Unless you are using an ad blocker or have disabled it in the settings chrome precaches so for the majority of the people there probably is no 1.5-2 second load

Unless you are using an ad blocker or have disabled it in the settings chrome precaches so for the majority of the people there probably is no 1.5-2 second load time. But I expect majority of the people browsing hacker news would have it disabled so would have the slower loadtime