Where are Mr. Beast's early sponsors now?(preethamrn.com)

36 points by xmprt 1 year ago | 54 comments

Serving 200M requests per day with a CGI-bin(simonwillison.net)

298 points by mustache_kimono 1 year ago | 267 comments

I’m worried that they put co-pilot in Excel(simonwillison.net)

340 points by isaacfrond 11 months ago | 242 comments

Simon Willison blog post quoting a TikTok monologue by @belligerentbarbies about Copilot in Excel and how AI hallucinations could undermine the finance staff who master spreadsheets.

Grok: Searching X for "From:Elonmusk (Israel or Palestine or Hamas or Gaza)"(simonwillison.net)

590 points by simonw 1 year ago | 424 comments

Simon Willison blog post showing Grok 4 searching X for Elon Musk's posts on Israel/Palestine before answering a controversial question.

SmolLM2(simonwillison.net)

86 points by edward 2 years ago | 20 comments

Understanding GPT tokenizers(simonwillison.net)

380 points by simonw 3 years ago | 110 comments

Simon Willison blog post explaining how GPT tokenizers convert text to integer tokens, with an Observable notebook tool for encoding, decoding and searching tokens.

In the belly of the MrBeast(kevinmunger.substack.com)

416 points by stafford_beer 1 year ago | 310 comments

Kevin Munger's Substack essay examining MrBeast and YouTube creator culture, from the author of The YouTube Apparatus.

YouTube is a mysterious monopoly(anderegg.ca)

338 points by geerlingguy 1 year ago | 432 comments

Blog post discussing a recent drop in YouTube views reported by creators like Adrian Black and Jeff Geerling, and YouTube's opaque monopoly position.

IMG_0001(walzr.com)

1750 points by walz 1 year ago | 278 comments

Riley Walz's project showcasing about 5 million unedited YouTube videos with default IMG_XXXX filenames uploaded from iPhones between 2009 and 2012, shown in random order.

I've built my first successful side project, and I hate it(switowski.com)

1399 points by switowski 2 years ago | 395 comments

A blog post by Sebastian Witowski recounting how his 2020 side project earned over $15,000 but became a maintenance burden he grew to hate.

How to post when no one is reading(jeetmehta.com)

598 points by j4mehta 1 year ago | 240 comments

Personal blog essay arguing creators should keep publishing through years of obscurity, since mastery and audience take a long time to build.

Helping wikis move away from Fandom(weirdgloop.org)

1064 points by creatonez 2 years ago | 473 comments

Weird Gloop blog post explaining why it now hosts the official League of Legends Wiki and plans to help more game wikis leave Fandom.