Classifier and browser extension to detect rule violating HN comments
Details
- External ID
- 49333213
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Classifier and browser extension to detect rule violating HN comments
- Website domain
- stylometry.net
- Launched
- Aug. 17, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 10
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.5772849462365591
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 10, 2026, 5:32 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 10, 2026, 5:32 a.m.
Description
I love HN, but lately I have been sick of reading the same dismissive criticisms over and over again. Along with political arguments that have been litigated to death, people's issues with smooth scrolling on blogs, etc. Many of these comments do not get flagged for whatever reason. So I made a service to automatically classify whether comments violate (a modified form of) the HN guidelines automatically. In addition there's a Chrome extension to collapse these comments (if they violate your score thresholds) so you don't have to read them too. You can also just watch guideline violating comments as they are posted on the home page.Here's more info on how it works: https://classify.stylometry.net/how-it-works
Enrichment
- Theme
- digital accessibility and compliance tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Compliance & governance
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- AI feature
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- classifier for detecting rule violations
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes The system consists of a Chrome extension reading HN DOM elements, querying a backend classifier or embedding endpoint, and hiding matching comments.
Discussion
1 comment analyzed.
Feature requests: Automated reporting system for offending comments, Chrome extension integration for reporting functionality, Direct line to moderator inbox for reports
Competitors
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Attention rank: #25 of 41 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 268 days after the earliest competitor.
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- No other launches for this product.
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