I've found Linux to handle scaling pretty inconsistently; I've got a 4K television I connect my computer to and if I tell it to scale 200% in the monitor configuration most things get scaled nicely, but random stuff (especially proprietary stuff) doesn't know what to do.
It worked much better to just tell it to output 1080p and let my television scale it... less graphics memory too. I still need to scale HN up relative to other sites in order to read it though.
If I compare the text of your comment to the text of an article on npr.org it seems like about the same as the difference between 9pt and 12pt, and they are using a serif font that seems to be a lot easier to read.
It's a style choice I guess? It seems like it would work best on a large 1080p display, so maybe that's just what the person who designed the layout was using.
It worked much better to just tell it to output 1080p and let my television scale it... less graphics memory too. I still need to scale HN up relative to other sites in order to read it though.
If I compare the text of your comment to the text of an article on npr.org it seems like about the same as the difference between 9pt and 12pt, and they are using a serif font that seems to be a lot easier to read.
It's a style choice I guess? It seems like it would work best on a large 1080p display, so maybe that's just what the person who designed the layout was using.