Prompt: 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. ;)
> 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.
Who 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]
It's interesting how number 5 on the list is the same as today's: 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
This suffers from a common pitfall of LLM's, context taint. You can see it is obviously the front page from today with slight "future" variation, the result ends up being very formulaic.
But it would otherwise be not fun at all. Anthropic didn’t exist ten years ago, and yet today an announcement by them would land on the front page. Would it be fun if this hypothetical front page showed an announcement made by a future startup that hasn’t been founded yet? Of course not.
I 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.
lol @ 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?
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.
Can 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.
You 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.
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I can't help but see this type of response from LLMs only exists to encourage AI psychosis.
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.
"Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past"
-- '1984' (the book), George Orwell, 1949
- 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]
I'm hoping we'll have gotten rid of current-style LeetCode interviews in 10 years from now :D
Ha! Is Gemini suicidal?
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.
Laughed out loud at this onion-like headline
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.
Glad to know this topic is still thrashing and spasming and refusing to die.
Reminds me of an older day where not every headline was about AI.
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