Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator

Link to http://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc in the submit page & beside the "add comment" button, as is done with "help" on the profile page.

This is claimed in the "Formatting fixes" entry in http://ycombinator.com/newsnews.html , but doesn't appear to me now.

SEARCH..PLEASE.. (not searchyc.com)

When submitting a form (like editing a post), my reflex is to hit tab and then enter, since this exits the textarea and then immediately submits. However, where the help link is now, this causes me to be sent to the Help page each time. This is a minor thing, but I think Hacker News should model usability and move the help link to after the submit button (or set the tab index on the submit button).

I think it would be nice to have explicit support to mark groups of duplicates as such... When a certain threshold of users agree that they're indeed duplicates, the two or more submissions could be "glued" together so that they always show up in a tight group on the page.

The different comment threads could be merged in a sensible way, possibly by reallocating threads from comment sections with few comments. Any comment sections that have no more comments or never had any would be disabled. This would avoid having an unnecessarily split discussion of the same topic between multiple comment sections.

0) API 1) obfuscate email addresses in comments 2) an effective way to enter code in comments and submissions and have it render nicely (this is HACKER news, right?)