alt Hacker NewsYeah, I agree that it's rude to show AI output to people... in most cases (and 100% if you don't disclose it.)
My simonw/research GitHub repo is deliberately separate from everything else I do because it's entirely AI-generated. I wrote about that here: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Nov/6/async-code-research/#th...
This particular case is a very solid use-case for that approach though. There are a ton of important questions to answer: can it run in WebAssembly? What's the difference to regular JavaScript? Is it safe to use as a sandbox against attacks like the regex thing?
Those questions can be answered by having Claude Code crunch along, produce and execute a couple of dozen files of code and report back on the results.
I think the knee-jerk reaction pushing back against this is understandable. I'd encourage people not to miss out on the substance.
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And again you're linking to your site. Maybe try pasting the few relevant sentences instead of constantly pushing your content in almost every comment. That's what people find annoying. Maybe link to other people's stuff more, or just write what you think here on HN.
If someone wants to read your blog, they will, they know it exists, and some people even submit your new articles here. There's no need to do what you're doing. Every day you're irritating more people with this behavior, and eventually the substance won't matter to them anymore, so you're acting against your own interests.
Unless you want people to develop the same kind of ad blindness mechanism, where they automatically skip anything that looks like self promotion. Some people will just see a comment by simonw and do the same.
A lot of people have told you this in many threads, but it seems you still don’t get it.
> can it run in WebAssembly?
You can safely assume so. Bellard is the creator of jslinux. The news here would be if it _didn't_.
> What's the difference to regular JavaScript?
It's in the project's README!
> Is it safe to use as a sandbox against attacks like the regex thing?
This is not a sandbox design. It's a resource-constrained design like cesanta/mjs.
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If you vibe coded a microcontroller emulation demo, perhaps there would be less pushback.
Counterpoint to the sibling comment: posting your own site is fine. Your contributions are substantial, and your site is a well-organized repository of your work. Not everything fits (or belongs) in a comment.
I'd chalk up the -4 to generic LLM hate, but I find examples of where LLMs do well to be useful, so I appreciated your post. It displays curiosity, and is especially defensible given your site has no ads, loads blazingly fast, and is filled with HN-relevant content, and doesn't even attempt to sell anything.