I really appreciate the clean minimalist interface for hacker news. I can understand why most UI suggestions for the site would not be liked. But, it seems that adding keyboard shortcuts would be a natural UI component for users around here without detracting from the site's simplicity.

Are there shortcuts that I just don't know about? I tried searching for it, but didn't see anything.

I often find myself typing "gi" on hacker news by accident (the shortcut in gmail to take you back to the inbox). When I do that, it always reminds me that it would be nice if there were shortcuts for hacker news. In particular, it'd be great if I could type something like "g23" to go to article number 23. And it'd be cool if I could use "j" and "k" to move a cursor up and down the list with which I could select the article or the comments link.

I know that I could just write a browser plugin or bookmarklet to do it, but do others have interest in this tool?