I'm glad you asked:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ud3Gmxg5UZg - Browsing Reddit and HackerNews In Emacs (7 minutes).

If you don't want to watch it:

https://github.com/thanhvg/emacs-hnreader - for browsing HN.

https://github.com/thanhvg/emacs-reddigg - for browsing Reddit.

https://github.com/agzam/consult-hn - for searching through HN.

https://github.com/agzam/browser-hist.el - for browser history.

Pfft, you call that an emacs-HN integration? Something tells me you had to bring in the browser at some point, either when reading this message, or writing your reply. I am using nnhackernews. Now that's a real emacs-HN integration.

Sure, that's just another package I forgot existed. Guess what? You can still use all of them together in the same instance of Emacs and they probably wouldn't even complain about it.

Ah. I think I vaguely remember now why I chose thanhvg/emacs-hnreader instead of clarete/hackernews, because the former renders buffers in Org-mode.

Per the comment, he doesn’t have to, all prior written text is nicely stored in a file (probably an org file), already open in emacs.

No, I don't do that. I don't store my own comments. I just browse and search HN directly in Emacs.