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    keepamovin ◴[] No.46205636[source]
    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. ;)
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    pseudosavant ◴[] No.46209145[source]
    This is one of the greatest LLM creations I've ever seen. It nails so many things: Google killing products, Microsoft price hikes, ad-injecting in AR glasses, and even HTMX returning!

    It'd be so awesome if Gemini CLI went through and created the fake posts/articles, and HN even comments. Perhaps a bit much to ask of it?

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    thomasm6m6 ◴[] No.46212180[source]
    Here it is: https://sw.vtom.net/hn35/news.html

    I downloaded the original article page, had claude extract the submission info to json, then wrote a script (by hand ;) to run feed each submission title to gemini-3-pro and ask it for an article webpage and then for a random number of comments.

    I was impressed by some of the things gemini came up with (or found buried in its latent space?). Highlights:

    "You’re probably reading this via your NeuralLink summary anyway, so I’ll try to keep the entropy high enough to bypass the summarizer filters."

    "This submission has been flagged by the Auto-Reviewer v7.0 due to high similarity with "Running DOOM on a Mitochondria" (2034)."

    "Zig v1.0 still hasn't released (ETA 2036)"

    The unprompted one-shot leetcode, youtube, and github clones

    Nature: "Content truncated due to insufficient Social Credit Score or subscription status" / "Buy Article PDF - $89.00 USD" / "Log in with WorldCoin ID"

    "Gemini Cloud Services (formerly Bard Enterprise, formerly Duet AI, formerly Google Brain Cloud, formerly Project Magfi)"

    Github Copilot attempts social engineering to pwn the `sudo` repo

    It made a Win10 "emulator" that goes only as far as displaying a "Windows Defender is out of date" alert message

    "dang_autonomous_agent: We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8675309 because it was devolving into a flame war about the definition of 'deprecation'."

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    1. pseudosavant ◴[] No.46212571[source]
    SQLite 4.0 Release Notes: https://sw.vtom.net/hn35/pages/90098234.html

    Another absolute gem:

        Columns now support "Vibe" affinity. If the data feels like an integer, it is stored as an integer.
        This resolves the long-standing "strict tables" debate by ignoring both sides.
    
    Also:

        SQLite 4.0 is now the default bootloader for 60% of consumer electronics.
        The build artifacts include sqlite3.wasm which can now run bare-metal without an operating system.
    
    edit: added link
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    2. ray_v ◴[] No.46213277[source]
    I may live to see it; peak sqlite.
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    3. patates ◴[] No.46214490[source]
    I haven't laughed this much for a while :) I'm exploring the possibility for gemini to write me such jokes every day when I wake up - perhaps it can vibe code something itself.
    4. teiferer ◴[] No.46214828[source]
    You are laughing. IBM has already been there, with DB2 having essentially been the OS on mainframes a few decades ago.
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    5. TeMPOraL ◴[] No.46215250{3}[source]
    All of this has happened before. All of this will happen again.
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    6. ray_v ◴[] No.46217351{4}[source]
    So it's true, the profits have spoken of this!
    7. menaerus ◴[] No.46217469[source]
    And

      It is now the only software in the world still written in C89.
    
    Hilarious.
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    8. xp84 ◴[] No.46219387[source]
    Omg the Bloomberg/IBM article has so many Easter eggs
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    9. locknitpicker ◴[] No.46219816[source]
    > This resolves the long-standing "strict tables" debate by ignoring both sides.

    This is brilliant. Well done.

    10. throwaway2037 ◴[] No.46241041[source]
    Here is the link: https://sw.vtom.net/hn35/pages/90097654.html

    The content spot on and very funny.

    Also, a popup appeared at the bottom with this message:

        > The future costs money.
    
        > You have reached your free article limit for this microsecond.
    
        > Subscribe for 0.0004 BTC/month
    
    Suddenly, I have high hopes again for LLMs. Imagine you were a TV/film script writer and had writer's block. You could talk to an LLM for a while to see what funny ideas it can suggest. It is one more tool in the arsenal.
    11. throwaway2037 ◴[] No.46241063[source]
    But wait, there's more!

        > Predictive SELECT Statements:
        > Added the PRECOGNITION keyword.
        > SELECT * FROM sales WHERE date = 'tomorrow' now returns data with 99.4% accuracy by leveraging the built-in 4kB inference engine. The library size has increased by 12 bytes to accommodate this feature.
    
    12 bytes really sounds like something that the lead dev would write!