> It would be much more digestible as a single page of data that didn't screw up your back button.
In other words, no design? How engaging.
Huh? A single page can have a lot of design including images, fonts, animations, etc. anything you can imagine really.
I liked it, but I agree, not being to back into the hacker news comments in one click is frustrating.
Post-Flash problem.
I'm surprised there are people who don't open their links in new tabs on HN.
I find managing tabs annoying. What I would really like is for ctrl/alt clicking the back button to take me back to the previous domain.
How is it annoying "managing" tabs? They really aren't that difficult. If you open the link in a new tab, then when you're done you close the tab, it will go back to the previous domain (because they undo in the order they were created) - in other words, exactly what you wanted.