A List of Hacker News's Undocumented Features and Behaviors (2018)
I think the minimalistic design is appropriate and efficient mostly.…with a couple caveats regarding accessibility: the default font is way, way too small, and some colours don't have enough contrast (eg, the “visited link”). Also, a tiny bit more of formatting would make comments more readable while keeping them sober and focused (eg, blockquotes, monospaced inlines, true hyperlinks).