[andrethegiant]

> I know Hacker News is all about fast load times and minimal bandwidth usage, hence the lack of much graphical work in the current version.

Actually, I believe that the simplified design of HN as it is currently helps ward off the typical Internet surfer looking for new links to click on. The last thing HN needs is to attract users who only post pictures of animals.

My single piece of design criticism for HN would be to provide a hi-res upvote triangle image (heck, why isn't it pure CSS?) for retina display devices.

[icebraining]

My single piece of design criticism for HN would be to provide a hi-res upvote triangle image (heck, why isn't it pure CSS?) for retina display devices.

You don't even need CSS, just an unicode character: http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/25b2/index.htm

[cpeterso]

I don't think HN is about fast load times and minimal bandwidth. Yahoo YSlow and Google PageSpeed reports recommend that ycombinator.com use HTTP compression, minify HTML and JS, and use HTTP caching for static resources.

https://developers.google.com/pagespeed/#url=https_3A_2F_2Fn...