Unpopular opinion but I didn't mind it on this site. Reading this on a phone it's like scrubbing through a video for part of the article. I usually agree it's annoying though.

I would have liked sound, too. Mystified.

It looks pretty stupid when you scroll with a scroll wheel with smooth scrolling off. But I guess as long as it looks good using a macbook touchpad then the designer is happy.

Well-done parallax scrolling libraries do just fine with scroll wheels and no smoothing. This one just isn't very well done - I bet accessibility features don't work either.

Had to refresh the page more than a couple times as I was not able to scroll passed the first “video” only to realize I have to keep scrolling to get to the article. I genuinely thought the website is broken

"Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html