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- pimlottc 1y agoThis is gross on multiple levels.
- tra3 1y agoI had a quasi physical reaction when reading the description. Not a good one. I don’t remember hotornot being amongst asimovs 3 laws of robotics..is this really the future we deserve? The author is gonna be vilified, but next year someone’s gonna come up with a cute name and a material design for this and gonna make bank. I’m kinda curious to see what 1/10 people look like but these are real people right.
- xg15 1y agoI agree. Just wrap this inside some opaque "AI recommendation algorithm" and tell no one what the AI is actually basing its recommendations on...
- ynab10 1y agoI have a feeling that so are you.
- rybosome 1y agoThis appears to me to be intentional and ironic to make a point rather than in earnest. I am interpreting this as a statement about snap judgements in an age where AI will increasingly play the role of a judge or assessor of humans. Perhaps I’m wrong, but it seems too on-the-nose to be serious. EDIT: > This website just puts reductive numbers on the superficial calculations we make every day From the website. If it is in earnest then I’d be embarrassed to have shilled for it, because I agree that the idea is stupid and gross.
- hyperbolablabla 1y agoI really do think it's in earnest. I think the author is trying to justify its existence as "already a part of reality". I think it's quite despicable actually.
- bryanrasmussen 1y agofrom their site https://walzr.com/ https://walzr.com/ they made a fake steakhouse real for one night, got Twitter to verify a fake candidate for congress, etc. etc. all signs point to art project.
- debesyla 1y agoI see this as an art project. (And technical exploration, because I wonder how did they manage to scrape Google.) It's made by the dude that has a lot of similarly strange and technologically impressive projects: https://walzr.com/ https://walzr.com/
- Takennickname 1y agoNice try, restaurant owner with ugly people.
- brcmthrowaway 1y agoWhen happens when a creator is stuck in a Twitter bubble
- Mashimo 1y agoWhat kind of bubble do you think he is in?
- cobertos 1y ago> But we judge places by the people who go there. We always have. Does anyone do this for a restaurants? That's not something that ever really factored into my food habits
- 01HNNWZ0MV43FF 1y agoOP might be The American Psycho
- bryanrasmussen 1y agoBusinessCardMapping.
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- thinkingemote 1y agoI think we use all our senses out in the real world when choosing some place to eat. Seeing the people who eat there is certainly one factor. Online maybe too if we look at the food pictures, read how the items are worded, look at a restaurant website and read the reviews we can get a sense of the types of people it appeals to. It's probably not the primary factor, but it is one attribute. There are anecdotal reports of establishments paying PR professionals (e.g. good looking models) to be there - and obviously they will use them for their promotional material. It's good to listen and notice how one is being influenced. The real mistake is thinking we do not judge at all. With that said, only looking at a rating of profile pictures of reviews to judge a restaurant is very funny and becomes art. Kudos to the creator.
- eddythompson80 1y agoThe app is cool, but the argument there was either written by AI or there is a lost in translation moment because it doesn’t really make any sense. In your argument you’re basically saying “it’s impossible to know what affects your choice of where to eat. Some think looks matter even pay for it; ergo, we must consider it too” What about music type? Worker’s uniform color? Thinking “I wanna eat where the hot people are” is… I don’t know.. Odd?
- getcrunk 1y agoI respect the novelty. It’s a meme idea, but the problem solving and coding is still legit as a quick and fun challenge. Any details on how you managed to scrape the all mighty goog?
- ouked 1y agoOP may have used their own method, but I believe you could use a provider like SerpAPI.
- londons_explore 1y agoJust script a real browser with a chrome extension, and let it run kinda slowly overnight. The rate limits are such that you can get tens of millions of data points just from a single browser.
- EarlKing 1y ago..........not a hotdog.
- Mashimo 1y agoWhy is 2/3 of LA restaurant visited by "old" people per this map? I assume it's a racial thing and the AI could not really detect the age correctly? In NY the Irish pubs are tagged as old, which kinda makes sense.
- dan-robertson 1y agoAnother bias can be who leaves reviews.
- preetsojitra 1y agoWhat about the ethical concerns? Scrapping faces of people and feeding them into AI model without their permission.
- gkbrk 1y agoIt's all public pictures though. Why would I publish a picture of my face if I don't want people to have a picture of my face?
- jeauxlb 1y agoI can go into an art gallery but I may not touch the works. Often there aren't physical barriers but we all understand some behaviours are not acceptable. Similarly, publication of an image on the internet is not implicit permission to use it for any possible purpose, however technically feasible. For example, deepfakes.
- gkbrk 1y agoIf you draw a mustache on a drawing in an art gallery, you ruin the original for everyone else. If you take the drawing home, no one else has the original any more. If I download, copy, or edit images sent to my computer, the original is still there. The artist puts their art on the gallery with the intent that people will enter that gallery and look at it without touching. The image uploaders uploads the image with the intent that a copy (not the original) gets sent to our computers when we look at Google Reviews.
- preetsojitra 1y agoYou're misinterpreting the analogy. - Drawing a mustache on the art = Vandalizing the original data (not what's happening). - Taking the art home = Deleting the original data (also not what's happening). - Scraping faces for an AI = Following visitors around the gallery, taking secret photos of them, and publishing a book that rates them by attractiveness. The fact that the gallery is "public" does not make that behavior acceptable. The same is true here. "Publicly viewable" does not mean "publicly available for any use."
- 1GZ0 1y agoI love how quick people are to dismiss the obvious technical skill involved in making something like this, just because of the off-color premise.
- IncreasePosts 1y agoWho's dismissing the obvious technical skill?
- donatj 1y agoThis is some old internet style shenanigans powered by modern technology. I am here for it. I want more of this.
- meindnoch 1y agoWhat's the purpose of this? .pix { /* Simulate CRT pixelation and low resolution */ text-rendering: optimizeSpeed; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-smooth: never; -webkit-font-smoothing: none; -moz-osx-font-smoothing: grayscale; /* Simulate slight pixelation */ filter: blur(0.3px); color: black; font-size: 16px; }
- jofzar 1y agohttps://looksmapping.com/paper.pdf https://looksmapping.com/paper.pdf This feels oddly old school shit posty made reality
- defyonce 1y agoTop 5 Restaurants (Female vs Male Preferences) Female Picks: ------------------------------------------------ 1. Big Apple Brunch | Hell's Kitchen | 9.2/10 2. Pietro Nolita | Nolita | 8.6/10 3. Kanü Bar|Grill | Hamilton Heights | 8.5/10 4. STK Steakhouse Downtown | West Village | 8.2/10 5. Lighthouse Fish Market | East Harlem | 8.2/10 Male Picks: ------------------------------------------------ 1. Lahori Kabab | Kips Bay | 2.3/10 2. Big Arc Chicken | East Village | 2.5/10 3. Hop Won Express | Midtown East | 3.1/10 4. Subway | Hell's Kitchen | 3.1/10 5. Nica Trattoria | Upper East Side | 3.1/10 it looks like female => attractive
- foresterre 1y agoThis was the first thing that stood out to me too. I sampled quite some dark red markers, representing "attractive", and on the balance they're almost always overwhelmingly reviewed by females. There were some exceptions though. Especially in the south west for Chinese cuisine.
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- Takennickname 1y agoYour data is incorrect. That ranking is for male vs female (higher number = female). The hot vs not score is a separate score. (e.g you have Big Arc chicken as a 2.5. That means mostly male. It's hotness score is 5.5)
- IncreasePosts 1y agoIt's probably more like "interested in social media" -> more likely to have a very good shot of you as your profile pic -> more likely to be considered attractive. So perhaps this is really just searching for restaurants that people into social media review.
- ljsprague 1y agoIt's missing large parts of LA.
- yapyap 1y agothat’s awful, I love it
- TheLockranore 1y agoThis sounds like the opening premise of a 90's romcom.
- bemmu 1y agoI think there's a category of these kinds of things where you apply AI to do something humans could do, but could not be bothered to do. Or could not profitably do. At least no human would categorize all these reviews just for lols. Another recent example from HN would be that site which just lists hotel rooms that have a desk and a chair. It would be an incredibly dull task for a human to look at a million hotel room pictures and just select if they have a desk or not. What else somewhat useful/fun could we do applying perhaps a little worse than human attention at something, but a lot of it?
- d--b 1y agoThis was a fun website until I realized that restaurants in Harlem score overwhelmingly "not hot". This sucks.
- ChrisArchitect 1y agoNYT feature on this a few days ago The Map Rating Restaurants Based on How Hot the Customers Are https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/dining/looksmapping-hot-customers.html https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/dining/looksmapping-hot-c... (https://archive.ph/3ItEb https://archive.ph/3ItEb) (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44444973 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44444973)
- esafak 1y agoGiven that we're talking about NY, shouldn't it be Hot Dog (Stand) or Not?
- Eduard 1y agotook only a few checks for me to come to the conclusion that the setup has the age-old heavy bias towards beauty standards. I.e., if customers are black or Asian, hotness ranking goes down.
- landl0rd 1y agoNo, the setup doesn’t. It’s aggregating people’s behaviors and preferences. People appear to have a preference; whether it’s good or bad, natural or ingrained, or some combination thereof, is a matter for discussion.
- xg15 1y agoI see a weird blue cluster north of Central Park, where according to the AI almost every restaurant has ugly patrons. That cluster coincides with Harlem which has a majorly Black and Hispanic population and (I think) is generally lower-wealth. Unintentional race and/or wealth/class bias in the model exposed here?
- wirelessRice 1y agoI thought this said looksMaxing at first and had to do a double take