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

2751 pointsby keepamovinyesterday at 3:00 PM793 commentsview on HN

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noeleontoday at 1:23 AM

this was a good laugh :D

cwmooretoday at 7:19 AM

Anyone mind if I just say: Thanks, I hate it?

qwertytyyuutoday at 6:13 AM

“Google shuts down Gemini cloud services” lol, is amazing

willhunting1today at 1:00 AM

They got the UI right

busteryesterday at 4:22 PM

Awesome, love it!

grenademeistertoday at 9:11 AM

lmao thought something was wrong with my browser

exacubeyesterday at 5:48 PM

the only constant is HN's styling.

jamiesonbeckeryesterday at 7:43 PM

> 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?

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WhyOhWhyQyesterday at 9:50 PM

Lmao we're using webassembly to run 7b parameter llms on contact lenses in the future. What a world it'll be.

anthkyesterday at 6:14 PM

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

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

ModernMechyesterday at 5:52 PM

I love the competing stories on the front page now:

Ask HN: Should "I asked $AI, and it said" replies be forbidden in HN guidelines?

Show HN: "I asked $AI something, here's what it said."

BonoboIOyesterday at 5:43 PM

I definitely see the Gemini Cloud Service killing

deadbabeyesterday at 5:41 PM

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

makachyesterday at 5:40 PM

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

yes

tonyhart7yesterday at 5:34 PM

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"

satisficeyesterday at 4:53 PM

So, HN won’t change its look?

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fHrtoday at 2:30 AM

absolute cinema

Mistletoeyesterday at 4:32 PM

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

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random3yesterday at 10:29 PM

Love the functional programming entry, but disappointed it’s not the Year of the Linux Desktop.

stevageyesterday at 9:44 PM

So much gold here. I enjoyed the #1: starship doesn't make it to the moon for another ten years.

devinprateryesterday at 4:48 PM

Holy crap it even felt like the HN front page with my screen reader. I thought I'd clicked the wrong link until I read the LLAMA 12 and such.

nish__yesterday at 5:28 PM

> Is it time to rewrite sudo in Zig?

Amazing!

DevKoalayesterday at 5:35 PM

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

AYYYYLMAO

mattmaroonyesterday at 6:59 PM

Not really what hallucinating means. That’s like saying JK Rowling hallucinated Harry Potter. But ok.

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conqrryesterday at 11:45 PM

LMAO Google kills Gemini. Faraday cage for bedroom. So cheeky.

chaitanyyayesterday at 8:24 PM

"IBM to acquire OpenAI" somebody should put this up on polymarket lol

outofpaperyesterday at 4:46 PM

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.

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airockeryesterday at 8:27 PM

Google predicting that hn frontpage will not change at all? lol

tommicayesterday at 6:00 PM

> Google kills Gemini Cloud Services (killedbygoogle.com)

This will absolutely happen :D

GuinansEyebrowsyesterday at 7:52 PM

great, it's the 2020s version of amusing ourselves to death.

plaidfujiyesterday at 9:02 PM

Now have it generate the articles and comments, too…

adamcholyesterday at 8:34 PM

Now we have to generate each of those articles.

Bengalilolyesterday at 8:03 PM

> Google kills Gemini Cloud Services (killedbygoogle.com)

by dang_fan

Priceless!

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ieie3366yesterday at 4:31 PM

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.

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c0pi1otyesterday at 5:58 PM

What about hallucinating new n-gate posts?

earthnailyesterday at 7:29 PM

Oh please make it generate comments, too :D.

BizarroLandyesterday at 11:57 PM

I asked ChatGPT to do the same, it was rather dystopian in comparison:

Hacker News — December 9, 2035 (Dystopian Edition)

(All links fictional but realistic)

1. Amazon pauses same-day delivery after logistics AI outage strands 22M packages (reuters.com) 1,402 points by supplychainfail 5 hours ago | 512 comments

2. Google merges Drive, Gmail, Docs, Maps, Calendar into “Google Life” — opting out requires a support call (blog.google) 1,210 points by privacyisdead 6 hours ago | 689 comments

3. US announces “Temporary Broadband Stabilization Fee”; ISPs increase prices 30% overnight (fcc.gov) 1,008 points by ispescapee 7 hours ago | 344 comments

4. OpenAI suspends 40% of API keys after new worm spreads through agent-to-agent messaging (openai.com) 927 points by llmsec 3 hours ago | 382 comments

5. Show HN: “ColdBooter” – A tool to back up your cloud VM before the provider reclaims it with no notice (coldbooter.io) 780 points by survivethecloud 2 hours ago | 192 comments

6. Apple fined €8B for shipping non-removable batteries in “Environmental Edition” iPhone (europa.eu) 754 points by greenwashhunter 10 hours ago | 316 comments

7. LinkedIn replaces activity feed with AI-generated “Career Stories” that users cannot disable (linkedin.com) 710 points by corp_life 8 hours ago | 267 comments

8. China’s new export restrictions cut global GPU availability by 60% (ft.com) 701 points by chipboom 9 hours ago | 414 comments

9. Linux 8.6 maintainers warn of mass CVEs after corporations abandon LTS patch sponsorships (kernel.org) 632 points by ossburnout 11 hours ago | 255 comments

10. Ask HN: Anyone else locked out of their homes after the SmartKey cloud migration? 601 points by keylessandhomeless 4 hours ago | 310 comments

11. US healthcare providers hit by nationwide outage of Cerner-Epic merger “CareSync Cloud” (wsj.com) 577 points by sysadmdespair 12 hours ago | 203 comments

12. Meta to require facial-expression telemetry for “engagement quality optimization” in Horizon apps (meta.com) 530 points by metaescalates 3 hours ago | 421 comments

13. Starlink announces 5 TB/mo cap; remote communities report complete service loss (starlink.com) 502 points by dishdown 5 hours ago | 158 comments

14. New DMCA expansion criminalizes “filter removal,” affecting adblockers and local inference runtimes (congress.gov) 488 points by freedomtoadblock 7 hours ago | 389 comments

15. AT&T sunsets 4G; millions of medical devices lose connectivity (theverge.com) 455 points by techdebtkills 10 hours ago | 197 comments

16. Show HN: “ShellSafe” – A terminal wrapper that prevents AI-suggested commands from wiping your system (shellsafe.app) 430 points by iaccidentallysudo 2 hours ago | 111 comments

17. US CISA: 42% of corporate networks now rely on AI agents with no audit logging (cisa.gov) 402 points by auditnow 6 hours ago | 188 comments

18. The Great Repo Archival: GitHub purges all inactive repos >5 years to “reduce storage load” (github.blog) 388 points by codearcheologist 9 hours ago | 320 comments

19. Mastodon instances collapse under moderation load after EU’s Automated Speech Mandate (mastodon.social) 350 points by fedifragile 7 hours ago | 144 comments

20. NYC adopts automated congestion fines after human review team eliminated (nytimes.com) 332 points by finesallthewaydown 4 hours ago | 201 comments

21. Dropbox raises base plan to $49/month, cites “AI compute costs” (dropbox.com) 301 points by storageinflation 11 hours ago | 176 comments

22. Open-source maintainers strike after 3rd corporation claims their work as proprietary training data (github.com) 290 points by maintainerburnout 6 hours ago | 120 comments

23. FEMA: 2025–2035 wildfire season officially declared a “decade-long emergency” (fema.gov) 268 points by cookedagain 12 hours ago | 112 comments

24. Quantum ransomware group QShadow hits 11 banks using break-through key recovery exploit (krebsonsecurity.com) 250 points by qubitcrime 3 hours ago | 98 comments

25. Show HN: OfflineLAN – A mesh-network toolkit for neighborhoods preparing for rolling blackouts (offlinelan.net) 231 points by diynetworker 1 hour ago | 44 comments

jbrooks84yesterday at 6:44 PM

Boring

kelvindegreesyesterday at 5:36 PM

"Google kills Gemini Cloud Services"

reactordevyesterday at 4:43 PM

#8 is hilarious and on brand. killedbygoogle.com

frankfrank13yesterday at 6:39 PM

absolutely dead at gemini thinking up

> Google kills Gemini Cloud Services (killedbygoogle.com)

hnburnsytoday at 3:45 AM

From another LLM, not as satisfying as the OP

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1. *Neuralink achieves full brain-computer interface, thoughts to text in real-time* (neuralink.com) 1245 points by elon2035 2 hours ago | hide | 387 comments

2. *Fusion energy breakthrough: Unlimited clean power now commercial* (iter.org) 1123 points by fusionfan 3 hours ago | hide | 456 comments

3. *Mars colony declares independence from Earth governments* (mars.gov) 987 points by martian1 4 hours ago | hide | 512 comments

4. *AI wins Nobel Prize in Physics for solving quantum gravity* (nobelprize.org) 876 points by ai_nobel 5 hours ago | hide | 321 comments

5. *Quantum computers crack all encryption, new post-quantum standards rushed* (nist.gov) 765 points by quantum_hacker 6 hours ago | hide | 678 comments

6. *Immortality pill approved by FDA, life expectancy unlimited* (fda.gov) 654 points by eternal_life 7 hours ago | hide | 289 comments

7. *Teleportation of matter demonstrated in lab* (cern.ch) 543 points by physicist42 8 hours ago | hide | 412 comments

8. *Virtual reality universes surpass real economy in GDP* (metaverse.com) 432 points by vr_lord 9 hours ago | hide | 198 comments

9. *Robot uprising averted by ethical AI framework* (asimovfoundation.org) 321 points by robot_ethics 10 hours ago | hide | 267 comments

10. *Time dilation travel allows first tourists to future* (spacetime.travel) 210 points by time_traveler 11 hours ago | hide | 134 comments

11. *Global UBI implemented using blockchain* (un.org) 198 points by satoshi2.0 12 hours ago | hide | 89 comments

12. *Climate engineering reverses global warming, ice caps restored* (geoengineer.com) 187 points by climate_saver 13 hours ago | hide | 201 comments

13. *Human-AI hybrids compete in Olympics* (olympics.org) 176 points by hybrid_athlete 14 hours ago | hide | 156 comments

14. *Dark matter harvested for energy* (nasa.gov) 165 points by cosmos_explorer 15 hours ago | hide | 123 comments

15. *Psychedelic therapy cures all mental illness* (who.int) 154 points by mind_healer 16 hours ago | hide | 98 comments

16. *Nanobots eradicate cancer worldwide* (cancer.org) 143 points by nano_doc 17 hours ago | hide | 76 comments

17. *Holographic displays replace screens* (apple.com) 132 points by holo_dev 18 hours ago | hide | 54 comments

18. *Self-driving flying cars now standard* (tesla.com) 121 points by auto_pilot 19 hours ago | hide | 43 comments

19. *Brain uploading to cloud for immortality* (google.com) 110 points by cloud_mind 20 hours ago | hide | 32 comments

20. *Alien contact confirmed, messages decoded* (seti.org) 99 points by et_searcher 21 hours ago | hide | 21 comments

21. *Synthetic food ends hunger* (beyondmeat.com) 88 points by food_innovator 22 hours ago | hide | 10 comments

22. *Ocean cities house billions* (seasteading.org) 77 points by ocean_dweller 23 hours ago | hide | 9 comments

23. *Mind reading tech banned for privacy* (eff.org) 66 points by privacy_advocate 1 day ago | hide | 8 comments

24. *Superintelligence alignment solved* (openai.com) 55 points by agi_master 1 day ago | hide | 7 comments

25. *Wormhole travel to other stars* (spacex.com) 44 points by star_traveler 1 day ago | hide | 6 comments

26. *Augmented reality contact lenses ubiquitous* (meta.com) 33 points by ar_vision 1 day ago | hide | 5 comments

27. *Genetic editing eliminates hereditary diseases* (crispr.com) 22 points by gene_editor 1 day ago | hide | 4 comments

28. *Renewable energy at 100% global* (iea.org) 11 points by green_energy 1 day ago | hide | 3 comments

29. *Cyborg enhancements for all* (darpa.mil) 9 points by cyborg_human 1 day ago | hide | 2 comments

30. *Singularity achieved, what now?* (kurzweilai.net) 8 points by future_seer 1 day ago | hide | 1 comment

eunosyesterday at 5:53 PM

> Google kills Gemini cloud

Bruh moment

pizlonatoryesterday at 5:03 PM

> AI progress is stalling. Human equivalence was a mirage (garymarcus.com)

lmao

ijidakyesterday at 10:30 PM

> Google kills Gemini Cloud Services.

Lol.

That's bad when even AI knows Google isn't going to keep a service around. Too funny.

guluarteyesterday at 9:26 PM

> Google kills Gemini Cloud Services

lol

insane_dreameryesterday at 8:52 PM

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

This one definitely rings true.

roywigginsyesterday at 4:39 PM

Next up: hallucinate the contents of the links too!

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