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Hacker News homepage with links to comments ordered by most recent first (via) Conversations on Hacker News are displayed as a tree, which can make it difficult to spot new comments added since the last time you viewed the thread.

There's a workaround for this using the Hacker News Algolia Search interface: search for story:STORYID, select "comments" and the result will be a list of comments sorted by most recent first.

I got fed up of doing this manually so I built a quick tool in an Observable Notebook that documents the hack, provides a UI for pasting in a Hacker News URL to get back that search interface link and also shows the most recent items on the homepage with links to their most recently added comments.

See also my How to read Hacker News threads with most recent comments first TIL from last year.