HN only breaks chronology on sister threads, where it doesn't matter. In 8 years (or whatever) of reading HN comment, I've never once had an issue with chronol

HN only breaks chronology on sister threads, where it doesn't matter. In 8 years (or whatever) of reading HN comment, I've never once had an issue with chronology of comments. If there were no threads, it would be such a mess, it wouldn't be worth reading.