I loaded it up, and it hung fetching things for ~5 seconds. Part of what makes Hacker News great is its speed and simplicity.

I like some of it, but:

1. it's really slow.

2. it made 30 requests to load 2 comments, including fetching the same url 5 times.

3. you call the APIs in serial, but you can (should) do it in parallel.

4. you're using async=false on `xmlhttp.open("GET", filePath, false);`. this is a bad practice. also, consider using `fetch` which is a more modern API.

5. you can omit `?print=pretty` and the fetch will be smaller, probably parse faster, etc.

6. the back button doesn't work

compare my version (which does much less, but does it faster) https://github.com/gabrielsroka/gabrielsroka.github.io/blob/... and https://gabrielsroka.github.io/hn.html?small

- More legible than HN, a combo of size and color - Too much space below short entries ? - Context menu (rclick) on links hijacked, no 'open in new tab'

Yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40912583

Far, far worse on iPhone 12 Mini. Genuinely unreadable.