Hacker News Reader

I very much liked the design. Perhaps I'd slap a max-width on it, but other that that it was a delight to read. (And my browser's reader mode really liked it, too.)

Displays fine for me on my desktop.

I'm happy with just text.

That objection seems trivial.

The whole article is trivial and trite, yet dressed up as something novel.

I don't think so. Even if that's true though, you could do better.