alt Hacker News> Just because. There's no tech reason to do it.
They made a separate article on why, which they linked to. Performance is significantly better. The native Android app launches twice as fast for example
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throwaway613746 • yesterday at 11:12 PM
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and only 23% on iOS. Now while those can initially seems significant, it's still a web app, doh, a web page, that loads non deterministic stuff. Even in their tests, the page that loads native vs RN is simply... different. Different things take different time to load, yeah, who would have though. Not even mentioning that this "performance" is only app startup, lol. Ah, sorry, my bad, 120fps when browsing items on the web.
Don't get me wrong I don't have anything against AI, I'm a heavy user myself, but refactoring everything just for the sake of it and bragging on HN with little to no tangible effects - that's a whole different story.