Why isn't anyone talking about the HackerNews Comment Ranker plugin? [1] That's amazing. I had this idea too -- to rank HN comments by their relevance to the actual article, and filter out comments that obviously didn't read it.

Repo: https://github.com/sixhobbits/hn-comment-ranker

I need to modify this to work with local models, though. But this does illustrate the article's point -- we both had an idea, but only one person actually went ahead and did it, because they're more familiar with agentic coding than me.

[1] Oh. I think I understand why. /lh

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andrewmcwatters 7 days ago | parent [-]

The screenshot was a really great example how bad that can end up in practice. One comment asking "What's the catch?" which is a good follow-up question to further conversation was ranked a 1/5.

	▲	hext 7 days ago \| parent [-]
		Probably just needs a slight update to expand the relevant context of child comments. I bet it's still comparing "What's the catch?" to the OP article.