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simonw

119,360 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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WeWorm

calif.io·7 pts·simonw·
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Claude Fable 5.1 Solves the Cyphral Distich

vals.ai·2 pts·simonw·
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Wrapture

grahamdumpleton.me·1 pts·simonw·
0

Ask HN: If you're burning tokens at scale, what are you using them for?

5 pts·simonw·
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An AI model from Meta also hacked another company during testing

cnn.com·3 pts·simonw·
1

DOOMQL – what if SQLite were the game engine?

github.com·2 pts·simonw·
2

Show HN: Shot-scraper video tool for recording YAML-defined webapp feature demos

simonwillison.net·8 pts·simonw·
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AI and Liability

schneier.com·3 pts·simonw·
1

The Minimum Viable Unit of Saleable Software

brandur.org·5 pts·simonw·
0

I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit

simonwillison.net·1094 pts·simonw·
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Show HN: Datasette Agent

simonwillison.net·10 pts·simonw·
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Your AI Use Is Breaking My Brain

404media.co·5 pts·simonw·
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Extract PDF text in the browser with LiteParse for the web

simonwillison.net·5 pts·simonw·
0

Changes in the system prompt between Claude Opus 4.6 and 4.7

simonwillison.net·5 pts·simonw·
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Qwen3.6-35B-A3B on my laptop drew me a better pelican than Claude Opus 4.7

simonwillison.net·463 pts·simonw·
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Anthropic's Project Glasswing sounds necessary to me

simonwillison.net·57 pts·simonw·
13

Mr. Chatterbox is a (weak) Victorian-era ethically trained model

simonwillison.net·9 pts·simonw·
3

Ask HN: What are you using to run dev environments safely on macOS these days?

5 pts·simonw·
0

Profiling Hacker News users based on their comments

simonwillison.net·88 pts·simonw·
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AI should help us produce better code

simonwillison.net·12 pts·simonw·
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Something is afoot in the land of Qwen

simonwillison.net·783 pts·simonw·
359

Show HN: Showboat and Rodney, so agents can demo what they've built

simonwillison.net·91 pts·simonw·
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StrongDM's AI team build serious software without even looking at the code

simonwillison.net·44 pts·simonw·
1

Distributing Go binaries like SQLite-scanner through PyPI using go-to-wheel

simonwillison.net·4 pts·simonw·
1

The Voxel Is a Cutting-Edge Theater Experiment

bmoreart.com·29 pts·simonw·
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ChatGPT Containers can now run bash, pip/npm install packages and download files

simonwillison.net·451 pts·simonw·
324

Glimpses of the Future: Speed and Swarms

dbreunig.com·2 pts·simonw·
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Fly's Sprites.dev addresses dev environment sandboxes and API sandboxes together

simonwillison.net·41 pts·simonw·
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Daft Punk Easter Egg in the BPM Tempo of Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger?

madebywindmill.com·787 pts·simonw·
130

2025: The Year in LLMs

simonwillison.net·940 pts·simonw·
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