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Comment by vec | Hacker News Reader

Yeah, but we're all geeks here. It can't be that hard to splice together some custom CSS to make hacker news look like whatever you want. Let me just click view source and OH GOD PG FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT IS HOLY WHY ARE YOU USING NESTED TABLES IT'S 2013!!?!?!!111questionmark!

Sorry, blacked out for a minute there.

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Actually this has been asked here before and pg himself did answer the question [1] (you may have to scroll a little to see pg's response). pg also argues in one of his essays [2] that tables are the (lisp) lists of html, being very dynamic and flexible which is perfect for explanatory programming despite being unclear (in its purpose/structure) sometimes.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=100460 [2] http://paulgraham.com/arc0.html

Wouldn't divs be a more appropriate analogy?

been there, tried that. ended up just using some basic css rules to keep it from crawling apart to 1080p :(

  @namespace url(http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml);
  @-moz-document domain("news.ycombinator.com") {
    body > center > table {max-width: 960px;}
    .default {padding-right: 22px;}
    textarea {width: 100%;}
    form {padding-right: 18px;}
  }

= less eye strain

Maybe they're so l33t they've wrapped around, and thats why they're using tables...

You'd think a site called Hacker News would be more hackable...

ahhahahahahha! You're funny

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