HN posts are so enjoyable. Unless I'm thinking up novel animal names for designers that confront me with such a "color" scheme, because 1) I have a very hard time reading even halfway through interesting posts, 2) I'm jealous, because my vision is obviously suboptimal, 3) I only got a laptop, and its display demands contrast.<p>It's bad. It's itching. And it's obvious. Try to find something printed with gray text on white background. Ads and porn not included.<p>Please! Stick to essential typography! Make it BLACK on white. TNX1E6
You can fix it with a simple user script for your browser.<p>User script, install to have black font in comment threads: <a href="https://gist.github.com/raw/1600378/95ad884caa17d8a02f1f425a1d15e5e4b7a43647/hn-black.user.js" rel="nofollow">https://gist.github.com/raw/1600378/95ad884caa17d8a02f1f425a...</a><p>And the gist: <a href="https://gist.github.com/1600378" rel="nofollow">https://gist.github.com/1600378</a>
Stylebot or Stylish can help your eyes<p><a href="https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/oiaejidbmkiecgbjeifoejpgmdaleoha" rel="nofollow">https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/oiaejidbmkiecgbjei...</a><p><a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/stylish/" rel="nofollow">https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/stylish/</a>