Hacker News Reader

Thank you.

They really wouldn't need to spend so much on hosting fees if they were willing to do a text-only version - the main website is heavy as hell. I'm sure many people would be willing to pay for it.

Also these days I don't consume regular content from sources that do not provide an RSS feed.

I doubt hosting fee are the bulk of expenses at NYT. More likely human labor is the major cost.

Knowing how wasteful IT is, especially in large organizations, I think the hosting fees are probably higher than you think.

I still think you're right though, human labor is likely more costly.

When this becomes common for non-techie forums, I worry about what will happen to archive.org. I don't mind paying for news, but there really aught to be something better than what we have.

The truth is paywalled but lies are free...

Also just turning off javascript with uBlock Origin makes it work fine for me.

Thank you. That, plus reader mode, makes it actually readable.

The presentation has a lot of video you're missing out on by using reader mode.