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Silicon Valley: Not Hotdog (Season 4 Episode 4 Clip) | HBO

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Cited on HN 4 times, 2017–2025, never outright recommended score 0
Years with an HN recommendation, 2007–2026

Mostly a running joke or reference for image-classification projects and AI app demos.

An HBO clip from Silicon Valley season 4 in which the 'Not Hotdog' app is demoed. The app classifies food photos as hot dog or not hot dog.

1 citations · 3 jokes · Comedy

4 Hacker News comments

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@timanglade Jun 2017 Cites it
on HN thread How HBO’s Silicon Valley Built “Not Hotdog” with TensorFlow, Keras and React Native
Just wanted to say thanks for the warm welcome from HN when the app was released last month — I hope this blogpost answers the questions that were raised back then. I’d be happy to answer anything else you’d like to know! Original thread: [link] Demo of the app (in the show): [this video] App for iOS: [link] App for Android (just released yesterday): [link]
Demo of the Not Hotdog app from the show
@evan_ Sep 2023 Makes a joke
on HN thread iOS 17 is available today
> A new feature, Sensitive Content Warning, helps adult users avoid seeing unwanted nude images and videos. It looks like there's now a feature you can enable that uses a classifier (I'm guessing?) to identify dick pics, and let you choose whether you want to see it or not. The last slide[0] in the last carousel on the linked page has an image of the dialog. I bet that was an interesting team to work on. edit: Obligatory Silicon Valley ref: pt1: [this video] pt2: [link] [0] [link]

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