alt Hacker NewsFor comparison, here's the frontpage from ten years ago
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Today's front page is not a clean 10 year extrapolation from this. That's where AI is wrong. The future is weird and zig zags, it's not so linear as the Gemini generated page.
Nice. That was a fun rabbit-hole. This is the earlier I could find. Interestingly it contains a link to HN itself. I assume this migrated from a different version of a message board?
Swift has been OSS for 10y now, and still only runs usably on Mac and Linux (the only platforms Apple cares about - coincidence?).
it'd be interesting to feed this into the same AI, and have it predict today's front page
extremely telling - lot's of tech mentioned there either never reached expected potential or completely obsolete...
Prompts to be much more cautious with the current tech, and invest more time in fundamental stuff (like closer to science).
Some high profile news; yahoo altaba spinoff, Magic Leap (what are they up to now?), ...
> RethinkDB Driver for Java now available
Goddamnit I cry everytime. RethinkDB was a great document store that didn't eat your data. It got eclipsed by an outfunded (and still dangerous at the time) MongoDB.
Pretty funny that the top story there references A.I.!
Since /front is a ranked union of all the stories that were on the frontpage over 24 hours, here's an actual snapshot too:
https://web.archive.org/web/20151209195229/https://news.ycom...