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This is hilarious... > You are 26% basic. You're trying to be cool with Kapitan Korsakov, but your favorites are the same as everybody else's.. > Your spotify

This is hilarious... > You are 26% basic. You're trying to be cool with Kapitan Korsakov, but your favorites are the same as everybody else's.. > Your spotify was please-read-my-manuscript-walmart-hawaiian-shirt-sitting-alone-in-the-cafeteria bad. Ouch. Really interesting project by all means. I hope they release the source - I'm curious about how it was built. Edit: This same link was posted 11 hours ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25513886 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25513886 here and is not at all getting the same popularity. Anyone got ideas?

dkersten 6y ago
> Your taste is so obscure that's so cool I bet you're super interesting.. After it picked the one very popular song I listen to in order to laugh at me for listening to non obscure things, ignoring the piles of weird random crap I normally listen to that nobody ever seems to know. Funny but not very accurate. Overall all I got a good laugh though.
- etherio 6y ago
  Exactly what happened to me also
- mhh__ 6y ago
  I think the microtonal stuff I listen to is probably too unpopular to even have reviews to go on.
  - squeaky-clean 6y ago
    It picked out Brendan Byrnes as one of my obscure artists, though he is probably one of the more popular microtonal artists. It was able to pick out my own band as one of my "obscure artists", so I don't think "too unpopular" is a thing for it, haha.
    - johnwyles 6y ago
      Cool... you ok? [lol, jk.] [yeah, why?]
- ralphc 6y ago
  "You are 11% basic. Red Moon Architect and Ahab? Where do you even find this shit?."
soneil 6y ago
12 hours ago was what, 5am London, Midnight East Coast? Timing is everything. If a tree falls in the forest and 75% of the potential readership are fast asleep, does it make a sound? (Numbers are fictional - and possibly eurocentric - for the purpose of conversation. I think the point stands with or without their veracity, it's just easier for form a sentence with values)
- Stupulous 6y ago
  In theory you could account for this, right? HN (and reddit, etc.) could score based on how many typical voters have seen it, or just bias directly based on average active times across a week.
  - thatguy0900 6y ago
    Dang sends email to people suggesting they repost it if he thinks it should have gotten more traction, probably an easier system. I could see reddit doing something like that but hn seems pretty basic
ksec 6y ago
>Anyone got ideas? The Act of HN submission. But broadly speaking US working time zone get a much higher chance of submission being upvoted.
Sebb767 6y ago
> You are 3% basic. MYST and Project One? Where do you even find this shit?. Hilarious, especially since these are pretty much mainstream artists of my (not so small) niche. I'd love to see how it comes up with those.
ed312 6y ago
> oh great another Rise Against stan... > You've been listening to a lot of Logic lately. > u okay? > >Yeah why > no reason... > Of course Twenty One Pilots. Not gonna lie, I'm feeling a bit judged by this AI:)
- young_unixer 6y ago
  > You've been listening to a lot of Logic lately. > u okay? Asked the same thing to me, but about Radiohead.
  - pjmorris 6y ago
    Asked the same thing to me, but about The Replacements.
    - Sebb767 6y ago
      For me it was Asking Alexandria, which fit pretty well as they have mostly dark songs.
    - rodw 6y ago
      What's moody about the placemats?
      - pjmorris 6y ago
        Well, if you consider drunken sprees a mood... :)
        rodw 6y ago
        On second thought I do think Paul Westerberg has a strong melancholy streak. At first I had stuff "Waitress in the Sky" or "Tommy Gets His Tonsils Out" or "Alex Chilton" or whatever in mind, but now that I think about it there's a dark undercurrent to plenty of the songs in the core Replacements canon: "Hold my Life", "Unsatisified", "I Will Dare", "Bastards of Young", "I'll Be You", etc. - not to mention of a handful of slow tempo tracks with obviously dark themes. I don't normally associate the Replacements with mopey music but in retrospect I'm not sure why. It's kinda all over the place, under a very thin veneer of drunken cynicism.
smarx007 6y ago
Ha! I also got 26% score and it was ridiculing me for listening to Ed Alleyne-Johnson [1] and David Hicken [2] even though they are not even mainstream performers :) [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJwAZMq08xA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJwAZMq08xA [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHtdqGy3g5Q https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHtdqGy3g5Q or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YftAYq1AHiE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YftAYq1AHiE if you are in a more upbeat mood
tclancy 6y ago
Mine was wonderfully vicious too, though I am noticing we got some of the same synonyms (I was at 17%): "masters-in-creative-writing" instead of "please-read-my-manuscript" and I would much have preferred "walmart-hawaiian-shirt" over "tommy-bahama". That stung.
dm319 6y ago
> You are 0% basic. Have you considered there's a reason nobody listens to Mistabishi?. > > Your spotify was ira-glass-in-your-airpods-manic-pixie-dream-girl bad. Made me laugh!
- bartwe 6y ago
  *Adds Mistabishi to playlist
- rongdongdong 6y ago
  i mean there was him loosing all those bookings after going on racist rants on facebook. i think he used to get banned from dogs on acid a lot for being a dumb asshole too https://mixmag.net/read/drum-n-bass-producer-mistabishi-has-been-found-making-racist-comments-news https://mixmag.net/read/drum-n-bass-producer-mistabishi-has-...
pjmorris 6y ago
It rated me 6% basic... what's sad is that I'm now proud of that. I've resisted being called hipster, maybe inappropriately. My spotify was 'heavy-eyeliner-post-punk-boomer-relaxation-dads-still-cool bad'
- gravity13 6y ago
  4% checking in here. You should be sad. You're such a basic bitch.
tetha 6y ago
Curious, I learned something. > You're stuck in the early 2010s. For you, music's been all downhill since Orden Ogan made The Things We Believe In. Now I wonder if this is because my account is old, or if I really listen to that much old stuff, or if my favorite bands just don't release that much. Weird. But I'm entirely fine with the other assments: > Your spotify was renaissance-faire -too-much-power metal bad. > Thank your obsessions with medieval rock and power metal (e.g., Sabaton and Dreamtale) for that. > Based on your listening habits, I can also tell you your spotify was... > hail-satan bad > You are 0% basic. Ewigheim and Winterstorm? Where do you even find this shit?. And I think winterstorm and ewigheim aren't even the most obscure bands. Oh but there is a new stribog album. nice.
- gpvos 6y ago
  That reads like high praise to me.
- jdc0589 6y ago
  this is about how mine went. It's very concerned about where I found Necropanther and Wasteland Riders
- letitbeirie 6y ago
  > You're stuck in the early 2010s. For you, music's been all downhill since Kalax made Time Lapse. I got the same thing with a different song. What's funny about this one is it's from 2017.
- madeofpalk 6y ago
  > Now I wonder if this is because my account is old I made my account this yeah, and i got the same "you're stuck in the early 2010s". I guess I just listen to a lot of music from then.
- Teknoman117 6y ago
  Yeah I don't see what's wrong with that. It's complaining about me listening to Eluveitie and Ost+Front too much (and Metalocalypse and Celldweller). I'm sorry that I went searching for other german industrial metal bands when rammstein took forever to put out another album.
1_player 6y ago
> You are 5% basic. Talpa and Villagers of Ioannina City? Where do you even find this shit?. > You're stuck in the early 2010s. You must have peaked right around Ratatat's Magnifique. The last line is definitely something I will mention to my therapist ... :-) Still, it validated my hipster taste, even though it made fun of it. Suck it bot, I'm cool and your programmers aren't.
- raindropm 6y ago
  Gosh I love Ratatat’s Magnifique.
  - 1_player 6y ago
    It's about time for their next album. Got any recommendation? So far, I've found Ratatat are in their own league, nobody comes close to that very specific feeling and genre.
    - raindropm 6y ago
      Well, unfortunately no. Ratatat is my lucky find. Heard their 'Gettysburg' while watching some random gaming clip that feature their music! and they're not my usual genre I've listen to. So Google is your best friend... Other of my fav instrumental band is CHON, but they're more of math rock and not really the same.
adtac 6y ago
>You're stuck in the early 2010s. oof, I'm not even angry lol
screye 6y ago
This was so much fun. > You are 5% basic. Old Man Gloom and Distorted Harmony? Where do you even find this shit?. I feel called out, but also kinda proud. > You're stuck in the early 2010s. You must have peaked right around The Dear Hunter's Act Iv: Rebirth in Reprise. Early 2010s were amazing era for Prog metal alright.
kome 6y ago
i'm 1% basic, i'm clearly the coolest in da room
- asciimo 6y ago
  I got 0%!
- gravelc 6y ago
  I'm guessing 1% is actually common. Mine: "You are 1% basic. Oh wow Penelope Trappes and Titi Robin! Your taste is so obscure that's so cool I bet you're super interesting.. You're too trendy for your own good. You only listen to music made in the last year."
  - x0 6y ago
    Another 1%: "You are 1% basic. Have you considered there's a reason nobody listens to DJ Marsta?. You're stuck in the early 2010s. You must have peaked right around Mez's Tyrone EP."
Scarblac 6y ago
Hilarious, yes. > You are 15% basic. Yeah, you've got some obscure artists like VanKatoen, but your real top ones are ultra-mainstream like The Weeknd.. > Based on your listening habits, I can also tell you your spotify was... > dad-rock bad > neverland-ranch bad > nineties-dorm-room bad > studded-leather-jacket bad > wannabe-tenor-but-probably-a-bass bad As a rock-listening dad who spent most of the 90s living in a dorm room, I felt spied on.
comboy 6y ago
> You're stuck in the early 2010s. You only listen to Obama-era jams like Nocturne in B-Flat Minor, Op. 9, No. 1 by Frédéric Chopin and Piano Concerto No. 21 in C Major, K. 467: II. Andante by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The output it spitted out while processing was pretty good though.
johnwyles 6y ago
The algorithm is more basic than the music it passes judgement on so take the verbiage with a grain of punk-vinyl-you-never-heard-before.
nouney 6y ago
But you ARE cool for listening to Kapitan Korsakov!
sandravlado 6y ago
6% basic. AI hates me. Apparently, Your spotify was overdramatic-instrumental-yoga-studio-heavy-eyeliner-post-punk bad. And this was just the beginning of the insults.
dang 6y ago
> This same link was posted 11 hours ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25513886 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25513886 here and is not at all getting the same popularity. HN allows reposts of an article when earlier submissions haven't gotten attention yet. This is our way of mitigating the randomness of what gets traction off /newest. It makes for a something of a lottery in terms of which submission ends up with all the attention, but it's on our list to implement some kind of karma sharing across multiple submissions. It's been on our list for years, but we'll get to it eventually! https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sort=byDate&type=comment&query=mitigate%20repost%20by:dang https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor... https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sort=byDate&type=comment&query=lottery%20submission%20by:dang https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...

dkersten 6y ago

> Your taste is so obscure that's so cool I bet you're super interesting.. After it picked the one very popular song I listen to in order to laugh at me for listening to non obscure things, ignoring the piles of weird random crap I normally listen to that nobody ever seems to know. Funny but not very accurate. Overall all I got a good laugh though.

etherio 6y ago
Exactly what happened to me also
mhh__ 6y ago
I think the microtonal stuff I listen to is probably too unpopular to even have reviews to go on.
- squeaky-clean 6y ago
  It picked out Brendan Byrnes as one of my obscure artists, though he is probably one of the more popular microtonal artists. It was able to pick out my own band as one of my "obscure artists", so I don't think "too unpopular" is a thing for it, haha.
  - johnwyles 6y ago
    Cool... you ok? [lol, jk.] [yeah, why?]
ralphc 6y ago
"You are 11% basic. Red Moon Architect and Ahab? Where do you even find this shit?."

soneil 6y ago

12 hours ago was what, 5am London, Midnight East Coast? Timing is everything. If a tree falls in the forest and 75% of the potential readership are fast asleep, does it make a sound? (Numbers are fictional - and possibly eurocentric - for the purpose of conversation. I think the point stands with or without their veracity, it's just easier for form a sentence with values)

Stupulous 6y ago
In theory you could account for this, right? HN (and reddit, etc.) could score based on how many typical voters have seen it, or just bias directly based on average active times across a week.
- thatguy0900 6y ago
  Dang sends email to people suggesting they repost it if he thinks it should have gotten more traction, probably an easier system. I could see reddit doing something like that but hn seems pretty basic

ksec 6y ago

>Anyone got ideas? The Act of HN submission. But broadly speaking US working time zone get a much higher chance of submission being upvoted.

Sebb767 6y ago

> You are 3% basic. MYST and Project One? Where do you even find this shit?. Hilarious, especially since these are pretty much mainstream artists of my (not so small) niche. I'd love to see how it comes up with those.

ed312 6y ago

> oh great another Rise Against stan... > You've been listening to a lot of Logic lately. > u okay? > >Yeah why > no reason... > Of course Twenty One Pilots. Not gonna lie, I'm feeling a bit judged by this AI:)

young_unixer 6y ago
> You've been listening to a lot of Logic lately. > u okay? Asked the same thing to me, but about Radiohead.
- pjmorris 6y ago
  Asked the same thing to me, but about The Replacements.
  - Sebb767 6y ago
    For me it was Asking Alexandria, which fit pretty well as they have mostly dark songs.
  - rodw 6y ago
    What's moody about the placemats?
    - pjmorris 6y ago
      Well, if you consider drunken sprees a mood... :)
      - rodw 6y ago
        On second thought I do think Paul Westerberg has a strong melancholy streak. At first I had stuff "Waitress in the Sky" or "Tommy Gets His Tonsils Out" or "Alex Chilton" or whatever in mind, but now that I think about it there's a dark undercurrent to plenty of the songs in the core Replacements canon: "Hold my Life", "Unsatisified", "I Will Dare", "Bastards of Young", "I'll Be You", etc. - not to mention of a handful of slow tempo tracks with obviously dark themes. I don't normally associate the Replacements with mopey music but in retrospect I'm not sure why. It's kinda all over the place, under a very thin veneer of drunken cynicism.

smarx007 6y ago

Ha! I also got 26% score and it was ridiculing me for listening to Ed Alleyne-Johnson [1] and David Hicken [2] even though they are not even mainstream performers :) [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJwAZMq08xA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJwAZMq08xA [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHtdqGy3g5Q https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHtdqGy3g5Q or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YftAYq1AHiE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YftAYq1AHiE if you are in a more upbeat mood

tclancy 6y ago

Mine was wonderfully vicious too, though I am noticing we got some of the same synonyms (I was at 17%): "masters-in-creative-writing" instead of "please-read-my-manuscript" and I would much have preferred "walmart-hawaiian-shirt" over "tommy-bahama". That stung.

dm319 6y ago

> You are 0% basic. Have you considered there's a reason nobody listens to Mistabishi?. > > Your spotify was ira-glass-in-your-airpods-manic-pixie-dream-girl bad. Made me laugh!

bartwe 6y ago
*Adds Mistabishi to playlist
rongdongdong 6y ago
i mean there was him loosing all those bookings after going on racist rants on facebook. i think he used to get banned from dogs on acid a lot for being a dumb asshole too https://mixmag.net/read/drum-n-bass-producer-mistabishi-has-been-found-making-racist-comments-news https://mixmag.net/read/drum-n-bass-producer-mistabishi-has-...

pjmorris 6y ago

It rated me 6% basic... what's sad is that I'm now proud of that. I've resisted being called hipster, maybe inappropriately. My spotify was 'heavy-eyeliner-post-punk-boomer-relaxation-dads-still-cool bad'

gravity13 6y ago
4% checking in here. You should be sad. You're such a basic bitch.

tetha 6y ago

Curious, I learned something. > You're stuck in the early 2010s. For you, music's been all downhill since Orden Ogan made The Things We Believe In. Now I wonder if this is because my account is old, or if I really listen to that much old stuff, or if my favorite bands just don't release that much. Weird. But I'm entirely fine with the other assments: > Your spotify was renaissance-faire -too-much-power metal bad. > Thank your obsessions with medieval rock and power metal (e.g., Sabaton and Dreamtale) for that. > Based on your listening habits, I can also tell you your spotify was... > hail-satan bad > You are 0% basic. Ewigheim and Winterstorm? Where do you even find this shit?. And I think winterstorm and ewigheim aren't even the most obscure bands. Oh but there is a new stribog album. nice.

gpvos 6y ago
That reads like high praise to me.
jdc0589 6y ago
this is about how mine went. It's very concerned about where I found Necropanther and Wasteland Riders
letitbeirie 6y ago
> You're stuck in the early 2010s. For you, music's been all downhill since Kalax made Time Lapse. I got the same thing with a different song. What's funny about this one is it's from 2017.
madeofpalk 6y ago
> Now I wonder if this is because my account is old I made my account this yeah, and i got the same "you're stuck in the early 2010s". I guess I just listen to a lot of music from then.
Teknoman117 6y ago
Yeah I don't see what's wrong with that. It's complaining about me listening to Eluveitie and Ost+Front too much (and Metalocalypse and Celldweller). I'm sorry that I went searching for other german industrial metal bands when rammstein took forever to put out another album.

1_player 6y ago

> You are 5% basic. Talpa and Villagers of Ioannina City? Where do you even find this shit?. > You're stuck in the early 2010s. You must have peaked right around Ratatat's Magnifique. The last line is definitely something I will mention to my therapist ... :-) Still, it validated my hipster taste, even though it made fun of it. Suck it bot, I'm cool and your programmers aren't.

raindropm 6y ago
Gosh I love Ratatat’s Magnifique.
- 1_player 6y ago
  It's about time for their next album. Got any recommendation? So far, I've found Ratatat are in their own league, nobody comes close to that very specific feeling and genre.
  - raindropm 6y ago
    Well, unfortunately no. Ratatat is my lucky find. Heard their 'Gettysburg' while watching some random gaming clip that feature their music! and they're not my usual genre I've listen to. So Google is your best friend... Other of my fav instrumental band is CHON, but they're more of math rock and not really the same.

adtac 6y ago

>You're stuck in the early 2010s. oof, I'm not even angry lol

screye 6y ago

This was so much fun. > You are 5% basic. Old Man Gloom and Distorted Harmony? Where do you even find this shit?. I feel called out, but also kinda proud. > You're stuck in the early 2010s. You must have peaked right around The Dear Hunter's Act Iv: Rebirth in Reprise. Early 2010s were amazing era for Prog metal alright.

kome 6y ago

i'm 1% basic, i'm clearly the coolest in da room

asciimo 6y ago
I got 0%!
gravelc 6y ago
I'm guessing 1% is actually common. Mine: "You are 1% basic. Oh wow Penelope Trappes and Titi Robin! Your taste is so obscure that's so cool I bet you're super interesting.. You're too trendy for your own good. You only listen to music made in the last year."
- x0 6y ago
  Another 1%: "You are 1% basic. Have you considered there's a reason nobody listens to DJ Marsta?. You're stuck in the early 2010s. You must have peaked right around Mez's Tyrone EP."

Scarblac 6y ago

Hilarious, yes. > You are 15% basic. Yeah, you've got some obscure artists like VanKatoen, but your real top ones are ultra-mainstream like The Weeknd.. > Based on your listening habits, I can also tell you your spotify was... > dad-rock bad > neverland-ranch bad > nineties-dorm-room bad > studded-leather-jacket bad > wannabe-tenor-but-probably-a-bass bad As a rock-listening dad who spent most of the 90s living in a dorm room, I felt spied on.

comboy 6y ago

> You're stuck in the early 2010s. You only listen to Obama-era jams like Nocturne in B-Flat Minor, Op. 9, No. 1 by Frédéric Chopin and Piano Concerto No. 21 in C Major, K. 467: II. Andante by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The output it spitted out while processing was pretty good though.

johnwyles 6y ago

The algorithm is more basic than the music it passes judgement on so take the verbiage with a grain of punk-vinyl-you-never-heard-before.

nouney 6y ago

But you ARE cool for listening to Kapitan Korsakov!

sandravlado 6y ago

6% basic. AI hates me. Apparently, Your spotify was overdramatic-instrumental-yoga-studio-heavy-eyeliner-post-punk bad. And this was just the beginning of the insults.

dang 6y ago

> This same link was posted 11 hours ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25513886 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25513886 here and is not at all getting the same popularity. HN allows reposts of an article when earlier submissions haven't gotten attention yet. This is our way of mitigating the randomness of what gets traction off /newest. It makes for a something of a lottery in terms of which submission ends up with all the attention, but it's on our list to implement some kind of karma sharing across multiple submissions. It's been on our list for years, but we'll get to it eventually! https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sort=byDate&type=comment&query=mitigate%20repost%20by:dang https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor... https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sort=byDate&type=comment&query=lottery%20submission%20by:dang https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...