The comments on HN are often at least as good (if not better!) than the links. I built this app to have a way to quickly read through all the top comments on front page stories. I hope some of you find it useful too.
Try making the comments fully collapsable, pulling into the DOM dynamically without firing up a whole new page, like reddit does.<p>Also, my gut feeling is that the default should be no inline comments at all, i.e. you have to select something to pull in any new comments, via the above scheme.<p>This would preserve what is after all one of the best features of the HN interface -- the ability to compare a great many of incoming topics side-by-side -- while still allow for a slicker way to drill down into the comments section, without having to do a full page reset.
The comments on HN are often at least as good (if not better!) than the links. I built this app to have a way to quickly read through all the top comments on front page stories. I hope some of you find it useful too.