Why AGI “Will Not Happen”, Mental Health Benchmarks, and a World-First Social Ban

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Why AGI “Will Not Happen”, Mental Health Benchmarks, and a World-First Social Ban

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Why AGI “Will Not Happen”, Mental Health Benchmarks, and a World-First Social Ban

In this episode we cover a wild “future HN” experiment powered by Gemini Pro 3, then pivot hard into the very real present: Australia’s world-first ban on teen social media use and what it might signal for global regulation, online identity, and the next generation of internet natives.From there we dive into whether large language models can safely help with mental health, a surprisingly controversial font coup in U.S. government documents, and a long-form argument that AGI will never arrive. We round it out with Anthropic open-sourcing the Model Context Protocol and a quirky paper on transformers learning the Collatz sequence.

01:06 Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 Hallucinates the HN Front Page 10 Years from Today- Rank: 1 - Points: 3253 - Comments: 927- Article: https://dosaygo-studio.github.io/hn-front-page-2035/news- HN Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46205632 01:57 Australia begins enforcing world-first teen social media ban- Rank: 2 - Points: 693 - Comments: 1089- Article: https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/australia-social-media-ban-takes-effect-world-first-2025-12-09/- HN Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46208348 05:37 New benchmark shows top LLMs struggle in real mental health care- Rank: 1 - Points: 105 - Comments: 147- Article: https://swordhealth.com/newsroom/sword-introduces-mindeval- HN Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46217578 09:19 Why AGI Will Not Happen- Rank: unknown - Points: 44 - Comments: 49- Article: https://timdettmers.com/2025/12/10/why-agi-will-not-happen/- HN Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46218537 13:17 Donating the Model Context Protocol and Establishing the Agentic AI Foundation- Rank: 15 - Points: 277 - Comments: 126- Article: https://www.anthropic.com/news/donating-the-model-context-protocol-and-establishing-of-the-agentic-ai-foundation- HN Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46207425 16:43 Transformers know more than they can tell: Learning the Collatz sequence- Rank: 35 - Points: 126 - Comments: 44- Article: https://www.arxiv.org/pdf/2511.10811- HN Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46137596 20:50 Rubio stages font coup: Times New Roman ousts Calibri- Rank: 6 - Points: 238 - Comments: 385- Article: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/rubio-stages-font-coup-times-new-roman-ousts-calibri-2025-12-09/- HN Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46212438