what will really blow your mind is that thirty years from now some wise-ass will do the same with hackernews, and everyone will laugh at how shitty it looked, and that this is the group that built $10 billion companies from nothing but scrappiness, making something people want, and shipping.<p>Let's admit it. HN is not a highly polished web UI - there's not even thread collapsing. It works because it doesn't matter; we're communicating and sharing wisdom.<p>And for you wise-asses from the future: THIS IS NOT THE BEST WE CAN DO IN TERMS OF UI. Just like there were cutting-edge films in 1984 with lots of visual effects, we could have a much richer interface today if we wanted. We're not primitive - we don't care! In fact, future wise-ass, what have YOU built today? Why not pick a problem and solve it rather than snickering at the ancient past :)