[TheRealPomax]

Who said anything about painful? HN posts that are direct downloads for pdf files are universally marked with [pdf]. Either because the poster remembered to do so, or because the title gets edited after the fact.

This is not an article, it's a download, and should be marked as such.

[yencabulator]

It's only a download if your browser chooses not to display it. On Chrome, it's just another tab among tabs; you can choose to save to a file if you want.