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Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 imagines the HN front page 10 years from now

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3337 points keepamovin | 1 comments | 09 Dec 25 15:00 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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keepamovin ◴[09 Dec 25 15:01 UTC] 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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jrowen ◴[09 Dec 25 18:17 UTC] No.46208415[source]▶
Was 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?

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colechristensen ◴[09 Dec 25 18:30 UTC] No.46208612[source]▶
A 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.
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markrages ◴[09 Dec 25 19:50 UTC] No.46209712[source]▶
Why not? It's been a decade away for the past 20 years.
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1. colechristensen ◴[11 Dec 25 00:38 UTC] No.46226156[source]▶
In 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.