This was a fun website until I realized that restaurants in Harlem score overwhelmingly "not hot".
This sucks.
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#52NYT 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-c... (https://archive.ph/3ItEb) (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44444973)
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#53Top 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…
It'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.
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#54I love how quick people are to dismiss the obvious technical skill involved in making something like this, just because of the off-color premise.
Who's dismissing the obvious technical skill?
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#55Given that we're talking about NY, shouldn't it be Hot Dog (Stand) or Not?
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#56took 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.
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#57took 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.
No, 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.
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#58What'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; }
It simulates CRT pixelization and low resolution
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#59> 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
This feels like a “I do this dumb thing so everyone must do it” kind of bias that I frustratingly see expressed all the time.
It’s the average pilot thing. Nobody is the normal. Everyone’s life experience does not resemble a normal one.
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#60> 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
There are places frequented by certain broad-shouldered gentlemen that I tend to avoid even though they serve pretty good food.