When the responsive'ish design for HN was unveiled by dang some months back, he indicated that this is not actually the case. Whether this was ever the case is

When the responsive'ish design for HN was unveiled by dang some months back, he indicated that this is not actually the case. Whether this was ever the case is a question to which I don't have an answer. At this point, I think it's just tech debt, unfortunately :-\