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rvztoday at 11:57 AM1 replyview on HN

Except that the "content" that reaches the top is always about AI / LLMs and nothing else and it is "all the time". Any opportunity to comment, he will link back to his own blog.

He even reposted the same link (which is about AI) with one of his posts when the upvotes fell off and until the second one reached the top, with the intention of promoting his own blog.

Let me simply prove my point to you on how predictable this spam is.

He will do a blog post this month about this paper [0] with an expert analysis by either someone else (or even an LLM) with the primary intention of the blog being used for self promotion with at least one link back to his own blog.

> ...which is then upvoted by the Hacker News community

You don't know that. But what we do know is that even the moderators now have "favourites". Anyone else would be shot down for promotional spam.

[0] https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.24880


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simonwtoday at 2:47 PM

"He even reposted the same link (which is about AI) with one of his posts when the upvotes fell off"

Where did I do that?

> He will do a blog post this month about this paper [0]

That paper you linked to is a perfect example of where my approach can add value!

Did you read it? Do you understand what it saying? It is dense.

I would love to read an evaluation of that paper by someone who can rephrase the core ideas and conversations into a couple of paragraphs that help me understand it, and help me figure out if I should invest further effort in learning more.

I have a whole tag on my blog for that kind of content called paper-review: https://simonwillison.net/tags/paper-review/ - it's my version of the TikTok meme "I read X so you don't have to".

Honestly, your problem doesn't seem to be with me so much as it seems to be with the concept of blogging in general.

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