Hacker News Reader

Damn, did news articles ~7 years ago really just consist of a series of embedded tweets?

It feels familiar but also kind of jarring.

They still do, to the best of my knowledge, although they have started incorporation reddit discussion too.

Not on the Guardian I'm fairly sure, or any other "serious" newspaper I read.

Yes, and I recall at the time being exasperated by it -- "Twitter is NOT NEWS it is children yelling across the playground at each other!"