alt Hacker NewsBecause the author of the blog is paid to post daily about nothing but AI and needs to link farm for clicks and engagement on a daily basis.
Most of the time, users (or the author himself) submit this blog as the source, when in fact it is just content that ultimately just links to the original source for the goal of engagement. Unfortunately, this actually breaks two guidelines: "promotional spam" and "original sourcing".
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"Please don't use HN primarily for promotion. It's ok to post your own stuff part of the time, but the primary use of the site should be for curiosity."
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"Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter."
The moderators won't do anything because they are allowing it [1] only for this blog.
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Yeah it's really quite annoying. Is there a way to just block his site source from showing up on here without using external tools?
The author didn't submit this to HN. I read his blog but I'm not on X so I do like when he covers things there. He's submitted 10 times in last 62 days.
Hah i didn’t see who submitted it but as soon as I read your message i thought it was simonw, and behold, tada!
HN really needs a way to block or hide posts from some users.
I've been warned for calling this out, but I'm glad others are privy to the obvious
> Most of the time, users (or the author himself) submit this blog as the source, when in fact it is just content that ultimately just links to the original source for the goal of engagement.
I encourage you to look at submissions from my domain before you accuse me like this: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=simonwillison.net - the ones I submitted list "simonw" as the author.
I'm selective about what I submit to Hacker News. I usually only submit my long-form pieces.
In addition to long form writing I operate a link blog, which this Claw piece came from. I have no control over which of my link blog pieces are submitted by other people.
I still try to add value in each of my link posts, which I expect is why they get submitted so often: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/22/link-blog/ - in this case the value add was highlighting that this is Andrej helping coin yet another new term, something he's very good at.
So everyone has to waste their time to visit a link on a blog first instead of being able to go directly to the source?
and why would anyone down vote you for calling this out, like who wants to see more low effort traffic-grab posts like this?
Thank you for calling this out. The individual in question is massively overhyped.
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> Because the author of the blog is paid to post daily about nothing but AI and needs to link farm for clicks and engagement on a daily basis.
Care to elaborate? Paid by whom?
Simon's work is always appreciated. He thinks through things well, and his writing is excellent.
Just because something is popular doesn't make it bad.