Profiling Hacker News users based on their comments
4 hours ago
- #User Profiling
- #Hacker News
- #AI Analysis
- Profiling Hacker News users based on their comments using the Algolia API.
- The process involves fetching a user's last 1,000 comments and analyzing them with an LLM like Claude Opus.
- Example profile of Simon Willison highlights his professional identity, core thesis on AI coding, working style, and key interests.
- The profiling tool is effective but raises privacy concerns due to the depth of information derived from public comments.
- Used primarily to avoid engaging with bad-faith arguers on Hacker News.