When I browse the comments of people I follow, sometimes I find totally great discussions that I missed as I was doing something else and didn't check HN for 12

When I browse the comments of people I follow, sometimes I find totally great discussions that I missed as I was doing something else and didn't check HN for 12 hours. So I wish I could browse front pages by date. Everything that hit the front page and with over 5 points should be listed for each day. I used to run a crude cron job that did this. I let it die. May be I should set it up again.