Why is that? It's very effective at what it does now.
The complaint most people have is that the interface sucks on mobile phones. There is no way to expand/collapse threads and hitting the up/down vote arrow is impossible.
However, I exclusively use http://ihackernews.com on my phone which solves both problems.
Seems to me like the CSS would just need a minor tweak to support phones/tablets, using media queries. It's not a particularly complicated layout.
HN does not use CSS for layout.
I find it interesting (not in a snarky bad way mind you) that HN is the source of many great startups pushing the envelope with what can be done with websites and yet here we are on a site that uses tables for layout, perfectly functional and in use.
Whenever I make assumptions about HN, I'm usually wrong :) thanks for the info
I'm looking forward to the demo tomorrow. I guess we'll have to wait to see this fancy Windows 8 app?