1. Grouping into chapters. Ranking by score loses context.
2. Sorting and grouping comments together to give it some kind of flow.
3. Eliminating comments I wish I hadn't made.
4. Substituting cuss words.
5. General edits to eliminate errors and help the comments stand a little better on their own.
6. Grouping jokes together. They belong in a separate chapter.
7. Adding a forward, introduction, and table of contents.
8. 100 comments didn't seem like enough. 256 seemed right.
My version took me 3 weeks. This version takes one click. You can't beat that.
This is also good for your site. You'll get more links now because people can link to the particular things they're interested in rather than just the homepage.
Could you add margin-bottom: 8px; or similar to #comments-wrapper p? Would help with the readability. :)
Feature request: Make the queries linkable. I think people would appreciate being able to have permalinks for themselves or HN leaders like tptacek, patio11 and jacquesm.
It would also be very interesting to see how the results for edw519 size up against his own curated comment list: http://edweissman.com/53640595
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Update: Thanks to bitovod for implementing the feature. There's now an ongoing list of the HN leaders at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2662721