Related note: I wrote a program that collects all the HN, Reddit, and Digg Technology articles and ranks them. It was a fun quickie-project in F#
Instead of stripping the intersection, I find that dupes usually indicate a more important story, so I check on those first.
I find that by indicating relative movement (is the story moving up or down in rankings?) and relative comment change I can get an indication of what's hot or not. Whenever I'm bored and want to do a bunch of reading, I can control-click my way into dozens of useful stories pretty quickly! It was a fun project.
Here's the site if anybody's interested:
This makes front page after all those downvotes I received for commenting about essentially the same thing? Seriously?
Stripping Reddit from your life with /etc/hosts:
127.0.0.1 www.reddit.com