Reddit's css file is 3559 lines long. HN's is 41.

Hacker News uses tables for layout vs CSS at Reddit. And of course, Hacker News isn't exactly styled.

More interestingly: reddit doesn't minify their CSS. Easy 2kb savings, even with gzipping (I used YUI to minify):<p><pre><code> 78K reddit.css 68K reddit.min.css 16K reddit.css.gz 14K reddit.min.css.gz</code></pre>

It's not very styled, but you can bet nobody spent days and days tweaking the css to get the layout to work with broken browsers (e.g. ie6)

Is there a thesis here? I have no idea what you're trying to tell us. Hacker News isn't exactly Reddit...what are you comparing?

Even though there is a lot more to Reddit than Hacker News it is still interesting to see the difference.

There's a lot more to Reddit than HN.

<a href="http://ycombinator.com/news.css" rel="nofollow">http://ycombinator.com/news.css</a>