[aspenmayer]

That’s an interesting idea. I think that folks have already built something like this for internal use or as a service, but I’m not sure if it exists as a free service.

This might be enough to get you started if you wanted to roll your own (h/t @simonw):

> Summarizing Hacker News discussion themes with Claude and LLM

https://til.simonwillison.net/llms/claude-hacker-news-themes

For something similar at the story level, but without any kind of sentiment analysis, there’s this:

https://hnrankings.com/

Edit:

Some (AI?) comment analysis summary per story on this site, but I don’t know how the site works or how often it might re-analyze the comment thread, if at all:

https://hackyournews.com/

via https://github.com/cheeaun/awesome-hacker-news