I read this a lot but I don't get it. Can you explain to me what the problem is? I scrolled the site both with my touchpad (2-finger gesture) and with the touchscreen and it just, well... scrolled. What is wrong here?
Perhaps HN could implement this. I'm not sure we can ever expect submitters to test a site's scrolling functionality out of all the browsers out there or even say 3 of them. This site for example is working just fine for me in Chrome.
There is nothing for HN to implement. The problem is not that scrolling needs to be tested and fixed in multiple browsers. The problem is that this site uses a JS plugin to modify the browser's default scrolling behaviour, and this plugin provides a poor experience for some users (myself included).
It's using an old (v0.9.9) version of smoothscroll plugin. This issue was actually raised in its Github Repo [1]. Reportedly new version detects if the input device does inertial scrolling and disables itself in that case.
Of course a better solution would be to just remove the plugin ;).