Hackernews posts about Willison

1. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2026)
   154 points by whoishiring 20 days ago | 605 comments
2. The room the economy can't see (wilsoniumite.com)
   252 points by Wilsoniumite 3 days ago | 284 comments
3. Labor Is a Market Distortion, we need VAT and UBI (wilsoniumite.com)
   17 points by Wilsoniumite 9 days ago | 32 comments
4. How Old Are You in Space? (ethanwillingham.com)
   5 points by Willingham about 8 hours ago | discuss
5. How to earn a billion dollars (paulgraham.com)
   733 points by kingstoned 8 days ago | 1928 comments
6. The founder of Craigslist has given away half a billion dollars (www.independent.co.uk)
   417 points by Tomte 3 days ago | 320 comments
7. Swiss voters reject proposal to cap population at ten million (www.swissinfo.ch)
   205 points by FabCH 7 days ago | 267 comments
8. Billionaire Tax Officially Heads to Nov. 3 Ballot (www.sos.ca.gov)
   39 points by simonpure about 10 hours ago | 54 comments
9. The Tech Billionaire Plan to Destroy Democracy – GIL Duran – TMR [video] (www.youtube.com)
   9 points by wturner 1 day ago | 1 comments
10. Outlaw Billionaires (www.ddesignlab.org)
    8 points by robin_reala 2 days ago | 1 comments
11. California 'billionaire tax' makes ballot despite opposition from tech moguls (www.theguardian.com)
    7 points by dmitrygr 3 days ago | 5 comments
12. Atlantic investigation reveals millions of songs used for AI music training (www.engadget.com)
    4 points by gnabgib 1 day ago | discuss
13. Hunting Million-Digit Primes from My Loft (primecrunch.com)
    3 points by andyhedges about 8 hours ago | discuss
14. Show HN: Extend UI – open-source UI kit for modern document apps (www.extend.ai)
    252 points by kbyatnal 11 days ago | 81 comments
15. SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B (www.reuters.com)
    1147 points by itsmarcelg 6 days ago | 1699 comments
16. Hyundai buys Boston Dynamics (startupfortune.com)
    956 points by ck2 2 days ago | 396 comments
17. Albania Is Not for Sale: Kushner's $4B Resort Triggers'Flamingo Revolution' (www.yacnews.com)
    453 points by ortr 13 days ago | 219 comments
18. Trump administration to Pay $765M to Cancel 4 More Wind Projects (www.nytimes.com)
    17 points by hjouneau 3 days ago | 5 comments
19. SpaceX Stock Plunge Wipes Out $600B After Cursor Deal Spooks Investors (www.forbes.com)
    12 points by ortusdux 3 days ago | 3 comments
20. Microsoft Shareholders Sue over $357B Stock Wipeout (www.gadgetreview.com)
    11 points by speckx 2 days ago | discuss
21. How Russian President Vladimir Putin plans to live forever (www.vox.com)
    10 points by thunderbong 2 days ago | 5 comments
22. Trump officials planned to mark 2.7M living people as dead, whistleblower claims (www.washingtonpost.com)
    10 points by internet_points 17 days ago | discuss
23. UK Even Wants Image Scanners on Unsupported Devices (reclaimthenet.org)
    7 points by arrowsmith 3 days ago | 4 comments
24. Their friends are making $100M. Everyone else is wondering how to catch up (www.washingtonpost.com)
    6 points by edward 8 days ago | 4 comments
25. Russia's Putin is spending $26B to live forever (startupfortune.com)
    6 points by insanetech 1 day ago | discuss
26. Trump administration to pay £765M to cancel 4 more wind projects (www.nytimes.com)
    5 points by asplake 2 days ago | 1 comments
27. France mobilises €13B for tech sovereignty funding push (www.reuters.com)
    5 points by 01-_- about 15 hours ago | discuss
28. Ethereum's biggest 'sandwich' bot drained of $7.5M in ironic exploit (www.techsentiments.com)
    5 points by rajsuper123 about 17 hours ago | discuss
29. One giant US power line, enough wind power for 1M homes (electrek.co)
    4 points by Brajeshwar 1 day ago | 1 comments
30. Build a link blog like Simon Willison (xuanwo.io)
    236 points by xuanwo over 1 year ago | 54 comments
31. Willison on Merchant's "Copywriters reveal how AI has decimated their industry" (simonwillison.net)
    80 points by planckscnst 6 months ago | 92 comments
32. AI for data engineers with Simon Willison (talkingpostgres.com)
    21 points by CharlesW 10 months ago | discuss
33. Simon Willison's first blog on LLMs (2022) (simonwillison.net)
    17 points by Alifatisk about 1 year ago | 2 comments
34. Simon Willison has a plan for the end of the world. It's a USB stick (www.technologyreview.com)
    8 points by bilsbie 11 months ago | 2 comments
35. Simon Willison: Exploring Promptfoo (simonwillison.net)
    5 points by recursive4 about 1 year ago | discuss
36. Simon Willison on Phoenix.new (simonwillison.net)
    3 points by davidarenas 12 months ago | 2 comments
37. 2025 in LLMs so far, illustrated by Pelicans on Bicycles – Simon Willison [video] (www.youtube.com)
    3 points by swyx 12 months ago | 1 comments
38. AI tools for software engineers, but without the hype – with Simon Willison [video] (www.youtube.com)
    3 points by nomilk over 1 year ago | 1 comments
39. Who Writes Most Complexly? Shtetl Optimized vs. Simon Willison vs. Alex Harri (juleshenry.github.io)
    3 points by juleshenry 4 months ago | discuss
40. Video of Simon Willison vibe coding live (www.youtube.com)
    3 points by tkgally 8 months ago | discuss
41. Official MCPS are at risk to Willison's lethal trifecta attack (www.tramlines.io)
    2 points by coderinsan 9 months ago | 1 comments
42. Developer Productivity with ChatGPT and Claude with Simon Willison [video] (www.youtube.com)
    2 points by tkgally almost 2 years ago | 1 comments
43. This stuff is exhausting (Simon Willison on using coding agents) (simonwillison.net)
    2 points by osks 3 months ago | discuss
44. Simon Willison on Technical Blogging (writethatblog.substack.com)
    2 points by cyndunlop 5 months ago | discuss
45. Simon Willison on the Talking Postgres podcast: AI for data engineers" (talkingpostgres.com)
    2 points by clairegiordano 11 months ago | discuss
46. Updating Simon Willison's ReAct implementation for 2024 (riza.io)
    2 points by conroy over 1 year ago | discuss
47. AI tools for software engineers, but without the hype – with Simon Willison (newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com)
    2 points by rbanffy over 1 year ago | discuss
48. AI tools for software engineers, but without the hype – with Simon Willison [video] (www.youtube.com)
    2 points by smokel over 1 year ago | discuss
49. Agentic Engineering Patterns – Simon Willison's Weblog (simonwillison.net)
    1 points by Anon84 4 months ago | discuss
50. Dark mode now available on Simon Willison's blog (simonwillison.net)
    1 points by macote 6 months ago | discuss
51. Simon Willison: Using LLMs for Python Development [audio] (realpython.com)
    1 points by lumpa over 1 year ago | discuss
52. Claude 4.5 Opus’ Soul Document (www.lesswrong.com)
    342 points by the-needful 7 months ago | 244 comments
53. Show HN: An MCP Gateway to block the lethal trifecta (github.com)
    51 points by 76SlashDolphin 9 months ago | 22 comments
54. Show HN: Sort lines semantically using llm-sort (github.com)
    25 points by vagozino over 1 year ago | 13 comments
55. Show HN: Popularity Contest, the highest-ranking personal blogs of HN (refactoringenglish.com)
    19 points by mtlynch over 1 year ago | discuss
56. Show HN: Extending LLM SVG generation beyond pelicans and bicycles (gally.net)
    16 points by tkgally 8 months ago | 1 comments
57. Show HN: ContextFort – Visibility and controls for browser agents (contextfort.ai)
    14 points by ashwinr2002 5 months ago | 1 comments
58. Show HN: Predict GPT-5 skills with a community AI benchmark
    13 points by andrewxhill 11 months ago | 2 comments
59. GPT5 is worse than 4.1-mini for text and worse than Sonnet 4 for coding
    10 points by hitradostava 11 months ago | 16 comments