HN likes to nitpick on everything but whenever someone brings this particular point up it's nothing but crickets. It's 2021 and for someone who has the audacity to selfhost ads, you would think he is also capable of adding a couple of CSS rules.

“Please don't complain about website formatting, back-button breakage, and similar annoyances. They're too common to be interesting. Exception: when the author is present. Then friendly feedback might be helpful.”

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html