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He’s the right person at the right time. A prolific HN celebrity that has been spamming day in day out this site with LLM updates, playing the optimist, the skeptic and any shade in between, 10 times a week, during the peak of the hype.

His efforts might single-handedly be worth a couple percentage points off the valuations of AI companies. That’s like, what, a dozen billion dollars these days? At least I hope for him he gets the fat check before it all goes up in flames.

>>sph+(OP)
I'm actually quite selective about what I post to Hacker News - I didn't submit this piece about Moltbook for example because there was already an active thread about it.

If you look at submissions from my domain on https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=simonwillison.net you'll see most of them weren't by my simonw user - I generally submit things myself 2-3 times a month, and only things I deem to be "Hacker News worthy".

>>simonw+jC2
For completeness, I feel the frequency of the posters own domain in their comments should be included, not just their self submissions.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

>>cube00+XH2
Guilty as charged, I've been trying to set a precedent there that more people should write on their own site and link back to it where relevant in comments.

I argued that point in this comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46367224#46371369