alt Hacker NewsThat is an excellent idea. It is 2AM my time, but I may set Claude going and check in the morning. (I tend to keep a closer eye on AI coding than that usually!)
The preset articles and trying out comments were intended to be something similar: see a topic, see how it works. But running it on each and every comment on an existing thread is really powerful.
There may be privacy concerns? General respect? I don't want to tie assessments to specific commenters, who published in good faith not expecting some kind of automated review, nor thereby imply they commented poorly for example. But I'll code it up on my end and see what we can do with it. It's truly a very nice idea.
If you look through the history of the Show HN category, you will see a near-endless stream of "analyzing HN discussions" prior arts that may offer some assurances. I'm not suggesting removing usernames because anonymity is involved — it is not! — but, instead, to specifically focus viewers on the substance of the comments rather than the who of them. That's also why I chose something from two years ago, so that there's no appropriate reason to witchhunt over the past. (Some may still, but nothing short of evaluating AI-generated data will stop them, and you can't make a reasonable case using AI to evaluate AI.)