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How Your Interests Are Learned
Headlinne learns what you care about from how you read, not from a questionnaire. Learn how your interest profile is built, updated, and used to shape your feed.
By Headlinne Editorial Team · Updated on
Learned from behavior, not surveys
Rather than asking you to fill out a long list of interests, Headlinne learns what you care about from how you actually engage—what you read, how long, what you swipe toward, and what you skip. Behavior is a far more honest signal than a questionnaire, because people read differently than they say they will.
Your interests are inferred continuously and quietly, so the feed keeps up as your attention shifts.
The signals that teach the system
Your interest profile is built from signals like:
- Articles you open and read, and how far you get
- Swipes—toward stories you want more of, away from ones you do not
- Topics and entities that recur in what you engage with
- Searches you run and research you request
- How recent your engagement is, so current interests count more
From signals to a taste vector
These signals are distilled into a representation of your interests—a taste vector in the same 768-dimensional space as the articles. New articles are matched against it by meaning, which is how Headlinne recognizes that a story is "your kind of thing" even if it uses words you have never searched.
Because the vector updates as you read, your feed evolves with you rather than freezing on day-one preferences.
Staying in control
You are not locked into what the system infers. You can shape your interests directly by following topics, and your ongoing swipes and reads continuously correct the profile. If it drifts, you can steer it back—or reset it entirely.
The learning is a collaboration: the system proposes based on your behavior, and you refine it through how you engage.
Key takeaways
- âś“Headlinne learns your interests from real behavior, not a questionnaire.
- âś“Reads, swipes, recurring topics, and searches all feed your interest profile.
- âś“Those signals become a taste vector that matches articles by meaning and evolves over time.
Frequently asked questions
Do I have to tell Headlinne my interests?
No. It learns from how you read and swipe. You can also shape it directly by following topics, and you can reset it anytime if you want a fresh start.
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