Hacker News Reader

The ads really are phenomenal though: http://www.ubuntu-pics.de/bild/66289/screenshot_105_grHs8P.p...

I actually disabled ad-block out of curiosity.

I don't understand how people browse without it, now.

Most sites don't have ads placed and sized in this obnoxious a manner.

Wow. I installed adblock only a short while ago, and I hadn't noticed how much it improves the browsing experience until you made me disable it out of curiosity too.

I know, it's awful. I almost didn't submit it because of that. I looked around for a print link, even though I hate it when people submit those here, because that was just so bad.

Shame on LA Times really. I'm most definitely not one to begrudge an institution their profits, but this just feels like a bad business decision to me.

That's an archive server, where older articles go to get monetized. You can see what it looks like in a normal template here: http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-0516-ok...