The thing is this page couldn’t be made with just HTML It could be generated on a server, but that server would be doing a version of what the HN API already do

The thing is this page couldn’t be made with just HTML It could be generated on a server, but that server would be doing a version of what the HN API already does for free That also wouldn’t function as a progressive web app and work as a mobile app, which I think is how most actually people read HN