james hong ✓

@jhong · joined 13 Mar 2007

RELAX, I'm probably joking. Cofounder of HOTorNOT. Angel Investor. Proud Husband and Daddy. Good Friend. Troublemaker. Go Bears! 🐻

22 507Followers

1 128Following

20 787Posts total

219.3KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

6 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. shown to more people than peers of the same size.

Median views3 842this account2 043median for 10K–100K

Reach, %17.07%this account6.16%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %1.34%this account1.59%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	3 842	2 043	1.88×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	17.07%	6.16%	2.77×
Engagement rate	1.34%	1.59%	0.84×

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Growth & engagement

How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.

Views per post

4K1 Sep

3.7K3 Sep

94.8K

115.1K

794

958

Last 6 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.95%1 Sep

2.14%3 Sep

1.72%

2.11%

0.76%

0.31%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.59%.

What the audience does

Likes85.3%3 661 in total

Reposts3.8%161 in total

Replies7.9%337 in total

Quotes0.6%26 in total

Bookmarks2.5%107 in total

Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.

The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.

Latest posts

(I was talking mostly about the players at huge scale. Was not talking about @wayve_ai and @comma_ai , which upon people pointing them out I realized are at larger scale than I thought, which is impressive. Thanks for the updates, they are smart.) 958 views · 3 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 03 Sep 2026 Pausing AI development versus accelerating it, both suggestions are acknowledgements of how seriously meaningful and power AI is. They are kind of two sides of the same coin, and I respect the thought that leads people to want to do either. The question though is which is the 794 views · 3 likes · 0 reposts · 2 replies 03 Sep 2026 @jhong Yeah 115.1K views · 2.1K likes · 96 reposts · 176 replies 03 Sep 2026 It blows my mind that Tesla is the only company trying to make self driving without lidar. Everyone else is fixated on making systems that are perfect without any regard to the cost. But cost matters, a lot. What works better is a solution that is good enough (better than humans 94.8K views · 1.4K likes · 61 reposts · 148 replies 03 Sep 2026 SF people seem to want to brag these days about how cool it is, but the people that historically made SF great were never the cool people. That's kindof a bad sign tbh 3.7K views · 66 likes · 2 reposts · 8 replies 03 Sep 2026 The future is here and it looks pretty cool. Personally, I love the design. 4K views · 33 likes · 2 reposts · 3 replies 01 Sep 2026 .@jimydotorg and I launched HOTorNOT 20 years ago this October 😮 @Mashable wrote a great retrospective about it. Realistically it is probably the last time anyone will ever want to write about HOTorNOT. I'm happy with this article as its final chapter. https://t.co/CrbQRE6uoz 0 views · 426 likes · 60 reposts · 51 replies 27 Sep 2020