just noticed that Hacker News content is not gzipped on my chrome browser, while it accepts gzip'd content. I want to know the reason that would help me in general.
I'd guess oversight or it being seemingly unnecessary due to having enough hardware/bandwidth available to them.<p>Adding far future Expires headers and ETags would also help the perceived user download/render time. Neither are HUGE deals mind you, but easy to do for a bit of extra snappiness.