What does HackerNews think of awesome-hacker-news?
Awesome Hacker News: a collection of awesome Hacker News apps, libraries, resources and shiny things.
It doesn't. But user have build many apps around its API https://github.com/cheeaun/awesome-hacker-news
There won't be a good answer aparts from 'it has always been this way', HN is super conservative when it comes to web design.
See if any of the apps https://github.com/cheeaun/awesome-hacker-news use a style of your preference.
There are many alternative interfaces to HN ([1]), so perhaps one of them could develop the possibility to overlay comments on a hiring post.
Tangential, but have you tried alternative HN interfaces? There’s a decent sized list at https://github.com/cheeaun/awesome-hacker-news , which includes my own humble effort in this direction: thnr.net
https://github.com/cheeaun/awesome-hacker-news collects app and projects though without reviewing them
Can you add the URL to https://github.com/cheeaun/awesome-hacker-news ?