Looks a couple years behind but my main criticism is of those images. In most cases, they appear largely irrelevant but are quite visually dominating and not strongly tied to their respective stories. I instinctively check the note beneath it for a clue as to which story it relates to and see just the image credit.

It seems like they're using images for the sake of it and the end result is less useful information in each screenful of content.

Imagine if Hacker News put in an image like that every 5-10 headlines!