[cpeterso]

If you were to redesign HN's home page, what would you recommend?

[yaix]

My recommendation would be: don't!

Its simple and to the point.

[donniezazen]

For people those who do not have bandwidth problems. Resolving the story in Readability like distraction and ad-free style which include comments in bottom would be great. Also Commenting is hard to follow on HN.

[agilebyte]

Target your audience. This is what made HN successful instead of trying to accommodate a large(r) segment of a population.