Hacker News' secret sauce: no fat image nor video nor sound file serving, just the text, ma'am. Something that would have made Gopher protocol proud to coexist

Hacker News' secret sauce: no fat image nor video nor sound file serving, just the text, ma'am. Something that would have made Gopher protocol proud to coexist along in this exclusive class. Probably could save even more money in bandwidth cost with mostly unsecured HTTP.