simonw is a fine contributor to HN and we're lucky to have him.

I realize that for some people there is too much LLM-related content and (therefore?) too much by certain authors, but that has always been the case for certain topics and certain authors in HN's history. This is a side effect of the frontpage being the same for everyone, and therefore the scarcest resource.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

Simon is not the OP. He’s just commenting on his own work. How is that spam?

Simon, thank you for your comments and the great content you create. I've learned a lot from your blogposts and your experiments.

My comment here is entirely justified in this case.

Someone else submitted my vibe-coded slop site to the front page without any context, and it accumulated enough votes to show up at the top.

I could have linked to my blog post about it, but instead I linked to a Hacker News comment precisely because I anticipated complaints about "spamming" if I linked to my blog.

You don't know, SimonW made Django Python framework?

I just tune out every post that says “I wrote about this already” and then links to it. Simon is great and kudos for his self promotion but it’s interesting to see as it’s often called out for anyone else.

The guy is good but he certainly stretches the limit. I just auto ignore his stuff but I know others enjoy!