I use one of the above and it's a blessing and a curse. A blessing to know when you've got a reply, a curse because you may not wish to get email notifications.

I use one of the above and it's a blessing and a curse. A blessing to know when you've got a reply, a curse because you may not wish to get email notifications. I'm sure many of us here already close distractions like email when they're on the grind. I believe this feature would be a great addition to HN itself, however, as nobody has the time to manually track multiple threads for responses. The best solution IMO would be a notifications badge with unread count in the topbar which toggles a page or dropdown with quicklinks to the replies. It could go right next to the "threads" link even. It removes the need to watch that page.