While we are all going off-topic, I'd like to see a "collapse thread" feature on HN. Quite often the comments page is dominated by a tangential discussion as seen here.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hacker-news-enhanc...
You can use browser extensions like hckrnews or 'Hacker news enhancement suite' to collapse comments.
http://hckrnews.com/about.html#extensions http://hckrnews.com/about.html#extensions