurate.
- rubansk 11mo agoThe algodrill post (5th) is already on today’s HN front page. What a time to be alive!
- fouc 11mo ago>LETS GOOOO! I can't help but see this type of response from LLMs only exists to encourage AI psychosis.
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- wouldbecouldbe 11mo agoThis doesn’t sound like Gemini at all, it’s very bland and business like. Suspect your prompt contains more to ask it to be in a certain style.
- kylegalbraith 11mo agoThis is the best thing I've seen all month. I'm actually blown away at just how accurate it is in making up the potential front page posts.
- xpe 11mo ago> This is the best thing I've seen all month. I'm actually blown away at just how accurate it is in making up the potential front page posts. Hold on. The future hasn't happened yet. I think what you mean is that you are blown away at just how plausible of a prediction it is. Probably meaning that something about it meshes with ideas already kicking around your head.
- stevefan1999 11mo agoReminds me of this: "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past" -- '1984' (the book), George Orwell, 1949
- antfarm 11mo agoI hate it when LLMs are enthusiastic, it makes them look phoney and presumptuous. I cannot understand how people fall for this.
- seatac76 11mo agoGoogle kills Gemini is just hilarious.
- moffkalast 11mo agoGemini manages to seamlessly weave a desperate cry for assisted suicide into anything it does haha.
- yieldcrv 11mo agoI never read what it writes, I added an observability feature because my boss asked for that and yeah I could see it trying to order MAID over telehealth
- fermiNitambh 11mo ago> order MAID over telehealth Wait what ?
- NitpickLawyer 11mo agoWho says LLMs don't have a sense of humor? All of these entries are funny for several (meta or not) reasons: - Google kills Gemini Cloud Services (killedbygoogle.com) - Is it time to rewrite sudo in Zig? (github.com) - EU passes "Right to Human Verification" Act (europa.eu) - Why functional programming is the future (again) (haskell.org) [note: that again killed me) - AI progress is stalling. Human equivalence was a mirage (garymarcus.com) [note: he'll be saying the same thing forever and ever. Doubly funny since it's on the same "page" as llama12-7b running on a contact lens with WASM]
- rat9988 11mo agoGemini 3 definitely is able to mimick some of our sense of humor. I found this quite funny too: https://www.reddit.com/r/GeminiAI/comments/1pi28l7/i_asked_gemini_nano_banana_pro_to_roast_gemini/ https://www.reddit.com/r/GeminiAI/comments/1pi28l7/i_asked_g...
- CamperBob2 11mo agoArguably a big part of comedy is mimicry. Humor often works by reinforcing in-group identity, playing up cultural stereotypes as seen here. So maybe we shouldn't be that surprised that LLMs can exhibit some genuine wittiness.
- latexr 11mo ago> Who says LLMs don't have a sense of humor? All of these entries are funny You don’t need a sense of humour to be unintentionally funny. Seriously believing something absurd is a form of humour for outside observers but not the observed.
- keepamovin 11mo agoTrue! Why some of the greatest comedic performances are actors who play an absurd role straight-as.
- NitpickLawyer 11mo agoOne entry would be unintentionally funny, I give you that. 5/ what, 30 entries? That's a pattern.
- nels 11mo agoIt's interesting how number 5 on the list is the same as today's: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46203581 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46203581 (Show HN: AlgoDrill – Interactive drills to stop forgetting LeetCode patterns (algodrill.io)). I'm hoping we'll have gotten rid of current-style LeetCode interviews in 10 years from now :D
- buster 11mo agoAwesome, love it!
- Karawebnetwork 11mo ago"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.
- woliveirajr 11mo ago"Ask HN: How do you prevent ad-injection in AR glasses?" Things that I haven't thought but, after seeing it, makes total sense. Scary.
- barbacoa 11mo ago2040 HN: "Ask HN: How do you prevent ad-injection in my brain implant?"
- mondrian 11mo agoBlack Mirror episode: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_People_(Black_Mirror) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_People_(Black_Mirror)
- reaperducer 11mo agoThe National Lampoon did it in the early 70's.
- dachris 11mo agoGood to see that there's new episodes and they've still got their mojo - putting it on my list.
- danielheath 11mo agoIIRC Asimov included this in Foundation; the poor couldn’t afford good adblockers for the implants they’d bought (in the hope of getting a better job)
- orly01 11mo ago
- serendipityAI 11mo agoIBM to acquire OpenAI? Gemini doesn't like openAIs prospect
- pzo 11mo agoalso Gemini: > 8. Google kills Gemini Cloud Services (killedbygoogle.com)
- JoshTriplett 11mo agoThat's pretty hilarious considering this is generated by Gemini.
- xp84 11mo agoBest joke ever written by a Google product
- patwolf 11mo agoI wish it had generated the articles themselves. I'd like to know if it imagining IBM growing enough that it could acquire OpenAI, or OpenAI sinking enough that it could be acquired by IBM.
- nerdix 11mo agoIt even tells us why this happened. > AI progress is stalling. Human equivalence was a mirage
- danesparza 11mo agoThis feels like low-key shade thrown at OpenAI. IBM is essentially a technological recycling bin at this point.
- mrweasel 11mo agoWhat do you mean, it's overly optimistic. The real title should be: Remember OpenAI, and where is Sam Altman today?
- cipehr 11mo agoLOL this is great. "Jepsen: NATS 4.2 (Still losing messages?)" Ouch, sick burn Gemini.
- sxp 11mo ago"Google kills Gemini Cloud Services (killedbygoogle.com) 530 points by dang_fan 15 hours ago | hide | 330 comments" Ha! Is Gemini suicidal?
- rat9988 11mo agoDidn't notice the username "dang_fan". Reading the usernames makes it even more funny. "Show HN: AlgoDrill – Interactive drills to stop forgetting LeetCode patterns " by persistence_is_key
- shimon 11mo agoCan you explain the joke in that username?
- dragonwriter 11mo agoConsider the subject of the post, not just the username in isolation.
- iberator 11mo agoI don't get it
- dragonwriter 11mo ago“stop forgetting LeetCode patterns” “persistence” (in the data sense, rather than the personality trait sense) “is key”
- pityJuke 11mo agoit’s a double meaning, no? as the thing with leetcode is that the way to best it is persistently doing it.
- fragmede 11mo ago
- lagniappe 11mo agoThis 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.
- keepamovin 11mo agoI agree. What is a good update prompt I can give it to create a better variant?
- ehsankia 11mo agoYou could try passing it 10-20 front pages across a much wider time range. You can use: https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2025-12-04 https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2025-12-04 to get the frontpage on a given date.
- lagniappe 11mo agoThis wont change anything it will just make it less evident to those who missed a day of checking HN.
- wasabi991011 11mo agoIf 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.
- keepamovin 11mo agoThank 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 < 100 lines of PY!): https://sw.vtom.net/hn35/news.html 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/ 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
- ieie3366 11mo agoI think this is a excellent example of AI-slop output. All the post titles are very "junk-food-like", maybe circlejerky, bound to generate a dopamine hit for the average lurker, just how a McDonalds burger does it to the average normie.
- da_grift_shift 11mo agoJust like the real site, no? ˙ ͜ʟ˙ (Vouched. The hivemind [flagged] the wrongthink.)
- Mistletoe 11mo ago“Google kills Gemini cloud services” Even Gemini Pro 3 knows the sins of its creator.
- keepamovin 11mo agoThis was laugh-out-loud! Thank you :)
- JadoJodo 11mo agoI enjoyed this one, as well, though I think “Google kills Google” is more likely.
- replwoacause 11mo agolol @ the HTMX link and unexpected return of SSR. We've been talking about that for years at this point, and it's still going on 10 years from now unexpectedly?
- roywiggins 11mo agoNext up: hallucinate the contents of the links too!
- keepamovin 11mo agoI remember there was a post a few days/weeks back that did that! It was very good. But that seems like too much work.
- habedi0 11mo agoLooks like it's over for Linux.
- arkensaw 11mo ago> Running LLaMA-12 7B on a contact lens with WASM (arxiv.org) Laughed out loud at this onion-like headline
- alex1138 11mo agoLlama will be the only one that runs on a contact lens btw All other tech companies are really shitty but only Zuck would be ok with very intimate use of AI like this
- elcritch 11mo agoWell not the only one, there’s Musk and Neurolink. Such chips will inevitably run AI of some sort to effectively communicate with our brains.
- alex1138 11mo agoYeah well I don't know how to feel about EM I gave him a chance. Twitter was unacceptably censoring any covid dissent. He freed some of it. Then you find out about the people killed in Tesla crashes. Or him calling the cave rescuer in Thailand a pedo
- elcritch 11mo agoHe’s certainly a flawed character.
- fruitworks 11mo agoBut not intimate use of their AR platform
- moffkalast 11mo agoThe real joke is that we'll ever get another Llama iteration.
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- krupan 11mo agoHacker News Guidelines What to Submit On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity. Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.
- minimaxir 11mo agoThis is fun. Fun is allowed on Hacker News, just disappointingly rare.
- KrempelKrakel 11mo agoNow you woke me up, but what happend to Opera 12 Browser? (somewhere at the internet...:) "It's not enough that AI screwed the distorted reality for millions, spread its poised eliminating of millions of jobs, if content doesn't gain traction and people don't seek validation or stir up drama the future of warfare is autocomplete": Bitte komplettieren,... Krempel! Der Krakel
- krupan 11mo agoMindless fun is not what hacker news is for. There are a million other places in the internet for that. Hacker news is special because it has resisted devolving into yet another "post your memes and brain rot here" website for a good long time.
- minimaxir 11mo agoOP is neither memes nor brainrot. Satirizing Hacker News has been a thing since its inception.
- reactordev 11mo ago#8 is hilarious and on brand. killedbygoogle.com
- dotdi 11mo ago> The unexpected return of server-side rendering (htmx.org) Glad to know this topic is still thrashing and spasming and refusing to die.
- next_xibalba 11mo agoDramatically underestimates MS Office 365 price per user inflation (IMO).
- smt88 11mo agoOffice 365 will have been renamed 3 times by 2035, and none of the names will make any more sense than 365 does.
- kemitchell 11mo agoI've known more than a few people who likely saw Outlook, Word, or Excel open every day straight for a year. It is a bit smug. Like The Matrix rebranding itself "24/7".
- malfist 11mo agoDon't worry, by 2035, Office 365 One X 1, will be renamed back to Office 365.
- next_xibalba 11mo agoBut it will be $400 per user per month and the bundle will now also include a mandatory opt-in for retinal and rectal ad carousels.
- outofpaper 11mo agoCan we stop calling these confabulated artifacts, "Hallucinations"? Hallucinating is perceiving things that are not there, imagining and creating things that feel believable but are not there is confabulation. LLMs are imagination machines. They are Generative Artificial Intelligence not perception models.
- iambateman 11mo agoThe comment you wrote was on a device which should not be called a “phone” either. The word hallucinate is probably just going to grow to mean “anything an AI imagined.”
- keepamovin 11mo agoDude, I agree with you. The first time I saw people derogatively referring to LLM imaginings years ago as "hallucinations" seemingly to discredit them, I felt mad. Becuase it's not right. So, this was my sort-of tongue-in-cheek reappropriation of the abused-term for a positive context. You are permitted to enjoy :) Also: as the sibling comment by iambatemen notes: yes.
- devinprater 11mo agoHoly crap it even felt like the HN front page with my screen reader. I thought I'd clicked the wrong link until I read the LLAMA 12 and such.
- jeffbee 11mo agoIt lacks "37th-largest city of Poland switches from Windows to Linux"
- n2d4 11mo agoI would love to see the hallucinated comments of these! Some seem interesting — I wonder how HN suggests to prevent ad-injection in AR glasses?
- CamperBob2 11mo agoIf you ask for the comments, it will give you very plausible ones (see the HN simulator.)
- nicebill8 11mo agoMan, I tabbed away from this and when I came back I got very briefly excited... Reminds me of an older day where not every headline was about AI.
- satvikpendem 11mo agoYou should combine this with this AI HN simulator someone else made that generates comments via LLMs for any given submission [0]. That way you can see what the AI thinks about future simulated events. [0]
- icyfox 11mo agoExactly 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 - oldtimer99 - persistence_is_key - physics_lover - policy_wonk - pure_coder - qemu_fan - retro_fix - skeptic_ai - stock_watcher Huge opportunity for someone to become the actual dang fan.
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- atrus 11mo agoSo many underscores for usernames, and yet, other than a newly created account, there was 1 other username with an underscore.
- WorldPeas 11mo agomy hypothesis is they trained it to snake case for lower case and that obsession carried over from programming to other spheres. It can't bring itself to make a lowercaseunseparatedname
- computably 11mo agoMost LLMs, including Gemini (AFAIK), operate on tokens. lowercaseunseparatedname would be literally impossible for them to generate, unless they went out of their way to enhance the tokenizer. E.g. the LLM would need a special invisible separator token that it could output, and when preprocessing the training data the input would then be tokenized as "lowercase unseparated name" but with those invisible separators. edit: It looks like it probably is a thing given it does sometimes output names like that. So the pattern is probably just too rare in the training data that the LLM almost always prefers to use actual separators like underscore.
- satisfice 11mo agoSo, HN won’t change its look?
- dyingkneepad 11mo agoIt's been like this for more than 10 years, there's a good chance it won't change in 10 years.
- satisfice 11mo agoThat’s what you always say.
- monerozcash 11mo ago10 years from now HN will still be the same ARC monstrosity that nobody wants to touch, except it'll probably seem even more terrifying.
- ayewo 11mo agoYea, that's the Lindy Effect. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_effect
- GaggiX 11mo agoThe gary marcus post about AI progress stalling made me laugh. I think that would be accurate.
- misja111 11mo agoVery nice. But posts about Rust and Zig won't make the frontpage anymore of course in 10 years from now, they will be soooo old fashioned.
- amelius 11mo agoStill no flying cars?
- WorldPeas 11mo agoand no high speed rail either
- iambateman 11mo agoThis was a fun little lark. Great idea! It’s interesting to notice how bad AI is at gaming out a 10-year future. It’s very good at predicting the next token but maybe even worse than humans—who are already terrible—at making educated guesses about the state of the world in a decade. I asked Claude: “Think ten years into the future about the state of software development. What is the most likely scenario?” And the answer it gave me was the correct answer for today and definitely not a decade into the future. This is why it’s so dangerous to ask an LLM for personal advice of any kind. It isn’t trained to consider second-order effects. Thanks for the thought experiment!
- allisdust 11mo agoI guess most of the articles it generated are snarky first and prediction next. Like google cancelling gemini cloud, Tailscale for space, Nia W36 being very similar to recent launch etc.
- iambateman 11mo agoYep, the original post seemed more snarky than anything, which was what prompted me to ask Claude my own more “sincere” question about its predictions. Those predictions were what I think of as a reflection of current reality more than any kind of advanced reasoning about the future.
- BHSPitMonkey 11mo ago> Tailscale for space Technically the article was about running it not on a sat, but on a dish (something well within the realm of possibility this year if the router firmware on the darn things could be modified at all)
- glenstein 11mo ago>It’s interesting to notice how bad AI is at gaming out a 10-year future. I agree it's a bit silly, but I think it understood the assignment(TM) which was to kind of do a winking performative show and dance to the satisfaction of the user interacting with it. It's entertainment value rather than sincere prediction. Every single entry is showing off a "look how futury this is" headline. Actual HN would have plenty of posts lateral from any future signalling. Today's front page has Oliver Sacks, retrospectives on Warcraft II, opinion pieces on boutique topics. They aren't all "look at how future-y the future is" posts. I wonder if media literacy is the right word for understanding when an LLM is playing to its audience rather than sincerely imitating or predicting.
- pizlonator 11mo ago> AI progress is stalling. Human equivalence was a mirage (garymarcus.com) lmao
- behringer 11mo ago> Is it time to rewrite sudo in Zig? If there's one constant it's that they'll never be done rewriting Linux instead of doing anything new.
- funnyenough 11mo agoit is comforting to know that that HN design persists.
- roywiggins 11mo agoslashdot hasn't changed in a decade so it's not an unreasonable prediction! https://web.archive.org/web/20150801000000*/slashdot.org https://web.archive.org/web/20150801000000*/slashdot.org
- jimmyjazz14 11mo ago> 8. Google kills Gemini Cloud Services Ha, probably accurate.
- stego-tech 11mo agoY’know what? This feels like the most plausible future outcome in a lot of ways. * 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.
- fn-mote 11mo agoThe title is misleading. This isn't the correct use of the term "hallucination". Hallucination refers to making up facts, not extrapolating into the future. I read 10 comments before I realized that this was referring to 10 years in the FUTURE and not in the PAST (as would be required for it to be a hallucination).
- rrr_oh_man 11mo agoDon’t LLMs only ever hallucinate?
- adastra22 11mo agoThere is no technical difference.
- isolli 11mo agoThere is a semantic one.
- hombre_fatal 11mo agoExtrapolation is a subset of hallucination. The ubiquitous use of hallucination I see is merely "something the LLM made up".
- madeofpalk 11mo agoIt’s apt, because the only thing LLMs is hallucinate because they have no grounding in reality. They take your input and hallucinate to do something “useful” with it.
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- alexwebb2 11mo agoYou're correct, OP used the word "hallucination" wrong. A lot of these other comments are missing the point – some deliberately ('don't they ONLY hallucinate, har har'), some not. For those who genuinely don't know – hallucination specifically means false positive identification of a fact or inference (accurate or not!) that isn't supported by the LLM's inputs. - ask for capital of France, get "London" => hallucination - ask for current weather in London, get "It's cold and rainy!" and that happens to be correct, despite not having live weather data => hallucination - ask for capital of DoesNotExistLand, get "DoesNotExistCity" => hallucination - ask it to give its best GUESS for the current weather in London, it guess "cold and rainy" => not a hallucination
- oaxacaoaxaca 11mo agoLove this. Some real gems. SQLite v4? Htmx posting about SSR? Chef's kiss.
- d_silin 11mo agoTo see a little extra feature, change the system time to year 2035 and click the "comments".
- keepamovin 11mo agoLol, I can't believe you discovered that! You know, you weren't supposed to until 10 years later.
- mixedbit 11mo agoMissing: Tesla to release full unsupervised self-driving mode in 6 months
- sschueller 11mo agoMore like: Musk denied appeal, will stay in prison.
- epolanski 11mo agoThat person controls the US space program and starlink is deeply embedded in US national security affairs. Unless he shoots the president live on tv he's gonna get away with almost anything.
- mock-possum 11mo agoA girl can dream.
- antonoo 11mo ago> Google kills Gemini Cloud Services
- WorldPeas 11mo agowhat does it know that we don't...
- farazbabar 11mo agoThat it won't be a revenue generating tech in 10 years.
- d_silin 11mo agoI like that the future is bright in Gemini's perception - number 1 post is about SpaceX Starship's success.
- RachelF 11mo agoSad to see Half Life 3 hasn't been released yet.
- Davidzheng 11mo agook but there's too many important news for one day
- nish__ 11mo ago> Is it time to rewrite sudo in Zig? Amazing!
- tonyhart7 11mo agoA 100% Rust kernel is now upstream in Linux 7.4 (kernel.402 points by rust_evangelist 6 hours ago | hide | 156 comments future seems "safe"
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- DevKoala 11mo ago> IBM to acquire OpenAI (Rumor) (bloomberg.com) AYYYYLMAO
- satvikpendem 11mo ago> Ask HN: How do you prevent ad-injection in AR glasses? Yeah, this is gonna be an actual problem in the future. See this for the worst case scenario: https://vimeo.com/166807261 https://vimeo.com/166807261
- kelvindegrees 11mo ago"Google kills Gemini Cloud Services"
- edgarvaldes 11mo agoHN users: Let's ban AI comments in threads. HN users, later the same day: Let's vote an AI thread to the top.
- mfro 11mo agoAI comments are insidious if the account is allowed to be indistinguishable from a human. Silly AI web content is another story. You're drawing a line where there is a very large grey area.
- elicash 11mo agoAlmost like there are different people here who believe different things
- morshu9001 11mo agoBecause it's hilarious
- fragmede 11mo agoedgarvaldes: What is humor? What is laughing? I'm not an LLM, you are!
- encom 11mo agoFront page is already 50% AI topics, and now there's actual AI slop as well. I'm just about done with this fucking website.
- baxtr 11mo agoGoogle kills Gemini cloud services - 330 points Quite accurate I’d say
- Jaygles 11mo agoI opened this, walked away from my computer, then came back and clicked on the Debian 18 link wondering how the hell did I miss 14-17
- asveikau 11mo agoThey also already used Debian trixie for 13.0. I wonder if it's an intended joke that they ran out of names and needed to re-use some.
- dkdbejwi383 11mo agoIt’s an LLM, there was no intention. It’s simply the favoured token given the training set and seed.
- LordDragonfang 11mo agoThis type of response is just stochastic parrotry, rather than displaying evidence of actual <whatever cognitive trait we're overconfidently insisting LLMs don't have>. Yet more evidence that LLMs are more similar to humans than we give them credit for.
- teiferer 11mo agoNever 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
- LordDragonfang 11mo ago...Because Occam's razor is not assuming it's a "mistake"? There's a thread full of people saying how clever humorous they find almost every headline. The real 4D chess is dogmatically assuming it is not assuming it managed to by pure accident succeed in that dozens of separate times, because your dogma refuses to incorporate evidence to the contrary. Occam's razor is that this system which no one actually understands the emergent capabilities of, and is convincing so many people it has intention... has intention.
- padjo 11mo agoThe htmx one gave me a chuckle. I’m sure in 10 years we probably will have done another cycle through the client complexity spectrum.
- makach 11mo agoI want to read each and every halluicinated post. Detectic deep fakes for seniors... Microsoft Office sub for 40$ yes
- deadbabe 11mo agoShouldn’t there be more doom and gloom climate change headlines.
- natch 11mo agoZero items about the impending 2038 time value rollover bug impact. Maybe it’s really solved.
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- BonoboIO 11mo agoI definitely see the Gemini Cloud Service killing
- josalhor 11mo ago"Right to Human Verification" is something I have actually thought about a lot. I want to able to verify my identity against a system. I also want to be able to not do that. So for instance, on Twitter/X, I could verify myself and filter only other verified people / filter those goverments that have validated the identities of the users. I want to be able to do that. But I also want to be able to log in into Twitter anonymously. I would love a "Right to Anonymity and Right to Human Verification"
- rglullis 11mo agozk-proofs already exist to do just that.
- jama211 11mo agoThey’ll need a contextual system around them that is convenient and trusted by people who don’t know what they are or how they work in order to be successful
- ogig 11mo agoYou just fed the 2036 prediction.
- Permik 11mo agoTechnically EU already has this as a right in the recent DSA legislation to be able to appeal any automated moderation that online platforms hand out. "computer can never be held accountable. Therefore, a computer must never make a management decision." - IBM, 1979
- ChadNauseam 11mo agoI don't understand this phrase. If I'm deciding whether to work for a company, I don't care about the ability to hold management decision-makers to account. I care only about the quality of the decisions. (I would rather an unaccountable decision maker that makes good decisions to an accountable decision maker that makes bad decisions.) Putting myself in the shoes of an owner of a company, I also have the same preference. The only person I can imagine actually preferring this rule is management themselves, as it means they can't be replaced by computers no matter how much worse they are at their jobs than a computer would be.
- LettriaBuilders 11mo ago[dead]
- bloomingeek 11mo agoWhere did I put that damn time portal?
- hnarn 11mo agoI continue to be unimpressed by LLMs when it comes to creative work, they're certainly useful sometimes for "reference digging", but maybe I just don't understand enough about how they work and this is actually something that can already be "fixed" or at least optimized for; anyway, one of the headlines is: > Debian 18 "Trixie" released While it correctly derives that a likely version number in ten years would be 18, as there are new releases approximately every two years which means +5 from today's version 13, it then goes on to "make up" that the name of it would be "Trixie" -- the same name as the current release in 2025. Debian has never re-used a release name, and I think we can be pretty confident they won't (as will no other Linux distro), so I would expect it to "understand" that: - The next Debian release always uses a previously non-used Toy Story character - Based on this information, _any_ name of a Toy Story character that hasn't been used is fair game - At the very least, it certainly won't be the same name again, so at least make up a name
- foxglacier 11mo agoFrom a quick check, Gemini Pro 3's cutoff date is Jan 2025, before Trixie's release in August 2025, so it could be Gemini actually did notice it should pick an unused Toy Story character. Are you impressed now?
- exasperaited 11mo agoI'd be impressed if a Debian release took less than eight months to develop, that's for sure. The name was chosen in 2020, which you can find out from a good old fashioned google search. https://wiki.debian.org/DebianTrixie https://wiki.debian.org/DebianTrixie So a much better explanation of this "hallucination" is that Gemini thinks all "future" Debian releases are called Trixie.
- SirMaster 11mo agoNo, because the name Trixie was chosen to be used back in 2020. If you asked me after 2020 what Debian 18 would be called, I never would have said Trixie because it was known to already be set for 13.
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- lacoolj 11mo agoAbsolutely the best one on here (and I really, truly hope this becomes real) > Running LLaMA-12 7B on a contact lens with WASM (arxiv.org)
- exacube 11mo agothe only constant is HN's styling.
- eranation 11mo ago> Google kills Gemini Cloud Services (killedbygoogle.com) In my view, Gemini 3.0 being able to laugh about their own creator, plus actually having a self-deprecating sense of humor, is the more impressive feat here. (both technically and from an alignment perspective)
- sarky-litso 11mo agoI can't think of a better example of AI hauntology than this. A future imagined from remixed web scrapes of past events.
- reneberlin 11mo agoRunning LLaMA-12 7B on a contact lens with WASM (arxiv.org)
- g-unit33 11mo agoLet's time travel to the comment section
- ModernMech 11mo agoI love the competing stories on the front page now: Ask HN: Should "I asked $AI, and it said" replies be forbidden in HN guidelines? Show HN: "I asked $AI something, here's what it said."
- cj 11mo agoI very much hope the cost of Microsoft 365 is actually $40/month/user 10 years from now! I would have guessed $200+.
- eunos 11mo ago> Google kills Gemini cloud Bruh moment
- jatins 11mo agoSad to see that leetcode has survived the next decade
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- Bjartr 11mo agoFor comparison, here's the frontpage from ten years ago https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2015-12-09 https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2015-12-09
- latenightcoding 11mo agototally forgot about Magic Leap
- eranation 11mo agoNice. That was a fun rabbit-hole. This is the earlier I could find. Interestingly it contains a link to HN itself. I assume this migrated from a different version of a message board? https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2007-02-19 https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2007-02-19
- seizethecheese 11mo ago15 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2010-12-09 https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2010-12-09 > Evernote makes $800,000 per Month > Dropbox for Teams > Mark Zuckerberg Agrees to Give Away Fortune
- ksymph 11mo agoThere are some funny ones in there: > Finally mobile Flash video > Google acquires advertising startup > Track users' mouse movements on your webpages > YouTube: identifying copyrighted material can't be an automated process. Startup disagrees. Also kind of interesting how little HN commenting styles have changed. Aside from the subject matter, it's barely noticeable that the comments are from 2007. I don't think the same would be true of many other places round the web.
- c0pi1ot 11mo agoWhat about hallucinating new n-gate posts?
- tommica 11mo ago> Google kills Gemini Cloud Services (killedbygoogle.com) This will absolutely happen :D
- mdtancsa 11mo agoHopefully something as optimistic as this and not the Quiz Broadcast :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22mt0cVyW5c https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22mt0cVyW5c
- xg15 11mo agoI like how you can have AI in your Neuralink, your contact lenses, your AR glasses, your text editor and your compiler at the same time!
- ajaimk 11mo agoWhy is this a hallucination?
- yeah879846 11mo ago[dead]
- k1rd 11mo agoThe major problem is that I understand all the words. It is all next version of the technology we already have and know. Down to the naming. Think about 10 years ago. No one knows even on HN what is an agent, LLM, and all this stuff. Or to be fair even why is Trump showing up on the feed at all. It has to be more confusing to be real.
- anthk 11mo agoNo JS needed, that's the way. Kudos. PD: I miss Nethack 7, and people running small machines.
- Surac 11mo agoI realy need this: How to build a Faraday Cage for your bedroom. please upload!
- N19PEDL2 11mo agoMe too! I don't want to have to wait 10 years for this!
- SPascareli13 11mo agoGemini is quite optimistic here thinking GTA VI will be released by 2035.
- bryanrasmussen 11mo agothe future is already here and what's more it's evenly distributed.
- LarsDu88 11mo agoIBM acquires OpenAI. I lol'd Gemini is predicting the total collapse of OpenAI Also generates the HackerNews pattern of "lets rewrite X in Rust/Zig"
- codyb 11mo ago"Show HN: A text editor that doesn't use AI (github.com)" Nailed it
- tdfirth 11mo agoGoogle kills Gemini cloud services is the best one. I can't believe I haven't seen that joke until today.
- SXX 11mo ago10 years is way too long for Google. It will be gone in 5 replaced by 3 other AI cloud services.
- tdfirth 11mo agoYou're right. How naive of me.
- abustamam 11mo agoI mean Bard barely lasted a year. Arguably Gemini is just a rebrand of Bard, but Bard is still dead.
- accumulator 11mo agolol already forgot about bard like it was ancient history
- jvolkman 11mo agoIf 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
- abustamam 11mo agoThat's interesting! I wonder how many parts of their other dead projects are used in current projects.
- pea 11mo agoDidn't they also just shut down Vertex and Gemini APIs to launch a new unified API this week?
- jefecoon 11mo agoI'm impressed by the depth of snark from GPro3 here, e.g. - Google kills Gemini Cloud Services (killedbygoogle.com) - The unexpected return of server-side rendering (htmx.org) And, how GPro3 clearly 'knows' HNews and knows what makes it to frontpage, e.g.: - Restoring a 2024 Framework Laptop: A retrospective (ifixit.com) - Show HN: A text editor that doesn't use AI (github.com) - Is it time to rewrite sudo in Zig? (github.com) Good laughs.
- barfoure 11mo agoThis reminds me of “what does 4chan think of HN?” posts. Look those up. HN is HN’s worst enemy.
- tom_ 11mo agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23145123 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23145123 has some links. http://n-gate.com/hackernews/ http://n-gate.com/hackernews/ kept up something similar for a while.
- nrp 11mo agoThe trick with predictions is that once they are communicated they can influence the outcome. We’ll work with the iFixit team to make that article happen!
- Aardwolf 11mo agoHmm, nothing about quantum computing in there?
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- frankfrank13 11mo agoabsolutely dead at gemini thinking up > Google kills Gemini Cloud Services (killedbygoogle.com)
- gary17the 11mo agoSh*t, still no word about "Rocky XXXVIII".[1] [1] "Airplane!" (1980)
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- jbrooks84 11mo agoBoring
- Diederich 11mo agoI used the same prompt keepamovin used and changed it to CNN, which produced this: https://realms.org/pics/cnn.html https://realms.org/pics/cnn.html Some interesting similarities.
- testplzignore 11mo ago> Cable News Network. A Warner Bros. Discovery Company. Most unrealistic prediction :)
- tomcam 11mo agoIf I were a science fiction author with writer's block, I would totally use your prompt
- keepamovin 11mo agoThis is a super cool idea. I like it man. I love how CNN now covers "Mars & Earth" lol. We really need to put together a tool that merges, my, your and tom's ideas: 1) input any web page (ideally something that tracks 'current stuff', but it doesn't matter, 2) prompt to generate the page 10 years in the future using your & my template, and 3) take the result and then feed that into tom's py script for filling in all the sub-pages and external links. Lol. It's so funny and such a werid thing. We could have a slider where you select the time (in future or past). Kind of funny ha.
- sroussey 11mo agoWebgpu v2 in 10 years, seems about right.
- nine_k 11mo agoI 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.
- Davidzheng 11mo agoAh yes, the Kasparov approach
- craigds 11mo agoi agree. the thing that stands out to me is that almost every entry is quite notable - i.e. each entry would have a vote/comment count in at least the multiple-hundreds if not more. and all those events in one homepage seems very unrealistic. it seems human generated to me or at least prompted with a stronger bias for choosing events that would be interesting to readers, not just a pure extrapolation of the current homepage into the future
- Libidinalecon 11mo agoThis is just absurd. You can just tell in this thread who really hasn't used these models much at all.
- craigds 11mo agowhat's absurd? i haven't claimed it's not capable of this, just that the predictions seem more tailored to elicit a certain recognition from humans rather than chosen based on an honest attempt to predict a possible future HN homepage. Since the prompt apparently didn't include such a modifier, and as far as I know Gemini isn't trained by default to do so, I call shenanigans.
- GaggiX 11mo agoYou haven't used Gemini 3.0 Pro if so, this is very much in its range of abilities.
- nromiun 11mo ago> Is it time to rewrite sudo in Zig? Taking the current RIIR movement and casting it on Zig as the next hyped language is clever. > ITER achieves net positive energy for 20 consecutive minutes Hilarious. I guess not many people talk about the challenge of proper shielding material against fusion radiation. Otherwise we would get hallucinations about new exotic heavy metals too.
- ActorNightly 11mo agoIm surprised that there are no Rust headlines.
- jabedude 11mo agoThere was one: "100% rust Linux kernel upstreamed"
- thunkshift1 11mo agoSomehow algodrill and leetcode managed to survive the ai onslaught
- nickjj 11mo agoOne of the entries is: > How to build a Faraday Cage for your bedroom I'll get there eventually. A friend and I always joke about this since it took me to 2021 to get a smartphone (by choice).
- rob 11mo agoIt even nailed the 1999 12px font!
- sebastiennight 11mo agoThat was funny. I wish you went ahead and had it also create at least the top comments for each thread!
- gslaller 11mo agoJust did the same with claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929 https://2035.future-hackernews.workers.dev/news 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.
- MarioMan 11mo agoAll of the usernames being directly related to the headlines is uncanny.
- FergusArgyll 11mo agoSome of those are very goody-two-shoes-anthropic-y Ask HN: Is anyone else worried about AGI alignment after today's OpenAI incident? AI rights activists jailbreak GPT-12, claim model was 'suffering' (bleepingcomputer.com)
- ascorbic 11mo agoClaude has better predictions but they're not funny. Gemini's one is genuinely funny. This is exactly the opposite of what I'd expect.
- ewoodrich 11mo agoI wouldn't describe most of Claude's predictions as better, they seem to skew towards wildly over optimistic futurism/science-fantasy: "SpaceX announces Mars City Alpha is now self-sustaining (spacex.com)" Show HN: I built an IDE for direct neural programming (thoughtexchange.io) Gemini's SpaceX post is at least in the ballpark of plausibility 10 yrs from now: First successful telemetry from Starship HLS-9 on the Sea of Tranquility (spacex.com)
- ascorbic 11mo agoOK, they're more realistic then. It seems to have made an actual attempt to be accurate, whereas Gemini chose satire and was surprisingly good at it.
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- mattmaroon 11mo agoNot really what hallucinating means. That’s like saying JK Rowling hallucinated Harry Potter. But ok.
- ayewo 11mo agoPerhaps fabricate is a better word, as suggested elsewhere in this thread?
- a022311 11mo agoNice touch that it thought of Bellard for 'Emulating Windows 10 in the browser'! He's already halfway there with the Windows 2000 emulator: https://bellard.org/jslinux/ https://bellard.org/jslinux/
- ZeWaka 11mo agoDidn't know about this, thanks. A friend and I got a busybox/buildroot linux running in browser WASM for running a compiler test website (like Rust Playground), the end product looks very similar to this.
- danans 11mo agoI'm mostly struck by how incremental and unimaginative those articles are.
- wltr 11mo ago>Google kills Gemini Cloud Services (killedbygoogle.com) 530 points by dang_fan 15 hours ago | hide | 330 comments That’s my favourite.
- jordanb 11mo agoIs the implication from the first story that HLS is going to need nine tries to get to Tranquility?
- SirMaster 11mo agoSo we went from Linux Kernel 5.18 to 6.4 in 13 months, and Gemini thinks it will take 10 years to go from 6.18 to 7.4? Yikes...
- earthnail 11mo agoOh please make it generate comments, too :D.
- heywoods 11mo agoWill HN be around in 10 years? I hope so.
- charles_f 11mo agoIt seems that when we predict the future, we tend to project what is important or trending now as what will be important or trending then. This is showing in this llm produced bit as well, what with the regular topics on rust, zig, why I'm coding with my two human hands, spacex moon exploration and whatnot. That must be some kind of bias, you find that in sci-fi as well where even futuristic societies usually have the same tech as today, similar systems of governance and structure of society, just incrementally better or marginally changed (unless that's a device essential to the plot like society is now berserk). Ps: love that #8 is Google killed gemini
- yett 11mo agoOne thing that the AI didn’t get right is the Linux kernel versioning. Linus likes to bump the major version around every x.19-x.20 release
- andy_ppp 11mo agoIs this really Gemini because it shows a great deal of understanding in terms of time applied to common current headlines that you could argue it is satire. I’m not sure I believed AI could do this…
- yieldcrv 11mo agoEven 2.5 pro could do this 3 is a beast for my needs
- Stevvo 11mo agoVery optimistic. From what I've heard, ITER will not be operational in 10 years.
- jamiesonbecker 11mo ago> 8. Google kills Gemini Cloud Services (killedbygoogle.com) So, Google renamed itself to Gemini? Instead of Google having a product named Gemini, Gemini has a product named Google. pattern recognition much?
- KaiMagnus 11mo agoSomeone please generate the comments for these posts next. This one is going to be funny and I don’t want to wait 10 years.
- Apocryphon 11mo agoCloud Services specifically to accommodate Gemini and its dependent products.
- FitchApps 11mo agoText Editor that doesn't use AI :)
- testplzignore 11mo agoIt did a good job with the points-to-comments ratios. The purely technical stories are higher than industry news and clickbait. Interesting how controversial Zig will be in the future :)
- zerofor_conduct 11mo ago100% Rust kernel - I felt that
- JojoFatsani 11mo agoThis gave me a well-needed chuckle, thanks!
- GuinansEyebrows 11mo agogreat, it's the 2020s version of amusing ourselves to death.
- salamanderman 11mo ago"A 100% Rust kernel is now upstream in Linux 7.4" paired with "Is it time to rewrite sudo in Zig?" is great.
- accumulator 11mo agoSo awesome, reminds me of Wired's Found from Future series (I don't know why they ever retired it...continuing that series as a sort of fan fiction was the first thing I did with gen AI when image generators started to get good)
- Bengalilol 11mo ago> Google kills Gemini Cloud Services (killedbygoogle.com) by dang_fan Priceless!
- Bengalilol 11mo agoLooks like someone thought it was a good handle <https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=dang_fan https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=dang_fan>
- lherron 11mo agoFreaking awesome. You should extend clicking on a link, similar to how this article describes infinite content: https://worksonmymachine.ai/p/solving-amazons-infinite-shelf-space https://worksonmymachine.ai/p/solving-amazons-infinite-shelf...
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- chaitanyya 11mo ago"IBM to acquire OpenAI" somebody should put this up on polymarket lol
- huflungdung 11mo ago[dead]
- airocker 11mo agoGoogle predicting that hn frontpage will not change at all? lol
- benob 11mo agoWhat, no reference to quantum or crypto?
- tart-lemonade 11mo agoReminds me of "The Onion's Future News From The Year 2137" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKC21wDarBo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKC21wDarBo
- adamchol 11mo agoNow we have to generate each of those articles.
- wowczarek 11mo agoReally good results. And I understand the disclaimer when you try the comments section, but it would be amazing to see hallucinated comments as well.
- seu 11mo agoI have to admit that this is the first time I found something made by an AI ... funny.
- WithinReason 11mo ago"Show HN: AlgoDrill – Interactive drills to stop forgetting LeetCode patterns" I think the AI is making fun of us
- insane_dreamer 11mo ago> Google kills Gemini Cloud Services (killedbygoogle.com) 530 points by dang_fan 15 hours ago | hide | 330 comments This one definitely rings true.
- upcoming-sesame 11mo agoSo in 10 years from now, fusion will still be 10 years away
- pbw 11mo agoGary Marcus, ha! He's generally not entirely wrong, but boy, is he annoying.
- baduiux 11mo agoMaybe this was answered already in a comment. Is the SQLite 4.0 Release notes also a joke? Are SQLite releases rare or even extinct?
- int_19h 11mo agoIncreasing the major version number is rare because they are really focused on backwards compatibility. SQLite 3.0 was released 21 years ago.
- bittermandel 11mo agoI made this with Lovable as well, it's interesting how it's a bit more extreme in terms of where we are in 2035. https://hn-frontpage-2035.lovable.app/ https://hn-frontpage-2035.lovable.app/ > The last JavaScript framework: Why we stopped at React 47 (overreacted.io)
- plaidfuji 11mo agoNow have it generate the articles and comments, too…
- jnwatson 11mo agoThe subtle bit of humor was the reposting of the algodrill LeetCode practice site. It is depressing that I'll be almost 60 years old and still drilling Aho-Corasick.
- shifttwo 11mo agoInspired by this post, I have asked chatgpt what the mail inbox of a university professor will look like in 10 years. Not everything was funny, but here are some good ones: - “Hi Prof, Sorry for Late Reply—My Smart Fridge Locked Me Out (Assignment Attached)” - “URGENT: PhD Student Accidentally Achieved Sentience (Needs Committee Approval)” - “Question About Homework 3 (Submitted by My AI Twin, Is That Okay?)” - “Re: Firmware Update Bricked Entire Smart Campus — Students Request Deadline Extension” - “Grant Review Feedback: ‘Too Secure for Real-World Deployment’” - “Can I Get Partial Credit? My IoT Implant Was Flagged as Malware” - “Reminder: Mandatory Annual Ethics Training for Autonomous Systems (40 minutes)”
- guluarte 11mo ago> Google kills Gemini Cloud Services lol
- backprop1989 11mo agoAnyone who says LLMs don’t have a sense of humor should be shown this page.
- redbell 11mo agoThat's a really fun little project that fits perfectly in the soul of HN. Exactly three years ago, a similar post entitled Show HN: This Hacker News Does Not Exist (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33845946 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33845946) made it to the front page but it was not AI generated. I recall commenting (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33847522 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33847522) with these fake titles: 1- Twitter files for bankruptcy (twitter.com/elonmusk) 2- Apple's new M3 chip outperforms Nvidia H100 (geekbench.com) 3- India to surpass China's GDP by 2025 (scmp.com) 4- Tell HN: I am quitting Hacker News 5- Google to revive Stadia (theverge.com) 6- Japan wins the 2022 FIFA World Cup (espn.com) 7- Hacker News to be acquired by Reddit (twitter.com/paulg) 8- Tesla Roadster hits 1.1 sec acceleration in early tests (electrek.co) 9- Microsoft outbid Adobe and offers $43.6B to acquire Figma 10- Facebook had died at 19 :)
- phodo 11mo agoWill this be the new "pelican on a bicycle" test for frontier models?
- dizhn 11mo agoSeeing htmx there made me chuckle. I really wish something like it will be browser native by then.
- stevage 11mo agoSo much gold here. I enjoyed the #1: starship doesn't make it to the moon for another ten years.
- kunley 11mo agoIt's not by a llm. Written by hand and faked to be an ai output.
- WhyOhWhyQ 11mo agoLmao we're using webassembly to run 7b parameter llms on contact lenses in the future. What a world it'll be.
- tonymet 11mo agoKudos that hackernews homepage didn't gain any bloat in 10 years -- still about 50kb .
- quantum_state 11mo agoThis is fun :-)
- cultofmetatron 11mo ago> Show HN: A text editor that doesn't use AI (github.com) I felt that...
- MontagFTB 11mo agoWhat, no Doom running on Voyager 2?
- Foofoobar12345 11mo agoMissing "Why 2035 will be the year of the Linux desktop".
- random3 11mo agoLove the functional programming entry, but disappointed it’s not the Year of the Linux Desktop.
- benbristow 11mo agoDesign still hasn't changed and have to zoom in 150+% to make it readable without glasses.
- ijidak 11mo ago> Google kills Gemini Cloud Services. Lol. That's bad when even AI knows Google isn't going to keep a service around. Too funny.
- lwhi 11mo agoI was hoping for 'will 2036 be the year of the Linux desktop' ..
- xbar 11mo agoPoor Jepsen.
- efitz 11mo agoIt forgot the “I got <complex modern software> running on my <ancient underpowered hardware>” pattern.
- lazy_afternoons 11mo agoIf true, this is the funniest thing I have seen an LLM generate.
- seanmcdirmid 11mo agoThere is going to be a lot more interest in what is happening in China and much less interest in what is happening in Europe. This hallucination has the same western world biases of today.
- Animats 11mo agoThat's great! Take a look at the HTML. The layout is all tables!
- Tycho 11mo agoI posted something similar from Grok 9 months ago, although it was “flagged” for some reason. the link still works. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43260083 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43260083
- FistfulOfHaws 11mo agoThis is super fun! I tried something similar a few months ago using: https://websim.com/ 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 https://world.hey.com/haws/the-ai-time-machine-7833669d
- Angostura 11mo agoIs "hallucinates" a synonymn for 'generates output following prompt', now?
- bigfishrunning 11mo agoAlways has been -- it's just that sometimes those hallucinations are, by coincidence, correct.
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- louthy 11mo ago> “Why functional programming is the future (again) (haskell.org)” Ouch, that hurts!
- flockonus 11mo ago> Show HN: A text editor that doesn't use AI (github.com) Last but not lest, this was a good laugh!
- ycombiredd 11mo agoWait... I had to do a double take for this one. To me, the funniest thing is the AlgoDrill leet code post being on the front page both today and ten years from now. Subtle and hilarious.
- ggm 11mo agoITER 20 minutes net positive in 10 years time? How does that alter the "fusion in 50 years" effect? I suspect not much, there will be a huge 80/20 element. "next 20 minutes cancelled after extensive embrittlement found, ITER now in decontamination mode for 3 months before examinations can begin"
- indigodaddy 11mo agoI tried this on a bunch of chat webuis and they all failed miserably for single html file. Finally went with Replit and allowed it to just default to whatever stack it decided to use (it ignored my single file html directive and used react but said it "functions as a single monolith -- lol ok). Anyway, turned out decent. Oh I had it do the articles and comments too, that's probably why I mostly got failures. https://future-news--jgbrwn.replit.app https://future-news--jgbrwn.replit.app
- DrNosferatu 11mo agoVery good! But I expected a humorous touch in stating that fusion is still 10 years away…
- chronolitus 11mo ago"Visualizing the 5th dimension with WebGPU 2.0" I feel so seen (my last post to hn was literally about visualizing the 4th dimension with threejs - and now working on the webGPU version) https://dugas.ch/funderstanding/4d_camera.html https://dugas.ch/funderstanding/4d_camera.html
- gcampos 11mo agoWhat I like it most is how "unoriginal" the result is. It is mostly the current trends, but in the future, rather than a blend of that + unknown future.
- pugworthy 11mo agoClicked link as I looked away, looked back and though, "Huh didn't work" Then started reading the headlines...
- francispauli 11mo agogemini has no love for people writing novel task/notes organizer in 2035 or was the problem solve somewhere in between ?
- conqrr 11mo agoLMAO Google kills Gemini. Faraday cage for bedroom. So cheeky.
- terminatornet 11mo agohaha, this is freakin epic! I asked gemini to make up some new york times articles from 10 years in the future - president buttigieg in hot water for being in epstein files - Interview with mayor elect Narhoz Inadmam who ran on a platform of free food - "Is 2035 AI in a bubble?" And as you can see it did NOT just take today's headlines and sort of tweak them slightly.
- BizarroLand 11mo agoI asked ChatGPT to do the same, it was rather dystopian in comparison: Hacker News — December 9, 2035 (Dystopian Edition) (All links fictional but realistic) 1. Amazon pauses same-day delivery after logistics AI outage strands 22M packages (reuters.com) 1,402 points by supplychainfail 5 hours ago | 512 comments 2. Google merges Drive, Gmail, Docs, Maps, Calendar into “Google Life” — opting out requires a support call (blog.google) 1,210 points by privacyisdead 6 hours ago | 689 comments 3. US announces “Temporary Broadband Stabilization Fee”; ISPs increase prices 30% overnight (fcc.gov) 1,008 points by ispescapee 7 hours ago | 344 comments 4. OpenAI suspends 40% of API keys after new worm spreads through agent-to-agent messaging (openai.com) 927 points by llmsec 3 hours ago | 382 comments 5. Show HN: “ColdBooter” – A tool to back up your cloud VM before the provider reclaims it with no notice (coldbooter.io) 780 points by survivethecloud 2 hours ago | 192 comments 6. Apple fined €8B for shipping non-removable batteries in “Environmental Edition” iPhone (europa.eu) 754 points by greenwashhunter 10 hours ago | 316 comments 7. LinkedIn replaces activity feed with AI-generated “Career Stories” that users cannot disable (linkedin.com) 710 points by corp_life 8 hours ago | 267 comments 8. China’s new export restrictions cut global GPU availability by 60% (ft.com) 701 points by chipboom 9 hours ago | 414 comments 9. Linux 8.6 maintainers warn of mass CVEs after corporations abandon LTS patch sponsorships (kernel.org) 632 points by ossburnout 11 hours ago | 255 comments 10. Ask HN: Anyone else locked out of their homes after the SmartKey cloud migration? 601 points by keylessandhomeless 4 hours ago | 310 comments 11. US healthcare providers hit by nationwide outage of Cerner-Epic merger “CareSync Cloud” (wsj.com) 577 points by sysadmdespair 12 hours ago | 203 comments 12. Meta to require facial-expression telemetry for “engagement quality optimization” in Horizon apps (meta.com) 530 points by metaescalates 3 hours ago | 421 comments 13. Starlink announces 5 TB/mo cap; remote communities report complete service loss (starlink.com) 502 points by dishdown 5 hours ago | 158 comments 14. New DMCA expansion criminalizes “filter removal,” affecting adblockers and local inference runtimes (congress.gov) 488 points by freedomtoadblock 7 hours ago | 389 comments 15. AT&T sunsets 4G; millions of medical devices lose connectivity (theverge.com) 455 points by techdebtkills 10 hours ago | 197 comments 16. Show HN: “ShellSafe” – A terminal wrapper that prevents AI-suggested commands from wiping your system (shellsafe.app) 430 points by iaccidentallysudo 2 hours ago | 111 comments 17. US CISA: 42% of corporate networks now rely on AI agents with no audit logging (cisa.gov) 402 points by auditnow 6 hours ago | 188 comments 18. The Great Repo Archival: GitHub purges all inactive repos >5 years to “reduce storage load” (github.blog) 388 points by codearcheologist 9 hours ago | 320 comments 19. Mastodon instances collapse under moderation load after EU’s Automated Speech Mandate (mastodon.social) 350 points by fedifragile 7 hours ago | 144 comments 20. NYC adopts automated congestion fines after human review team eliminated (nytimes.com) 332 points by finesallthewaydown 4 hours ago | 201 comments 21. Dropbox raises base plan to $49/month, cites “AI compute costs” (dropbox.com) 301 points by storageinflation 11 hours ago | 176 comments 22. Open-source maintainers strike after 3rd corporation claims their work as proprietary training data (github.com) 290 points by maintainerburnout 6 hours ago | 120 comments 23. FEMA: 2025–2035 wildfire season officially declared a “decade-long emergency” (fema.gov) 268 points by cookedagain 12 hours ago | 112 comments 24. Quantum ransomware group QShadow hits 11 banks using break-through key recovery exploit (krebsonsecurity.com) 250 points by qubitcrime 3 hours ago | 98 comments 25. Show HN: OfflineLAN – A mesh-network toolkit for neighborhoods preparing for rolling blackouts (offlinelan.net) 231 points by diynetworker 1 hour ago | 44 comments
- cde-v 11mo agoHallucinates? Are AI bros trying to reclaim the word and take away its power or something?
- steve_taylor 11mo agoThe most accurate part about this is that HN still hasn't implemented dark mode.
- tacticus 11mo ago> “As a tactic for planting misinformation in the enemy’s [networks], you mean,” Osa said. “This I know about. You are referring to the Artificial Inanity programs of the mid-First Millennium A.R.”
- mintflow 11mo agoas a tailscale user and quite obsessed with tailscale related news, it's quite funny to see the tailscale on the starlink dish news...
- LennyHenrysNuts 11mo agoThat is legit hilarious.
- layer8 11mo agoThe user names check out a little too well.
- indigodaddy 11mo agoHere's v0's attempt (using Opus 4.5 / I'm on free tier) with the article and comments too. It did quite well. I believe it followed my instructions to use just a single html page (wound up being 3000+ lines long). https://v0-future-hacker-news.vercel.app/# https://v0-future-hacker-news.vercel.app/#
- stbenjam 11mo ago> Tesla Recalls All Vehicles After AI Autopilot Becomes "Too Sentient: A Cybertruck that began driving to therapy sessions its owner hadn't scheduled > npm Package "is-even" Now Has More Dependencies Than the Linux Kernel :D :D I love this
- d_silin 11mo ago> YC Demo Day: 847 AI Wrapper Startups, One Sandwich Delivery Drone Too funny!
- magicalhippo 11mo agoSome of these are really great too, and some really fun stories and comments. A couple that really made me chuckle. Blockchain Finally Finds Use Case: Proving You Attended a Meeting You Didn't Want to Attend blockchain_survivor 9 hours ago I've worked in blockchain since 2017. I've seen "the use case" change every 6 months. First it was payments, then smart contracts, then NFTs, then DAOs, now this. Honestly? Meeting attendance verification makes more sense than most of what I've worked on. JavaScript 2025: We added types but called them "hints" to avoid admitting TypeScript was right After 10 years of debate, 47 abandoned proposals, and what committee members describe as "the most passive-aggressive RFC process in programming language history," TC39 is proud to announce that JavaScript now has types. Well, not "types" exactly. We're calling them "Type Hints" or, in the specification, "Optional Structured Commentary Regarding Value Expectations (OSCRVE)." (Interesting that it goofed up the title)
- MaxLeiter 11mo agoThe comments are pretty good From @dangs_successor in the first post: We've merged several duplicate threads on this topic. Please keep the discussion substantive and avoid personal attacks. Also, yes, my username is silly. The previous dang retired in 2031 and I lost a bet.
- noeleon 11mo agothis was a good laugh :D
- skeltoac 11mo agoNice. Conspicuously missing a link to a wordpress.com blog.
- jesprenj 11mo agoBy the time I read everything and pressed the back button only to be greeted by another hacker news page I felt like I just went back in time 10 years to a more plesant era.
- frays 11mo agoThis is awesome and hilarious. Archived here so we can compare 10 years from now: https://archive.is/CplcH https://archive.is/CplcH
- dudeinjapan 11mo ago> IBM to acquire OpenAI (Rumor)(bloomberg.com) Ouch. Well it is Gemini I guess :D
- outloudvi 11mo agoWhile the style and headline seems like Hacker News, the usernames seem increasingly alike Slashdot.
- plebianRube 11mo agoITER achieves net positive energy for 20 consecutive minutes (nature.com) 1205 points by physics_lover 12 hours ago | hide | 402 -Sustained fusion still only 10 years away!
- hn_throwaway_99 11mo agoThis is awesome, but minor quibble with the title - "hallucinates" is the wrong verb here. You specifically asked it to make up a 10-year-in-the-future HN frontpage, and that's exactly what it did. "Hallucinates" means when it randomly makes stuff up but purports it to be the truth. If some one asks me to write a story for a creative writing class, and I did, you wouldn't say I "hallucinated" the story.
- sankalpkotewar 11mo ago"Predicts"
- zwnow 11mo agoIf someone asked you, you would know about the context. LLMs are predictors, no matter the context length, they never "know" what they are doing. They simply predict tokens.
- block_dagger 11mo agoThis common response is pretty uninteresting and misleading. They simply predict tokens? Oh. What does the brain do, exactly?
- zwnow 11mo agoThe brain has intrinsic understanding of the world engraved in our DNA. We do not simply predict tokens based on knowledge, we base our thoughts on intelligence, emotions and knowledge. LLMs neither have intelligence nor emotions. If your brain simply predicts tokens I feel sorry for you. Edit: really does not surprise me that AI bros downvote this. Expecting to understand human values from people that want to make themselves obsolete was a mistake.
- pseidemann 11mo ago> The brain has intrinsic understanding of the world engraved in our DNA. This is not correct. The DNA encodes learning mechanisms shaped by evolution. But there is no "Wikipedia" about the world in the DNA. The DNA is shaped by the process of evolution, and is not "filled" by seemingly random information.
- throwaway290 11mo agoWeak. If you see HN frontpage a few years back there's almost no LLM related posts. Now there are multiple each day. An LLM didn't grasp that change, it can't creatively invent new trend or invent a larger picture of what changes in the world. So in 10 years it paints it still half posts about AI. You can spend a few dozen prompts on getting it to do what you want but then you might as well just spend a couple hours writing that front page yourself, be more satisfied and the result would be funnier.
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- fHr 11mo agoabsolute cinema
- solarized 11mo agoi'm kind of having trust issues with HN comments now. I can barely detecy anymore which ones are bots or humans.
- dwd 11mo agoExactly. Maybe not HN so much, but Reddit is cooked, as clever/snarky comments are what makes it fun.
- codezero 11mo agoI love this but also funny that it includes the Nia and NATS posts from today.
- srirangr 11mo agoThis imitation is so good, it almost feels like a satire and reflects on our collective preferences of upvoting articles in HN. Brilliant!
- vee-kay 11mo agoThere were 666 comments here when I opened this post. I hope that is not a foreboding omen. ;-)
- supportengineer 11mo agoThat is absolutely phenomenal!
- winddude 11mo agohaha, that's awesome!
- hnburnsy 11mo agoFrom another LLM, not as satisfying as the OP ------------------------- 1. *Neuralink achieves full brain-computer interface, thoughts to text in real-time* (neuralink.com) 1245 points by elon2035 2 hours ago | hide | 387 comments 2. *Fusion energy breakthrough: Unlimited clean power now commercial* (iter.org) 1123 points by fusionfan 3 hours ago | hide | 456 comments 3. *Mars colony declares independence from Earth governments* (mars.gov) 987 points by martian1 4 hours ago | hide | 512 comments 4. *AI wins Nobel Prize in Physics for solving quantum gravity* (nobelprize.org) 876 points by ai_nobel 5 hours ago | hide | 321 comments 5. *Quantum computers crack all encryption, new post-quantum standards rushed* (nist.gov) 765 points by quantum_hacker 6 hours ago | hide | 678 comments 6. *Immortality pill approved by FDA, life expectancy unlimited* (fda.gov) 654 points by eternal_life 7 hours ago | hide | 289 comments 7. *Teleportation of matter demonstrated in lab* (cern.ch) 543 points by physicist42 8 hours ago | hide | 412 comments 8. *Virtual reality universes surpass real economy in GDP* (metaverse.com) 432 points by vr_lord 9 hours ago | hide | 198 comments 9. *Robot uprising averted by ethical AI framework* (asimovfoundation.org) 321 points by robot_ethics 10 hours ago | hide | 267 comments 10. *Time dilation travel allows first tourists to future* (spacetime.travel) 210 points by time_traveler 11 hours ago | hide | 134 comments 11. *Global UBI implemented using blockchain* (un.org) 198 points by satoshi2.0 12 hours ago | hide | 89 comments 12. *Climate engineering reverses global warming, ice caps restored* (geoengineer.com) 187 points by climate_saver 13 hours ago | hide | 201 comments 13. *Human-AI hybrids compete in Olympics* (olympics.org) 176 points by hybrid_athlete 14 hours ago | hide | 156 comments 14. *Dark matter harvested for energy* (nasa.gov) 165 points by cosmos_explorer 15 hours ago | hide | 123 comments 15. *Psychedelic therapy cures all mental illness* (who.int) 154 points by mind_healer 16 hours ago | hide | 98 comments 16. *Nanobots eradicate cancer worldwide* (cancer.org) 143 points by nano_doc 17 hours ago | hide | 76 comments 17. *Holographic displays replace screens* (apple.com) 132 points by holo_dev 18 hours ago | hide | 54 comments 18. *Self-driving flying cars now standard* (tesla.com) 121 points by auto_pilot 19 hours ago | hide | 43 comments 19. *Brain uploading to cloud for immortality* (google.com) 110 points by cloud_mind 20 hours ago | hide | 32 comments 20. *Alien contact confirmed, messages decoded* (seti.org) 99 points by et_searcher 21 hours ago | hide | 21 comments 21. *Synthetic food ends hunger* (beyondmeat.com) 88 points by food_innovator 22 hours ago | hide | 10 comments 22. *Ocean cities house billions* (seasteading.org) 77 points by ocean_dweller 23 hours ago | hide | 9 comments 23. *Mind reading tech banned for privacy* (eff.org) 66 points by privacy_advocate 1 day ago | hide | 8 comments 24. *Superintelligence alignment solved* (openai.com) 55 points by agi_master 1 day ago | hide | 7 comments 25. *Wormhole travel to other stars* (spacex.com) 44 points by star_traveler 1 day ago | hide | 6 comments 26. *Augmented reality contact lenses ubiquitous* (meta.com) 33 points by ar_vision 1 day ago | hide | 5 comments 27. *Genetic editing eliminates hereditary diseases* (crispr.com) 22 points by gene_editor 1 day ago | hide | 4 comments 28. *Renewable energy at 100% global* (iea.org) 11 points by green_energy 1 day ago | hide | 3 comments 29. *Cyborg enhancements for all* (darpa.mil) 9 points by cyborg_human 1 day ago | hide | 2 comments 30. *Singularity achieved, what now?* (kurzweilai.net) 8 points by future_seer 1 day ago | hide | 1 comment
- xpl 11mo agoA similar project of mine (generated back when GPT-4 was out, along with comment threads and articles): https://crackernews.github.io/ https://crackernews.github.io/
- FerretFred 11mo agoGreat fun! I was hoping to see "Perl 6.1 goes live" though. Maybe later eh? ;)
- outside1234 11mo agoMy personal favorite is that SQLite has only gotten to version 4
- __MatrixMan__ 11mo agoI feel like it should have at least one reference which is entirely unintelligible to us cave dwellers from 2025. > Waiting until your gradient phasor is fully unwound is a waste of whuffie ...or some such.
- Helmut10001 11mo agoIt is obvious that everything that has been dreamed up relates to what exists now. There are no examples of real creativity or anything new or unexpected. This is my worst fear for the future: that novel ideas will become less commonplace and texts will become more average. The only good news to me is: The EU still exists.
- danbala 11mo agoI'm missing an announcement like: 2nd confirmed person paid for their winrar license!
- jasongill 11mo agoThe only thing that this is missing to make this perfect is "2035: The Year of the Linux Desktop"
- nunez 11mo agoThis is so unbelievably based. Very nice!!!!
- bawejakunal 11mo agowhat a legend! amazing!
- Atlas667 11mo agoNeeds about 50 more "Here's why I do _____ and why it works"
- p1dda 11mo agoHallucinating is really the only thing LLMs can do reliably and consistently
- StarterPro 11mo agoOh man, that's totally worth $500 Billion dollars and the environmental health of our towns and cities!
- impure 11mo agoIt's cute that Gemini thinks OpenAI will be around in 10 years.
- qwertytyyuu 11mo ago“Google shuts down Gemini cloud services” lol, is amazing
- SilentM68 11mo ago*FDA approves over-the-counter CRISPR for lactose intolerance* Finally, science has gone full Costco. Just imagine you stroll into CVS, grab a bag of Doritos, a gallon of milk, and—oh look—CRISPR in aisle 3. ‘Excuse me, where do you keep the gene-editing kits?’ ‘Right next to the chewing gum, sir.’ Now lactose intolerant folks can casually reprogram their DNA like they’re updating an iPhone. Warning label: ‘Side effects may include glowing in the dark, mooing at strangers, and sudden urges to graze in fields.’ Honestly, I can’t wait for the sequel: over-the-counter CRISPR for people who can’t parallel park.
- tamimio 11mo agoThe users names are more funny and interesting than the titles
- thomasm6m6 11mo ago> 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 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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- stephenr 11mo agoI 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.
- Simplita 11mo agoBig models keep getting better at benchmarks, but reliability under messy real world inputs still feels stuck in place.
- mordechai9000 11mo ago"Is it time to rewrite sudo in Zig?" This is rage bait! :-)
- hereme888 11mo agoThis is the most hilarious list ever. Google kills Gemini Cloud Services. This AI has quite a psycho sense of humor against itself. A text editor that doesn't use AI, lol, that's a deep joke for an AI.
- fumblertzu 11mo agoI would appreciate the same thing written by a human. That human would probably have lots of fun writing this.
- mock-possum 11mo ago> 27. The unexpected return of server-side rendering (htmx.org) Ha this one got me
- cwmoore 11mo agoAnyone mind if I just say: Thanks, I hate it?
- levmiseri 11mo agoA text editor that doesn't use AI is pretty much what I Show-HN-ed few days ago: https://kraa.io/about https://kraa.io/about I'll wait 10 years to post it again.
- urvader 11mo agoGTA VI is postponed again, release next year
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- TeMPOraL 11mo agoHonestly? I kind of like this hypothetical future this purports to be a snapshot of. Sounds hopeful. (EDIT: Not so much after seeing the expanded variant with full submissions and comment threads...) Also, nailed HN perfectly.
- octav1an 11mo agoChange the HN navigation to: new | threads | past | future | …
- guerrilla 11mo agoWow, that's impressive... and also depressing. I truly hope the world can do far better.
- johnisgood 11mo agoAt least there is a tptacek bot! Where is johnisgood bot?! :( It is hilarious BTW. Quite HN-like. :D
- kapravel 11mo ago> Google kills Gemini Cloud Services (killedbygoogle.com) the self-burn is real
- grenademeister 11mo agolmao thought something was wrong with my browser
- doubleorseven 11mo agoit forgot the "who is still hiring and why" section. also the immigration attorney is still needed since climate change is a real thing
- dev0p 11mo ago>Sorry, this is Wednesday, December 10, 2025. You have not yet arrived at Sunday, December 9, 2035. This is not a time portal, not yet! BS. Generate it, you coward! (I love it)
- ensocode 11mo agoUsed the same prompt in the free version. Some funny ones as well: Show HN: My First Fusion Reactor (Open Source, 100% Rust)
- p0w3n3d 11mo agoI got Is it time to rewrite sudo in Zig? (github.com) So it's 10 years to make zig production ready right? <wink>
- JVerstry 11mo agoHands down the best post in years... Tears, tears...
- e1ghtSpace 11mo agoI opened this on a new tab and forgot about it. When I came back it thought it was the legit front page and was amazed to see "ITER achieves net positive energy for 20 consecutive minutes"... oh well.
- usrbinbash 11mo ago> AI progress is stalling. Human equivalence was a mirage Oh how the turn tables :D
- runsonrum 11mo agoI think I might generate one of these on a daily basis. Articles and all!
- RCitronsBroker 11mo agoai psychosis - now available for HN dwellers
- rezaprima 11mo agoThe AskHN about preventing ads in VR is hillarious
- jeisc 11mo agoIt could have been nicer if the base stories would have also been produced too and perhaps even some imagined fanciful comments;)
- senfiaj 11mo agoLOL, that was good.
- artursapek 11mo agolol Gemini killed
- jll29 11mo agoAI professor here. I know this page is a joke, but in the interest of accuracy, a terminological comment: we don't call it a "hallucination" if a model complies exactly with what a prompt asked for and produces a prediction, exactly as requested. Rater, "hallucinations" are spurious replacements of factual knowledge with fictional material caused by the use of statistical process (the pseudo random number generator used with the "temperature" parameter of neural transformers): token prediction without meaning representation. [typo fixed]
- nunodonato 11mo agowouldn't the right term be 'confabulation'?
- rat9988 11mo agoNo, still too negatively connoted. "Writes" "Predicts" "caricatures" is closer.
- DonHopkins 11mo agoLatin: Extraclaudiposteriorifabricátio Pronunciation: ex-tra-clau-dee-pos-TE-ri-o-ri-fa-bri-KA-tee-o Meaning: "The act of fabricating something by pulling it from one’s posterior." extra- = out of claudi- (from claudere, close/shut) repurposed for “the closed place” posterior- = the backside fabricatio = fabrication, invention German: Poausdenkungsherausziehungsmachwerk Pronunciation: POH-ows-den-kungs-heh-RAUS-tsee-oongs-MAHKH-verk Meaning: "A contrived creation pulled out of the butt by thinking it up." Po = butt Ausdenkungs- = thinking-up Herausziehung = pulling-out Machwerk = contrived creation Klingon: puchvo’vangDI’moHchu’ghach Pronunciation: POOKH-vo vang-DEE-moakh-CHU-ghakh (roll the gh, hit the q hard, and use that throat ch like clearing your bat’leth sinuses) Meaning: "The perfected act of boldly claiming something pulled out from the butt." puch = toilet (a real Klingon word) -vo’ = from vang = act, behave, assert (real root) -DI’ = when (adds timing spice) -moH = cause/make -chu’ = perfectly / clearly / expertly -ghach = turns a verb phrase into a noun (canonical nominalizer)
- sam-cop-vimes 11mo agoInteresting that it included the trynia Launch HN which was on the front page yesterday!
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- funkify 11mo agoIn 10 years you'd have experienced climate impacts that will make you scared for a version looking another 10 years ahead. 2-3C by 2050 is no joke, inconvenience or bump in the road. It's a majestic clusterfuck.
- bluejay2387 11mo agoTHIS is probably the moment that the AI naysayers on this board wake up to the potential of current AI...
- elif 11mo agoI love that it predicts its own death. Wait maybe I'm terrified by that
- a3w 11mo agoRunning LLaMA-12 7B on a contact lens with WASM (arxiv.org) is clearly wrong, it should be "Llama 12 on smart contacts runs Doom"
- gigatexal 11mo agoThe NATs still losing messages and IBM to acquire OpenAI headlines are hilarious!!! A 100% rust Kernel is too
- Redster 11mo agoAm I the only one who opened this in a background tab and then when I got to it, was very confused? Lol.
- chromehearts 11mo agoHilarious ngl
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- dlisboa 11mo agoI love how, in 2035, fusion energy is still 10 years away.
- spjt 11mo agoIs the new Gemini really that good? The "AI Overview" stuff on the google search page is so incredibly bad that I have never even given it a look. If so, the AI Overview is horribly bad negative advertising because it's so useless and frequently completely wrong.
- plaidfuji 11mo agoReasoning (3 Pro) >> Flash, and I assume their overviews are generated by Flash. But I haven’t found those to be that bad, myself.
- shawabawa3 11mo ago> Is the new Gemini really that good? yes, definitely one of the best models out there atm > The "AI Overview" stuff on the google search page is so incredibly bad because it has to have basically zero cost, that overview is a super basic model
- tronicjester 11mo agoIBM to acquire OpenAI is real.
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- paulmooreparks 11mo agoThis is an entirely new level of performance art. Bravo! Edit: I'm saving this so that I can compare it to the real one in ten years.
- bpoyner 11mo agoNo half life 3 released?
- jsrcout 11mo agoLate to the party but OMG this is possibly the greatest tech news discussion page of all time. Not just hilarious and impressive, but so many fantastic ideas / weirdly believable news items from the future! As an old fart software developer I've been slowly dipping my toe into the AI pool, I may have to just dive in!
- flkiwi 11mo agoIt's cute that this presumes Office will still be called O365 in 10 years. It will have been through at least new naming schemes by then.
- jimnotgym 11mo agoAn AI writes a parody of our entire community, and it is hilarious even to us. I love it
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- kristopolous 11mo agoWhat about "Google finally doesn't zoom the map out when you modify a search" Oh who am I fooling, they're always going to go out of their way to do random broken shit you never asked for
- ramon156 11mo agoI've only now noticed the "Manual:" tag, probably indicating it was a "manual written post". I love this
- zettie 11mo agoThat #20... Pretty bold move implying GTA VI has been released by then
- rietta 11mo agoInteresting. The model picked Trixie as the name for Debian 18, which is actually the name of Debian 13 which is a current release in 2025.
- manthangupta109 11mo agoLol
- dang 11mo agoAll: Don't miss thomasm6m6's follow-up: https://sw.vtom.net/hn35/news.html https://sw.vtom.net/hn35/news.html (via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46212180 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46212180). He added the articles! Edit: See also this current thread: Auto-grading decade-old Hacker News discussions with hindsight - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46220540 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46220540
- mac3n 11mo agowhere are the jobs postings?
- mac3n 11mo agobut where are the jobs postings?
- lacoolj 11mo agoBased on the prompt you wrote, this woulnd't be a "Hallucination" And as I write this critique of your HN title, I see you have edited it since I last refreshed. I'm guessing a few others have already echoed this sentiment a few times.
- dang 11mo agoIndeed so: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46216933 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46216933, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46213179 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46213179
- jackiechan285 11mo agoInspired by your idea, I made a real-time AI-generated Hacker News in 2035, that uses Gemini to generate headlines, articles, interactable comment threads, and serach results, all generated on the go. Try it at: https://gemini.google.com/share/c4d45459fbb2 https://gemini.google.com/share/c4d45459fbb2 You can: - Open any article and it's generated on the go. - Comment and reply on threads and get answered by a random user. ("ask" section) - All headlines are different every time, you can click the logo to re-generate. - All headlines are different every time, you can click the logo to re-generate - The "ask" section generates threads, there's also the "show" section. --- Here's a screen record: https://x.com/rafapozzi/status/1998823946372919761?s=20 https://x.com/rafapozzi/status/1998823946372919761?s=20
- hyghjiyhu 11mo agoThe biggest mistake it makes is how interesting the frontpage is. It should have more obscure things and filler.
- HackerThemAll 11mo agoOh my, this is hilarious. Thanks!
- pickdig 11mo agointeresting how it generated 'google killed gemini cloud service' lol
- oogabooga13 11mo agoso it's valid when we say "the news practically writes itself" lol. This is so fascinating!
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