Not to second guess someone else's motivations, but I would have to disagree. To me, current HN design feels perfect, and I'm sure if pg had wanted it to be "sh

Not to second guess someone else's motivations, but I would have to disagree. To me, current HN design feels perfect, and I'm sure if pg had wanted it to be "shinier" he would have done so. After all, it's implemented in the language that makes everything else look like Blub, so it would have been easy. HN epitomizes the substance over style school of design.