off topic, but i find i often go right to the comments on HN because there's more insight to be found than in the articles themselves and i can get the gist of the article from the comments. i wonder what value there might be in mining the discussion to determine the meaning of the stories?
I do this too. Also, the comments don't have ads and the page loads much faster.
I think it'd be a great idea to mine the meaning of stories from the article. It might be similar to what Yelp does with their reviews and summaries of what's good about a restaurant.
