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See this comment for background (and creation prompt): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49504625#49505116 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49504625#4950
by simonw 1mo ago
See this comment for background (and creation prompt): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49504625#49505116 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49504625#49505116
- owebmaster 1mo ago[flagged]
- simonw 1mo agoMy comment here is entirely justified in this case. Someone else submitted my vibe-coded slop site to the front page without any context, and it accumulated enough votes to show up at the top. I could have linked to my blog post about it, but instead I linked to a Hacker News comment precisely because I anticipated complaints about "spamming" if I linked to my blog.
- bingemaker 1mo ago[flagged]
- rvz 1mo ago[flagged]
- simonw 1mo agoWhat am I "doing" here?
- rvz 1mo ago[flagged]
- simonw 1mo agoHow is this comment "spam"? Spell it out for me. (I think you may be confusing "spam" with "prolific". I write a lot.)
- rvz 1mo agoOnce again, continues to gaslight after spamming a post with another top-posted comment after having to “justify” it. In this case, You already admitted to it. There is just no end or need to rapidly post on every opportunity that involves “AI” or whatever that is related to it.
- simonw 1mo agoSeriously, what's your definition of spam? Or an easier question: how am I gaslighting here? You should be able to spell that out. (You do understand that the top linked site here was built by me, but has no authorship information on it at all, right? That's why I posted a comment explaining what it is.)
- simianwords 1mo ago.. I know its tempting to try to reply to all these people but I'd just ignore them. A lot of them feel stressed by AI and it has nothing to do with you personally.
- owebmaster 1mo ago"Am I so out of touch?" "No, it's the children who are wrong".
- nswizzle31 1mo agoSpam = excessive promotion of your work. It’s not one comment, but the entire context of all your comments. Gaslighting because it’s so OBVIOUS that this is what people are referring to by “spam” that you almost have to be purposely pretending to not understand. Such a prolific writer simply has to be aware of the fine line where promoting your work becomes excessive. Not taking sides here.
- infecto 1mo agoI think folks are a little too aggressive here but I know I typically have your posts muted by default for me simply because too often it was just blog spam about something you wrote before. I suspect the greater HN in net likes your work but there is a pretty wide spectrum and I would say you definitely blur the limits between spam and “prolific”.
- filmgirlcw 1mo agoSomeone else posted his site to HN, not Simon. He responds with additional context and also responds to links to other HN comments he’s made rather than just linking back to his own site. The only person gaslighting here is you.
- monster_truck 1mo agomaybe chill out dog
- infecto 1mo agoI just tune out every post that says “I wrote about this already” and then links to it. Simon is great and kudos for his self promotion but it’s interesting to see as it’s often called out for anyone else. The guy is good but he certainly stretches the limit. I just auto ignore his stuff but I know others enjoy!
- yoavm 1mo agoSimon, thank you for your comments and the great content you create. I've learned a lot from your blogposts and your experiments.
- NoDodgeQuestion 1mo agoYou don't know, SimonW made Django Python framework?
- rob 1mo agoDidn't he leave the project before it even had an official release?
- rob 1mo agohttps://simonwillison.net/2005/Jul/17/django/ https://simonwillison.net/2005/Jul/17/django/ > I haven’t been involved with Django since leaving the Journal-World back in September, but now that the framework is open-sourced I look forward to contributing to its further development—both in terms of documentation and actual code.
- Cheyana 1mo agoChuckling at a Python reference in a comment thread arguing about spam.
- bewareofscams 1mo agoHaving done a thing does not make a person into a demigod embodiment for life, please remember that guys.
- deleted 1mo ago[deleted]
- roseway4 1mo agoSimon is not the OP. He’s just commenting on his own work. How is that spam?
- bewareofscams 1mo ago[flagged]
- dang 1mo agosimonw is a fine contributor to HN and we're lucky to have him. I realize that for some people there is too much LLM-related content and (therefore?) too much by certain authors, but that has always been the case for certain topics and certain authors in HN's history. This is a side effect of the frontpage being the same for everyone, and therefore the scarcest resource. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=by%3Adang%20front%20scarce&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
- cebert 1mo agoSimon, thanks for all the great work you do. I definitely appreciate your contributions to discussion threads here as well as your blog. I learned so much from you.
- enos_feedler 1mo agoFor ultimate show of appreciation, there is a way to subscribe to his work on github :)