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He’s the right person at the right time. A prolific HN celebrity that has been spamming day in day out this site with LLM updates, playing the optimist, the ske
by sph 9mo ago
He’s the right person at the right time. A prolific HN celebrity that has been spamming day in day out this site with LLM updates, playing the optimist, the skeptic and any shade in between, 10 times a week, during the peak of the hype.
His efforts might single-handedly be worth a couple percentage points off the valuations of AI companies. That’s like, what, a dozen billion dollars these days? At least I hope for him he gets the fat check before it all goes up in flames.
- simonw 9mo agoI'm actually quite selective about what I post to Hacker News - I didn't submit this piece about Moltbook for example because there was already an active thread about it. If you look at submissions from my domain on https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=simonwillison.net https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=simonwillison.net you'll see most of them weren't by my simonw user - I generally submit things myself 2-3 times a month, and only things I deem to be "Hacker News worthy".
- cube00 9mo agoFor completeness, I feel the frequency of the posters own domain in their comments should be included, not just their self submissions. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=by%3Asimonw%20%22https%3A%2F%2Fsimonwillison.net%22&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
- simonw 9mo agoGuilty as charged, I've been trying to set a precedent there that more people should write on their own site and link back to it where relevant in comments. I argued that point in this comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46367224#46371369 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46367224#46371369