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		tossandthrow 7 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: It's time for modern CSS to kill the SPA HN's search is hosted on Algolia, and is not a part of the HN "App". Hacker news is not a SPA. Algolia's search is a SPA, but is perfectly utilizes the search so you can refresh a page (besides the error that they don't use page-based search), and is largely indistinguishable from a non-SPA site. > You can load entire HN You obviously have not context what so ever on how much content is hosted on HN.

nromiun 7 months ago [–]

Yes, I am well aware it is separate from HN. That is why I called it HN's search page.

You underestimate how fast modern internet is. With MPA website like HN there is no need to wait for any script to render first.

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