Ask HN: Is there a way to filter HN comments?

[JesseAldridge]

HN has gotten really popular. There are many threads with 50 or even 100+ comments on them. I don't have time to read them all. Does anyone know of a Chrome plugin or something that will somehow highlight the best comments? I'm sure there are many good ones that happen to be buried in a less visible spot in the comment tree. I can imagine some tool that does some natural language processing magic to make a guess about a comment's quality.

[smt88]

I believe comments are sorted by some sort of algorithm that takes up-votes into account, so theoretically the best comments are already at the top.

There are many alternative HN clients that might do what you want. Here are some:

1. http://hn.premii.com

2. http://hckrnews.com

3. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hacker-news-ux/chn...

4. http://cheeaun.github.io/hackerweb