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Re:Show HN: Search HN for interesting comment sections by ryandrake on Tuesday April 16, 2024 @03:24PM (#40056112)
Minor nit-pick: The browser back button doesn't seem able to navigate back to the landing page.

Interesting project, though. As a shortcut, I usually just use the hidden /active URL to find the interesting stories. Generally these are the ones with the most active commentary and often they get pushed off the main HN screen quickly by the "flamewar detector". So you have to be quick to find them, or just use /active.

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Re:Show HN: Search HN for interesting comment sections by isoprophlex on Tuesday April 16, 2024 @03:43PM (#40056321)
Yeah, good observation, that really annoyed me too. I tried to get HTMX to mess with the browser history, but that only seemed to make things worse...

Interesting aside on flamewar detection: you can visualize the comment embeddings in a 2d scatterplot, color coded by username. As you'd expect, a great deal of dang's comments occupy a distinct position in comment-space.

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