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Singapore Samizdat
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Singapore Samizdat is a personal blog at singapore-samizdat.com about politics and history. Since 2021, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “How Singapore's government-run dating service works”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-30, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this post on Singapore's government dating app and its use of the Gale-Shapley stable marriage algorithm, and on whether matching is an engineering problem.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Singapore Samizdat is a newsletter on Singapore — with a focus on the obscure, the seemingly trivial, and the frequently overlooked.
Most-linked posts?
- How Singapore's government-run dating service works2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-10-01
What Hacker News says?
I really liked this analysis - it echoes a lot of the comments here - to wit, as an engineer it's tempting to think that this is an engineering problem, but the program might get better results from funding third spaces and events and letting people match by what they want to do, not by what they think they may like in a person. https://www.singapore-samizdat.com/p/how-singapores-governme...
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on “Singapore govt dating app uses Gale-Shapley stable marriage algorithm”Submitted How Singapore's government-run dating service works as a story · 260 points
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