Yes, I agree. It's a fun novelty the first 5 seconds, then it becomes completely annoying.

BTW: the movement of the small cursors is streamed live from the server, I think it represents the current mouse position from other readers.

Even better, add this to block the websocket connection for the pointers:

  ! Annoying pointers on blog
  wss://tonsky.me/ptrs?*

I disagree, as that implicitly endorses this sort of distracting nonsense, because “there's a setting to turn it off if it bugs you”.

While I agree, it usually seems the majority of HN does not, and sees it as promoting the boring corporate web of today instead of the creativity of MySpace/Geocities pages -.- Accessibility is often frowned upon by commenters.