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

At present, the only way to access all of my "saved stories" is to send in a scraper to keep walking the 'more' link until it no longer exists. With the "unknown or expired link" timer, one would have to repeatedly hit the site quickly to get all of the saved stories. Similar is true for a user's comments and submissions. Needless to say, HN already has enough trouble with bots/scrapers, so it would be rather unfriendly to add to the load.

Is it possible to provide a 'download all' link for a user to get their own comments, submissions, and saved stories?

Trying to login with emacs-w3m, I get the error message: "Post request without Content-Length."

Sniffing the POST request that emacs/w3m sends:

Content-length: 38

I get the feeling news.ycombinator expects the more common form "Content-Length" (capitalized l), but according to the HTTP 1.1 spec: "Field names are case-insensitive." (see http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2616#section-4.2)

So my request is to fix that to adhere to the HTTP spec, thus allowing us poor emacs-w3m users to login as well.

tl;dr: I'd very much like a "noprocrast front-page only" or "comment threads ignore noprocrast" checkbox.

I have a huge noprocrast.

Having to /logout just to check out a story or its comments that I got linked from somewhere else (and that I know I really want to check, specifically) is really annoying.

To me, this is a completely different use-case than browsing stories on the front-page. Browsing of the front-page is a significant threat to my productivity, hence the huge noprocrast. Browsing of stories I have a direct link to is not a significant threat to my productivity.

Hence, the suggestion above.

It would be very nice if you could wrap the post time in a element. I've been toying with the idea of writing a userscript for HN, and it'd be much nicer if I didn't have to parse the post times by hand. Not to mention that right now it's impossible to know the exact time of older comments when they might all say "300 days ago". You could also add a feature to the site itself that would show the exact time and date of a post when you hover over the post time.

It would be great if yo could move the search bar from the bottom of the page to the op of the page ;)