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simonw

120,725 karma · joined October 29, 2007

JSK Fellow 2020. Creator of Datasette, co-creator of Django. Co-founder of Lanyrd, YC Winter 2011.

https://simonwillison.net/ and https://til.simonwillison.net/

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Ask HN: Best examples of end-user facing documentation

28 pts·simonw·
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Is the AI spell-casting metaphor harmful or helpful?

simonwillison.net·2 pts·simonw·
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Exploring 10M scraped Shutterstock videos used to train Meta’s Make-A-Video

simonwillison.net·6 pts·simonw·
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You can’t solve AI security problems with more AI

simonwillison.net·21 pts·simonw·
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I don’t know how to solve prompt injection

simonwillison.net·7 pts·simonw·
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Human Trafficking’s Newest Abuse: Forcing Victims into Cyberscamming

propublica.org·4 pts·simonw·
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Prompt injection attacks against GPT-3

simonwillison.net·208 pts·simonw·
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Image generation ethics: Will you be an AI vegan?

simonwillison.net·112 pts·simonw·
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Stable Diffusion is a big deal

simonwillison.net·874 pts·simonw·
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Building a Searchable Archive for the San Francisco Microscopical Society

simonwillison.net·3 pts·simonw·
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Hacking around with the ScotRail audio announcements

simonwillison.net·139 pts·simonw·
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Plugin Support for Datasette Lite (Datasette in the Browser with WebAssembly)

simonwillison.net·2 pts·simonw·
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Reduce Friction

blog.ceejbot.com·1 pts·simonw·
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Using GPT-3 to explain how code works

simonwillison.net·385 pts·simonw·
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Show HN: S3-OCR: Extract text from PDF files stored in an S3 bucket

simonwillison.net·6 pts·simonw·
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One-liner for running queries against CSV files with SQLite

til.simonwillison.net·6 pts·simonw·
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Matt's Script Archive

scriptarchive.com·2 pts·simonw·
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Twenty years of my blog

simonwillison.net·231 pts·simonw·
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A Datasette tutorial written by GPT-3

simonwillison.net·3 pts·simonw·
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Datasette Lite: a server-side Python web application running in a browser

simonwillison.net·219 pts·simonw·
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Automatically filing issues when tracked file content changes

simonwillison.net·14 pts·simonw·
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Show HN: I built a Covid sewage numbers Twitter bot

simonwillison.net·16 pts·simonw·
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Extracting web page content using Readability.js and shot-scraper

til.simonwillison.net·39 pts·simonw·
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Ask HN: No cynical answers, why do companies push their apps so hard?

14 pts·simonw·
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Show HN: Instantly create a GitHub repository to take screenshots of a web page

simonwillison.net·214 pts·simonw·
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Scraping web pages from the command-line with shot-scraper

simonwillison.net·18 pts·simonw·
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Shot-scraper: automated screenshots for documentation, built on Playwright

simonwillison.net·66 pts·simonw·
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Support open source that you use by paying the maintainers to talk to your team

simonwillison.net·213 pts·simonw·
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Show HN: Google Drive to SQLite

simonwillison.net·305 pts·simonw·
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Using SQLite and Datasette with Fly Volumes

simonwillison.net·8 pts·simonw·
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