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Analyze Hacker News thread sentiment from a provided HN thread URL.
Analyze Hacker News thread sentiment from a provided HN thread URL.
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Analyze a Hacker News thread URL provided through /skill:hn-sentiment-analysis.
thread.json, comments.jsonl, or every chunks/comments-*.md file into context. Large HN threads will overflow the model context.Prepare the HN thread artifacts with the provided pipeline:
python skills/hn-sentiment-analysis/scripts/prepare_hn_sentiment_analysis.py 'https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12345678'
The script parses the HN item id, downloads the full nested thread JSON from Algolia, saves it, flattens comments, creates targeted lookup chunks, and generates a bounded review-pack.md for analysis.
Read the generated analysis-brief.md first. Follow its reading order.
Read story.md, fetch the article URL with the fetch tool, and write a very short article summary. If there is no article URL, summarize the HN story text.
Read review-pack.md. This is the primary bounded evidence pack for sentiment analysis.
Read sentiment-worksheet.md as the quality checklist.
Only if needed, read targeted detail files:
top-subthreads.md for more detail on engaged subthreads.key-person-candidates.md for possible insiders/authors/maintainers/executives.author-index.md to avoid over-counting prolific authors.chunk-index.md to choose one specific chunks/comments-*.md file for a targeted lookup.A good sentiment analysis must:
Keep the final answer concise and structured:
scripts/prepare_hn_sentiment_analysis.py is the main pipeline. It downloads or loads a thread, writes raw Algolia JSON, and prepares bounded analysis artifacts.scripts/download_hn_thread.py only downloads the complete nested Algolia item JSON for a Hacker News thread URL or item id. Use it directly only when the user specifically asks for the raw JSON.name: hn-sentiment-analysis description: Analyze Hacker News thread sentiment from a provided HN thread URL. allowed-tools: Fetch, Bash, Read disable-model-invocation: true
--- name: hn-sentiment-analysis description: Analyze Hacker News thread sentiment from a provided HN thread URL. allowed-tools: Fetch, Bash, Read disable-model-invocation: true --- # Hacker News Sentiment Analysis Analyze a Hacker News thread URL provided through `/skill:hn-sentiment-analysis`. ## Non-negotiable rules - Do not write any additional scripts, one-off parsers, notebooks, or ad-hoc data-processing code for this task. The scripts in this skill are the complete analysis pipeline. - Do not read `thread.json`, `comments.jsonl`, or every `chunks/comments-*.md` file into context. Large HN threads will overflow the model context. - Do not include raw HN item IDs, comment IDs, thread IDs, naked HN URLs, or internal lookup labels in the human-facing final report. Use author names, roles, themes, and short quote snippets instead. - If you need a different output directory, review-pack size, or chunk size, rerun the provided script with flags instead of creating new code. ## Workflow 1. Prepare the HN thread artifacts with the provided pipeline: ```bash python skills/hn-sentiment-analysis/scripts/prepare_hn_sentiment_analysis.py 'https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12345678' ``` The script parses the HN item id, downloads the full nested thread JSON from Algolia, saves it, flattens comments, creates targeted lookup chunks, and generates a bounded `review-pack.md` for analysis. 2. Read the generated `analysis-brief.md` first. Follow its reading order. 3. Read `story.md`, fetch the article URL with the `fetch` tool, and write a very short article summary. If there is no article URL, summarize the HN story text. 4. Read `review-pack.md`. This is the primary bounded evidence pack for sentiment analysis. 5. Read `sentiment-worksheet.md` as the quality checklist. 6. Only if needed, read targeted detail files: - `top-subthreads.md` for more detail on engaged subthreads. - `key-person-candidates.md` for possible insiders/authors/maintainers/executives. - `author-index.md` to avoid over-counting prolific authors. - `chunk-index.md` to choose one specific `chunks/comments-*.md` file for a targeted lookup. ## Quality requirements A good sentiment analysis must: - Separate the article summary from HN commenter sentiment. - Distinguish sentiment toward the article, topic, product/company/project, implementation details, and HN meta-discussion. - Group opinions by theme, not only by positive/negative polarity. - Support each major claim with representative authors, roles, or short quote snippets; never with raw numeric HN IDs. - Identify key people in the thread, such as the article author, library maintainer, founder, CEO, CTO, developer, employee, or other company/project insiders, and summarize their comments by subthread. - Avoid treating reply count as a vote count; use it only as engagement/context. - Avoid over-counting prolific authors as multiple independent votes. - Separate substantive criticism from jokes, tangents, ideology, bikeshedding, and sarcasm. - Call out notable disagreements, minority viewpoints, and uncertainty. - Remember that HN commenters are a technical/startup-heavy audience and not representative of the general public. ## Output format Keep the final answer concise and structured: - Article summary - Overall HN sentiment with confidence level - Common opinion groups, with representative authors or short quote snippets - Key people and their comments - Notable caveats, minority views, and uncertainty ## Scripts - [`scripts/prepare_hn_sentiment_analysis.py`](scripts/prepare_hn_sentiment_analysis.py) is the main pipeline. It downloads or loads a thread, writes raw Algolia JSON, and prepares bounded analysis artifacts. - [`scripts/download_hn_thread.py`](scripts/download_hn_thread.py) only downloads the complete nested Algolia item JSON for a Hacker News thread URL or item id. Use it directly only when the user specifically asks for the raw JSON.
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