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Re:Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 hallucinates the HN front page 10 y... by glenstein on Tuesday December 09, 2025 @12:24PM (#46207691)
The problem is not that it fails to be cheeky, but that "its funny" is depressing in a context where there was a live question of whether it's a sincere attempt at prediction.

When I see "yeah but it's funny" it feels like a retrofitted repair job, patching up a first pass mental impression that accepted it at face value and wants to preserve a kind of sense of psychological endorsement of the creative product.

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Re:Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 hallucinates the HN front page 10 y... by jacobr1 on Tuesday December 09, 2025 @12:45PM (#46207980)
Honestly it feels like what I, or many of my colleagues would do if given the assignment. Take the current front page, or a summary of the top tropes or recurring topics, revise them for 1 or 2 steps of technical progress and call it a day. It isn't assignment to predict the future, it is an assignment to predict HN, which is a narrower thing.
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Re:Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 hallucinates the HN front page 10 y... by glenstein on Tuesday December 09, 2025 @05:43PM (#46211760)
Right, because you would read the teacher and realize they don't want you to actually complete the assignment to the letter. So you would do jokes in response to a request for prediction.
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