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"The nature of Lisp really lends itself to continuation-based programming."

This comes up occasionally on HN. I've never seen anyone say anything positive about it.

It seems like a software detail that's unnecessary exposed to users. It doesn't make the site better, it makes it worse.

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I disagree, as i look at HN several times a day i like how pages expire. It explicitly tells me that the order has changed. People are WAY too fussy about messages in their UX because we have abstracted UX to such an extent that we expect the same smooth UE independently of function. The internets expectations (and sheepishness) is making all software like that crap you get free with your camera.

I completely agree, but I wouldn't mind it nearly so much if the "expired link" page at the very least had a link to the home page.

Or to the next page.

I added a suggestion to that effect on the Feature Request thread (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=363) a while ago, but it slipped off into the long tail of comments pretty quickly:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1480352

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