Hacker News Reader

I have an older 4GB RAM MBP and it feels smooth to me. The scrolling is janky because of parallax, not from performance problems. After that site loads it's fast and usable.

I've seen ad infested blog posts give this MBP way more trouble.

My main gripe with the Designer News site is the main and comment pages are not well designed. Huge amount of space between headlines and comments makes it hard to skim. This statistic page looks and reads much better.

Using a standard Win8 PC, and it works fine for me. I'm guessing there's something going on in your computer that's causing that to happen.

Which is great to me. I think there is a time and place for sites that are inspirational in creativity and those that focus on functionality.