It's not perfect, it doesn't keep track of what the user actually saw for example. It just stores a timestamp for each opened thread and highlights the comments that are newer than that timestamp.
I wouldn't have thought to solve it that way, but I definitely think its successor will be capable of coming up with "good-enough" solutions for a lot of problems humans currently work on.
Actually, humans are often just coming up with "good-enough" solutions in the first place.
holy shit. ChatGDP blows my mind. Thanks for coming up with this! Shows what is possible (and can be a great additional learning tool for novice programmers as well!).
Regarding new comments: You can actually ask dang by mail for this exact feature. It already exists but still in beta or so. I have it and adore it. It works like this: When you go to a comment thread you've been before, it shows all new comments with a vertical red line to left side of the comment. Great feature. I already use it for years?! Could be rolled out actually... :D
Case in point, I got it to write a chrome extension to highlight new comments in Hacker News: https://github.com/HartS/gpt-hacker-news-extension
It's not perfect, it doesn't keep track of what the user actually saw for example. It just stores a timestamp for each opened thread and highlights the comments that are newer than that timestamp.
I wouldn't have thought to solve it that way, but I definitely think its successor will be capable of coming up with "good-enough" solutions for a lot of problems humans currently work on.
Actually, humans are often just coming up with "good-enough" solutions in the first place.