[notreallyserio]

I often see your "related" comment at the top of these posts and they mostly seem to match what shows up when you click "past". Would it make sense to automatically add a prominent link to the most recent or most commented on post in the header so you wouldn't have to copy & paste the links as comments?

[dang]

There are a lot of differences—you just have to squint to see them. I think a better solution would be software to let the community collaborate on building a related-links list. That could also naturally expand to including related URLs to articles on the same topic, even if they didn't get a previous HN conversation.

[dpifke]

I want a related-comments tool, so that when anyone posts a comment on a story about Tesla Autopilot or nuclear energy, they can see links to the 10,000 unoriginal comments mirroring what they wrote (again).

[dang]

There's something to that idea, because the art of optimizing a site for curiosity has mostly to do with avoiding repetition, and the most repetitive comments ought to be the most machine-learnable.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...

[smegsicle]

I don't get this pervasive myth that dang is some kind of robot slave who lives on managed time and 'copies' and 'pastes' things- dang is a real person who types every letter and loves every second of it.

It's dang's choice to have two windows open- one with the comment box, and one with the 'past' page- and to read which ones have discussion with his human eyes, and then to type out the relevant information into the comment box. I'm vicariously offended that anyone would think this is a task that should, or even could, be even partially automated.

[dylan604]

come come, we all know dang is just a bot that PG made a long time ago ;-)

[throwaway_dcnt]

Hahaha, I think you have it inverted. Dang is the person, PG is the bot.

[psd1]

Did the bot make any other people?