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.
- You can't take away an upvote. Misclick is just bad luck
- user settings have some really obscure settings that aren't explained like showdead / noprocrast / maxvisit / minaway
- The "Unknown or expired link" is just a bad solution, either redirect me to the front page when that happens, or find an alternative way to deal with it.
When i open HN, i open the links that interests me in new tabs. And immediately click on "More" to see the next page.