Hacker News new | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit login Building an Internet Scale Meme Search Engine ( findthatmeme.com ) 551 points by whoisburbansky 10 hours ago | hide | past | favorite | 113 comments solarkraft 1 minute ago | next [–] That's a fun way to do OCR. Next up: Classifying memes by subjects and themes to build something like KnowYourMeme's gallery, but for every meme . Bonus: Index from a lot of sources to help track a meme's origin. This type of thing is on my long list of "can somebody else please do this already". reply CobrastanJorji 9 hours ago | prev | next [–] This title really undersells the absolute insanity of the described solution. This is a beautiful example of "if it's stupid, but it works, it's not stupid." The justification is very convincing. One thing I'm curious about: how did you build you...