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Ask HN: Can I write a recommendation engine for HN?
Simple item-based (hackers who upvoted this article also upvoted...) and/or user-based (hackers who upvoted similar articles to you, upvoted ... ) recommendations would be cool to see on HN, possibly as a way to access (relatively) older content that one might have missed. this assumes people are actually away from the site long enough to miss something -- unlikely. addicts!
I think as the user base of HN continues to grow this can help keep things from approaching the LCD.
- aneesh 17y agoI like the thought of this, but you can't see who upvoted a particular article, so it'd be difficult to make any sort of recommendation.
- noodle 17y agomight be able to make some sort of greasemonkey script to make that happen.
- BSeward 17y agoYou won't be able to use Greasemonkey to surface information that is inaccessible, like who upvoted what, unless I'm missing something? You could write a Greasemonkey script that would would track what users who have installed it have up-voted. Although that is not very elegant (users need to be convinced to trust it and install it) nor effective (your dataset will be self-selection-biased to that segment of the community), it would be a kind of an interesting solution to play with.
- noodle 17y agoyes, that second paragraph is what i was referring to. its not the best or ideal solution, but its a solution that would make the concept possible.
- TJensen 17y agoHN is open-source. You could get the source and submit a patch.
- kvh 17y agoGood info. Did not know this. I'll take a look...
- csomar 17y agoThanks for the info, is it written on PHP or PERL ??
- stonemetal 17y agoIt is written in Arc, PG's language in development. It is in the Lisp\Scheme tradition.