[recycledair]

This is fantastic, I like it. Though, I'd love the option to configure the stories selected in the left pane to open to comments first rather than the story. I usually browse HN in this way. It allows me to get peoples' opinion of the piece before hopping in and investing a bunch of time reading what might end up as blogspam, etc.

[i386]

That sounds easy enough to implement. I wanted to enforce Stories first because a lot of people on HN don't read the full story before they comment.

Did you try the CMD+1/CMD+2 shortcuts for switching between the Story and Comments?