Will definitely be following this, I fully agree about your comments on HN content. Personally, I think a very basic ranking would be nice to have, especially

Will definitely be following this, I fully agree about your comments on HN content. Personally, I think a very basic ranking would be nice to have, especially as the platform grows. Just allows for users to get an idea of what others find the most interesting/helpful. One other note, adding some sort of tagging would be useful if users are interested in certain topics but not others (ie a distributed systems eng might not find javascript posts particularly interesting).