Hacker News Reader

I love how Hacker News seems to loose out to basically everything, even example.com ("such intentional use of whitespace!")

I mean, yeah, that’s to be expected.

The site is intentionally kept visually unappealing.

It appeals to a different set of users, I'd say. I strongly prefer it, as it's easy to skim and easy to use.

Is it really? If so, why?