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Watching o3 guess a photo's location is surreal, dystopian and entertaining (simonwillison.net)
HN 987 pts 433 comments by simonw Apr 26, 2025 thread
2025: The Year in LLMs (simonwillison.net)
HN 940 pts 599 comments by simonw Dec 31, 2025 thread
Your job is to deliver code you have proven to work (simonwillison.net)
HN 859 pts 658 comments by simonw Dec 18, 2025 thread
Daft Punk Easter Egg in the BPM Tempo of Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger? (madebywindmill.com)
HN 787 pts 130 comments by simonw Jan 2, 2026 thread
Something is afoot in the land of Qwen (simonwillison.net)
HN 783 pts 360 comments by simonw Mar 4, 2026 thread
Vibe code is legacy code (blog.val.town)
HN 758 pts 454 comments by simonw Jul 30, 2025 thread
Grok: Searching X for "From:Elonmusk (Israel or Palestine or Hamas or Gaza)" (simonwillison.net)
HN 734 pts 546 comments by simonw Jul 11, 2025 thread
OpenAI are quietly adopting skills, now available in ChatGPT and Codex CLI (simonwillison.net)
HN 587 pts 324 comments by simonw Dec 12, 2025 AI / Machine Learning thread
My 2.5 year old laptop can write Space Invaders in JavaScript now (GLM-4.5 Air) (simonwillison.net)
HN 577 pts 396 comments by simonw Jul 29, 2025 Web Development thread
Show HN: My LLM CLI tool can run tools now, from Python code or plugins (simonwillison.net)
HN 529 pts 165 comments by simonw May 27, 2025 AI / Machine Learning thread
ChatGPT Containers can now run bash, pip/npm install packages and download files (simonwillison.net)
HN 451 pts 324 comments by simonw Jan 26, 2026 AI / Machine Learning thread
GPT-5 Thinking in ChatGPT (a.k.a. Research Goblin) is good at search (simonwillison.net)
HN 361 pts 255 comments by simonw Sep 6, 2025 AI / Machine Learning thread
Related: <i>Google&#x27;s new AI mode is good, actually</i> - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=45158586">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=45158586</a> - Sept 2025 (31 comments)
Useful patterns for building HTML tools (simonwillison.net)
HN 354 pts 93 comments by simonw Dec 10, 2025 Web Development thread
Code like a surgeon (geoffreylitt.com)
HN 285 pts 134 comments by simonw Oct 24, 2025 thread
Designing agentic loops (simonwillison.net)
HN 284 pts 117 comments by simonw Sep 30, 2025 thread
AI assisted search-based research works now (simonwillison.net)
HN 283 pts 147 comments by simonw Apr 21, 2025 AI / Machine Learning thread
Getting DeepSeek-OCR working on an Nvidia Spark via brute force with Claude Code (simonwillison.net)
HN 201 pts 45 comments by simonw Oct 20, 2025 AI / Machine Learning thread
Let's rename the "vibecoding" tag to "llms"
L 177 pts 235 comments by simonw Sep 4, 2025 metavibecoding AI / Machine Learning thread
When Lobste.rs introduced the "vibe coding" tag to mean any post relating to LLMs part of [the justification for that decision](https://lobste.rs/s/lkngrz/new_tag_vibecoding) was this, where the **industry is settling on** link targeted the O'Reilly "Vibe Coding: The Future of Programming" page ([In...
Reverse engineering Codex CLI to get GPT-5-Codex-Mini to draw me a pelican (simonwillison.net)
HN 168 pts 76 comments by simonw Nov 9, 2025 AI / Machine Learning thread
Your job is to deliver code you have proven to work (simonwillison.net)
L 114 pts 45 comments by simonw Dec 18, 2025 programmingvibecoding AI / Machine LearningProgramming (General) thread
New prompt injection papers: Agents rule of two and the attacker moves second (simonwillison.net)
HN 114 pts 44 comments by simonw Nov 2, 2025 thread
Design Patterns for Securing LLM Agents Against Prompt Injections (simonwillison.net)
HN 110 pts 28 comments by simonw Jun 13, 2025 AI / Machine Learning thread
Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct-1M and Qwen2.5-14B-Instruct-1M (simonwillison.net)
HN 98 pts 2 comments by simonw Jan 26, 2025 thread
Stuff we figured out about AI in 2023 (simonwillison.net)
L 92 pts 21 comments by simonw Jan 1, 2024 vibecoding AI / Machine Learning thread
Show HN: Showboat and Rodney, so agents can demo what they've built (simonwillison.net)
HN 91 pts 58 comments by simonw Feb 10, 2026 thread
Here’s how I use LLMs to help me write code (simonwillison.net)
L 71 pts 25 comments by simonw Mar 11, 2025 vibecoding AI / Machine LearningProgramming (General) thread
I can now run a GPT-4 class model on my laptop (simonwillison.net)
L 68 pts 23 comments by simonw Dec 9, 2024 vibecoding AI / Machine Learning thread
Here's how I use LLMs to help me write code (simonwillison.net)
HN 68 pts 4 comments by simonw Mar 11, 2025 thread
AI should help us produce better code (simonwillison.net)
L 67 pts 81 comments by simonw 1d ago vibecoding AI / Machine Learning thread
Whither CockroachDB? (rfd.shared.oxide.computer)
L 64 pts 35 comments by simonw Aug 16, 2024 culturedatabases Data / Databases / InfrastructureCulture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread