If anything HN is getting harder for me to get stuff on these days. Most of my self submissions of my content have failed to chart over the past few months: https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=simonw

You can see submissions from my domain by other people here: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=simonwillison.net

It's weird what DOES make it. I had high hopes for my piece on ChatGPT memory yesterday - https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/21/chatgpt-new-memory/ - and it got nowhere. This Gemini piece was much more of a throwaway note, I mainly wanted to mark the release of an influential new model on my own site.

The reason I get content on here more than most people is that I write a LOT more than most people. So far this year I've published 45 long form blog entries and 274 short form (link blog) entries - this Gemini piece is one of those.

I try to always add something new - for this Gemini piece that was the video of it running, the references back to a similar demo from Cerebras and (updated since I first posted) a couple of quotes Hacker News comments to help explain diffusion LLMs better.

I wrote more about my approach to blogging here: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/22/link-blog/

The sad truth is that very few people produce long-form writing online these days! Most people who publish regularly are doing tweets, LinkedIn posts and short-form video instead.

How much of your time do you spend in writing for your blog? Do you do this full time or is it more of a side gig?

Your shout that "more people should do this" is resonating with me - I have some interest in similar short form posts covering various topics of interest (even if only for my own reference), but I am not sure if I can manage this on the side.

I'm curious about the time required for this volume of content output. Do you use AI to help with writing?