Please rewrite HN as an SPA using the most bleeding edge alpha JavaScript frameworks you can find.
The one thing that could improve HN is rendering fonts clientside on to a full screen Canvas element. Then all we need is a client-side framework for interpreting the element's pixels into HTML for screen reader support.
I dunno if you got the memo, but we're in 3rd of April now, no more jokes allowed, especially not traumatic ones like those.
10MB page-weight SPA with the front page a 3 x 10 grid of image tile links coming soon. After all my background is in consumer travel and "desktop-like" business admin apps. I'm a natural for this.