Top Hackernews posts from simonwillison.net

1. Bing: “I will not harm you unless you harm me first” (simonwillison.net)
   3363 points by simonw over 3 years | 1673 comments
2. The killer app of Gemini Pro 1.5 is using video as an input (simonwillison.net)
   1136 points by simonw over 2 years | 482 comments
3. Stable Diffusion is a big deal (simonwillison.net)
   874 points by simonw about 4 years | 471 comments
4. Large language models are having their Stable Diffusion moment (simonwillison.net)
   811 points by simonw over 3 years | 369 comments
5. AI-enhanced development makes me more ambitious with my projects (simonwillison.net)
   702 points by duck over 3 years | 505 comments
6. Embeddings: What they are and why they matter (simonwillison.net)
   668 points by simonw almost 3 years | 131 comments
7. Open source projects should run office hours (simonwillison.net)
   620 points by tosh over 5 years | 266 comments
8. We need to tell people ChatGPT will lie to them, not debate linguistics (simonwillison.net)
   546 points by simonw over 3 years | 457 comments
9. Prompt injection explained, with video, slides, and a transcript (simonwillison.net)
   508 points by sebg over 3 years | 175 comments
10. Exploring GPTs: ChatGPT in a trench coat? (simonwillison.net)
    503 points by simonw almost 3 years | 203 comments
11. Prompt injection: what’s the worst that can happen? (simonwillison.net)
    462 points by simonw over 3 years | 203 comments
12. Understanding GPT tokenizers (simonwillison.net)
    432 points by simonw over 3 years | 130 comments
13. Could you train a ChatGPT-beating model for $85k and run it in a browser? (simonwillison.net)
    430 points by sirteno over 3 years | 170 comments
14. It doesn't take much public creativity to stand out as a job candidate (simonwillison.net)
    386 points by simonw about 5 years | 374 comments
15. Using GPT-3 to explain how code works (simonwillison.net)
    385 points by simonw about 4 years | 147 comments
16. Interesting ideas in Observable Framework (simonwillison.net)
    360 points by simonw over 2 years | 63 comments
17. Lawyer cites fake cases invented by ChatGPT, judge is not amused (simonwillison.net)
    347 points by scraptor over 3 years | 306 comments
18. What to blog about (simonwillison.net)
    333 points by Tomte almost 4 years | 90 comments
19. The AI Trust Crisis (simonwillison.net)
    317 points by simonw almost 3 years | 276 comments
20. It’s infuriatingly hard to understand how closed models train on their input (simonwillison.net)
    308 points by simonw over 3 years | 218 comments
21. Show HN: Google Drive to SQLite (simonwillison.net)
    305 points by simonw over 4 years | 32 comments
22. Running OCR against PDFs and images directly in the browser (simonwillison.net)
    301 points by simonw over 2 years | 58 comments
23. Now add a walrus: Prompt engineering in DALL-E 3 (simonwillison.net)
    288 points by simonw almost 3 years | 72 comments
24. It doesn’t take much public creativity to stand out as a job candidate (simonwillison.net)
    280 points by nithinbekal about 3 years | 378 comments
25. It looks like I’m moving to Mastodon (simonwillison.net)
    258 points by swyx almost 4 years | 447 comments
26. GitHub Copilot Leaked Prompt (simonwillison.net)
    252 points by tim_sw over 3 years | 4 comments
27. Twenty years of my blog (simonwillison.net)
    231 points by simonw over 4 years | 23 comments
28. One Year of TILs (simonwillison.net)
    228 points by tosh over 5 years | 53 comments
29. Datasette’s new JSON write API: The first alpha of Datasette 1.0 (simonwillison.net)
    226 points by simonw almost 4 years | 18 comments
30. Coping strategies for the serial project hoarder (simonwillison.net)
    224 points by usrme almost 4 years | 38 comments
31. Stanford Alpaca, and the acceleration of on-device LLM development (simonwillison.net)
    222 points by Kye over 3 years | 66 comments
32. Multi-modal prompt injection image attacks against GPT-4V (simonwillison.net)
    222 points by simonw almost 3 years | 67 comments
33. Datasette Lite: a server-side Python web application running in a browser (simonwillison.net)
    219 points by simonw over 4 years | 34 comments
34. Many options for running Mistral models in your terminal using LLM (simonwillison.net)
    215 points by simonw over 2 years | 99 comments
35. Show HN: Instantly create a GitHub repository to take screenshots of a web page (simonwillison.net)
    214 points by simonw over 4 years | 36 comments
36. Support open source that you use by paying the maintainers to talk to your team (simonwillison.net)
    213 points by simonw over 4 years | 64 comments
37. Delimiters won’t save you from prompt injection (simonwillison.net)
    213 points by eiiot over 3 years | 111 comments
38. Fun with Unix domain sockets (simonwillison.net)
    212 points by edward about 5 years | 66 comments
39. Stuff we figured out about AI in 2023 (simonwillison.net)
    210 points by simonw over 2 years | 132 comments
40. Prompt injection attacks against GPT-3 (simonwillison.net)
    208 points by simonw about 4 years | 113 comments
41. CLI tools for working with ChatGPT and other LLMs (simonwillison.net)
    204 points by simonw over 3 years | 51 comments
42. Training is not the same as chatting: LLMs don’t remember everything you say (simonwillison.net)
    201 points by simonw over 2 years | 138 comments
43. The Dual LLM pattern for building AI assistants that can resist prompt injection (simonwillison.net)
    201 points by simonw over 3 years | 109 comments
44. ChatGPT as a Calculator for Words (simonwillison.net)
    201 points by stevefink over 3 years | 79 comments
45. Accessing Llama 2 from the command-line with the LLM-replicate plugin (simonwillison.net)
    200 points by simonw about 3 years | 43 comments
46. The Perfect Commit (simonwillison.net)
    197 points by todsacerdoti almost 4 years | 219 comments
47. Cross-Database Queries in SQLite (simonwillison.net)
    197 points by chmaynard over 5 years | 78 comments
48. Notes on the SQLite DuckDB Paper (simonwillison.net)
    195 points by todsacerdoti about 4 years | 28 comments
49. Llamafile is the new best way to run a LLM on your own computer (simonwillison.net)
    195 points by djha-skin almost 3 years | 47 comments
50. Catching up on the weird world of LLMs (simonwillison.net)
    195 points by benwerd about 3 years | 38 comments
51. Google Scholar search: "certainly, here is" -chatgpt -llm (simonwillison.net)
    194 points by wanderingmind over 2 years | 94 comments
52. AI for Data Journalism: demonstrating what we can do with this stuff (simonwillison.net)
    167 points by duck over 2 years | 32 comments
53. Git scraping: track changes over time by scraping to a Git repository (2020) (simonwillison.net)
    166 points by ekiauhce about 3 years | 66 comments
54. Stealing everything you've ever typed on your Windows Recall PC is now possible (simonwillison.net)
    165 points by serhack_ over 2 years | 22 comments
55. How to implement Q&A against your docs with GPT3 embeddings and Datasette (simonwillison.net)
    164 points by swyx over 3 years | 31 comments
56. LLM Python/CLI tool adds support for embeddings (simonwillison.net)
    161 points by simonw about 3 years | 46 comments
57. Analytics: Hacker News v.s. a tweet from Elon Musk (simonwillison.net)
    159 points by simonw over 3 years | 53 comments
58. PAGNIs: Probably Are Gonna Need Its (2021) (simonwillison.net)
    150 points by thunderbong almost 4 years | 97 comments
59. Hacking around with the ScotRail audio announcements (simonwillison.net)
    139 points by simonw about 4 years | 30 comments
60. Notes on streaming large API responses (simonwillison.net)
    131 points by simonw about 5 years | 52 comments
61. Three major LLM releases in 24 hours (simonwillison.net)
    129 points by helloplanets over 2 years | 69 comments
62. Joining CSV and JSON data with an in-memory SQLite database (simonwillison.net)
    126 points by edward about 5 years | 32 comments
63. A tool for capturing captions and transcripts from online videos (simonwillison.net)
    123 points by mzs almost 4 years | 28 comments
64. Things I've learned about building CLI tools in Python (simonwillison.net)
    123 points by gilad almost 3 years | 83 comments
65. Leaked Google document: “We Have No Moat, And Neither Does OpenAI” (simonwillison.net)
    113 points by cube2222 over 3 years | 5 comments
66. Image generation ethics: Will you be an AI vegan? (simonwillison.net)
    112 points by simonw about 4 years | 194 comments
67. Bundling binary tools in Python wheels (simonwillison.net)
    110 points by goranmoomin over 4 years | 32 comments
68. Show HN: git-history, for analyzing scraped data collected using Git and SQLite (simonwillison.net)
    108 points by simonw almost 5 years | 19 comments
69. A new AI game: Give me ideas for crimes to do (simonwillison.net)
    106 points by simonw almost 4 years | 65 comments
70. Building a Desktop Application for Datasette (simonwillison.net)
    101 points by Tomte about 5 years | 45 comments
71. My process for building a feature (simonwillison.net)
    100 points by simonw over 4 years | 8 comments
72. Slop is the new name for unwanted AI-generated content (simonwillison.net)
    92 points by beardicus over 2 years | 34 comments
73. The interesting ideas in Datasette (2018) (simonwillison.net)
    86 points by Tomte over 4 years | 15 comments
74. Learning Rust with ChatGPT, Copilot and Advent of Code (simonwillison.net)
    83 points by sean_lynch almost 4 years | 41 comments
75. Apply conversion functions to data in SQLite columns with the SQLite-utils tool (simonwillison.net)
    80 points by edward about 5 years | 2 comments
76. The Baked Data architectural pattern (simonwillison.net)
    70 points by edward about 5 years | 23 comments
77. Mastodon Is Just Blogs (simonwillison.net)
    69 points by fariszr almost 4 years | 34 comments
78. Shot-scraper: automated screenshots for documentation, built on Playwright (simonwillison.net)
    66 points by simonw over 4 years | 12 comments
79. Four new models that are benchmarking near or above GPT-4 (simonwillison.net)
    66 points by simonw over 2 years | 34 comments
80. Running Python micro-benchmarks using the ChatGPT Code Interpreter alpha (simonwillison.net)
    65 points by srijan4 over 3 years | 46 comments
81. Shot-scraper: Automating screenshots for documentation (simonwillison.net)
    63 points by todsacerdoti almost 4 years | 15 comments
82. Web LLM runs the vicuna-7B LLM in the browser and it’s impressive (simonwillison.net)
    63 points by simonw over 3 years | 4 comments
83. Everything Google's Python team were responsible for (simonwillison.net)
    57 points by kryster over 2 years | 15 comments