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Products that do what Comments by Top HN Posters Analysed by IBM's Watson User Modelling API does

1HA
HN Avatars in 357 bytes▲701
Paste the following into the console of any HN page - for annotated avatars on all HN comments. (self contained code) for(u of document.querySelectorAll('.hnuser'))for(u.prepend(c=document.createElement('canvas')),x=c.getContext('2d'),c.width=18,c.height=14,s=u.innerText,r=1,i=28+s.length;i--;i>>29>X*X/3+Y/2&&x.fillRect(6+2*X,2*Y,2,2)&x.fillRect(6-2*X,2*Y,2,2):r+=s.charCodeAt(i-28,x.fillStyle='#'+(r>>8&0xFFFFFF).toString(16)))r^=r>>17,r^=r>2
2022
2HT
hnlive.tk – A tool to estimate activity on HN before posting▲109
2016 · hnlive.tk
3EH
Exploring HN by mapping and analyzing 40M posts and comments for fun▲520
2024 · blog.wilsonl.in
4HD
HN Domain Leaderboard▲266
2018 · hnleaderboard.com
5HC
HN comments UI experiment▲6
2017 · hn-level-based-view.gomix.me
6EH
Embed HN comments in your website▲137
2016 · comments.network
7HB
HN-beautify – a stylesheet for the HN frontpage▲91
2014 · github.com
8PI
Pol.is – a new commenting system powered by machine learning and D3▲126
2014 · pol.is
9TH
Testing HN titles against a neural network▲285
2019 · github.com
10VH
Visualize how HN/Reddit talk about your company and products▲74
2019 · brandimage.io
11HR
HN Replies – Get notified of replies to your comments▲217
2016 · hnreplies.com
12FS
FeelHN - Sentiment analysis for HN comments [Stripe hackathon project]▲22
2012 · chrome.google.com
13HG
hncynic – Generate Hacker News Comments from Titles▲114
2019 · hncynic.leod.org
14AT
Analyzing top HN posts with language models▲117
Hi HN, I spent a few weeks looking at the top HN posts of all time. This included exploration, clustering, creating visualizations, and zooming in on what (to me personally) seems like some of the best discussions on here. Three things in this post: 1- The interesting groups of HN posts 2- The interactive visualizations that you can explore in your browser 3- The data from this exploration -- this includes CSV of the titles as well as the text embeddings of 3,000 Ask HN articles. Blog post about this whole process here: [1] ============ 1- The interesting groups of HN posts From the…
2022
15US
User scripts for HN comment section usability improvements▲6
2016 · github.com
16HT
HackerMoods – Trend analysis of HN sentiment▲14
2016 · hackermoods.com
17HS
HN Sentiment API – I ranked tech CEOs by how much you hate them▲27
I built an API that extracts entities from Hacker News comments and classifies sentiment towards them as positive, negative, or neutral. It also classifies overall comment sentiment and assigns each entity a label (person, location, date, technology, organization, other). 505k+ comments, Oct 31 - Present. Here's the leaderboard: LOVED: - Steve Jobs: 44% positive, 7% negative - Linus Torvalds: 43% positive, 5% negative - Gabe Newell: 34% positive, 8% negative MID: - Bill Gates: 22% positive, 8% negative - Tim Cook: 15% positive, 30% negative - Bezos: 12% positive, 18% negative HATED: -…
Dec 2025 · docs.hnpulse.com
18HR
HN Recommended – a curated list of HN commenters' opinions▲7
2020 · hnrecommended.com
19CI
CommentBox.io – a responsible alternative to Disqus▲64
2018 · commentbox.io
20IM
Infinite Monkeys – Pooling the Wisdom of Hacker News Comments▲93
2015 · github.com
21UH
Unofficial HN API Users’ Repository▲17
2014 · github.com
22PO
Pairagraph – our attempt to build a new high-quality discussion forum▲89
2021 · pairagraph.com
23IB
Inspired by a HN comment, half stars proposed for Unicode [pdf]▲55
2016 · files.righto.com
24MN
ML News – Like HN, but for Machine Learning▲38
2020 · mln.dev

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