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Yep, it's different. AFAICT there is no "correct" way to lay out text in Cocoa, but this approach has pissed off the fewest people :-/

Off-topic: Something interesting about the aesthetics of text to point out here. I had to double-take which you said was left and which was right. I was sure that you were saying the left was iTerm2, because to me the one on the right has clearly superior text rendering (especially the bold)!

Fiddle with the various anti-aliasing options, it should change back.

What app are you using to browse HN in CLI?

Probably lynx.

http://lynx.browser.org/

Looks like `links`.