[fragmede]

I don't want it to work that way, but if you're on desktop, you can just write a Chrome extension to add that for you, if that's how you'd like the site to behave. I made one to add an inline reply button because I wanted one.

[fragmede]

And by "just", I mean, here you go:

https://github.com/fragmede/hn-open-in-new-tab