Finding similarities in New Yorker covers
Details
- External ID
- 46518106
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Finding similarities in New Yorker covers
- Website domain
- shoplurker.com
- Launched
- Jan. 6, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 18
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.6416337285902504
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Description
Originally learned about image hashing and similarity comparison for product image searches. Decided to apply it to magazine covers.Thrasher covers: https://shoplurker.com/labs/thrasher-covers/
Enrichment
- Theme
- graphic design assets and utilities
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- Search & retrieval
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- find similar new yorker covers
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes Scraping magazine covers and computing perceptual hashes (dHash/pHash) or vector embeddings for similarity search is standard and straightforward to vibe-code.
Discussion
8 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: same.energy (CLIP-based image search), mood.zip, Magic the Gathering card visual clustering project
Concerns raised: Current image hash method produces unreliable similarity results, UI unclear - unclear what results represent or why covers are matched, Basic hashing doesn't capture meaningful visual similarity
Feature requests: Use CLIP or DINOv2 embeddings for better similarity matching, Visual explanation of why/how images are similar, Transparency about algorithm and similarity scoring, Open source repo to fork
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 13 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #6 of 14 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 47 days after the earliest competitor.
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Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.