> kept up with modern internet standards Like increasingly long page load times, pervasive use of JS for even the simplest things, and throwing up a million ba

> kept up with modern internet standards Like increasingly long page load times, pervasive use of JS for even the simplest things, and throwing up a million banners before you can read anything? I, for one, am very happy that HN is, for the most part, just plain old HTML that loads instantly and just works 100% of the time (when the servers can handle the load, that is).