You raise an interesting point, which immediately leads to the question of how it could be improved or solved, without significantly affecting how the front pag

You raise an interesting point, which immediately leads to the question of how it could be improved or solved, without significantly affecting how the front page works currently. For example, a layer over the basic front page might offer stories thought to be of greater interest to each individual user - essentially, a recommendation algorithm. Maybe submission/commenting patterns (which are basically available [0] via the API) could be harnessed towards this - taking the hypothesis that users interact with stories which most interest them, and there are patterns of similar interest between people? Or maybe there are other opportunities; for example, if story voting was made available per user via the API, this would add an additional stream that roughly signals "this interests me". (Although of course this miight consequently cause other problems...) [0] https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/user/jl.json?print=pretty https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/user/jl.json?print=pre...