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

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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.

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

4 comments from Hacker News

@kayge2025-08 · in “Show HN: Draw a fish and watch it swim with the others”

My hot dog with a smiley face got a 64%, I'm sorry. Semi relevant Silicon Valley clip (maybe nsfw, language) ▶ this video

@throwup2382024-02 · in “Ask HN: What have you built with LLMs?”

> 1. Analyze calories/macronutrients from a text description or photo Step 1: Is it a hot dog or not hot dog? ▶ this video I'm glad someone is keeping the dream alive!

@evan_2023-09 · in “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

@timanglade2017-06 · in “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