For fuck sake, is it possible to have a HN comments page without complaints about the design of TFA? Speak to the author if you have a problem with their site! Don't mumble about it from a distance!
I think it's useful to point out egregious bad behavior in web design/implementation. Others can learn from the mistake, or people who wouldn't necessarily see something wrong with it can learn from the backlash it generates.
Not sure you actually want to know, but it’s not the page that has the scrollbar here but an inner div with overflow-y:scroll;
With the added benefit that if you click a picture, you'll have to scroll all the way back down again!
In Firefox at least, you can open the post from the RSS feed and read it without Javascript:
Not to mention that if you click on any of the images to view the larger version of the images, hitting the back button resets you to the top of the page and you have to re-navigate to where you were. And this is in the latest version of Chrome on a Mac.
What's old is new again.
I always open these up in a new tab (usually can be done fast with third click, or ctrl+click), then close the tab when I'm done. It's fast, you can keep reading the original site while the image/webpage/whatever loads, and the problem you mention never happens.
That is div#gadget-dock. It technically located beneath the blog post, but it has a fixed position that is on top of the scroll bar. It has a z-index of 3000, which puts it on top of everything else.