Auto-grading decade-old Hacker News discussions with hindsight

kept by eddie dec 11, 25

An LLM retroactively grades decade-old Hacker News predictions, sparking debate on hindsight bias, surveillance, and the value of public web archives.

17 predictions for AI in 2026
The piece offers 17 predictions for AI in 2026, forecasting continued model improvements but modest economic impact, with no fast takeoff or AI catastrophe expected.
also on #predictions, OpenAI, #ai
LLM predictions for 2026, shared with Oxide and Friends
Simon Willison predicts LLMs will write undeniably good code in 2026, sandboxing will be solved, and a coding agent security disaster is imminent.
also on #predictions, #tech-community
The man who keeps predicting the web's death
A look at Forrester founder George Colony, who repeatedly predicted the Web's death over three decades but was consistently wrong as the Web evolved.
also on #web-history, #social-news, #tech-community
More Articles Are Now Created by AI Than Humans
In November 2024, the quantity of AI-generated articles published online surpassed human-written articles, though the proportion has plateaued since May 2024.
also on #web-history, #ai
Claude Code and What Comes Next - by Ethan Mollick
Claude Code, using agentic harness and compaction, autonomously built a working website and game, showing a major leap in AI capability for sustained work.
also on Andrej Karpathy, OpenAI, #ai