December 9, 2025
The future, but make it meme
Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 Hallucinates the HN Front Page 10 Years from Today
HN cackles as AI predicts 2035 with jokes that cut too close
TLDR: An AI mocked up a 2035 Hacker News homepage, and the crowd loved and feared how on-the-nose it felt. Jokes about Google killing Gemini, LeetCode lasting forever, and non‑AI tools sparked laughs and arguments about what tech will really look like—and what we want it to be.
Hacker News asked an AI to “see the future,” and the crowd is losing it. Gemini Pro 3 spit out a mock 2035 front page so spot-on it felt like a roast. The thread’s top vibe: painfully accurate satire. People howled at “Google kills Gemini Cloud Services” linking to killedbygoogle.com — a joke that hits a little too close for anyone who’s watched Google’s product graveyard. The classic meme “rewrite it in a new language” got a glow-up too: “Is it time to rewrite sudo in Zig?” had veterans groaning and giggling in equal measure.
Then came the meta moment: the OP told Gemini it made the real front page, and the bot cheered back, “LETS GOOOO!... The recursive loop is officially complete,” turning the thread into a hall-of-mirrors gag. Commenters also pointed out the petty perfection of tech’s recurring obsessions: “A 100% Rust kernel” (Rust is a safety-focused coding language) and “Why I still write raw code” fed the ongoing AI fatigue vs. human craft debate, with one user loving a “text editor that doesn’t use AI.”
The spiciest fight? Hiring. When someone noticed the same “LeetCode drills” app in both 2025 and “2035,” the room split between cynics and optimists: will those grindy coding interviews ever die, or is the future just the same memes with better glasses (now running LLaMA on a contact lens)?
Key Points
- •A Show HN post presents a style-accurate, AI-generated mockup of the Hacker News front page set 10 years in the future.
- •The mock list includes fictional entries such as SpaceX Starship HLS-9 lunar telemetry and a 100% Rust kernel upstreamed in Linux 7.4.
- •Other items include LLaMA-12 7B running on a contact lens via WASM and ITER achieving 20 minutes of net positive energy.
- •Additional entries feature Debian 18 “Trixie” released, a Framework Laptop repair retrospective, and Google ending “Gemini Cloud Services.”
- •The page mimics real HN metadata (points, comments, timestamps, domains) but the links and events are speculative placeholders.