Live version here:
A backend for retrieving sentiment analysis on hacker news comments.
This app used the VADER sentiment analysis.
Vader Citation
Hutto, C.J. & Gilbert, E.E. (2014). VADER: A Parsimonious Rule-based Model for Sentiment Analysis of Social Media Text. Eighth International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM-14). Ann Arbor, MI, June 2014.