Because the author of the blog is paid to post daily about nothing but AI and needs to link farm for clicks and engagement on a daily basis.

Most of the time, users (or the author himself) submit this blog as the source, when in fact it is just content that ultimately just links to the original source for the goal of engagement. Unfortunately, this actually breaks two guidelines: "promotional spam" and "original sourcing".

From [0]

"Please don't use HN primarily for promotion. It's ok to post your own stuff part of the time, but the primary use of the site should be for curiosity."

and

"Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter."

The moderators won't do anything because they are allowing it [1] only for this blog.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46450908

▲ odshoifsdhfs 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Hah i didn’t see who submitted it but as soon as I read your message i thought it was simonw, and behold, tada!

HN really needs a way to block or hide posts from some users.

▲ duskdozer an hour ago | parent | next [-]

firefox usercss or stylus addon, enjoy ;), no LLM needed

    tr.submission:has(a[href="from?site=<...>"])
    {
        display: none;

        & + tr
        {
            display: none;
        }
    }

    .comtr:has(.hnuser[href="user?id=<...>"])
    {
        display: none;
    }

This isn't just a CSS snippet—it's a monumentous paradigm shift in your HN browsing landscape. A link on the front page? That's not noise anymore—that's pure signal.

time to take a shower after writing that

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manarth 44 minutes ago | parent [-]

HN formatting isn't quite markdown: you want a 4-space prefix to identify/format text as code.

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duskdozer 39 minutes ago | parent [-]

my tabs :(

does it look measurably different this way? to me it looks the same but now indented

	▲	manarth 27 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Looks great now! And thanks for an example with nested CSS, I hadn't seen that outside SASS before, hadn't realised that had made its way into W3C standards :-)

▲ manarth an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I described an approach here – feel free to use this if it's fit for your use-case:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46341604

▲ consumer451 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Ironically, you could probably generate a browser extension or user script to do that in one to three prompts.

	▲	agmater 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		If you can't one-shot that you've been declawed /s

▲ PacificSpecific 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Yeah it's really quite annoying. Is there a way to just block his site source from showing up on here without using external tools?

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bahmboo 3 hours ago | parent [-]

I find is very easy to hit the hide button. It makes reading the site much faster but there is some feeling of fomo.

	▲	PacificSpecific 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		That's per-post though isn't? I can't ban a submission source can I? Regardless thanks for the tip

▲ bahmboo 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The author didn't submit this to HN. I read his blog but I'm not on X so I do like when he covers things there. He's submitted 10 times in last 62 days.

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bakugo 3 hours ago | parent [-]

> He's submitted 10 times in last 62 days.

Now check how many times he links to his blog in comments.

Actually, here, I'll do it for you: He has made 13209 comments in total, and 1422 of those contain a link to his blog[0]. An objectively ridiculous number, and anyone else would've likely been banned or at least told off for self-promotion long before reaching that number.

[0] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

	▲	bahmboo 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I like being able to follow tangents and related topics outside the main comment thread so generally I appreciate when people do that via a link along with some context. But this isn't my site and I don't get to pick the rules.

▲ helloplanets an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> Because the author of the blog is paid to post daily about nothing but AI and needs to link farm for clicks and engagement on a daily basis.

Care to elaborate? Paid by whom?

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throwup238 an hour ago | parent [-]

It’s at the top of the page:

> Sponsored by: Teleport — Secure, Govern, and Operate AI at Engineering Scale. Learn more

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/19/sponsorship/

	▲	helloplanets an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Ah, thanks. Somehow missed that.

▲ geeunits 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I've been warned for calling this out, but I'm glad others are privy to the obvious

▲ Der_Einzige 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Thank you for calling this out. The individual in question is massively overhyped.

▲ hizanberg 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

So everyone has to waste their time to visit a link on a blog first instead of being able to go directly to the source?

and why would anyone down vote you for calling this out, like who wants to see more low effort traffic-grab posts like this?

	▲	bahmboo 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Because he didn't submit it.

▲ dingnuts 6 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

[dead]

▲ nl 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Simon's work is always appreciated. He thinks through things well, and his writing is excellent.

Just because something is popular doesn't make it bad.

	▲	sunaookami 3 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		He massively fell off, is now only in for the marketing hype and even has a sponsor now for his blog. Sad.
	▲	UncleMeat 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		"Self promotion is allowed if your content is sufficiently good" is odd.