The TL;DR is that Hacker News is built on <i>very</i> hacky architecture.<p>&gt; You funded Reddit, FFS - it&#x27;s open source. Learn some UX from them.<p>And so is Reddit, to the point that <i>no one</i> uses the open source code from it, instead opting to build from scratch as doing that won&#x27;t automatically incur technical debt.