same.energy
AI
semantic tweet search
SHOW HN2020
How HN took it
10 positive, 7 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 2 critical, out of 20 comments about the project. Thread score +0.42.
Performance: 8 for, 1 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
Each row is a top-level comment and its replies, in HN's order. Select a cell to open that comment on HN.
positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker
What HN said
What people liked
Results are surprisingly good and funny
From 4 comments
I would say the results in your example are terrific; they seem completely of the same style (at least the first few, I stopped reading after that).
mellosouls on HNStyle aside, these results are way way better quality than the typical curated Twitter feed. > BlueSpaceCanaryTwitter "malloc" comes from the Latin "mal", meaning "bad" or…
glial on HN> Searched 15,541,670 tweets in 0.35s Isn't there millions of tweets posted everyday? This must be a minuscule fraction of all tweets.... Anyway, great project, had a lot of…
gitgud on HNthese results are not terrible. relevant long tail results are hard. well done.
kristopolous on HN
Works well on dril and other distinctive tweet styles
From 2 comments
Immediately started punching in dril classics and am thoroughly impressed with the results. Well done.
jfax on HN@billwurtz: > richard simmons is plural. it's actually 2 guys, they are twins, each one is named richard simmon @YABOYEZRAFITZ: > can i send text messages using my typewriter? it…
FnControlOption on HN
Objections
Results can drift to unrelated content or wrong style for some inputs
From 1 comment
Example of where it falls down. I took the top tweet on @danluu (https://twitter.com/danluu/status/1304093800474636288) "I find it interesting how often the top Google results…
hyperpape on HN
Could be used to de-anonymize Twitter users
From 1 comment
Unless I am doing something wrong, searching for similar tweets to realdonaldtrump only results in his tweets.…
searchableguy on HN
Requests
Show tweet dates in results
From 1 comment
Really cool! It'd help with the context of the tweet if the date on which it was posted was included too.
notRobot on HN
Explain the similarity algorithm
From 1 comment
Interesting! As the creator, can you say anything about the algorithm(s) used to determine similarity?
gojomo on HN
Questions
How does the similarity algorithm work?
From 3 comments
this is impressive, how does it work?
swlkr on HNInteresting! As the creator, can you say anything about the algorithm(s) used to determine similarity?
gojomo on HNI assume it uses AI/ML stylometry.
keenmaster on HN
Why do results return mostly one account for some queries?
From 2 comments
Unless I am doing something wrong, searching for similar tweets to realdonaldtrump only results in his tweets.…
searchableguy on HNI wonder if it sorts by popularity ahead of relevance (maybe after meeting some minimum threshold for relevance). In another post I've commented about the surprising high quality…
dmurray on HN
Alternatives named
Google search
From 1 comment
They're also generally funny and original! I'd take these ahead of a curated list of "20 funniest tweets about programming languages" [0] or, say, Reddit r/ProgrammerHumor all…
dmurray on HN
Reddit r/ProgrammerHumor
From 1 comment
They're also generally funny and original! I'd take these ahead of a curated list of "20 funniest tweets about programming languages" [0] or, say, Reddit r/ProgrammerHumor all…
dmurray on HN