[rustmachine]

Cool project, and cool resultats. As an anthropologist who reads HN as a way to keep abreast of the tech community and tech insights, its interesting to see atlas shrugged as one of the most often recommended books. Interesting and maybe slightly disturbing. HN would make for quite interesting source material for someone who wanted to study tech culture.

[dang]

I'd be careful about that generalization. This software seems to be going more by mentions than by recommendations - e.g. the top reply to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16323808 ("Ask HN: Which are the most damaging books you've read?") is being counted as a recommendation.

Sentiment analysis is hard. In fact I've never seen it work yet.