Hackernews has very few staff and most of them are busy with administration/moderation.

I agree kind of odd to see pinned posts by Dang but I have a feeling that's the best they can do with the resources at hand.

Given that they specifically introduced pagination to avoid issues caused by too-large single pages, probably yes. (tbh I would have passive-agressively made the "next" link 100px Comic Sans, but it's probably a good thing I'm not responsible for that)

Yes, but I don't want this temporary state to get too comfortable because it's not the desired solution:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24042165

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25065663

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25087113

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25383091

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25710620 (thanks tzs!)

"Every large post" is an exaggeration, of course—I probably do this on fewer than 10% of the paginated threads.