To quote dang (the moderator) "for performance reasons". https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26069395 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26069395 He tends

To quote dang (the moderator) "for performance reasons". https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26069395 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26069395 He tends to post the comment like that on all of the most popular posts Apparently they're working on adding infinite scroll back but she also mentioned in thesw threads