You might not believe this, but there are a lot of people (me included) that were extremely excited about the Gemini 3 release and are pleased to see the SOTA benchmark results, and this is reflected in the comments.
I definitely believe it--I'm not a total AI hater. The jump on the screen usage benchmark is really exciting in that it might substantially help computer-use agentic workflows.
That said, I think there is too much a pattern with recent model releases around what appears to me to be astroturfing to get to HN front page. Of course that doesn't preclude many organic comments that are excited too!
A bit of both always happens. But given how important these model releases are to justify the capex and levels of investment, I think it is pretty clear the various "front pages" of our internet are manipulated. The incentive is just too strong not to.
