I browse Hacker News from my iPhone, and due to the text size and link placements, I frequently mis-click, hitting user profile lnks instead of the story links. On other sites, this is fine, as I have time to hit stop and tap ok the correct link. Not so on HN - the profile page loads before I realize I've made a mistake.<p>So please, throw some for(i=0;i<10000;i++) loops in there. My productivity depends on it.
Don't ever ask anyone to do this.<p>A user once complained that a job was running too long. After some research, I found something like this (SLEEP 10 seconds) inside a loop. I removed it. The batch time went from 7 hours down to 23 minutes. The user thought I was a genius. When I told my client (the IT manager) what I had done, he was pissed. He said, "You should have changed it to a SLEEP 5, so we had something to give him the next time he complained."
Try accessing it via <a href="http://www.ycombinator.search.xirium.com/cgi-bin/browse.cgi" rel="nofollow">http://www.ycombinator.search.xirium.com/cgi-bin/browse.cgi</a><p>As a bonus, you get a search box.
i browse it on my ipod, i know what you are saying about mis-clicks, just pinch and zoom and the next page will come up not all zoomed in.<p>i don't think your gonna get them to add needless loops :)