The special thing about HN is that it keeps a quality of comments way above average That was in fact also a quality of Usenet, before it went out of fashion fo

The special thing about HN is that it keeps a quality of comments way above average That was in fact also a quality of Usenet, before it went out of fashion for unclear reasons. It would be an interesting exercise to mirror (or even move) HN to a nntp-server. Personally I believe the signal/noise ratio would improve drastically.