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Comment by sfblah

17 days ago

The people at the top of the leaderboard aren't particularly attractive in my opinion.

I can't help but wonder if it's a bit of self-aware humour about "scientific looksmaxing". Symmetry is involved in attractiveness but symmetry alone can only carry you so far.

  • yeah i mean i kind of realised that you cant really rate faces based on a bunch of mathematical params and expect it to still be very accurate; but maybe my opinion of attractiveness is skewed

i think someone's already hacked the website

I made the same mistake when I vibecoded something for ShowHN and it was hacked within the hour lol

  • lol no one has hacked the website, those are the real ratings for those photos from my algo. people have found "bad" faces that get good ratings but maybe they're js not that bad haha

i think the main problem is, i only rate their face structures, cos thats the thing you can explicitly calculate; but obviously that's not all there is to how good you look. also btw one of my friend, whos near the top read your comment and sent it to me with a crying emoji haha

Those are added by the author themselves. Scrub the test data perhaps?

  • nono, i had only added like 10 images... i give people the option to add an instagram account but if they don't it defaults to the do_i_mog instagram account which is why most of the entries seem to come from do_i_mog