Interactive visualization of X's feed algorithm
ML in browser
Details
- External ID
- 47151549
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Interactive visualization of X's feed algorithm
- Website domain
- prabal.ca
- Launched
- Feb. 25, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 5
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.10512129380053908
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- web development and browser utilities
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- Analytics & BI
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- AI feature
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- visualize how social media algorithms rank posts
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes It is a frontend data visualization website running a lightweight JavaScript/Wasm simulation of the open-sourced X recommendation algorithm formulas.
Discussion
4 comments analyzed.
Concerns raised: Scoring weights may not match X's actual algorithm, MiniLM embeddings differ from X's real trained model, Uncertainty whether output resembles real X pipeline
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Launched 119 days after the earliest competitor.
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