Hacker News Reader

So? Hacker News is probably one of the worst designed websites I have ever used both from an usability and aesthetic perspective. It has nothing to do with the fact that this blog post is nearly unreadable.

HN is readable to some extent. Not comfortable or pleasant, but ok.

That blog is just totally unreadable.

The greyed text of HN is used as an example.

I agree - the grey text is hard to read. Mostly that's by design; down voted comments are supposed to be hard to read. But when someone starts a thread with a comment, instead of an external link, they grey text is weird and hard to read.

The normal text of HN is fine for contrast.