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Funnily enough, HN actually works reasonably well in lynx.

As long as you don’t type « g » « news.ycombinator.com » and then Lynx thinks you’re trying to access a Usenet service via NNTP.

Gotta put in https:// always.

https://lite.cnn.com/en

Also, the main sites for the BBC, New York Times and Washington Post all work just fine without javascript and in terminal-based browsers (I'm partial to emacs' eww.) In my experience javascript is not necessary for a great many websites, including some major ones. Most links I click through from HN work fine without javascript, although there is some selection bias there.

Metafilter always worked wonderfully, but it's been a while since I've tried it.

Not sure that counts as major.

In a way, it’s improved over the past 2 decades because nobody uses Frames anymore.

I don't use Lynx much, but Wikipedia, HN, Everything2 work fairly well.

Thanks for reminding me about Everything2. I used to spend so much time on that site, but somewhat forgot about it over the years.