Would you please not cross into personal attacks on HN? It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for. We've already had to ask you this, and we end up banning accounts that keep breaking the site guidelines this way.
I get (incorrectly) accused of writing undisclosed sponsored content pretty often, so I'm actually hoping that the visible sponsor banner will help people resist that temptation because they can see that the sponsorship is visible, not hidden.
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We will add the current link to the toptext there as well.
(* except for the ones that only make sense in current context - that's the intention at least)
[1] https://x.com/karpathy/status/2024987174077432126
[1] https://xcancel.com/karpathy/status/2024987174077432126
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46715512 (Jan 2026)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45022369 (Aug 2025)
If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
but then at the top of this article:
> Sponsored by: Teleport — Secure, Govern, and Operate AI at Engineering Scale. Learn more
not exactly a coherent narrative, is it?
[1]: https://bsky.app/profile/simonwillison.net
I get (incorrectly) accused of writing undisclosed sponsored content pretty often, so I'm actually hoping that the visible sponsor banner will help people resist that temptation because they can see that the sponsorship is visible, not hidden.