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https://hn-buddies.stupidlabs.lolFind hackernews audience whose comments matches most to you.This is based on tf-idf weighted keywords match from comments. Covers data from Jan 1, 2020 through May 31, 2026. Keywords that are too rare or too broad across authors are filtered out before scoring.Due to above filtering, a lot of the authors are NOT covered here. Full coverage would have yielded more than a few trillion records, and I don't have that much compute or disk.Details of the process: https://hn-buddies.stupidlabs.lol/about-data---You can also see who talks most about certain topic or keyword. For example,NSA: https://hn-buddies.stupidlabs.lol/?keyword=nsaTrump: https://hn-buddies.stupidlabs.lol/?keyword=trump---Global insights page: https://hn-buddies.stupidlabs.lol/insights---This also lets you uncover duplicate accounts. For example:1. "fdklhhjf" and "selamcan"2. "angkatoto" and "jalantoto"3. "Donnakravo" and "dommakravosec" and "kravossedonna" and "kravosdonna"
HN · launched Jul 4, 2026 · 6 upvotes (top 71%) · 0 views
Niche: matchmaking and finder platforms · 95 launches, 15 in the last 7 days ▲ +36% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- B2C
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
More like this: all 95 launches in matchmaking and finder platforms →
Could you build this?
Yes It computes TF-IDF similarity across publicly accessible Hacker News comment archives, which can be implemented with a basic Python data pipeline and simple web interface.
Discussion
10 comments analyzed.
Concerns raised: Missing authors due to computational limits (would create multi-trillion row dataset), Keyword-based matching instead of vector embedding similarity due to cost/compute constraints, Clustering less effective than projection at capturing separation, Term 'buddies' semantically incorrect for similarity matching
Feature requests: Add UMAP visualization, Include analytics alongside search functionality, Incorporate personality-based compatibility (temperament/MBTI types)
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 154 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #128 of 155 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 240 days after the earliest competitor.
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- Hacker Atlas · hn · 2026-09-25 · 86 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- Show HN submissions have tripled since 2023 · hn · 2026-01-11 · 18 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- Hacker Backlinks · hn · 2026-02-06 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- Hacker Smacker · hn · 2026-02-24 · 148 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- HackerTube · ph · 2026-11-07 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- HackerPage · ph · 2026-11-09 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.48
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