HN Feature Request: Allow linking to comments
There are a lot of gems and insights buried in HN comments. Would be awesome if we could link directly to them, no?
Stories and comments are both ?item=AAA links. I believe stories are just considered 'top-level comments' internally. This comment is here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23160530
If you want to link to one story/comment but scroll the browser window to another comment, you can use ?item=AAA#BBB, such as this:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23160367#23160530
But this won't work well when linking to anything where pagination has kicked in. For example, this ?item=AAA#BBB won't work because #BBB is on page 2 of AAA. You can try to hack around that, but essentially this only works for small threads, not for pages-long ones, and especially should be avoided when AAA is a story.