Daily Top Reddit Posts on AI News with Sentiment Scores

A continuously-updated snapshot of public Reddit discourse on AI news. The dataset is generated nightly via a GitHub Actions cron job that scrapes submissions, classifies sentiment, and summarizes trends. It was created by author hblim and was last updated on 2025-10-26.

Use Cases

• Track public sentiment trends on AI topics based on daily Reddit submissions.
• Analyze the volume and tone of AI-related discussions based on configurable subreddit sources.
• Monitor emerging AI news topics based on daily trend summaries.
• Benchmark sentiment analysis models against scored Reddit posts.

Strengths

• Continuously updated via an automated nightly pipeline.
• Includes sentiment scores generated by a DistilBERT model.
• Provides daily trend summaries for lightweight analysis.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data may reflect temporal and source bias inherent to the configured list of subreddits.

Provenance

Source

Reddit submissions from a configurable list of subreddits.

Collection Method

Scraped nightly via GitHub Actions, with sentiment classification by a DistilBERT model served on Replicate.

Freshness

Last updated 2025-10-26 23:23:54; updated nightly.