Didn't show up as tiny for me, but it's an absolutely horrible font for long texts: a) Missing serifs - which by itself is not critical, but makes it significantly worse when combined with b) Paper-thin weight, which is hard to read, and worsens on computer displays because antialiasing (regardless of subpixel or not) artifacts become much more visible and hence have more impact.

"Designer" most likely worked on his shiny Retina Macbook and forgot to take lower ppi displays into account. Which (unfortunately) are still the majority, and will continue to for quite some time.

I have a tool for moments like this. It takes the central article on a page and displays only it in a nicely formatted in-window pop-up. I use Firefox Reader, though Evernote's Clearly and Readability would both suffice. Pocket would work too.

I started reading on mobile but reached for desktop and converted to pdf using http://www.printfriendly.com/ (they have a nice bookmarklet).

The article is good, but the website should be using more readable fonts and background color. Just use the fonts and color used by Hacker News.

As much as I love HN, the UI is clearly geared towards a list of links, not text such as lengthy comments – these are harder to read. Granted, not unreadable and with proper paragraphs done by the author good enough, but not quite optimal as well IMO.

But it would be an improvement in any case.

I normally find these comments quite picky but that font is actually painful to read it's so thin.