Regarding the "worse is better" discussion: At least its definitely better accessibility-wise. HN is about the last well-known site that allows interacting with it, including writing comments, with plain old Lynx. I am well aware that most web devs do not care anymore these days, and they have their reasons for sure. However, its still nice to see sites that refuse to go for SPA. It makes them so much more useable for people like me (blind). A big THANK YOU to the site maintainers, its one of the last corners of the net where interesting stuff happens which is still accessible.