Simon Willison55 · 2026-03-21 23:59
Profiling Hacker News users based on their comments
Here's a mildly dystopian prompt I've been experimenting with recently: "Profile this user", accompanied by a copy of their last 1,000 comments on Hacker News. Obtaining those comments is easy. The Algolia Hacker News API supports listing comments sorted by date that have a specific tag, and the author of a comment is tagged there as author_username . Here's a JSON feed of my ( simonw ) most recent comments, for example: https://hn.algolia.com/api/v1/search_by_date?tags=comment,author_simonw&...