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. )
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!
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!
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. )
He’s pretty well known in the HN community. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Willison
thats a cool wiki picture
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!
I liked the article, so if he has such a button I hope he keeps clicking it.
He's one of the main developers behind Django.
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!
its better than ex-google CEO spam i see astroturfed everywhere else
he usually have good posts so people usually upvote
He has the most measured (and often quite detailed) posts on LLM and LLM progress, and is the opposite of hype.