Agreed - just needed to point out that because HN uses presentational markup doesn't magically make it good design as some of the other commenters seem to think

Agreed - just needed to point out that because HN uses presentational markup doesn't magically make it good design as some of the other commenters seem to think. Probably it just means PG thinks he has better things to do with his time than learning CSS. It might only take you a few hours to learn enough CSS to save you considerable time in the long run. However if you only use like an hour a year on page design anyway, it might still be a bad investment.