"Please don't complain about tangential annoyances [...]"
How can it be a tangential annoyance when he's talking about font? The literal first thing you see when you try to read the article?
It's tangential because it's not related to the content of the article in any way. This doesn't mean that there isn't a problem, it simply means that the commentary on HN is not the right place to have this discussion.
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