Show HN: Who and where are your anagranames?
Hi HN! I made this fun app which combines quite a few ideas, I thought you might like the story: A few months ago I had the idea of looking for anagrams of names. I started with french names using official statistics about first and last names, which also gave me a pretty simple model for likely anagrams: P(first + last) = P(first) * P(last). Then, I started checking which anagra-names (I coined the term) appeared in the 2021 Facebook leak. Finally, I improved my ranking using a factorization mo
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2026-11-05 12:45:24.966Z
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Source account: Hi HN! I made this fun app which combines quite a few ideas, I thought you might like the story: A few months ago I had the idea of looking for anagrams of names. I started with french names using official statistics about first and last names, which also gave me a pretty simple model for likely anagrams: P(first + last) = P(first) * P(last). Then, I started checking which anagra-names (I coined the term) appeared in the 2021 Facebook leak. Finally, I improved my ranking using a factorization mo
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Source votes: 2 votes (Nov 5, 2026 UTC; cumulative since publication); previous same-scope observation: 2 (Nov 5, 2026 UTC). These observations do not establish demand growth. Recent records to compare: “[推广] 做了个在线 AI 母带处理：免费试用，不用注册，不用绑卡” (V2EX, Nov 7, 2026); “Show HN: I built a free trivia hosting app with no accounts or subscriptions” (Show HN, Nov 7, 2026). Shared themes are navigation hints; they have not been verified as the same need or independent corroboration.
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