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

It would be great if we could strip URLs of anchors (or rather just see them as the same URL, no need to strip) to prevent people from submitting the same article multiple times, e.g. http://example.com/article would be the same as http://example.com/article#anchor

When linking to a google plus page, please use something like (plus.google.com) and not (google.com). Perhaps it's just me, but when I see a story by (google.com) I tend to think it's an announcement/ info form google themselves - and not just some guy with an opinion :-)

Text formatting bug, bold / _italic_ stuff.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2806018

I totally fubared the formatting in that post. The first problem is the asterisk in "fXckwits" (replaced with an 'X' here). I thought the formatting rules were that text surrounded by asterisks would be bolded, _if_ the asterisks were surrounded by whitespace. Parsing bug?

I tried to fix in one edit, apparently my edit timeout window's expired, so the post stands as is slightly borked.

Implicit upvoting awarded to comments based on the length of "discussion" that they produce.

I've been surprised sometimes how an entire thread will form under a comment of mine, and in the end there will be 2 or 3 sub-comments voted at 20 while mine stays at 1. Shouldn't I, in those cases, receive some votes for starting such a discussion?

Can you open source the code for news.ycombinator? Then all of us can supply changes and you can approve as you wish.