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I mean, the answer is pretty obvious. HN itself isn't a business, it's an organization's forum for a different type of revenue stream. You could argue that th
by bduerst 5y ago
I mean, the answer is pretty obvious. HN itself isn't a business, it's an organization's forum for a different type of revenue stream.
You could argue that the entire internet (or all media, for that matter) should be run that way, but then we'd still lose a lot of functionality and creativity, even if it were generated for-profit.
- int_19h 5y agoI'm not holding HN up as a stellar example. I'm asking why we need 50 Mb of RAM to render a webpage that is this simple. I mean, this is the kind of stuff that browsers could handle back when the average size of the entire RAM was less than that.