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FeelHN analyzes the sentiment of comments on Hacker News, helping users understand whether discussions are positive or negative. Built as a Stripe hackathon project, it displays sentiment analysis directly within the… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. FeelHN - Sentiment analysis for HN comments [Stripe hackathon project] launched in 2012; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    Accessible end-to-end deep dive of crawling, embedding, projecting, and semantic searching all of Hacker News for my Hackerverse project.

    2024 · blog.wilsonl.in · its alternatives →

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    Hi everyone, we developed a tool that can easily tell you the overall sentiment of a message based on a word. For now it’s hacker news only but we think this thing has potential. Whether you’re a startup, solopreneur or product manager, you can track trends with it. We are also planning to add predictive tools and real time analysis. Operationally this tool is a lot cheaper than Sprout Social or other similar solutions on the market. No sign-up required. Just type and see results. I'd love your feedback on the tool's usefulness and any ideas for improvement.

    2024 · classysoftware.io · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN! Just for fun, I built an interactive Hacker News Simulator. You can submit text posts and links, just like the real HN. But on HN Simulator, all of the comments are generated by LLMs + generate instantly. The best way to use it (IMHO) is to submit a text post or a curl-able URL here: https://news.ysimulator.run/submit. You don't need an account to post. When you do that, various prompts will be built from a library of commenter archetypes, moods, and shapes. The AI commenters will actually respond to your text post and/or submitted link. I really wanted it to feel…

    Nov 2025 · news.ysimulator.run · its alternatives →

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    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 →

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    Author here. This site lets you put in a username and get the users with the most similar writing style to that user. It confirmed several users who I suspected were alts and after informally asking around has identified abandoned accounts of people I know from many years ago. I made this site mostly to show how easy this is and how it can erode online privacy. If some guy with a little bit of Python, and $8 to rent a decent dedicated server for a day can make this, imagine what a company with millions of dollars and a couple dozen PhD linguists could do. Here's Paul Graham:…

    2022 · stylometry.net · its alternatives →

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    Test your HN title against a neural network. Contribute to victorqribeiro/hntitlenator development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Get your public IP address instantly. Simple, fast, and reliable API for developers.

    2021 · hnbadges.netlify.app · its alternatives →

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    Public datsets made with https://getomni.ai/. Contribute to getomni-ai/datasets development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    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 →

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    upvotetracker adalah situs berita yang menyajikan laporan terbaru dari berbagai topik dengan analisis yang cepat, jelas, dan mudah diikuti pembaca.

    2021 · upvotetracker.com · its alternatives →

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    We (Nick, Dens, Denzell, Fede, Drew, Aaryan, and Daniel) have been building HN Discovery, a discovery-focused search engine for Hacker News, in our spare time for the past 6 months and are excited to show it! It adds the following features relative to the existing keyword search interface and preserves the existing ones: - no-JS version (hnnojs.trieve.ai) - site:{required_site} and site:{negated-site} filters - public analytics - LLM generated query suggestions based on random stories - recommendations - dense vector semantic search - SPLADE fulltext search - RAG AI chat - order by…

    2024 · hn.trieve.ai · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN, I made Ethos, an open-source tool to visualize the discourse on Hacker News. It extracts entities, tracks sentiment, and groups discussions by concept. Check it out: https://ethos.devrupt.io This was a "budget build" experiment. I managed to ship it for under $1 in infra costs. Originally I was using `qwen3-8b` for the LLM and `qwen3-embedding-8b` for the embedding, but I ran into some capacity issues with that model and decided to use `llama-3.1-8b-instruct` to stay within a similar budget while having higher throughput. What LLM or embedding would you have used within the…

    Feb 2026 · ethos.devrupt.io · its alternatives →

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    A new experimental UI for Hacker News Search

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    Hacker News comments sidebar bookmarklet. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

    2023 · gist.github.com · its alternatives →

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    Measure sentiment on the popular reddit forum

    2021 · swaggystocks.com · its alternatives →

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    A survey tracking developer sentiment on AI-assisted coding through Hacker News posts.

    Feb 2026 · is-ai-good-yet.com · its alternatives →

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    Hello HN! TLDR; - Quality News is a Hacker News client that provides additional data and insights on submissions, notably, the upvoteRate metric. - We propose that this metric could be used to improve the Hacker News ranking score. - In-depth explanation: https://github.com/social-protocols/news#readme The Hacker News ranking score is directly proportional to upvotes, which is a problem because it creates a feedback loop: higher rank leads to more upvotes leads to higher rank, and so on... → ↗ ↘ Higher Rank More Upvotes ↖ ↙ ← As a consequence, success on HN depends almost…

    2023 · news.social-protocols.org · its alternatives →

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