Is it just me? I visited the site and within seconds my CPU fan was pegged at max, the screen was dipping into grey, and response times were laughably.

So I read it in lynx.

To make this genuinely appropriate to the HN audience, do you think carefully about the performance of your site? I now have deliberately avoided "theweek.com" and all its ads, etc, for the text only browsing experience, where I could read the article cleanly and simply. I'm sure that's not what their site developers intended.

Then again, maybe it's just me.