Hacker News Recap December 9th, 2025 | Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 hallucinates the HN front page 10 years from now
Dec 10, 2025
Discover the intriguing predictions as a project uses Gemini Pro 3 to envision Hacker News a decade ahead. Engage in a lively debate over whether AI-generated comments should be banned to maintain genuine conversations. Reflect on Let's Encrypt's impressive journey over the last ten years in making HTTPS accessible. Explore the idea of AI advancing steadily with sudden leaps to human equivalence. Plus, check out the recognition of PeerTube as a public good and the creative conceptual tool, Pebble Index, for enhancing personal memory.
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AI Imagines HN A Decade Ahead
- Gemini Pro 3 was used to imagine Hacker News' front page ten years from now, showing how LLMs can generate plausible future scenarios.
- The experiment sparked debate about prediction limits and the role of AI in shaping community narratives.
AI Replies Threaten Authentic Dialogue
- The community debated whether posting "I asked $AI, and it said" replies diminishes authentic human discussion.
- The debate highlights tension as LLM outputs blur lines between human and machine contributions.
Let's Encrypt Changed Web Security
- Let's Encrypt's ten-year arc dramatically increased HTTPS adoption by automating certificate issuance.
- The service lowered barriers to web security and shifted industry expectations about default encryption.