# Are You in the Weights?

15 Hacker News commenters recommended Are You in the Weights? and 18 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 1 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** Liked for its polished design and hallucination flags; it fits some names well. Critics say it invents confident false facts and publishes what users type.

## Why people recommend it

- Polished design and user interface (4 comments): "Incredible concept and a very well-crafted site." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48595393)) "I really like the website itself" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48592398)) "It looks like something perfect" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48591945))
- Correct for some names (3 comments): "I'm in the weights quite correctly, nice, but it also seem to hallucinate football players" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48602663)) "It got me exactly right and also academics more famous than me that I tried." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48603248)) "My handle and real name give more or less correct results" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48597164))

## What people warn about

- Invents confident false facts about people (7 comments): "then made up a bunch of confidently wrong things to say about me" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48596163)) "it totally made up a French linguist with that name" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48600525)) "it hallucinated all kind of stuff about me being deeply involved with early Bitcoin development" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48593566))
- Typed names published publicly (4 comments): "It is still possible to download all entries via the api and sort them by the timestamp." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48593543)) "Every name/text entered into this site is publicly listed on the "latest" leaderboard" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48592168)) "All the data is still public. There are more than 104000 entries now." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48596403))
- Wrong for many names (3 comments): "But even the entries that aren't marked as likely hallucinations are wrong for me on this site." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48592025)) "this tool only correctly infers correctly when using that specific combination" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48596948)) "it totally failed to find me even then" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48597742))
- Input and timeout bugs (2 comments): "It drops key presses and randomly moves the cursor on mobile, unless you type slowly." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48593454)) "Your timeout is too short, I'm sure it would work if it didn't cut itself off." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48595335))

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Are You in the Weights?", https://hackerapproved.com/p/are-you-in-the-weights/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).