Sorry-- this is totally unrelated and maybe even inappropriate-- but how do people sort through 300+ comments on HN to consume a topic? I understand that /. introduces bias with its system, but I honestly find myself abandoning alot of deeper HN threads because it's so difficult to parse all the comments. Perhaps I'm missing something.

If by “consume” you mean “acquire the contents” of all those comments, well, you’ll have to read them all.

A more interesting question to me for a while has been, how to follow the evolution of a deep thread in which the time it takes to read a larger amount of comments, even more are made. How to know where all the new ones are? It’d be cool to be able to diff a thread based on timestamp.