Ask HN: Am I just blind or should HN increase its default font size?

I typically leave all my sites "zoomed" with Firefox.

And when I temporarily want something bigger, I use Ctrl + scroll-up (Mac).

Yes. Not quite as much as you do, but it is also the only site which I have Firefox increase the size of. I'm happy with that though; that's what the zoom feature's for, right?

I don't find HN's font too small, but I usually have Firefox set up with a readable minimum font size in the first place to evade that problem. This breaks a few sites' designs, but that is rare (and the "victims" are most of the time guilty of other design mistakes, too).

Yes! Limiting the maximum width of text lines would be great too.

To be honest, I don't find it too small. Sorry. (No presbyopia yet, yay! )

I turned 30 last month, maybe that's the problem. ;)

It's not too small for me. But, the overall presentation could be made more readable.

I'd like to a larger font size, or even just bold, for the topic. At first glance, the "Ask HN" page just looks like a mash of random text.

It depends, the 'gray' stuff is hard to read (and sometimes that's where the interesting bits are). Apparently that is to encourage brevity, but since that doesn't seem to work it might as well be legible.

Ctrl-+ does wonders though. I've recently switched to a larger screen that I routinely run with 20+ pt fonts and it helped my eyesight a lot.