One of the things that interests me about client-side approaches like this is performance as perceived by the user. Even though I suspect the times taken betwe

One of the things that interests me about client-side approaches like this is performance as perceived by the user. Even though I suspect the times taken between real hacker news and the clone to load comments are similar, real HN feels a lot faster because the page only loads once the content is ready, rather than loading the page skeleton and then blinking the actual content when loaded.