I think it's sarcasm, actually? The target of my wit was not the mad typographers of Google, but rather the HN commentors who like to sprinkle comment threads on awe-inspiring subjects with dismissive pedantry. Sometimes it feels as though the CDC could announce that a universal cure for cancer has passed its phase 3 clinical trials, and the median HN response would be: "does this page really need to load 170kb worth of CSS? And why does it degrade so badly when I run NoScript?"

Or like the way that some people, when confronted with the awsome ineffable magnitude of my sense of humour...

</Ironic_humor> ;-)