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For 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

by Bjartr 10mo ago

latenightcoding 10mo ago
totally forgot about Magic Leap
- submain 10mo ago
  "Magic Leap raises $827M in Series C". Aged like wine.
  - jabedude 10mo ago
    They're still doing well today, right? IIRC they provide the lenses for Metas in-development AR glasses
eranation 10mo ago
Nice. 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 10mo ago
  15 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 10mo ago
  There 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.
seizethecheese 10mo ago
Today's front page is not a clean 10 year extrapolation from this. That's where AI is wrong. The future is weird and zig zags, it's not so linear as the Gemini generated page.
- neuronic 10mo ago
  This is a problem with nearly all predictions about the future. Everything is just a linear extrapolation of the status quo. How could a system have predicted the invention of the transformer model in 2010? At best some wild guess about deep learning possibilities. Or the impact of smartphones in 2003? Sure smart phones were considered but not the entire app ecosystem and planetary behavioral adaptation.
  - seizethecheese 10mo ago
    Yes, of course this is right. However, I do think LLMs suffer even more than people from linear extrapolation.
- atomicnumber3 10mo ago
  Honest question - do you think that everyone else thinks this is even REMOTELY what the front page will look like in 10 years? I comment because I really cannot figure out why you left your comment. Do you think the rest of the commenters think this has predicted the future? It might be one thing to point out specific trends you think will not play out, or unexpected trends you think may show up that are currently left out. But to just remark that the future will contain things we cannot currently predict seems so inherently, unspokenly obvious that I just have to assume that wasn't the point of your post, and I've missed it entirely. Sorry, I'm really not trying to be mean or anything - i'm just really confused.
  - wavemode 10mo ago
    Your confusion seems to stem from the assumption that, making a statement is an implicit assertion that most people believe the opposite of that statement. In reality, statements are often made rather for the purpose of emphasis or rhetoric.
manmal 10mo ago
Swift has been OSS for 10y now, and still only runs usably on Mac and Linux (the only platforms Apple cares about - coincidence?).
- kridsdale1 10mo ago
  The Arc Browser on windows is Swift with a real windows api layer for SwiftUI.
dang 10mo ago
Pretty funny how the top story there references A.I.! Since /front is a ranked union of all the stories that were on the frontpage over 24 hours, here's an actual snapshot too: https://web.archive.org/web/20151209195229/https://news.ycombinator.com/ https://web.archive.org/web/20151209195229/https://news.ycom...
- frenzcan 10mo ago
  > Jukedeck – create unique, royalty-free music for your videos using A.I. Aquired by TikTok in 2019 for an undisclosed sum.
- isolli 10mo ago
  Cortana! I had forgotten that name...
- lkbm 10mo ago
  And then lower down we have TensorFlow 0.6.0 release. I was considering using this feature the other day to try to get a sense of what AI discourse was like circa 2019. It all blends together after a while. I ended up doing a Twitter search for "GPT-2" ending 2019-12-31, but that's a little more specific than I want. The HN past feature is an excellent way of seeing snapshots of history, and I wish more sites had things like this. I guess I should Archive.org a little more money.
jeeyoungk 10mo ago
Some high profile news; yahoo altaba spinoff, Magic Leap (what are they up to now?), ...
XCSme 10mo ago
Oh, tensorflow. When AI actually meant creating your own networks...
xyclos 10mo ago
it'd be interesting to feed this into the same AI, and have it predict today's front page
nailer 10mo ago
> RethinkDB Driver for Java now available Goddamnit I cry everytime. RethinkDB was a great document store that didn't eat your data. It got eclipsed by an outfunded (and still dangerous at the time) MongoDB.
yalok 10mo ago
extremely telling - lot's of tech mentioned there either never reached expected potential or completely obsolete... Prompts to be much more cautious with the current tech, and invest more time in fundamental stuff (like closer to science).

For 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

by Bjartr 10mo ago

For 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 10mo ago

totally forgot about Magic Leap

submain 10mo ago
"Magic Leap raises $827M in Series C". Aged like wine.
- jabedude 10mo ago
  They're still doing well today, right? IIRC they provide the lenses for Metas in-development AR glasses

eranation 10mo ago

Nice. 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 10mo ago
15 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 10mo ago
There 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.

seizethecheese 10mo ago

Today's front page is not a clean 10 year extrapolation from this. That's where AI is wrong. The future is weird and zig zags, it's not so linear as the Gemini generated page.

neuronic 10mo ago
This is a problem with nearly all predictions about the future. Everything is just a linear extrapolation of the status quo. How could a system have predicted the invention of the transformer model in 2010? At best some wild guess about deep learning possibilities. Or the impact of smartphones in 2003? Sure smart phones were considered but not the entire app ecosystem and planetary behavioral adaptation.
- seizethecheese 10mo ago
  Yes, of course this is right. However, I do think LLMs suffer even more than people from linear extrapolation.
atomicnumber3 10mo ago
Honest question - do you think that everyone else thinks this is even REMOTELY what the front page will look like in 10 years? I comment because I really cannot figure out why you left your comment. Do you think the rest of the commenters think this has predicted the future? It might be one thing to point out specific trends you think will not play out, or unexpected trends you think may show up that are currently left out. But to just remark that the future will contain things we cannot currently predict seems so inherently, unspokenly obvious that I just have to assume that wasn't the point of your post, and I've missed it entirely. Sorry, I'm really not trying to be mean or anything - i'm just really confused.
- wavemode 10mo ago
  Your confusion seems to stem from the assumption that, making a statement is an implicit assertion that most people believe the opposite of that statement. In reality, statements are often made rather for the purpose of emphasis or rhetoric.

manmal 10mo ago

Swift has been OSS for 10y now, and still only runs usably on Mac and Linux (the only platforms Apple cares about - coincidence?).

kridsdale1 10mo ago
The Arc Browser on windows is Swift with a real windows api layer for SwiftUI.

dang 10mo ago

Pretty funny how the top story there references A.I.! Since /front is a ranked union of all the stories that were on the frontpage over 24 hours, here's an actual snapshot too: https://web.archive.org/web/20151209195229/https://news.ycombinator.com/ https://web.archive.org/web/20151209195229/https://news.ycom...

frenzcan 10mo ago
> Jukedeck – create unique, royalty-free music for your videos using A.I. Aquired by TikTok in 2019 for an undisclosed sum.
isolli 10mo ago
Cortana! I had forgotten that name...
lkbm 10mo ago
And then lower down we have TensorFlow 0.6.0 release. I was considering using this feature the other day to try to get a sense of what AI discourse was like circa 2019. It all blends together after a while. I ended up doing a Twitter search for "GPT-2" ending 2019-12-31, but that's a little more specific than I want. The HN past feature is an excellent way of seeing snapshots of history, and I wish more sites had things like this. I guess I should Archive.org a little more money.

jeeyoungk 10mo ago

Some high profile news; yahoo altaba spinoff, Magic Leap (what are they up to now?), ...

XCSme 10mo ago

Oh, tensorflow. When AI actually meant creating your own networks...

xyclos 10mo ago

it'd be interesting to feed this into the same AI, and have it predict today's front page

nailer 10mo ago

> RethinkDB Driver for Java now available Goddamnit I cry everytime. RethinkDB was a great document store that didn't eat your data. It got eclipsed by an outfunded (and still dangerous at the time) MongoDB.

yalok 10mo ago

extremely telling - lot's of tech mentioned there either never reached expected potential or completely obsolete... Prompts to be much more cautious with the current tech, and invest more time in fundamental stuff (like closer to science).