What is HN thinking? Real-time sentiment and concept analysis

Show HN: What is HN thinking? Real-time sentiment and concept analysis

What is HN thinking? Real-time sentiment and concept analysis is a business in show hn launch.

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Hi HN,I made Ethos, an open-source tool to visualize the discourse on Hacker News. It extracts entities, tracks sentiment, and groups discussions by concept.Check it out: https://ethos.devrupt.ioThis was a "budget build" experiment. I managed to ship it for under $1 in infra costs. Originally I was using `qwen3-8b` for the LLM and `qwen3-embedding-8b` for the embedding, but I ran into some capacity issues with that model and decided to use `llama-3.1-8b-instruct` to stay within a similar budget while having higher throughput.What LLM or embedding would you have used within the same price range? It would need to be a model that supports structured output.How bad do you think it is that `llama

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Website: ethos.devrupt.io