I like high information density, but HN does have troubling click target density. On a phone I often misclick links if I don't zoom in first to make the target

I like high information density, but HN does have troubling click target density. On a phone I often misclick links if I don't zoom in first to make the target bigger than my finger. A design change that made UI links (not UGC links) more like buttons, without adding padding elsewhere for that trendy sparse look, would be quite nice. I think it could even be applied when a feature detection script sees a touch screen, so as not to inconvenience mouse users.