How come? CSS positioning is pretty unintuitive, and sometimes it's just easier to get something working with tables. If the end results look fine, what's the problem? Table-based layouts aren't in-your-face like the blink tag was.
Oh, and don't view-source on HN ;)
So, just FYI, if you find yourself generating HTML for something like HN anytime in your life.
I find divs and spans easier myself but I guess, yeah, at the end of the day if it looks fine and it loads fine then it's fine. Too much pain from hand-coding too many tables has made me twitchy and curmudgeonly.
Oh, and don't view-source on HN ;)
Oh, i'm aware... It's just too bad html doesn't provide elements that handle nested lists. If only. Ah well.
as a <table> user, I feel vindicated :P