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Comment by k0mplex | Hacker News Reader

While you're tweaking things, mind increasing the font size? I typically zoom in, but then the up arrows get pixelated. Such problems!

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As do I. In fact, one of my favourite Firefox add-ons is called NoSquint, which remembers your zoom setting on a per-site basis. For me, Hacker News is constantly at 150%, and wikipedia is 180%.

As for the arrows being pixelated, rather than having higher resolution images, shouldn't the images be replaced with unicode?

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Doesn't Firefox remember your zoom settings on a per-site basis out of the box?

Yep: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/font-size-and-zoom-incr...

NoSquint only seems to be useful if you want to adjust the global zoom level.

After playing with the extension for a moment, there's one key feature that'll probably make me keep it installed: per-site configuration of text-zoom vs. full browser-zoom. Firefox's "Zoom Text Only" is a global setting, but the extension permits it on a per-site basis.

It also puts the current zoom level in the status bar, which I find useful.

I think the answer to your question is yes, but at the risk of being downvoted, you might get a nasty reality check if you view source and do a find on the string "table."

It's possible to tweak it yourself. If you're in Chrome, save this gist to hn.user.js, edit to taste, and drop the file on the extensions page.

   https://gist.github.com/dunhamsteve/8572389

Check out the "HackerNew" Chrome extension. It's a much nicer look and interaction, IMO.

You could use a user stylesheet to change the font size without scaling the arrows.

I think sort of statement is pg's secret intention / reasoning behind keeping HN the same: hackers will make it work for themselves (e.g., via custom stylesheet etc.).

The problem with that reasoning is that it only applies to desktop. It's mobile where reading HN is painful, and that's exactly where I can't use custom stylesheets, at least not without installing a new browser.

There's several great apps though ;)

The arrows do become higher-res at 200%, if you're having serious readability issues.

Or you could do something with Stylish or the like.

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