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Comment by falsenapkin | Hacker News Reader

This is very interesting but, and I'm afraid this might be off topic and pedantic, I had to stop reading because Words, maybe only Nouns, were frequently Cased and Bolded (does bold formatting exist on HN?) which made it very hard for Me to Read and Parse as I kept thinking Things were Proper Names or Titles. Is there a Reason for this Style that I am ignorant of?

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I found this very annoying too, and thought these were links at first. It can be fixed with:

  Array.from(document.getElementsByTagName("strong")).forEach(strong => strong.style = "font-weight: normal;")

in the developer console

..when consuming from a desktop browser

paste it with a prepended JavaScript: into the URL bar.

Had no idea it was that easy to run arbitrary JavaScript on a mobile web browser. Thanks.

not working here

Once you have loaded the page, paste exactly the following into the address bar:

javascript:Array.from(document.getElementsByTagName("strong")).forEach(strong => strong.style = "font-weight: normal;")

Safari will refuse and give an error pop up. Chrome will remove “javascript:” from the beginning if you paste, to prevent users from accidentally running arbitrary JS. You can type it back in by hand, and then it will work.

It reminds me of "dyslexic friendly" font that bold some letter in a word, claiming that it'll help the dyslexic read. It also makes it very hard for me to *re*ad and *pa*rse.

Came here to say this: it's extremely distracting, I struggle to reason why they would do this.

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