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24 alternatives to RAG on HN comments in 34 LOC

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Prices are shown for the 2 we have checked on their own sites, 2 of them free or with a free tier. RAG on HN comments in 34 LOC launched in 2024; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

  1. 1HA

    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 · its alternatives →

  2. 2HC

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

  3. 3C
    cmmntsfree tier, from $19/mo▲162

    Add a powerful comment section to any website

    Sep 2026 · cmmnts.in · its alternatives →

  4. 4IR
  5. 5

    Likers, haters, and manipulators at the bottom of the web

    2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

  6. 6MY
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  8. 8

    Make EVERYTHING you say sound funny on slack

    2016 · me.lol · its alternatives →

  9. 9
    Lect.io▲60

    MOOCs contextualized comments for lectures.

    2014 · its alternatives →

  10. 10CF
  11. 11
  12. 12HR
  13. 13BA
  14. 14

    Turn your comments into a Reddit like community

    2015 · disqus.com · its alternatives →

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  17. 17

    Remove HN comments that have negative points. Contribute to BugWrestler5000/hn-delete-negative-point-comments development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2018 · github.com · its alternatives →

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  19. 19

    A blog comment service and Disqus alternative that won

    2021 · jamcomments.com · its alternatives →

  20. 20CC
  21. 21IM
  22. 22EF

    2019 · hn-emotions.appspot.com · its alternatives →

  23. 23MA
  24. 24

    The latest Ask HN: What are you working[1] on thread just dropped. And to give my own answer, building structured datasets! I wrote a quick scraper for the HN comments. Just pulling every top level comment along with its replies as a nested object. This ended up pulling 642 top level comments with about 458 replies. I created a posrgres db with this original data set. The replies I just concatenated together in the order they came in (with an indent field to mark what level comment it was. Then stringified the json array and added it to the db. I generated the structured data using my own…

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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