Life & fun · alternatives · 2026

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Emotions for HN launched in 2019; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

1. 1HC
   HN comments UI experiment▲6

   2017 · hn-level-based-view.gomix.me · its alternatives →

2. 2IR
   I ran sentiment analysis on Show HN comments and got the meanest ones▲78

   2018 · hn.walzr.com · its alternatives →

3. 3HS
   HN-Stats▲9

   2015 · newscombinator.com · its alternatives →

4. 4HR
   HN Replies – Get notified of replies to your comments▲217

   2016 · hnreplies.com · its alternatives →

5. 5
   Mental State of HN Users Before/After Lockdown▲65

   Explore and run AI code with Kaggle Notebooks | Using data from Hacker News: All Posts, Stories, Ask/Show HN, etc

   2020 · kaggle.com · its alternatives →

6. 6
   HN Beautify▲75

   For any HN fan, this makes it just a little more presentable

   2014 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →

7. 7
   Moodie▲73

   Analyze the emotions behind your words

   2014 · beyondverbal.com · its alternatives →

8. 8SH
   Show HN▲9

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   2024 · labs.refuel.ai · its alternatives →

9. 9
   FeelHN - Sentiment analysis for HN comments [Stripe hackathon project]▲22

   2012 · chrome.google.com · its alternatives →

10. 10
    Feelings Cards▲68

    The gift of honest conversation

    2020 · home.spill.chat · its alternatives →

11. 11
    HN Offline – HN client for reading comments▲6

    2020 · hn.byroni.us · its alternatives →

12. 12
    Moral Tribes▲56

    Emotion, reason, and the gap between us and them

    2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

13. 13HR
    HN Recommended – a curated list of HN commenters' opinions▲7

    2020 · hnrecommended.com · its alternatives →

14. 14IA
    Identify and label your feelings/emotions▲5

    2025 · whatfeeling.com · its alternatives →

15. 15
    Feels▲8

    Putting the emotion back into decisions

    2013 · techcrunch.com · its alternatives →

16. 16AH
    A HN clone for happy/uplifting news▲18

    2021 · happinews.co · its alternatives →

17. 17AV
    A video version of Show HN▲6

    2015 · glitchclub.com · its alternatives →

18. 18
    We Feel▲6

    Real-time signal of the world's emotional state.

    2016 · wefeel.csiro.au · its alternatives →

19. 19
    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 · its alternatives →

20. 20HN
    HN Notifier Realtime(ish) Notifications for Comments on Your HN Posts▲6

    2020 · hacknotescenter.com · its alternatives →

21. 21HS
    HN Sakura – see quick rising/falling HN posts before they're gone▲7

    2018 · hnsakura.xyz · its alternatives →

22. 22TO
    Timeline of a HN Submission▲5

    2023 · luke.lol · its alternatives →

23. 23MY
    Make your own HN in TextChannels / opinions?▲5

    2011 · textchannels.com · its alternatives →

24. 24MA
    Made a HN-themed Framer blog template for HN community▲5

    2023 · buildwithframer.com · its alternatives →

Ranked by how close each launch is in meaning, then by votes. Prices were read from each product’s own site when checked and can change. Refine with your own description →