Well done on the NoScript front. It's rare to see a site on HN that requires JS and falls back to a nice explanation of why it needs JS (Instead of just stating the fact, or worse, displaying a white page).
I didn't notice because I had scripting on at the time, but it deserves another compliment, seeing as so few websites seem to bother these days.
(even for those who think noscript browsing is not with the times any more, it's still good practice to give a decent error message / explanation instead of breaking or blanking)