My comment may be lost into the aether. But if anyone is out there, I think Hacker News could really use a story merge feature. That would significantly reduce

My comment may be lost into the aether. But if anyone is out there, I think Hacker News could really use a story merge feature. That would significantly reduce noise around "major" events, and likely prevent second order noise as people try to piggy back on with tangentially related "analysis".