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Show HN: Today's HN stories along with similar past ones

by ph1l337 on 5/17/20, 8:48 PM with 3 comments

  • by ph1l337 on 5/17/20, 8:48 PM

    Hey,

    Recently I have been working a lot with semantic sentence encoding. For example for some semantic search use cases or semantic clustering.

    As a sort of demo and way to explore the potential and limitations of semantic encoding, I thought it would be fun to build this small side project together with a colleague.

    It's basically a HN clone based of VueJS' HN clone with the small twist of having the top 3 semantically most similar together with the current HN stories.

    I have been using this for some time for myself now and I find sometimes some fun stories come up. It doesn't always work so great, but see for yourself.

    I added a feature for ranking how similar you perceive the story to be. If enough people make use of the ranking feature it could be possible that a dataset of similar HN-stories title pairs would come together (I'm thinking of sth. like the GLUE STS-B dataset).

    If that was the case I would, of course, make it available publicly.

    Thanks for reading and please let me know your thoughts :)

    /Philipp

  • by yanboo_notcrazy on 5/17/20, 11:36 PM

    I like the idea of the time machine and it’s very interesting to see how history plays out in HN stories. Looking forward to a future time machine with updated technology.