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1. jff+V4[view] [source] 2013-01-04 04:59:58
>>muelle+(OP)
It's simple but effective. The pages load quickly and look pretty decent in many different browsers.

I'm really happy that HN isn't your typical constantly-mutating, constantly growing news site, adding a new social share button and 2KB of new Javascript every week. Please, pg, don't start taking pull requests or anything like that, it's great the way it is.

Edit: look at the current top story. A pretty but not especially functional Facebook redesign, proposed as the latest in a long line of changes that the users pretty much always disliked. There's my point.

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2. markdo+u5[view] [source] 2013-01-04 05:15:37
>>jff+V4
That's a red herring, and a silly reason to choose not to free code.

pg could open source HN and then never ever accept a pull request, and he would still have made a positive change in the world.

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