This does happen all the time tho. Maybe HN should implement thread merging? A couple ideas.. A story could be merged by closing comments and setting an HTTP

This does happen all the time tho. Maybe HN should implement thread merging? A couple ideas.. A story could be merged by closing comments and setting an HTTP redirect, with some sort of notification on the landing page you've been redirected. There's some utility to having a new batch of comments a few days later, so maybe alternatively, maybe have a section between story header and comments with a dupe area like you comments, but structured in a regular way to make it easy to page through.