Ask HN: Should HN show a summary of posts at the top of threads?

For example, if I see post A on the front page and click on "comments", it'd be nice to see a summary of the post as well as the comments at the top of the page, so I know if what I'm about to say has been mentioned before.

Show HN: Rotary Phone Dial Linux Kernel Driver (gitlab.com)

Show HN: SuperUtilsPlus - A Modern Alternative to Lodash (github.com)

The Xenon Death Flash: How a Camera Nearly Killed the Raspberry Pi 2 (magnus919.com)

Show HN: Lnk – Git-native dotfiles manager (github.com)

The legacy of the iconic Nakagin capsule tower (designboom.com)

Why Algebraic Effects? (antelang.org)

Postgres IDE in VS Code (techcommunity.microsoft.com)

Microsoft-backed UK tech unicorn Builder.ai collapses into insolvency (ft.com)

Find Your People (foundersatwork.posthaven.com)

Hong Kong's Famous Bamboo Scaffolding Hangs on (For Now) (nytimes.com)

Tariffs in American History (imprimis.hillsdale.edu)

Jupiter was formerly twice its current size, had a much stronger magnetic field (phys.org)

Show HN: HNRelevant – Add a "related" section to Hacker News (github.com)

The world of Japan's PC-98 computer (strangecomforts.com)

Show HN: Genetic Boids Web Simulation (attentionmech.github.io)

How to Make a Living as a Writer (thewalrus.ca)

Root for your friends (josephthacker.com)

Why I no longer have an old-school cert on my HTTPS site (rachelbythebay.com)

Alone and Adrift in the Pacific (theatlantic.com)

How to live on $432 a month in America (shagbark.substack.com)

Show HN: DoubleMemory – more efficient local-first read-it-later app (doublememory.com)

Show HN: I built a more productive way to manage AI chats (contextch.at)

Caesar's Last Breath (charliesabino.com)

Stuff I Learned at Carta (lethain.com)

Positional preferences, order effects, prompt sensitivity undermine AI judgments (cip.org)

UndoDB – The interactive time travel debugger for Linux C/C++ for debugging (undo.io)

A Bead Too Far: Rethinking Global Connections Before Columbus (peterfrankopan.substack.com)

Show HN: High-resolution surface analysis with Lidar data (github.com)

The metre originated in the French Revolution (abc.net.au)

Autopsy of an LHC Beam Dump (home.cern)

A Formal Proof of Complexity Bounds on Diophantine Equations (arxiv.org)

Mermaid: Generation of diagrams like flowcharts or sequence diagrams from text (github.com)

Modification of acetaminophen to reduce liver toxicity and enhance drug efficacy (societyforscience.org)

Writing A Job Runner (In Elixir) (Again) (10 years later) (github.com)

Beyond Semantics: Unreasonable Effectiveness of Reasonless Intermediate Tokens (arxiv.org)

Diary: J. M. Coetzee, (1) Mother Tongue (books.substack.com)

Types of optical systems in a lens designer's toolbox (2020) (pencilofrays.com)

Designing type inference for high quality type errors (blog.polybdenum.com)

Tallest Wooden Wind Turbine (modvion.com)

A Comedian Saves a Model Railroad with Purchase of a New Jersey Home (wsj.com)

Show HN: Web Apps for Python Devs with Auto-Generated UI (davia.ai)

A boy who came back: the near-death, and changed life, of my son Max (theguardian.com)

Study of the Reading Comprehension Skills of English Majors at Two Universities (muse.jhu.edu)

John Carmack talk at Upper Bound 2025 (twitter.com)

Show HN: GetStack.dev – Track GitHub open-source trends (getstack.dev)

The Curious Case of the Pygmy Nuthatch (slate.com)

Into The Tunnel: The secret life of wind tunnels (jordanwtaylor2.substack.com)

MCP is the coming of Web 2.0 2.0 (anildash.com)

Sesame Scheme: Unintended Consequences of Allergen Food Labeling (choicesmagazine.org)

Satellites Spotting Depth (tech.marksblogg.com)

Ask HN: Should HN show a summary of posts at the top of threads?

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