H
Hunch Blog
blog.hunch.com · Company blog · on HN since 2009
The company blog of Hunch, a recommendation startup, with posts on its taste graph and a Mac vs. PC comparison.
What HN saysHN links it in discussions of Hunch's scaling, where commenters ask how its large single-machine setup would grow to eBay-level traffic.
21HN people shared it
3linked it in comments
19stories submitted
48story points
13 years agolast shared
2009people per year2026
Most-shared posts
- 1You’ve got mail: What your email domain says about you3 people · 7 points · first shared 2011 · 1 comments on HN
- 2Hunch’s Taste Graph: The Infographic3 people · 4 points · first shared 2011 · discussion on HN
- 3Android vs. iPhone: Battle of the Mobile OS2 people · 5 points · first shared 2011 · discussion on HN
- 4You Vote What You Eat: How Liberals and Conservatives Eat Differently2 people · 3 points · first shared 2011 · discussion on HN
- 5Mac vs. PC: A Hunch Rematch1 people · 6 points · first shared 2011 · 1 comments on HN
- 6Mac vs PC People: Personality Traits & Aesthetic/Media Choices1 people · 5 points · first shared 2009 · 1 comments on HN
- 7Hunch’s API: The Infographic1 people · 4 points · first shared 2011 · discussion on HN
- 8How Food Preferences Vary by Political Ideology: a Hunch Report1 people · 3 points · first shared 2009 · discussion on HN
- 9Voting in an Echo Chamber: The Myth of the “Informed” Vote1 people · 2 points · first shared 2010 · discussion on HN
- 10Hunch blog: Is a copycat a thief…or your biggest fan?1 people · 2 points · first shared 2011 · discussion on HN
- 11Woof vs. Meow: What Our Furry Friends Reveal About Us1 people · 2 points · first shared 2011 · 1 comments on HN
- 12Hunch is now part of eBay1 people · 2 points · first shared 2011 · discussion on HN
- 13What speaking a foreign language says about you1 people · 1 points · first shared 2011 · 3 comments on HN
- 14Does TV Make us Dumber-er?1 people · 1 points · first shared 2010 · discussion on HN
- 15Logging into Hunch gives 20-40% better results, is now a requirement1 people · 1 points · first shared 2010 · discussion on HN
What HN people wrote when they linked it
Pxtl · 2013-09-06
Read it a few years ago... can't find the link anymore. Article said that the things that kept Yahoo alive were finance, women, and sports, and I bet they lost that finance thing since then.
edit: best I can find is this article pointing out Yahoo mail's 63% female userbase, but it's pretty thin.
http://blog.hunch.com/?p=34824
enobrev · 2011-08-19
benhalllondon · 2011-11-22
Anyone have any suggestions about how Hunch would scale to eBay levels?
Seems Hunch has gone the 'Mega Machine' route (1 T RAM, 48 Core [1]), from 700k users (80m Total TTHY / 113THAYs [1]), make 250k API users
How do you scale that out to eBay numbers?
[1]http://blog.hunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/110509-HUNCH-TASTEGRA…