The white box is misleading. I thought it was a speech box, indicating comments, but it is an upvote indicator. Would be nice to disambiguate with an upward arrow shape. Otherwise looks nifty.
as much as like this idea, I dont like this idea. I think to true value in HN lays in the fact its not hugely popular in masses. It has its own group of brilliant hackers, programmers, lawyers, writers, etc, that are willing to spend time to read/write BECAUSE there is interesting stuff to read here, and other interesting people are willing to read what they want to write. If everyone jumps on this ship, most likely quality of subscriptions and comments will go down. So the "elite" will swim away...<p>I think HN, with its current audience and contributors is PERFECT the way it is.<p>so sorry to burst your bubble :(