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Products that do what HN Recommended – a curated list of HN commenters' opinions does

1. 1MB
   Meta book recommendations from Ask HN threads▲273

   2020 · mapfilterfold.com

2. 24H
   40k HN comments mentioning books, extracted using deep learning▲1,359

   2021 · hacker-recommended-books.vercel.app

3. 3CB
   Comments by Top HN Posters Analysed by IBM's Watson User Modelling API▲180

   2014 · kolinko.github.io

4. 4HR
   HN Recommends – Curated recommendations from Hacker News▲9

   2018 · hnrecommends.com

5. 5EH
   Embed HN comments in your website▲137

   2016 · comments.network

6. 6HR
   HN Replies – Get notified of replies to your comments▲217

   2016 · hnreplies.com

7. 7GA
   Gorse – An Out-of-the-box open-source Recommender System▲212

   2021 · gorse.io

8. 8IM
   I made a tool to track the upvote/ranking history of HN submissions▲144

   2021 · upvotetracker.com

9. 9HB
   HN-beautify – a stylesheet for the HN frontpage▲91

   2014 · github.com

10. 10QA
    Q&A for HN users▲142

    2012 · askolo.com

11. 11SP
    Summarizing popular HN articles▲19

    2011 · skimthat.com

12. 12HT
    hnlive.tk – A tool to estimate activity on HN before posting▲109

    2016 · hnlive.tk

13. 13FS
    FeelHN - Sentiment analysis for HN comments [Stripe hackathon project]▲22

    2012 · chrome.google.com

14. 14HD
    HN Demetricator – An extension that removes upvote and comment counts▲92

    2020 · github.com

15. 15HG
    hncynic – Generate Hacker News Comments from Titles▲114

    2019 · hncynic.leod.org

16. 16TS
    Track social sharing and community sentiment on HN and reddit▲24

    2014 · stats.timgallant.us

17. 17VH
    Visualize how HN/Reddit talk about your company and products▲74

    2019 · brandimage.io

18. 18HB
    Hacker Backlinks – HN Stories Most Linked To By HN Comments▲6

    Feb 2026 · hacker-backlinks.browserbox.io

19. 19CI
    CommentBox.io – a responsible alternative to Disqus▲64

    2018 · commentbox.io

20. 20DO
    Dataset of Sarcastic HN Comments▲11

    2021 · github.com

21. 21IB
    Inspired by a HN comment, half stars proposed for Unicode [pdf]▲55

    2016 · files.righto.com

22. 22
    Limk▲66

    Smarter Content Recommendations.

    2014

23. 23US
    User scripts for HN comment section usability improvements▲6

    2016 · github.com

24. 24HT
    HackerMoods – Trend analysis of HN sentiment▲14

    2016 · hackermoods.com

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