The list of most commented threads is dominated by an artifact, because at the bottom of some essays I link to the News.YC thread as if it were for blog comments. E.g. "Microsoft is Dead" is not the most interesting story to News.YC readers. In fact, last time I looked, most of the recent comments were just people saying "fuck you" at various levels of articulateness.
It would be nice to see two additional lists ranked by average karma/submission and average karma/comment. Being able to specify a time range qualification on the searches would be nice too.
<a href="http://blog.searchyc.com/2008/02/searchyc-presents-best-of-hacker-news/" rel="nofollow">http://blog.searchyc.com/2008/02/searchyc-presents-best-of-h...</a><p>Today we're launching another feature of SearchYC: Top Lists. Using our index of Hacker News threads and comments, we've compiled lists of the most interesting items to date.<p>So what did we find? Sticking true to the Web 2.0 mentality, TechCrunch articles were the most submitted, by far. Other Silicon Valley favorites such as Valleywag, Mashable, and Wired also made it to the top.<p>As for top users, nickb gets the honor with more than 1900 submissions while pg has more than 2000 comments. Go ahead and take a look for yourself, and see if you can find other trends in Hacker News activity.