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There's a lot of parallel conversations on Reddit / HN / etc. for various articles.

Would about pulling high rated, top-level conversations from multiple sources for a quick digest? Sort of like Google News for commentary.

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As someone who often appreciates the comments as much or more than the content - yes! I often come across articles in places other than Reddit or HN and wish I could do a "reverse lookup" to see where it might have been submitted just so I can read the comments.

There's a Chrome add-on which uses the Algolia API to do this. It adds a pop-out side bar showing the HN comments for the page/article you're currently reading. You must be on the page submitted, rather than on a comments page, though.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hacker-news-sideba...

Sometimes I'll follow a Google News link to a good article, then hit "Back" and look forward to reading the reddit/HN comments only to realize I was led there by Google News and there are no comments.

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