HN's UI is widely considered to be one of the last major bastions of simple and unintrusive design. Most people here strongly prefer it over the style of ycombi

HN's UI is widely considered to be one of the last major bastions of simple and unintrusive design. Most people here strongly prefer it over the style of ycombinator's marketing pages, are very protective of it, and don't consider it to be "neglected" at all.