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All: Don't miss thomasm6m6's follow-up: https://sw.vtom.net/hn35/news.html (via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46212180). He added the articles!

Edit: See also this current thread: Auto-grading decade-old Hacker News discussions with hindsight - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46220540

3 days agoby dang

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. ;)

4 days agoby keepamovin

Google kills Gemini cloud services is the best one. I can't believe I haven't seen that joke until today.

4 days agoby tdfirth

"Why I still write raw code instead of prompting the compiler" and "Show HN: A text editor that doesn't use AI" are my two favorite ones.

4 days agoby Karawebnetwork

> Running LLaMA-12 7B on a contact lens with WASM (arxiv.org)

Laughed out loud at this onion-like headline

4 days agoby arkensaw

"Right to Human Verification" is something I have actually thought about a lot.

I want to able to verify my identity against a system. I also want to be able to not do that.

So for instance, on Twitter/X, I could verify myself and filter only other verified people / filter those goverments that have validated the identities of the users. I want to be able to do that. But I also want to be able to log in into Twitter anonymously.

I would love a "Right to Anonymity and Right to Human Verification"

4 days agoby josalhor

This was a fun little lark. Great idea!

It’s interesting to notice how bad AI is at gaming out a 10-year future. It’s very good at predicting the next token but maybe even worse than humans—who are already terrible—at making educated guesses about the state of the world in a decade.

I asked Claude: “Think ten years into the future about the state of software development. What is the most likely scenario?” And the answer it gave me was the correct answer for today and definitely not a decade into the future.

This is why it’s so dangerous to ask an LLM for personal advice of any kind. It isn’t trained to consider second-order effects.

Thanks for the thought experiment!

4 days agoby iambateman

To see a little extra feature, change the system time to year 2035 and click the "comments".

4 days agoby d_silin

Google kills Gemini is just hilarious.

4 days agoby seatac76

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

4 days agoby nels

Nice touch that it thought of Bellard for 'Emulating Windows 10 in the browser'! He's already halfway there with the Windows 2000 emulator: https://bellard.org/jslinux/

4 days agoby a022311

> Is it time to rewrite sudo in Zig?

Taking the current RIIR movement and casting it on Zig as the next hyped language is clever.

> ITER achieves net positive energy for 20 consecutive minutes

Hilarious. I guess not many people talk about the challenge of proper shielding material against fusion radiation. Otherwise we would get hallucinations about new exotic heavy metals too.

4 days agoby nromiun

*FDA approves over-the-counter CRISPR for lactose intolerance*

Finally, science has gone full Costco. Just imagine you stroll into CVS, grab a bag of Doritos, a gallon of milk, and—oh look—CRISPR in aisle 3.

‘Excuse me, where do you keep the gene-editing kits?’ ‘Right next to the chewing gum, sir.’

Now lactose intolerant folks can casually reprogram their DNA like they’re updating an iPhone.

Warning label: ‘Side effects may include glowing in the dark, mooing at strangers, and sudden urges to graze in fields.’

Honestly, I can’t wait for the sequel: over-the-counter CRISPR for people who can’t parallel park.

3 days agoby SilentM68

Is "hallucinates" a synonymn for 'generates output following prompt', now?

4 days agoby Angostura

The htmx one gave me a chuckle. I’m sure in 10 years we probably will have done another cycle through the client complexity spectrum.

4 days agoby padjo

IBM to acquire OpenAI? Gemini doesn't like openAIs prospect

4 days agoby serendipityAI

Late to the party but OMG this is possibly the greatest tech news discussion page of all time. Not just hilarious and impressive, but so many fantastic ideas / weirdly believable news items from the future! As an old fart software developer I've been slowly dipping my toe into the AI pool, I may have to just dive in!

3 days agoby jsrcout

Absolutely the best one on here (and I really, truly hope this becomes real)

> Running LLaMA-12 7B on a contact lens with WASM (arxiv.org)

4 days agoby lacoolj

This is the most hilarious list ever. Google kills Gemini Cloud Services. This AI has quite a psycho sense of humor against itself.

A text editor that doesn't use AI, lol, that's a deep joke for an AI.

3 days agoby hereme888

> A 100% Rust kernel is now upstream in Linux 7.4

the future predicted by gemini is already coming true; from 3 hours ago <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46213585>:

"Rust ... is now a core part of the kernel and is here to stay"

3 days agoby thomasm6m6

"A 100% Rust kernel is now upstream in Linux 7.4" paired with "Is it time to rewrite sudo in Zig?" is great.

4 days agoby salamanderman

> 8. Google kills Gemini Cloud Services

Ha, probably accurate.

4 days agoby jimmyjazz14

The subtle bit of humor was the reposting of the algodrill LeetCode practice site.

It is depressing that I'll be almost 60 years old and still drilling Aho-Corasick.

4 days agoby jnwatson

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?

4 days agoby replwoacause

The title is misleading. This isn't the correct use of the term "hallucination". Hallucination refers to making up facts, not extrapolating into the future.

I read 10 comments before I realized that this was referring to 10 years in the FUTURE and not in the PAST (as would be required for it to be a hallucination).

4 days agoby fn-mote

"Is it time to rewrite sudo in Zig?"

This is rage bait! :-)

3 days agoby mordechai9000

So in 10 years from now, fusion will still be 10 years away

4 days agoby upcoming-sesame

In 10 years you'd have experienced climate impacts that will make you scared for a version looking another 10 years ahead. 2-3C by 2050 is no joke, inconvenience or bump in the road. It's a majestic clusterfuck.

3 days agoby funkify

Sad to see Half Life 3 hasn't been released yet.

4 days agoby RachelF

It's cute that Gemini thinks OpenAI will be around in 10 years.

3 days agoby impure

Hopefully something as optimistic as this and not the Quiz Broadcast :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22mt0cVyW5c

4 days agoby mdtancsa

Anyone who says LLMs don’t have a sense of humor should be shown this page.

4 days agoby backprop1989

Reminds me of "The Onion's Future News From The Year 2137"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKC21wDarBo

4 days agoby tart-lemonade

> “Why functional programming is the future (again) (haskell.org)”

Ouch, that hurts!

4 days agoby louthy

Dramatically underestimates MS Office 365 price per user inflation (IMO).

4 days agoby next_xibalba

By the time I read everything and pressed the back button only to be greeted by another hacker news page I felt like I just went back in time 10 years to a more plesant era.

4 days agoby jesprenj

One of the entries is:

> How to build a Faraday Cage for your bedroom

I'll get there eventually. A friend and I always joke about this since it took me to 2021 to get a smartphone (by choice).

4 days agoby nickjj

Is the new Gemini really that good? The "AI Overview" stuff on the google search page is so incredibly bad that I have never even given it a look. If so, the AI Overview is horribly bad negative advertising because it's so useless and frequently completely wrong.

3 days agoby spjt

Maybe this was answered already in a comment. Is the SQLite 4.0 Release notes also a joke? Are SQLite releases rare or even extinct?

4 days agoby baduiux

> Is it time to rewrite sudo in Zig?

If there's one constant it's that they'll never be done rewriting Linux instead of doing anything new.

4 days agoby behringer

i'm kind of having trust issues with HN comments now. I can barely detecy anymore which ones are bots or humans.

3 days agoby solarized

A 100% Rust kernel is now upstream in Linux 7.4 (kernel.402 points by rust_evangelist 6 hours ago | hide | 156 comments

future seems "safe"

4 days agoby tonyhart7

The only thing that this is missing to make this perfect is "2035: The Year of the Linux Desktop"

3 days agoby jasongill

ITER 20 minutes net positive in 10 years time?

How does that alter the "fusion in 50 years" effect? I suspect not much, there will be a huge 80/20 element. "next 20 minutes cancelled after extensive embrittlement found, ITER now in decontamination mode for 3 months before examinations can begin"

4 days agoby ggm

> The unexpected return of server-side rendering (htmx.org)

Glad to know this topic is still thrashing and spasming and refusing to die.

4 days agoby dotdi

Wow, that's impressive... and also depressing. I truly hope the world can do far better.

3 days agoby guerrilla

Freaking awesome. You should extend clicking on a link, similar to how this article describes infinite content:

https://worksonmymachine.ai/p/solving-amazons-infinite-shelf...

4 days agoby lherron

While the style and headline seems like Hacker News, the usernames seem increasingly alike Slashdot.

3 days agoby outloudvi

I haven't even looked at the linked page but IMO this is one of the few things where an LLM is good: making up legible gibberish.

I've maintained for ages that the entire multi billion dollar LLM industry is just the worlds most expensive Lorem Ipsum machine.

3 days agoby stephenr

I'm missing an announcement like: 2nd confirmed person paid for their winrar license!

3 days agoby danbala

That was funny. I wish you went ahead and had it also create at least the top comments for each thread!

4 days agoby sebastiennight

> Google kills Gemini Cloud Services

4 days agoby antonoo

"Google kills Gemini Cloud Services (killedbygoogle.com) 530 points by dang_fan 15 hours ago | hide | 330 comments"

Ha! Is Gemini suicidal?

4 days agoby sxp

Great fun! I was hoping to see "Perl 6.1 goes live" though. Maybe later eh? ;)

3 days agoby FerretFred

Design still hasn't changed and have to zoom in 150+% to make it readable without glasses.

4 days agoby benbristow

I opened this on a new tab and forgot about it. When I came back it thought it was the legit front page and was amazed to see "ITER achieves net positive energy for 20 consecutive minutes"... oh well.

3 days agoby e1ghtSpace

Zero items about the impending 2038 time value rollover bug impact. Maybe it’s really solved.

4 days agoby natch

I posted something similar from Grok 9 months ago, although it was “flagged” for some reason. the link still works.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43260083

4 days agoby Tycho

So awesome, reminds me of Wired's Found from Future series (I don't know why they ever retired it...continuing that series as a sort of fan fiction was the first thing I did with gen AI when image generators started to get good)

4 days agoby accumulator

“Google kills Gemini cloud services” Even Gemini Pro 3 knows the sins of its creator.

4 days agoby Mistletoe

No JS needed, that's the way. Kudos.

PD: I miss Nethack 7, and people running small machines.

4 days agoby anthk

Love this. Some real gems. SQLite v4? Htmx posting about SSR? Chef's kiss.

4 days agoby oaxacaoaxaca

Why is this a hallucination?

4 days agoby ajaimk

Is this really Gemini because it shows a great deal of understanding in terms of time applied to common current headlines that you could argue it is satire. I’m not sure I believed AI could do this…

4 days agoby andy_ppp

There is going to be a lot more interest in what is happening in China and much less interest in what is happening in Europe. This hallucination has the same western world biases of today.

4 days agoby seanmcdirmid

My personal favorite is that SQLite has only gotten to version 4

3 days agoby outside1234

> IBM to acquire OpenAI (Rumor)(bloomberg.com)

Ouch. Well it is Gemini I guess :D

3 days agoby dudeinjapan

The 2 things that you can comfortably predict with good accuracy: EU passing new regulation laws & yet another YC company trying to give context to AI agents.

3 days agoby DSpider

The biggest mistake it makes is how interesting the frontpage is. It should have more obscure things and filler.

2 days agoby hyghjiyhu

If true, this is the funniest thing I have seen an LLM generate.

4 days agoby lazy_afternoons

Somehow algodrill and leetcode managed to survive the ai onslaught

4 days agoby thunkshift1

It seems that when we predict the future, we tend to project what is important or trending now as what will be important or trending then. This is showing in this llm produced bit as well, what with the regular topics on rust, zig, why I'm coding with my two human hands, spacex moon exploration and whatnot.

That must be some kind of bias, you find that in sci-fi as well where even futuristic societies usually have the same tech as today, similar systems of governance and structure of society, just incrementally better or marginally changed (unless that's a device essential to the plot like society is now berserk).

Ps: love that #8 is Google killed gemini

4 days agoby charles_f

ITER achieves net positive energy for 20 consecutive minutes (nature.com) 1205 points by physics_lover 12 hours ago | hide | 402

-Sustained fusion still only 10 years away!

3 days agoby plebianRube

It did a good job with the points-to-comments ratios. The purely technical stories are higher than industry news and clickbait.

Interesting how controversial Zig will be in the future :)

4 days agoby testplzignore

It could have been nicer if the base stories would have also been produced too and perhaps even some imagined fanciful comments;)

3 days agoby jeisc

I got

  Is it time to rewrite sudo in Zig? (github.com)

So it's 10 years to make zig production ready right? <wink>

3 days agoby p0w3n3d

Wait... I had to do a double take for this one.

To me, the funniest thing is the AlgoDrill leet code post being on the front page both today and ten years from now.

Subtle and hilarious.

4 days agoby ycombiredd

Running LLaMA-12 7B on a contact lens with WASM (arxiv.org)

is clearly wrong, it should be

"Llama 12 on smart contacts runs Doom"

3 days agoby a3w

GTA VI is postponed again, release next year

3 days agoby urvader

it is comforting to know that that HN design persists.

4 days agoby funnyenough

Big models keep getting better at benchmarks, but reliability under messy real world inputs still feels stuck in place.

3 days agoby Simplita

One thing that the AI didn’t get right is the Linux kernel versioning. Linus likes to bump the major version around every x.19-x.20 release

4 days agoby yett

I would love to see the hallucinated comments of these! Some seem interesting — I wonder how HN suggests to prevent ad-injection in AR glasses?

4 days agoby n2d4

THIS is probably the moment that the AI naysayers on this board wake up to the potential of current AI...

3 days agoby bluejay2387

I like how you can have AI in your Neuralink, your contact lenses, your AR glasses, your text editor and your compiler at the same time!

4 days agoby xg15

IBM acquires OpenAI. I lol'd

Gemini is predicting the total collapse of OpenAI

Also generates the HackerNews pattern of "lets rewrite X in Rust/Zig"

4 days agoby LarsDu88

So we went from Linux Kernel 5.18 to 6.4 in 13 months, and Gemini thinks it will take 10 years to go from 6.18 to 7.4? Yikes...

4 days agoby SirMaster

An AI writes a parody of our entire community, and it is hilarious even to us. I love it

3 days agoby jimnotgym

It forgot the “I got <complex modern software> running on my <ancient underpowered hardware>” pattern.

4 days agoby efitz

Interesting that it included the trynia Launch HN which was on the front page yesterday!

3 days agoby sam-cop-vimes

I like that the future is bright in Gemini's perception - number 1 post is about SpaceX Starship's success.

4 days agoby d_silin

Seeing htmx there made me chuckle. I really wish something like it will be browser native by then.

4 days agoby dizhn

I want to read each and every halluicinated post. Detectic deep fakes for seniors... Microsoft Office sub for 40$

yes

4 days agoby makach

That #20... Pretty bold move implying GTA VI has been released by then

3 days agoby zettie

> Show HN: A text editor that doesn't use AI (github.com)

Last but not lest, this was a good laugh!

4 days agoby flockonus

I think I might generate one of these on a daily basis. Articles and all!

3 days agoby runsonrum

The most accurate part about this is that HN still hasn't implemented dark mode.

4 days agoby steve_taylor

It even nailed the 1999 12px font!

4 days agoby rob

Hallucinating is really the only thing LLMs can do reliably and consistently

3 days agoby p1dda

I have to admit that this is the first time I found something made by an AI ... funny.

4 days agoby seu

Needs about 50 more "Here's why I do _____ and why it works"

3 days agoby Atlas667

> AI progress is stalling. Human equivalence was a mirage

Oh how the turn tables :D

3 days agoby usrbinbash

Honestly? I kind of like this hypothetical future this purports to be a snapshot of. Sounds hopeful.

(EDIT: Not so much after seeing the expanded variant with full submissions and comment threads...)

Also, nailed HN perfectly.

3 days agoby TeMPOraL

Will this be the new "pelican on a bicycle" test for frontier models?

4 days agoby phodo

100% Rust kernel - I felt that

4 days agoby zerofor_conduct

> 27. The unexpected return of server-side rendering (htmx.org)

Ha this one got me

3 days agoby mock-possum

So, HN won’t change its look?

4 days agoby satisfice

That's great!

Take a look at the HTML. The layout is all tables!

4 days agoby Animats

The users names are more funny and interesting than the titles

3 days agoby tamimio

Oh my, this is hilarious. Thanks!

2 days agoby HackerThemAll

That is legit hilarious.

4 days agoby LennyHenrysNuts

Missing "Why 2035 will be the year of the Linux desktop".

4 days agoby Foofoobar12345

Sh*t, still no word about "Rocky XXXVIII".[1]

[1] "Airplane!" (1980)

4 days agoby gary17the

it forgot the "who is still hiring and why" section. also the immigration attorney is still needed since climate change is a real thing

3 days agoby doubleorseven

> Show HN: A text editor that doesn't use AI (github.com)

I felt that...

4 days agoby cultofmetatron

The AskHN about preventing ads in VR is hillarious

3 days agoby rezaprima

Shouldn’t there be more doom and gloom climate change headlines.

4 days agoby deadbabe

Running LLaMA-12 7B on a contact lens with WASM (arxiv.org)

4 days agoby reneberlin

as a tailscale user and quite obsessed with tailscale related news, it's quite funny to see the tailscale on the starlink dish news...

4 days agoby mintflow

Sad to see that leetcode has survived the next decade

4 days agoby jatins

This is so unbelievably based. Very nice!!!!

3 days agoby nunez

gemini has no love for people writing novel task/notes organizer in 2035 or was the problem solve somewhere in between ?

4 days agoby francispauli

The user names check out a little too well.

4 days agoby layer8

This is fun :-)

4 days agoby quantum_state

Really good results. And I understand the disclaimer when you try the comments section, but it would be amazing to see hallucinated comments as well.

4 days agoby wowczarek

Webgpu v2 in 10 years, seems about right.

4 days agoby sroussey

What, no reference to quantum or crypto?

4 days agoby benob

Text Editor that doesn't use AI :)

4 days agoby FitchApps

Where did I put that damn time portal?

4 days agoby bloomingeek

I would appreciate the same thing written by a human. That human would probably have lots of fun writing this.

3 days agoby fumblertzu

Looks like it's over for Linux.

4 days agoby habedi0

Poor Jepsen.

4 days agoby xbar

That is absolutely phenomenal!

3 days agoby supportengineer

No half life 3 released?

3 days agoby bpoyner

> Is it time to rewrite sudo in Zig?

Amazing!

4 days agoby nish__

> 8. Google kills Gemini Cloud Services (killedbygoogle.com)

So, Google renamed itself to Gemini?

Instead of Google having a product named Gemini, Gemini has a product named Google.

pattern recognition much?

4 days agoby jamiesonbecker

HN users: Let's ban AI comments in threads.

HN users, later the same day: Let's vote an AI thread to the top.

4 days agoby edgarvaldes

Based on the prompt you wrote, this woulnd't be a "Hallucination"

And as I write this critique of your HN title, I see you have edited it since I last refreshed. I'm guessing a few others have already echoed this sentiment a few times.

3 days agoby lacoolj

> Google kills Gemini Cloud Services (killedbygoogle.com) 530 points by dang_fan 15 hours ago | hide | 330 comments

This one definitely rings true.

4 days agoby insane_dreamer

ai psychosis - now available for HN dwellers

3 days agoby RCitronsBroker

Still no flying cars?

4 days agoby amelius

>Google kills Gemini Cloud Services (killedbygoogle.com) 530 points by dang_fan 15 hours ago | hide | 330 comments

That’s my favourite.

4 days agoby wltr

ok but there's too many important news for one day