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Comment by Night_Thastus | Hacker News Reader

I like HN generally, but there are a handful of things I wish it had:

* The ability to save comments, as well as posts

* Ideally a separate 'favorites' and 'read later' category

* Some kind of [tags] on posts, ideally something individuals can contribute to. It would be easy to add from an existing set of tags, adding a unique new tag would be harder and require maybe an older account or more 'points' or whatever.

* Maybe some kind of 'bump' system when linking to things that have already been posted? It feels a bit silly for there to be like 10 duplicates of a post from different time periods. But maybe that's better than the alternative, not sure.

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> The ability to save comments

Click on a comment’s timestamp and then 'favorite' at the top.

> * Maybe some kind of 'bump' system when linking to things that have already been posted? It feels a bit silly for there to be like 10 duplicates of a post from different time periods. But maybe that's better than the alternative, not sure.

I kind of enjoy it. Some posts have become like a yearly/bi-yearly occurrence, and if I enjoyed the discussions the previous times, I'll most likely enjoy the discussions this time too.

As long as it's not the same stuff every day, I'm fine with things being re-posted once a year or so, long enough for me to forget I read the previous one.

And it actually does avoid duplicates in the short term, as long as the submitted url is identical. I'm not sure what the time threshold is exactly, but I know if you resubmit something that has been submitted in the past few days, it will count it as a vote on the original instead.

To favourite a comment, click its timestamp and then click "favourite" just after "flag".

You can view your favourited comments from your profile page.

Wow. That is very not intuitive. It's like an anti-pattern.

Good to know though, thank you!

I appreciate it, as it helps me to not 'favorite' many comments, but only those that actually strike me as worth saving when they are so detailed as to be a post of their own!

In a lot of ways, HN's intentionally aescetic design works against itself. People can be here for years and not notice features because the grey on grey layout encourages feature-blindness.

It helps when you view it like a graph of people making commitments of their opinion. You can checkout a commit by clicking on the time and then run the commands by clicking on their label. There are also the plumbing commands like 'latest', that you only find, if you know them.

For mobile HN, I have been using the Hack [0] app for some time now and found it to address some of your wishlist items.

[0] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/hack-for-hacker-news-yc-reader...

* sort by controversial

Most of the time I'd choose to hide posts tagged AI. (No disrespect to people posting/discussing AI, it's just not a topic that I have much intellectual curiosity for.)

Unfortunately sometimes I'd choose to sort by "drama", and get my rant on about the latest Ruby shitfight, or whatever Matt/Automattic or Elon/Grok/X are doing. And me giving in to that temptation would probably make the site objectivity worse, so perhaps it's better the way it is?

I'm also interested in hiding AI posts. Is anybody doing this with success that can share what they use?

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