I definitely agree with that. If you look at how HN does any individual thing, it's almost always "wrong", but it really doesn't matter. It's become (and stayed

I definitely agree with that. If you look at how HN does any individual thing, it's almost always "wrong", but it really doesn't matter. It's become (and stayed) a thriving community for over 10 years anyway, and almost nobody knows or cares how any of it works. My favorite example is probably how the "AJAX" voting works: when you vote, the Javascript creates a new <img> tag with the src= attribute set to the vote endpoint, so when the browser tries to load that "image" it does a background request. It's the kind of dirty hack that hasn't been necessary for an extremely long time and could be replaced with a proper method in minutes, but nobody even notices that's how it works.