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Sorry for the link to twitter but it's the only way I could attach a screenshot from my phone.

I literally have no idea what this page is supposed to be, given how absolutely horrendous it renders.

Rise4Fail? Really? So basically since the book's cover is ugly the story must be a fail? Obviously that's the case. Brilliant researchers always have great looking websites, right?

http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/

I commented on the unusability of the site that was linked to. Mr. Knuth's site is perfectly readable because he's using regular html which renders just fine on a modern mobile browser. Meanwhile I have no idea what is going on on the parent page, except that it's unreadable. Another person shared a similar screenshot in another comment.

You may dislike my snarky little hashtag on Twitter and that's fine. I was not being snarky here on HN in my comment. I was making a perfectly valid criticism about usability.

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