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Craigslist. Here is something novel: let html and browsers do their job. Let your browser process simple html at light speed. Let GET be idempotent. Let users be anonymous while getting information.


That doesn't sound like it will let someone spend <2 years building their resume without regard to the consequences before moving on to repeat the process at a different SV company though.


Hacker News is pretty minimal in terms of UI. I like it for that.


The UI could be improved on mobile. The links are quite close one to each other and I regularly tap the wrong one, especially when I want to hide a tree of comments or a topic on the main page.


Also, for some reason code blocks are not full-width. Infuriating.


That's true, it's crap on mobile.


It is, but unfortunately the HTML structure is quite horrible. It is built less like a web page and more like an Excel spreadsheet. Makes it terribly hard to parse automatically.


If anyone else suffers from Table-Layout PTSD like me, I encourage you not to open your developer tools like I just did.

Kidding aside, I love you HN. Don't ever change.


Oh wow... table-ception is real


Use the API. There is HTML in it's fields but the mess is contained


But then what will your rockstar engineers do?


And how do you attract VCs!?


Didn't some of them work on Perl itself?


As a bonus, a normal website that doesn't do anything fancy generally has significantly better accessibility than a website that has a novel interface.


Just give me web access to your FTP server ffs.




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