Re:Show HN: Jev predicting your life choices
by sdrth on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @05:36AM
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Will try this with hn api
Re:Show HN: Jev predicting your life choices
by adrianwaj on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @06:27AM
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Yeah, good idea. I'd also think about finding common goals and pursuits between people. So go through Show HN, find similar projects and connect people that way. You might have to build profiles on people and see their skills and location from Who Wants to be Hired posts. What are they reading? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49893157 Favorite books? Imagine that, building profiles to help people rather than serve them ads! Even analyzing writing styles could be useful.
Another interesting area to look at is similar tastes in music. A lot of info on Soundcloud about people's likes and tastes. Maybe try to bring musicians together for music production? Can learn a lot about someone just through their profile pic. That'd be pretty interesting too: who is presenting themselves in very similar ways to another person? Are they currently releasing music? What genres? What instruments do they play?
If you want to match similar people, aim to make them as geographically as close as possible. What you really want to find is "uncommon commonalities" between people and build groups around those. So yes, like attracts like, but it can be surrounded by stark contrasts as well. You could grade a match - percentage different, percentage same and then add some strength/idiosyncrasy/geographical/group-match weighting.
The progress bar at bottom of questions: it says "keep going" but eventually it reaches the end and there is a page refresh without any user confirmation to do so. That can be confusing and distracting.