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Re:Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 hallucinates the HN front page 10 y... by pseudosavant on Tuesday December 09, 2025 @07:27PM (#46212571)
SQLite 4.0 Release Notes: https://sw.vtom.net/hn35/pages/90098234.html

Another absolute gem:

    Columns now support "Vibe" affinity. If the data feels like an integer, it is stored as an integer.
    This resolves the long-standing "strict tables" debate by ignoring both sides.
Also:

    SQLite 4.0 is now the default bootloader for 60% of consumer electronics.
    The build artifacts include sqlite3.wasm which can now run bare-metal without an operating system.
edit: added link
Re:Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 hallucinates the HN front page 10 y... by ray_v on Tuesday December 09, 2025 @09:19PM (#46213277)
I may live to see it; peak sqlite.
Re:Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 hallucinates the HN front page 10 y... by teiferer on Wednesday December 10, 2025 @01:47AM (#46214828)
You are laughing. IBM has already been there, with DB2 having essentially been the OS on mainframes a few decades ago.
Re:Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 hallucinates the HN front page 10 y... by TeMPOraL on Wednesday December 10, 2025 @02:57AM (#46215250)
All of this has happened before. All of this will happen again.
Re:Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 hallucinates the HN front page 10 y... by ray_v on Wednesday December 10, 2025 @08:18AM (#46217351)
So it's true, the profits have spoken of this!
Re:Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 hallucinates the HN front page 10 y... by patates on Wednesday December 10, 2025 @12:43AM (#46214490)
I haven't laughed this much for a while :) I'm exploring the possibility for gemini to write me such jokes every day when I wake up - perhaps it can vibe code something itself.
Re:Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 hallucinates the HN front page 10 y... by menaerus on Wednesday December 10, 2025 @08:29AM (#46217469)
And

  It is now the only software in the world still written in C89.
Hilarious.
Re:Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 hallucinates the HN front page 10 y... by throwaway2037 on Friday December 12, 2025 @12:11AM (#46241063)
But wait, there's more!

    > Predictive SELECT Statements:
    > Added the PRECOGNITION keyword.
    > SELECT * FROM sales WHERE date = 'tomorrow' now returns data with 99.4% accuracy by leveraging the built-in 4kB inference engine. The library size has increased by 12 bytes to accommodate this feature.
12 bytes really sounds like something that the lead dev would write!
Re:Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 hallucinates the HN front page 10 y... by xp84 on Wednesday December 10, 2025 @11:05AM (#46219387)
Omg the Bloomberg/IBM article has so many Easter eggs
Re:Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 hallucinates the HN front page 10 y... by throwaway2037 on Friday December 12, 2025 @12:06AM (#46241041)
Here is the link: https://sw.vtom.net/hn35/pages/90097654.html

The content spot on and very funny.

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Suddenly, I have high hopes again for LLMs. Imagine you were a TV/film script writer and had writer's block. You could talk to an LLM for a while to see what funny ideas it can suggest. It is one more tool in the arsenal.
Re:Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 hallucinates the HN front page 10 y... by locknitpicker on Wednesday December 10, 2025 @11:32AM (#46219816)
> This resolves the long-standing "strict tables" debate by ignoring both sides.

This is brilliant. Well done.