>>lorddu+(OP)
Love the fact I didn't need to signup to get value out of this!

Note: I would suggest just removing dark mode for now. Works WAY better in light mode. I almost missed the light mode, and that would have been too bad.

Here's my user test: https://news.pub/?try=https://www.youtube.com/embed/2eac5XZe...

>>lorddu+(OP)
If anything, this tool tracks with my general opinion on sentiment analysis: it would be awesome if it actually worked, but most algorithms just predict everything as neutral.

For example if you search for bitwarden it ranks three comments as negative, all others as neutral. If I as a human look at actual comments about bitwarden [1] there are lots of comments about people using it and recommending it. As a human I would rate the sentiment as very positive, with some "negative" comments in between (that are really about specific situations where it's the wrong tool).

I've had some success using LLMs for sentiment analysis. An LLM can understand context and determine that in the given context "Bitwarden is the answer" is a glowing recommendation, not a neutral statement. But doing sentiment analysis that way eats a lot of resources, so I can't fault this tool for going with the more established approach that is incapable of making that leap.

1: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastMonth&page=0&prefix=tr...

>>codetr+X6
To me, neumorphic design looks like skeumorphism for those cheap interfaces made of one continuous sheet of thin printed (sometimes vacuformed) plastic with the actual buttons hidden underneath. Stuff like [1] or [2]. And while I love skeumorphism, I hate those kinds of plastic interfaces. They always use the cheapest mushy buttons, and the pressable area of the buttons is always much smaller than what the printed buttons suggest. It's probably the one kind of physical interface I hate with a passion, and imitating it digitally doesn't evoke any positive feelings in me.

Still better than making everything flat without shadows and making me guess where I can click, I guess.

1: https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-finger-pressing-the-button...

2: https://www.alamy.com/close-up-of-clothes-washing-machine-bu...

Edit: just checked, this comment was analyzed as "Sentiment: neutral (Confidence: 79.56%)" on the topic of "neumorphic"

>>Mockap+B8
It's uncommon for several reasons: it's not very accessible, its predecessor skeuomorphism (like Win95 style interfaces) was overdone for decades, and it ignores all the reasons we transitioned to flat design in the first place.

https://www.nngroup.com/articles/skeuomorphism/

https://www.nngroup.com/articles/flat-design/

>Neumorphism never quite made it mainstream because it comes with its own set of problems. The low contrast does not offer sufficient visual weight, making the experience not accessible. Additionally, it is difficult to determine clickability, as neumorphism is often used inconsistently on nonclickable and clickable elements.

Don't get me wrong, I still like the design and I think it's cool, but I understand the reasons why it never got popular.

>>lorddu+(OP)
Congrats on the launch, the idea sounds useful, the UI looks very intuitive and to the point. I like that I don’t have to log in and can try it immediately, big plus.

Bug report, I saw inaccurate results, I asked about “native apps” and I got negative sentiment. This is contrary to my experience, afaik HN loves them.

The example comment[1] quoted “non-native apps” and is part of the discussion where people say they don’t like non-native apps.

Edit: Then I asked about non-native apps, got sentiment “neutral” and this comment (the one I’m editing now) as the example. Very unexpected!

[1]: >>41366882

>>team-o+xq
There’s some old work [1] that conceptualized sentiment as an interplay between subjectivity and sentiment. The more subjective a statement, the more “range” sentiment gets. I think this is what you are getting at.

I don’t think it ever gained traction, probably because people aren’t interested in creating an actual theory of sentiment that matches the real world.

[1]: https://github.com/clips/pattern/wiki/pattern-en#sentiment

>>lorddu+(OP)
Instead of "linking" to a data:image URL, consider using a <map> and several <areas> to link to posts from the given time range like so: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateEnd=1726171200&dateRange=custom&...

>>lorddu+(OP)
Please link to the "Randomly sampled comment", there's an ellipsis but no way to actually read the comment?

I searched "apache" and the "randomly sampled comment" was a mystery:

> I think the author has a point with one-way doors slowing down the adoption of distributed systems. ...

I had to search google with that phrase to get the actual context. ( >>41363836 )

Which turned out to be about "Apache Beam" not the Http server.

>>codetr+X6
Cool to know that this has a name! For some reason it made me think of some old text character based interfaces like this that had recessed gray form fields:

https://www.cloudwisp.com/exploring-visual-basic-1-0-for-ms-...