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Does this guy have a "publish to front page of HN" button on his blog editor?

troupo 5mo ago
He has the most measured (and often quite detailed) posts on LLM and LLM progress, and is the opposite of hype.
nickvec 5mo ago
He’s pretty well known in the HN community. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Willison https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Willison
- koolala 5mo ago
  thats a cool wiki picture
koolala 5mo ago
its better than ex-google CEO spam i see astroturfed everywhere else
specproc 5mo ago
He's one of the main developers behind Django.
- dcminter 5mo ago
  Years ago I used to read his blog on Django and found it quite interesting despite being neither a Django nor even a python user - this must have been at least 10 years ago and perhaps more. When he resurfaced in my feeds as an AI commentator it took me quite a long while to join the dots that he was the same person!
schnitzelstoat 5mo ago
I liked the article, so if he has such a button I hope he keeps clicking it.
victorbjorklund 5mo ago
he usually have good posts so people usually upvote
xnorswap 5mo ago
HN has a mechanism that causes popular blogs to stay popular. It's a winner-takes-all karma prize for being first to post the article. This causes a rush of people to post. HN has a mechanism by which duplicate submissions count as upvotes toward the first submission. This is a positive feedback for the desire to be first, which increases duplicate submissions and in turn the karma reward. This effect means that good blogs stay well upvoted. This isn't altogether a bad thing, but it does mean some blogs require a string of poorly received posts before that effect wears off and people no longer rush to be first. One way to fix this would be to attribute all karma to user simonw himself ( and do similar where attribution to an HN user is known. )
simonw 5mo ago
I didn't even submit this one. I didn't actually think this was a good fit for hacker news, the pelican bicycle thing is pretty much played out here already!

He has the most measured (and often quite detailed) posts on LLM and LLM progress, and is the opposite of hype.

He’s pretty well known in the HN community. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Willison https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Willison

koolala 5mo ago
thats a cool wiki picture

koolala 5mo ago

its better than ex-google CEO spam i see astroturfed everywhere else

specproc 5mo ago

He's one of the main developers behind Django.

dcminter 5mo ago
Years ago I used to read his blog on Django and found it quite interesting despite being neither a Django nor even a python user - this must have been at least 10 years ago and perhaps more. When he resurfaced in my feeds as an AI commentator it took me quite a long while to join the dots that he was the same person!

schnitzelstoat 5mo ago

I liked the article, so if he has such a button I hope he keeps clicking it.

victorbjorklund 5mo ago

he usually have good posts so people usually upvote

xnorswap 5mo ago

HN has a mechanism that causes popular blogs to stay popular. It's a winner-takes-all karma prize for being first to post the article. This causes a rush of people to post. HN has a mechanism by which duplicate submissions count as upvotes toward the first submission. This is a positive feedback for the desire to be first, which increases duplicate submissions and in turn the karma reward. This effect means that good blogs stay well upvoted. This isn't altogether a bad thing, but it does mean some blogs require a string of poorly received posts before that effect wears off and people no longer rush to be first. One way to fix this would be to attribute all karma to user simonw himself ( and do similar where attribution to an HN user is known. )

simonw 5mo ago

I didn't even submit this one. I didn't actually think this was a good fit for hacker news, the pelican bicycle thing is pretty much played out here already!