I scraped Reddit to find the most controversial chef knife

Show HN: Which chef knife steels are good? Data from 540 Reddit tread

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I wanted to see if "super-steel" marketing actually matched reality, so I scraped ~500 threads from r/chefknives and ran sentiment analysis on the specific steels mentioned.The results:MagnaCut: 28:1 positive ratio. The hype is real.Ginsan: The sleeper favorite. High satisfaction because it almost never chips.VG-10: Most controversial. High volume, but highest statistical ratio of "micro-chipping" complaints.How I saved tokens (Inverse Masking): Feeding raw threads into an LLM just to find common terms like "Wüsthof" is a waste of money. I built a hybrid pipeline instead:Fuzzy Match: Fuse.js catches 80% of common brands for $0.Mask: Replace those entities with placeholders.LLM: Feed the "mas

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