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Show HN: Gemini 3 imagines Hacker News as a HyperCard stack in 1994

13 points by benbreen 10mo ago

ChrisArchitect 10mo ago
Related: Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 hallucinates the HN front page 10 years from now https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46205632 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46205632
- gjvc 10mo ago
  boring
113 10mo ago
I prefer human writers tbh
- SpecialistK 10mo ago
  I prefer home cooked meals, but sometimes a candy bar is nice.
cloverich 10mo ago
I love this kind of UI. Can someone elaborate on what HyperCard is exactly?
- blakesterz 10mo ago
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperCard https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperCard It was pretty cool, lonnnng time ago!
- oidar 10mo ago
  If you like that, check out Decker https://beyondloom.com/decker/ https://beyondloom.com/decker/ Super fun to use.
- musicale 10mo ago
  An easy-to-use end-user programming and hypertext system for the 68K Mac, with MacPaint-like visual layout and an English-like (AppleScript-like) scripting language (HyperTalk). [1] Also a cult favorite on HN, as it was an end-user programming system that actually resulted in a million (or so) end users creating their own apps (perhaps foreshadowing the era of people creating their own web sites with html and javascript, or games using Flash and actionscript.) And famously used to create the game Myst. HyperCard came out of a leave of absence that Bill Atkinson took from Apple after Microsoft had forced Apple to kill MacBASIC. Unfortunately the deal he made with Apple to distribute it for free with every Mac was only for two years, and Apple replaced it with a playback-only "HyperCard Player" while the authoring capability was sold as a separate product by Claris - effectively killing in-the-box end-user programming on the Mac. [2] (AppleScript resembled HyperTalk, but didn't include an easy-to-use authoring environment, perhaps to avoid competing with HyperCard). Development stagnated as well; no native PowerPC version was created, and HyperCard never evolved to run over a network, much less the internet (even though HyperCard influenced NCSA Mosaic and Apple was certainly aware of early networked hypertext systems like Intermedia, which ran on the Mac). [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FquNpWdf9vg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FquNpWdf9vg [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejdgTVj7ZG8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejdgTVj7ZG8
arnabkarsarkar 10mo ago
Love the UI
TMWNN 10mo ago
Magnificent! The number of in-jokes and sage references is astounding. I understand Gemini created the code itself, but did it also write the text?
- benbreen 10mo ago
  Mostly, I gave it some feedback and steered it a little but it's 99% percent Gemini 3. It would be interesting to make something like this "live" in that it could simulate each day of 1995 (say) anew, updating each morning.

13 points by benbreen 10mo ago

Related: Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 hallucinates the HN front page 10 years from now https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46205632 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46205632

gjvc 10mo ago
boring

113 10mo ago

I prefer human writers tbh

SpecialistK 10mo ago
I prefer home cooked meals, but sometimes a candy bar is nice.

cloverich 10mo ago

I love this kind of UI. Can someone elaborate on what HyperCard is exactly?

blakesterz 10mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperCard https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperCard It was pretty cool, lonnnng time ago!
oidar 10mo ago
If you like that, check out Decker https://beyondloom.com/decker/ https://beyondloom.com/decker/ Super fun to use.
musicale 10mo ago
An easy-to-use end-user programming and hypertext system for the 68K Mac, with MacPaint-like visual layout and an English-like (AppleScript-like) scripting language (HyperTalk). [1] Also a cult favorite on HN, as it was an end-user programming system that actually resulted in a million (or so) end users creating their own apps (perhaps foreshadowing the era of people creating their own web sites with html and javascript, or games using Flash and actionscript.) And famously used to create the game Myst. HyperCard came out of a leave of absence that Bill Atkinson took from Apple after Microsoft had forced Apple to kill MacBASIC. Unfortunately the deal he made with Apple to distribute it for free with every Mac was only for two years, and Apple replaced it with a playback-only "HyperCard Player" while the authoring capability was sold as a separate product by Claris - effectively killing in-the-box end-user programming on the Mac. [2] (AppleScript resembled HyperTalk, but didn't include an easy-to-use authoring environment, perhaps to avoid competing with HyperCard). Development stagnated as well; no native PowerPC version was created, and HyperCard never evolved to run over a network, much less the internet (even though HyperCard influenced NCSA Mosaic and Apple was certainly aware of early networked hypertext systems like Intermedia, which ran on the Mac). [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FquNpWdf9vg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FquNpWdf9vg [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejdgTVj7ZG8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejdgTVj7ZG8

arnabkarsarkar 10mo ago

Love the UI

TMWNN 10mo ago

Magnificent! The number of in-jokes and sage references is astounding. I understand Gemini created the code itself, but did it also write the text?

benbreen 10mo ago
Mostly, I gave it some feedback and steered it a little but it's 99% percent Gemini 3. It would be interesting to make something like this "live" in that it could simulate each day of 1995 (say) anew, updating each morning.