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>we were able to ship a full-featured experience that is fully interactive in one second on modern devices and under five seconds on a modest mobile device on a slow 3G network

Somehow, loading a text newsfeed in less than 5 seconds is an achievement in lightweightness. Sigh.

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So we are going to ignore the slow 3g network aspect in the quote you are referring to then. Sigh.

The very minimum admissible speed of 3G is 144kbps (barely faster than a 56k dialup, this is what we're talking about). The hn site should load in less than 3 seconds even on such an unrealistically slow network.

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