Visual representation of Hacker News comments

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Visual representation of Hacker News comments

Sometimes I want to make sure I read every comment in a Thread. Also comments that come in later. For example, when I posted my laptop comparison map I got a ton of great feedback: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8405065 and I wanted to make sure I don't miss any of these. For this purpose, I made this visual representation: http://social.gnod.com/hn:8405065 I think you can grok what it shows. It simply templates all comments in a recursive way. Read items turn blue. You can mark interesting items and they turn green. I find it interesting to look at different threads this way. Every one has it's own unique appearance. Here is a very short one for example: http://social.gnod.com/hn:8710416 I use this bookmarklet to switch between HNs regular view and this visual representation: javascript:l=location.href; if (l.indexOf("y")>-1) a=l.replace(/[^0-9]*/,"social.gnod.com/hn:"); else a=l.replace(/[^0-9]*/,"news.ycombinator.com/item?id="); location.href="http://"+a;