I just dug a little into the HN API (https://github.com/HackerNews/API https://github.com/HackerNews/API). Unfortunately, they don't publish comment ratings...

I just dug a little into the HN API (https://github.com/HackerNews/API https://github.com/HackerNews/API). Unfortunately, they don't publish comment ratings... :-( Unless that is changed, implementing an automatic "best comment finder" would become rather more tedious... (And perhaps even turn out to be AI complete ;-) )