It jumps to the next newest post every time it is clicked.
I updated it with a few comfort functions meanwhile. When clicked while not on HN, it goes to HN. And keyboard navigation is possible by pressing "n" to get to the next post.
It also works in threads and on the "comments by user" pages. So for example to see new replies to my own comments, I go to my comments page and use it there.
Replacing STORY_ID with the ID of the story. This is the equivalent of visiting the https://hn.algolia.com/ search page, searching for "story:1235" and then selecting comments rather than posts.
Today I finally got around to building a simple tool to make this slightly easier. It's an Observable Notebook which documents the trick, provides a box for pasting a URL in to get the magic search link and also shows the current homepage with a link to "view most recent comments" for each story.
https://x.com/marekgibney/status/1551483561621979136
This is how I have been reading HN for years now.
It jumps to the next newest post every time it is clicked.
I updated it with a few comfort functions meanwhile. When clicked while not on HN, it goes to HN. And keyboard navigation is possible by pressing "n" to get to the next post.
It also works in threads and on the "comments by user" pages. So for example to see new replies to my own comments, I go to my comments page and use it there.
This is the most recent version:
If you want to customize it, you can convert it to clean code, edit it and convert it back into a bookmarklet with my bookmarklet editor:https://www.gibney.org/bookmarklet_editor