Hm. That gives me an idea. Maybe I could build an alternate 'followed tags' page that have a view broken up like that. Each box would be the content from a different tag. -Thanks for pointing that out.
I'm using Arc, which HN is written in. It is a dialect of Lisp. I love the language actually, but there isn't too much support. I'm just learning. I think I might try another language for my next project.
I would like something like this... but with the ability to drill down into comments rather than jumping to the actual site.
BTW - what did you learn to build this? Was it done with Rails? Or did you state this and I missed it?