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Increase Hacker News Font Size?

• Bartok1 10y ago
  My osi said it was a j-jar product and allot of other things which were words & terms that are foreign to me also like a aliens contract to my phone. Im sure this question won't mAke sense to you & I apologize but what is the open source agreement about & did it come with my phone or did some sneaky bugger put some fancy program in my cell phone to either track my location (cause I have a problem with being fallowed do to this group of car thieves who tryed to steel my car several times & I think now ther trying to intimidate me so I font go to the police which I haven't done) or was this OSL agreement put in my phone to rip my musical files since I make hundreds of recordings a year ok thousands sorry but I make allot And dont publish them cause I don't care so much for that I really more into the concepts, oh by the way I did an Album a few years ago using prediction text & spellcheck,it was a colaberation with talk a text I won't get into details but it was interesting & fun,spooky good at times and silly.So I noticed your having a tool last year that works off the same concept so I did wonder if you or a staff member used my idea?Im not accusing You Im asking & I know that great minds think alike cause I have had some brilliant ideas through my lifes journey that were thought of & archived(like my album cover concept for the blessed was the band name in white with a Different shade of white for the back ground. My band laughed, sorry I dont own a Beatles album I started with the sex pistols and never looked back,not literally cause I love old blues and avangar jazz and yoko Ono cause its very early wire done before wire AMD can plus great to think how all those big musicians who wanted to suck lennons cock and colaberate with him got used to play childish noise at times to repeating the same note over and over and over again while yoko screams "dont worry " over & over in different pitch based on whatever was driving the concept, I think its smart since music is a feeling and mood imhancer to the listener then why not make the music fueled by the feeling of the musician.I can tell you from personal experience when a band is in a certain mood like a great mood the members are just clear in the head and enthusiastic the mood translates onto the recording. I used to make punk songs with every body in the band wearing uncomfortable annoying material when we recorded to capture frustration and eliminate the jovial sound and it worked we did some tense recordings until the bass player and drummer beat up the singer for making weird sounds during what they called the highlighted moments and breakdowns.I dont encourage fighting so I put the concept away plus Im no longer in a musical group. Quick question do you know Tub Johnson & Bruce Brand?I luv those guys we met in S.F.I didn't have a id I was 20 so Bruce Brand hands me his passport. I told thanks but I dont look like an old fisherman that's when the manger said the bar we were going to was private invite only &shut down to everybody but the Headcoates and the Headcoates & friends which meant I didn't need id,we met the night before at a club they played at I used my friends id to get in that night.The second night they invited us to cause we hung out a bit the first night & got along so the second night was great my friend mike who is the funniest person I know but you have to know him to get his jokes.He had this joke about people who love wolves so he had a shirt with wolves on it and information about the wolves under the different pictures. He was drunk and he had a hand held recorder to tape the band play but then he thought it was funny to pretend to be a reporter since we were all wearing 3button 3peace suites and old hats.All I remember was he would approach different members of the two groups Headcoats & the Headcoates to interview them & they assumed it was legitament & all he did was ask them about wolves in England and he would read things from his shirt like wolves are carniveress creatures then comment to them like "how do you feel about thAT "then they would just be trying to search for an answer until eventually saying I dont care do you have any other question you keep asking me about wolves. That was a great night. We gave them a tape of our group they wrote us a month later to thank us for it and to apologize about the wild behavior from that night but theyyhad nothing to apaligize they were just being true English gentlemen..
• sndean 10y ago
  Not a great solution when you simply want larger font size, but I use Stylish on pretty much every page. I use this: https://userstyles.org/styles/22794/a-dark-hacker-news https://userstyles.org/styles/22794/a-dark-hacker-news Makes some of the font larger. You could modify that sheet.
• RickS 10y ago
  > I can increase the zoom on Chrome, but when I do, any article I click on is also magnified. Is this standard behavior for Chrome? I have my HN zoomed at 125% (2 steps up) and while it remembers it for all of this domain, none of the linked stuff is zoomed regardless of what kind of target window it opens in.
  • nicolaslem 10y ago
    Same experience on Firefox here: HN zoomed two steps up, linked pages are not zoomed.
  • teh_klev 10y ago
    This works for me too (desktop), zoom only applies to HN.
• marrejao 10y ago
  I made my own version just for fun, but it has a larger size :D http://martinsandstrom.github.io/HackerNews/ http://martinsandstrom.github.io/HackerNews/
  • thegabez 10y ago
    Nice! Just started a project myself http://quantumsheep.herokuapp.com/ http://quantumsheep.herokuapp.com/
• LordWinstanley 10y ago
  On my Android tablet where, sadly, HN is but one of many sites which seem to think I have microscope lenses fitted instead of eyeballs, I use Opera which, while far from perfect, does have one killer feature; namely it reflows text on a page when you pinch to zoom in. Give it a go, if on mobile. You'll wonder how you lived without it. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.opera.browser https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.opera.brow... [No affiliation. Just a happy camper]
• jiten_bansal 10y ago
  I made this chrome extension to increse visibility and better font size https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hackernews-theme/ngjchhmppjcijklbnigfhhjdajkpjhil https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hackernews-theme/n...
• anotheryou 10y ago
  I use this firefox extention: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/zoom-page/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/zoom-page/ Breakes on some sites, but for most it zooms to up to 150%. When I make the browser smaller it might just zoom to less, depending on how well the site reflows.
• threesixandnine 10y ago
  In Firefox I just zoomed in. It stays that way. Simple solution and it works well. Probably in other browsers as well.
• phatboyslim 10y ago
  I use the relatively popular Georgify extension for HN (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/georgify/ofjfdfaleomlfanfehgblppafkijjhmi?utm_source=chrome-app-launcher-info-dialog https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/georgify/ofjfdfale...)
• du_bing 10y ago
  I use Chromium, and I always zoom HN into 150%, haha, it needs only zoom in once.
• hammock 10y ago
  For those on mobile (e.g. chrome), zooming in does not reflow the text. So it's not an option
• _RPM 10y ago
  I zoom in too on Chrome. Not sure why they make it so small.
  • jarnix 10y ago
    They did not change the css since a loooonnng time I guess.