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Re:Show HN: HN recommend – A recommendation engine for Hacke... by 4hEn on Monday June 19, 2023 @01:39PM (#36394132)
I search for a url I know was posted and it doesn't show it. It shows unrelated articles.
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Re:Show HN: HN recommend – A recommendation engine for Hacke... by julien040 on Monday June 19, 2023 @01:43PM (#36394200)
The data is a few weeks old. Do you know when the URL was published?
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Re:Show HN: HN recommend – A recommendation engine for Hacke... by 4hEn on Monday June 19, 2023 @02:51PM (#36395092)
It's 10 years old.

This search query https://hn-recommend.julienc.me/?q=paul%20graham returns articles that are missing both words of the query

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Re:Show HN: HN recommend – A recommendation engine for Hacke... by julien040 on Monday June 19, 2023 @03:02PM (#36395226)
The website features only stories with a score greater than 100 but I don't think that is the problem.

Unlike HN Algolia, it doesn't match words; it uses embeddings so stories are matched by their similar meaning rather than similar words. To find it, you might try to be more specific, such as "Paul Graham Y Combinator <facts of the article>". I'm sorry HN Recommend doesn't match your use case

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