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by avianlyric 184 days ago
Personal favourite is from the Gemini shutdown article which has a small quote from the fictional Google announcement:

> "We are incredibly proud of what Gemini achieved. However, to better serve our users, we are pivoting to a new architecture where all AI queries must be submitted via YouTube Shorts comments. Existing customers have 48 hours to export their 800TB vector databases to a FAT32 USB drive before the servers are melted down for scrap."

> — Official Blog Post, October 2034

It’s good to know that AI won’t kill satire.
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teiferer 184 days ago
This article alone seems to be proof that the AI tasked with creating those fake articles was instructed to make the contents somewhat satirical.
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thomasm6m6 184 days ago
script is here: https://github.com/vtomnet/hn35/blob/main/generate.py

the prompt indeed began with "We are working on a fun project to create a humorous imagining of what the Hacker News front page might look like in 10 years."

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