Gemini Pro 3 HN front page 2035 (future Hacker News front page)

AI

generative ai demo

SHOW HN2025

3,346points
965comments
#1of 3,837 in 2025
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How HN took it

MixedNo clear lean

213 positive, 209 neutral or asking, 7 mixed, 60 critical, out of 489 comments about the project. Thread score +0.30.

Idea: 168 for, 42 againstExecution: 12 for, 9 againstDesign: 12 for, 3 againstDocs: 0 for, 2 againstPricing: 0 for, 1 against

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What HN said

What people liked

  • Funny, believable headlines

    From 4 comments
    • Who says LLMs don't have a sense of humor? All of these entries are funny for several (meta or not) reasons: - Google kills Gemini Cloud Services (killedbygoogle.com) - Is it…
      NitpickLawyer on HN
    • 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…
      fn-mote on HN
    • 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…
      jsrcout on HN
    • 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…
      hereme888 on HN
  • Recognises HN culture and recurring topics

    From 2 comments
    • I'm impressed by the depth of snark from GPro3 here, e.g. - Google kills Gemini Cloud Services (killedbygoogle.com) - The unexpected return of server-side rendering (htmx.org)…
      jefecoon on HN
    • 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…
      nels on HN
  • Follow-up projects by others built on it

    From 3 comments
    • 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…
      dang on HN
    • Here's v0's attempt (using Opus 4.5 / I'm on free tier) with the article and comments too. It did quite well. I believe it followed my instructions to use just a single html page…
      indigodaddy on HN
    • Just did the same with claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929 https://2035.future-hackernews.workers.dev/news The page looks much more consistent to the original. Only produced the html as…
      gslaller on HN

Objections

  • Misuse of the term hallucination

    From 4 comments
    • 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…
      fn-mote on HN
    • This is awesome, but minor quibble with the title - "hallucinates" is the wrong verb here. You specifically asked it to make up a 10-year-in-the-future HN frontpage, and that's…
      hn_throwaway_99 on HN
    • Can we stop calling these confabulated artifacts, "Hallucinations"? Hallucinating is perceiving things that are not there, imagining and creating things that feel believable but…
      outofpaper on HN
    • AI professor here. I know this page is a joke, but in the interest of accuracy, a terminological comment: we don't call it a "hallucination" if a model complies exactly with what…
      jll29 on HN
  • Headlines are incremental and unimaginative

    From 2 comments
    • I'm mostly struck by how incremental and unimaginative those articles are.
      danans on HN
    • It is obvious that everything that has been dreamed up relates to what exists now. There are no examples of real creativity or anything new or unexpected. This is my worst fear…
      Helmut10001 on HN
  • Predicted Debian release name reuses Trixie

    From 1 comment
    • I continue to be unimpressed by LLMs when it comes to creative work, they're certainly useful sometimes for "reference digging", but maybe I just don't understand enough about…
      hnarn on HN

Requests

  • Tool to generate future versions of any web page

    From 1 comment
    • This is a super cool idea. I like it man. I love how CNN now covers "Mars & Earth" lol. We really need to put together a tool that merges, my, your and tom's ideas: 1) input any…
      keepamovin on HN
  • Hallucinate the contents of linked articles

    From 1 comment

Questions

  • Is the new Gemini really that good?

    From 1 comment
    • 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…
      spjt on HN

Alternatives named

  • Hacker News does not exist (2022 Show HN)

    From 1 comment
    • That's a really fun little project that fits perfectly in the soul of HN. Exactly three years ago, a similar post entitled Show HN: This Hacker News Does Not Exist…
      redbell on HN
  • Grok-generated HN front page

    From 1 comment
    • 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
      Tycho on HN

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