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Interesting.. I had no idea it was the browser that did that - I always thought it was something in HN's styling. My windows phone browser does something similar (e.g., http://imgur.com/ONCGHL8), but the decision its algorithm makes correlates with what I find useful most of the time. Does anyone here know how chrome detects the importance of the text? (I'm guessing it's based somewhat on the length of the text and how deeply nested it is in the HTML.)

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I wrote a userstyle for Firefox mobile that gets rid of the different sized text on comments and makes the whole of hn more readable:

http://userstyles.org/styles/82587/hacker-news-responsive-fo...

I used Chrome for like a day untill I deactivated it (can't uninstall) and continued to use the stock browser, just because it is so mind-bogglingly ugly.

The thing that killed chrome for me was the way it uses the same UI as desktop chrome for browser tabs. On my nexus 7 (I can't speak for larger tablets, maybe it works there?), the tabs are simply too small for me to be precise about any interaction I have with them.

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