I am typing this from Dillo with a GB sized netbook; but with ZRAM I can spawn Luakit without too much trouble.

CWM and GNUinos makes it possible.

Chapeau to you, but HN isn't a demanding website by modern standards though. I think a Nokia phone from 2003 can open it.

People today expect to use every modern website be it Youtube or the shitty ones like Reddit without hickups, listen to Spotify, etc.

Typing HTML comments from a 20 year old terminal-like device is a nice flex today, but not a useable daily driver for most real world users.

Lxde and lxdm run fine in a netbook. You have both graphical tools for Youtube and for Reddit https://old.reddit.com will run perfectly fine once you set an adblocker.