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Sentiance
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Sentiance is the company blog at sentiance.com, writing about ai and data. Since 2016, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 16 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-12, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (7) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters point to the Sentiance homepage as an example of smartphone sensor data used to predict human behaviour, in discussions of Facebook data harvesting. Other comments are job postings.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 7 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Sentiance delivers AI-native, on-device behavioral intelligence for mobile apps. We turn sensor data into real-time insights about how people move, drive, and live, enabling safer journeys, smarter experiences, and deeper engagement, all with privacy built in.
Most-linked posts?
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-03-20
What Hacker News says?
Wait until you see the video of these guys: https://www.sentiance.com/ (via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16626752 )
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on “Ex-Facebook insider says covert data harvesting was routine”Submitted Deep learning for long-term predictions as a story · 9 points
HN discussionRight now I'm considering to just show them the video on sentiance's homepage.. ( https://www.sentiance.com as linked above)
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on “Facebook’s Surveillance Machine”Submitted Loc2Vec: Learning location embeddings with triplet-loss networks as a story · 6 points
HN discussionwhen talking about Cambridge Analytica we should also discuss Palantir from 5 years ago: https://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2013-06/mysterious... Palantir ‘wields as much real-world power as Google, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft and Apple, but unlike them, Palantir operates so far under the radar, it is special ops.’ https://channels.theinnovationenterprise.com/articles/is-pal... Yes, that's the same Thiel who…
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on “Facebook’s Surveillance Machine”Submitted Learning meaningful location embeddings from unlabeled visits as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSentiance | Interpreting human behavior from smartphone-generated sensor data with AI | Antwerp, Belgium, Europe | ONSITE | VISA sponsorship OK | Full-time | Junior - Medior - Senior Mobile SDK Engineers (iOS and/or Android) We are a data science company that uses AI and machine learning algorithms to analyze low level sensor data from IOT objects (like smartphones) to better understand and predict human behavior an…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2018)”Submitted Deep learning on raw sensor data to distinguish drivers from passengers as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSentiance | Interpreting human behavior from smartphone-generated sensor data with AI | Antwerp, Belgium, Europe | ONSITE | VISA sponsorship OK | Full-time | Junior - Medior - Senior Mobile SDK Engineers (iOS and/or Android) We are a data science company that uses AI and machine learning algorithms to analyze low level sensor data from IOT objects (like smartphones) to better understand and predict human behavior an…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2018)”Submitted How AI drives the mobile contextual revolution as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSentiance | www.sentiance.com | Antwerp, Belgium | Full-stack Engineer | Full-time | Visa | Onsite | We are data science company and we are looking for a new team member who will work closely & interact with our Data Science Team as your work will contribute directly to the overall quality of ingested data and creative delivery of profiled data. We work with Node.js, Java, React Native, Python, Docker, Kafka and oth…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2018)”Submitted Trust, control and personalization through human-centric AI as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThat sounds a lot like what these guys do: http://www.sentiance.com
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on “Algorithmia – Open Marketplace for Algorithms”Submitted Large scale transport mode classification from mobile sensor data as a story · 1 points
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