Comment by th0ma5
7 days ago
Perhaps you should add a privacy policy or just release the source rather than assume people will trust your site. Why do you do these demos if you aren't upfront about all the things the LLMs didn't do?
7 days ago
Perhaps you should add a privacy policy or just release the source rather than assume people will trust your site. Why do you do these demos if you aren't upfront about all the things the LLMs didn't do?
I released the source: https://github.com/simonw/tools/blob/main/hacker-news-filter... (Apache 2 licensed) and a commit history listing the prompts I used. https://github.com/simonw/tools/commits/main/hacker-news-fil... - also displayed on the site here: https://tools.simonwillison.net/colophon#hacker-news-filtere...
I don't think I need a privacy policy since the app is designed so that nothing gets logged anywhere - it works by hitting the Algolia API directly from your browser, but the filtering happens locally and is stored in localStorage so nobody on earth has the ability to see what you filtered.
The API it uses is https://hn.algolia.com/api/v1/search?tags=front_page - which is presumably logged somewhere (covered by Algolia's privacy policy) but doesn't serve any cookies.
> Why do you do these demos if you aren't upfront about all the things the LLMs didn't do?
What do you mean by that?
You should try to get other people to make your demos is all I'm saying. I don't know why you keep inserting yourself either. Why didn't someone else post the thing you made? Were they waiting for you to do it or do you think people aren't smart enough to do it? I'm just trying to understand why every damned LLM story has to feature you. In what ways could you avoid such a filter of your posts?
> Why didn't someone else post the thing you made?
You mean this thing? https://tools.simonwillison.net/hacker-news-filtered
I built it literally minutes before I posted it, and I built it specifically for this thread.
Other people post my stuff all the time - if you take a look at this list here, very few of them were submitted by my user account: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=simonwillison.net
(Currently only one of the posts on that page were by me.)
let simonw be prolific, lots of people enjoy his content and that is why his comments in the post are always ranked in the top. This animosity isn't constructive.
The site does not request any personal information, therefore no privacy policy is required.
It has no server side log? How do I know that if there is no policy?
You could read the code. This is Hacker News after all.
1 reply →