What features would you like to see being added to Hacker News?

Currently it's perfect. No bloat. Works and does one thing well. One thing I've always wanted though: a 'rising' page like Reddit's that surfaces posts that are just getting popular, and haven't graced the main page, and are being discussed despite not reaching the main page.

I would like to see a section where a list of Moderated/Dead/Flagged posts and comments can be seen and commented on. I think this would serve as a sort of "checks and balances" on censorship to provide one central place to see what exactly is removed and hidden from the main view and allow some interesting discussions to continue. This feature would also allow people to know what kind of spam topics are being pushed here by fake accounts: if you saw a lot of posts that are promoting some bad actor social media site for example, you might know to be more wary about posts discussing it in the future. Anybody who didn't want to view this section could easily not click on it.

A graph, a topic map which ties together related posts, detects duplicates automatically. Each URL is a topic, but is typically about one or more other topics. Simple NLP can detect those topics (NERs) and link them to URLs. Disambiguation will be problematic until neural nets are trained to reduce that.

I'd like it to cache the top stories, statically render them server-side if they need javascript (looking at you, gitlab), and serve them ad-filtered without geo-blocking or tor-blocking.

Search without enabling javascript. There's no need for that. In fact, everything without javascript.

An option to hide my reputation points.

I want them to update the API so I can more easily add the features I want to my personal client.

Message tags to enable searches to be performed by categories.