Around 2024 November 5-6, one HN posting got so many comments, trying to keep up with the incoming rush of everyone's comments felt like trying to drink from a

Around 2024 November 5-6, one HN posting got so many comments, trying to keep up with the incoming rush of everyone's comments felt like trying to drink from a just-opened fire hydrant - the deluge was enormous and continuous. Along with a change in HN behaviour - posts with many, many comments didn't spill over to sub-pages - I realized I could add some javascript to subtly highlight new comments by changing their background colour when I refreshed the page. Once that was done, I needed a way to efficiently visit the new comments - j,k - "That is the way". Then I had to unhighlight the recently-visited comments since they weren't of much interest now. Also added in-page, in-flow comments rather than switching to a new page to write the comment and then get discombobulated when HN switched back, to hopefully the same place in the discussion that I had been just before the comment. Then I got distracted by something new and shiny...