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Hacker News: readable comments

Enlarges Hacker News's tiny font and loosens line height so comment threads read better.

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body, td, .comment {
  font-size: 11pt !important;
  line-height: 1.55 !important;
}
.commtext {
  max-width: 70ch !important;
}
.comment-tree .comment {
  padding: 3px 0 !important;
}

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