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Products that do what Inspired by a HN comment, half stars proposed for Unicode [pdf] does

1. 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

2. 2CB
   Comments by Top HN Posters Analysed by IBM's Watson User Modelling API▲180

   2014 · kolinko.github.io

3. 3US
   unicode.style▲125

   2018 · unicode.style

4. 4AH
   A HN/Reddit-style site for scientific pre-prints and publications▲275

   2018 · upvote.pub

5. 5
   Unicode Text Converter▲185

   𝑳𝒆𝒕'𝒔 𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒖𝒔𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔… #famouslastwords

   2014

6. 6EC
   Experimental chat written in Common Lisp▲114

   2017 · github.com

7. 7HB
   HN-beautify – a stylesheet for the HN frontpage▲91

   2014 · github.com

8. 8HC
   HN comments UI experiment▲6

   2017 · hn-level-based-view.gomix.me

9. 9DO
   Dataset of Sarcastic HN Comments▲11

   2021 · github.com

10. 10IM
    I made a better search for Unicode characters▲9

    2020 · glyphfinder.com

11. 11UG
    user generated TL;DRs with a smart scorer▲19

    2011 · gistpoint.com

12. 12HR
    HN Recommended – a curated list of HN commenters' opinions▲7

    2020 · hnrecommended.com

13. 13RA
    RTFA, a Chrome extension to hide HN comments until you read the article▲44

    2014 · chrome.google.com

14. 14MF
    More feedback for Show HN stories▲57

    2018 · development.kitchen

15. 15RA
    ReadHNLater – A HN PWA with a “Read It Later” Feature▲39

    2018 · github.com

16. 16AH
    A HN desktop app for reading links and comments next to each other▲54

    2016 · florian.github.io

17. 171H
    1Post – HN-like site with markdown and syntax highlighting▲43

    2015 · 1po.st

18. 18AS
    A simple hack to highlight questionable unicode▲5

    2015 · unicode-highlight.herokuapp.com

19. 19HU
    HN Unread Comments v1.1 released (chrome extension)▲20

    2010 · chrome.google.com

20. 20HP
    HNSearch PopDots (Potential HNSearch API Contest Submission)▲14

    2011 · jflatow.github.com

21. 21RO
    RAG on HN comments in 34 LOC▲6

    2024 · val.town

22. 22OT
    On the fly color scheme selection for rxvt-unicode▲32

    2019 · gitlab.com

23. 23FS
    FeelHN - Sentiment analysis for HN comments [Stripe hackathon project]▲22

    2012 · chrome.google.com

24. 24UO
    UnicodeForUs, open-source repository of fun unicode characters▲5

    2012 · unicodefor.us

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